Sugar (Unrated)
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Movie Reviews of Sugar (Unrated)
Movie Review: Sugar
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an interesting movie to watch about a young man named Cliff who turns 18 and wants to have his first sexual experience. He meets Butch, who is a street hustler. Suddenly he is introduced into a world of sex and drugs, and the two friends wind up falling for each other, until drugs push them apart. It's a gritty movie that is sometimes disturbing, but worth watching. Coming of age is a good way to describe it, to see how Cliff is at the start of the movie, then to see the kind of person he is at the end. I thought it was a nice movie, well written and well acted.Movie Review: Not bad
Summary: 4 Stars
I wish I could give this movie a bad review, but I can't. I disagree with the grim picture it paints of gay culture, however, the story was entertaining and I imagine somewhere the events in the movie may be plausible. The storyline was not excellent, but it wasen't bad. The acting was great also. If you do buy it, buy something to balance it out afterwards, like Trick or Beautiful Thing.Movie Review: an interesting movie
Summary: 4 Stars
this is a good movie i would say. the main character hooks up with a husseler who uses a lot of drugs. funny little girl who sells weed at her school. good movie kind of sad.Movie Review: heavy stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
Strong play by the 2 leading actors. It's a very recognizable story for a lot of gay people all over the world.Movie Review: Sugar's Title Define's It Well "Sugar" Offers A Short Bursts of Energy That Fade Fast!
Summary: 3 Stars
I am not sad I brought Sugar but, it is not awesome by any stretch of the imagination. A DVD called Johns also sold here on AMAZON.com is far and away a better choice in this area. Johns shares the same basic subject matter street hustlers who find what proves eventually to be traggic love. Johns has low budget movie issues but overcomes them very creatively becoming very realistic in the process. Johns is also a similiar story of street life shared by two friends complete with bitter sweet ending but Johns is a far better story told in far more effective interesting ways.
I am not saying Sugar is bad it is just not entirely good especially for the money it costs. Sugar at times is very good but thats the problem those times of greatness come between long stretches of vaccuous slow pacing, lame scenes talking about nothing and uninteresting unrelated or stupid overly simplistic plot points driven home with a sledge hammer. Case in point the breakfast table scene where the two dudes have a spot of sexual fun, the camera remains pretty static changing scenes only barely during the goings on.
A good movie would have used a dizzying series of different angle shots intermixed with fast cuts appropriate music scoring and sounds to bring a certain dynamism even sick humor to the event that would have left the audience tired as if they were drawn into the action. Sugar turned what should have been a very exciting scene into a moment where any intelligent audience was hoping ok ok get it over with already can't cha. Sugar never hits that place most movies get to that allows you to suspend beleif and dive headfirst into the plot of the picture.
Just when you were getting into BELEIVING in Sugar the storyline would do something stupid that insulted your intellegence so totally that the little voice in your head that scans for UNREAL SITUATIONS screams out come on GIVE ME A BREAK FOR GOODNESS SAKE! It was as if Sugar's writer could not think of how to fill in parts of the story line so he just threw anything in he could just to use up remaining film time.
Examples of things that just did not work. The talk at the breakfast table one the dialogue was so slowly paced it was deadly, two they were not talking about anything that really offered any insight about the characters. The conversation did NOT add any true demension to the storyline they were just empty words to just take up space. Three the characters were not inspired or animated and did not really seem to truly like each other at any point in the picture. Theirs seemed more a business relationship rather than being anything one could remotely call a loving relationship.
Character development in the SUGAR is pretty much absent beyond the most obvious, banal and completely superficial aspects of life. The little girl drug dealer was really off the wall and seems too worldly forced and unreal for her tender age. The mom was not beleivable straddling the hip pot smoking mom and saintly june cleaver in perfect suburbia fence. Everything in the movie might had worked if it were handled and developed with a deft skilled subtle hand in instead pure brutish force.
I am mentally slow due to cognitive and other disabilities so I generally do not mind when a movie moves slowly but this movie crept along so slow its lack of any pacing irked even me.
The thing I noticed most about this movie was it never made you like the characters, it never made you invest any part of yourself in any of the characters. The movie did not in any way draw you in and make you forget you were watching DVD. Unlike this DVD really good movies even low budget ones quickly grab and develop viewer interest as a means to transport audiences from mere passive watcher to interested third party for whom this drama is unfolding.
The very best movies make you feel as if you are almost a part of its goings on and Sugar did none of the things great movies do. A few of the sets were sparse and uninspired especially the "sex watcher dude's apartment". He sat there a shallow empty unrealistic uninspired character saying next to nothing by a stark blank white wall yet he lived in this posh tall tower of obviously upscale apartments and his home had NO sense of this rich mans personality or ego. His apartment\condo gave no insight into what kind of man he was as such he like all the other charcters in Sugar clung to a one demensional quality as if it was a holy grail.
I guess thats what I honestly did not like about sugar is with few exceptions the people and places in Sugar were so totally one demensional. A movie is like an invitation to lose yourself in another world for a period of time and when a movie characters places and sounds lack the depth, power and emotion to carry you away the audience is left feeling cheated as is the case with Sugar.
Why did I give Sugar three stars if it was so bad. Sugar gets its three stars because the few places where the movie was done well it really shines. It has like four really awesome scenes in it that come across as pretty real. When Butch a street tough goes off on drugs and starts acting really zapped out that felt fairly real. The two old freaky men talking felt sort of real. The surealistic scenes of the corpse of Butch talking seemed real. The sex scene with the morbidly obese lady while totally gross felt real and was funny too. The sex betrayal scene between butch and his friend in the watcher dudes posh apartment felt sort of real. Just like I say in my tag Sugar has a few legitimate high energy rush moments where everything comes together, it is really funny \ real and it works but most of the movie is slow plainfully plodding emptiness where the audience is thinking ok ok ok move on already.
Honestly I gave the movie 3 stars because those few fast high points on the unrated version of this Sugar rock and are worth its price but in reality this Sugar is only SEMI-SWEET at best and by giving This Semi Sweet SUGAR three stars the Wolf of ALPHASPACE is being kind.