The Broken Hearts Club
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Movie Reviews of The Broken Hearts Club
Movie Review: maybe it's not realistic, but it's entertaining -great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I wasn't going to write a review of this movie, because I felt I probably wouldn't be able to add much. But after reading some other reviews, I have to write.Sure it's not realistic - GET OVER IT!! I enjoy movies because they amuse and entertain me, make me feel an empathy with the characters, or in some way make me feel at the end - "I really enjoyed the way I spent the last hour and a half" (or two hours, or whatever). And this movie certainly did that for me.
Few of the actors are really gay, as several reviewers criticized, but I think it speaks a lot for a more accepting culture that a straight actor would be eager to take on a role that used to be fatal for his career. I think every actor did a good job on his character. Timothy Olyphant was fantastic as the good-looking main character (director's commentary reveals he bought the SUV and his own house with money from an inheritance - movie should have brought that out). Andrew Keegan as the "newbie" just coming out of the closet was very believable, and I hope this movie adds impetus to his acting career - he certainly deserves it. Those two characters were my favorite, and I really wish their relationship had evolved more - maybe in a sequel?
I really enjoyed this movie, went out and bought it, and have watched it numerous times since.
Movie Review: few flaws, lots of pluses, fine gay-positive entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked Broken Hearts Club from the first preview session in a local (Brisbane) boutique cinema. I've thoroughly enjoyed it several times since on DVD - including last night. The only flaw that gets to me is in the opening scene where the gay friends are playing at acting straight and Zach Braff loses by using the term "girlfriend" - and Tim Olyphant's character adds one too many negatives to his response, saying "There isn't a straight man in America who doesn't call anyone but their girlfriend "girlfriend"." He should have said "There isn't a straight man in America who calls anyone but their girlfriend "girlfriend"." A minor point perhaps, but double negatives give me a right royal headache.
It still gets five stars, because the other flaws are even more trifling. There are some excellent memorable lines - and Dean Cain (one of the most attractive, and contentedly straight, men in the world) utterly convinces in his role as gay bimbo Cole and seems to be having the time of his life.
I have a similar group of long term friends, in whom our only common factor is that we're gay - and that's why we met in the first place. Just as with the guys in this film, its the ongoing mutual support of our friends which made us happy to be gay.
Movie Review: What a wonderful surprise (buy this now -- really) ......
Summary: 5 Stars
....is The Broken Hearts Club. I had rented the DVD of TBHC fairly perfunctorily, expecting just another arch, overly camp saga of gay men in the big city. What a wonderful surprise is this film debut by Greg Berlanti. Never has there been a film which better depicts what it's like to be an urban gay man with a group of friends running just short of the super fast lane. The film doesn't flinch when addressing all of the good/bad aspects of being a gay man in the big city (the sex, the drugs, the coffee consumption, the gyms, the interior decorating) but especially what it's like to be a member of a pack of friends, who laugh alike, talk alike, at times they even look alike (uh, wait, that's the Patty Duke Show, I think). And any film which openly discusses the brilliance of Karen Carpenter, and a gay man's relationship thereto, is bound to be a favorite (of mine, at least). In particular, there's a beautiful, heartfelt montage sequence, set to the song "Close to You", that will move you to tears within seconds. So, laughs, tears, handsome/quirky/funny men, it's all here with a real wit and style. Plus this film, shot on a $1 mil budget, looks more like $25 million. I'm buying my permanent copy today; so should you.Movie Review: A fun movie that reminds you of friends and bad dates
Summary: 5 Stars
I suggest you BUY THIS, don't rent it, it's a feel good movie with a great music soundtrack. Where else would ever see the older guy from Frazier in a red dress and a wig and laugh.For once somebody made a funny, friendship movie. I caught the end of this on Showtime by accident and couldn't believe how much I laughed. I ordered a copy just to see the beginning.
Yes, the theme is around gay men but it could just as well be about straight guys at work. Women, will howl at the date scenes remembering any of the men they have gone out with. But women know they could never get this kind of honesty out of their boyfriend or husband, girlfriends yes, the men, no way.
No AIDS them, no heavy stuff, just a fun movie. If you're gay you'll laugh thinking of your friends, minus the bitter queens of course.
If you're straight and female, you'll get a better understanding of the men in your life. It's worth it seeing the heart throb get stuck up for a date.
Yep, the one you live with or date is just like these guys. Most men are pigs so you might as well laugh at these guys them since you're going to deal with one at some point in your life.
You'll laugh regardless of your orientation.
Movie Review: Utterly honest : whether we like it or not, this IS ...
Summary: 5 Stars
... exactly what Gay culture and lifestyle is like in any major city and is funny, unsettling honest (in the way that Gay people hated AL PACINO's racey yet truthful "Cruising" 1981 - sorry boyz, this was 1981 Gay culture), and totally believable and witty. I have to say, that ignoring the AIDS issue, the 'drag' factor (for the most part), and showing that all Gay men are not effeminate, needy or unhappy and promiscous for lack of anything else makes it the one and only film I would show my Mother ... she see my life then; and that of my friends : honestly, and not buttered up like the posh unreality of WILL & GRACE or QUEER EYE (like any masculine Gay man acts or dresses like that! : plezzze!). Honest, believable and totally a reflection of Gay culture in the last 10 years, with out all the 'false trimmings' media has perpetrated on the rest of us normal Gay people like the ones 'living' in this film.
Some may not like it, because it is TOO honest. That quite honestly is why I really DID love it.
Think of this as the late 2000 version of "Torch Song Trilogy" : times have change a tad of late, and this reflects it honestly like that othe movie did on 1988.
Excellent.