The Fluffer (2001)

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There were some big...innuendos in this film.Was that Debbie Harry? Well, the pregnant dancer did make an effort.Beefacake, too. An effort in an outrageous caricature of Brando's Kowalski.The rest is blown, blown high in the sky.No, thanks.P.S. Why not try the contrary: portray life of porn actors as dreary civil servants, and the way through bureaucracy they come to fall in love with each other, and save the American Cream.P.S.2 This is unbelievable. One has to write ten lines at least. Since it is so, then, to paraphrase Dali: mediocre directors (and writers), no matter how much you strive to be bad, you will always remain mediocre. Little tough, that Dali? Well, he doesn't chew his premise.I don't care about a premise if the execution (no pun intended) does not respect it. Why should I?

In relation to an earlier post mentioning the time of 10.30 being focused on throughout the movie, I'd like to correct this by saying that the clocks all showed the time to be approximately 9.30!!! Unfortunately the significance of this time is vague. Onto the actual movie though, I thought the plot was rather dim and boring with a few one liners thrown in for good measure. Quite a few actors in the film are recognizable from all sources..TV, film etc. The cute boys are aplenty in the film but it's ironic that since this is a movie about the (porn) movie industry, you'd be forgiven for thinking any of them could actually ACT!

OK, so I get to see some big time actors in a movie about low budget gay porn and I learn what the word fluffer means. I am so glad I found out about that. Okay, so now we have a straight man doing gay porn and doing his girl friend and I think the new word is called bisexual. Then we have this burned out has been porn actor kill a guy for some more take on stolen property and he walks away into the wonderful ocean scenery to enjoy a life of having lovely senoritas for snacks. I really wasn't ticked off with this film until the end which just absolutely stunk. The one character is ditched and stuck in Mexico to do what, find his worthless gay porn actor again? The worthless gay porn actor is free to the life of robbing Mexican grocery stores? Why even develop the characters for such a loser ending?

I wanted to see the movie because of an article in a film magazine. It wasn't a highly recommended one by the critic. The storyline is different and I am sure that it could have been a good movie if it was in right hands. Directing and acting were awful!! I had the feeling of watching a movie which was made a bunch of amateurs. Although the movie started promisingly, it got worse and worse. I think this is an unoriginal movie with awkward characters.. I still think that it is worth watching as I haven't seen films subjecting gay porn. Don't keep your expectations high though,then you will be very disappointed. * out of *****