The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
R | 29 April 2005 (USA)
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Ethan Green (Daniel Letterle) has no problem finding guys who want to sleep with him or even date him, but finding someone to settle down with is a different story. Given three choices -- a sexy teenager, a hunky jock, or his ex-boyfriend who is about to get married -- will he find a Mr. Right, or is he destined to an unfabulous existence. Based on a popular gay-themed comic strip.

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rayjaygee

I watched the first 45 minutes of this film and decided to cut my loses. As a film studies graduate, its extremely rare for me to not watch a film in its entirety, I don't like the nagging, lingering question that arises sometimes after only seeing half a film; "I wonder what happened in the end?" With regards to this film, I honestly don't care how it ended. A romantic comedy that is neither funny nor romantic. I couldn't even force half a smile at any of the jokes.This film breaks the most basic fundamental rule of storytelling; the audience needs to feel empathy, affection and support for the central protagonist. I could not invest in the character Ethan Green at all, I felt no interest in his 2 dimensional life whatsoever.The plot is farcical, the narrative is all over the place and the acting is wooden and amateur.Avoid, avoid, avoid.

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solavirtus

The movie was never trying to be ground breaking or amazing. its a light hilarious movie with broad generalizations that everyone can identify with. Anyone who gives this movie a low rating was looking for too much. Why cant we make a movie for fun sake? Not every gay movie has to try to better our position in the world. This is a movie that could have come from a group of gay guys sitting around joking and laughing about the day to day grind of our lives. I would recommend it to anyone tired of the epic Greek tragedy of most gay films. For some reason every gay film has to have drug use, Pain and most often the death and or beating of one if not all of the people in it. For once we have a gay movie that takes a lighter view of our FABULOUS way of life.

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Paul Creeden

I am old enough to have been a fan of the original comic strip in our Boston gay weekly. The comic-strip glibness of the movie will be missed by anyone expecting it to be a romantic comedy in the cinematic sense. Seen in the light of its original genre, it is well done as a low-budget film. All that glitters is not gold, and all that doesn't isn't necessarily shabby. Daniel Letterle suffices as the clueless Ethan. He does 'duh blonde' quite well. The Hat Sisters, a real-life and venerable Bostonian team, were done justice. Defensive young gay movie goers might be made uncomfortable by a rather stinging and accurate, yet overblown, portrayal of gay dating among the young. Kids will be kids. I speculate that the lack of more athletic T & A will effect the box-office, but I think this small movie will gradually earn its place on the shelf with other 'gay lite' films like it. In that context, it's pretty good.

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David

Someone listed a bit of trivia on this site that this film was shot in less than 2 weeks--and it's not hard to believe. Movie makers should have left well enough alone than to try to turn an intermittently read 4-panel comic strip into a full-length film with a plot. This is like a series of sketches from "The Three Stooges" strung together--and it makes "The Three Stooges" look like Shakespearean actors.As if the gay community hasn't had its fill of these kinds of films complete with the usual gamut of clichéd characters (the confused one, the gay Republican, the eternally horny twink, and of course, transvestites), here's another.There's some loose plot about trying to sabotage the sale of a house, a cheesy commitment ceremony gone awry, requisite numerous sexual encounters most of which aren't even remotely romantic or titillating, and of course, the predictable "boy gets back together with his ex" ending.Perhaps I'm older than the intended audience for this film, but I viewed it with a handful of 20-something gay men, and they weren't very amused by it either. The only reason I'm not giving it the lowest rating is because of "The Hat Sisters". Clichéd or not, they were the highlight of the film--and that may or may not be a compliment.

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