Twilight of the Golds
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Movie Reviews of Twilight of the Golds
Movie Review: Good movie...but....
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was based on a play by the same name, and although there are some very real "conflicts" the characters go through in the movie, this version changed very much the end of the movie that was far more powerful in the play version. I encourage anyone who thought this movie was at all thought provoking to see the play it was based on. It will tear your heart out and it's a real tear-jerker. Most of all, it will make you think.Movie Review: Yikes
Summary: 1 Stars
Bought it. Watched it. Returned it.I am a huge Brendan Fraser fan and have no idea how he was talked into doing this film. It's nothing more than a 30-minute melodramatic TV soap opera that's been expanded (painfully) into an hour and a half of inexplicable and often unbearable whining.
Fraser's acting is (as always) first-rate. But the film never bothers to justify its ridiculous premise that conceiving a gay progeny is somehow an earth-shattering tragedy. It also never explains why or how any of the characters would be justified in supporting the abortion of a pregnancy because the baby *might* turn out to be gay. So what we're left with is a bunch of incredibly shallow and unlikeable characters with terminally pained expressions debating whether to kill an unborn baby.
In certain cultures homosexuality is taboo and not dealt with very well (or at all), and I guess if you're, for example, a Jewish or Italian Catholic family with major phobia issues towards gay people then you might "get" this movie. But otherwise it's truly ridiculous and already horribly dated.