Dante's Cove

[Slade]

I've been fortunate to see the first 2 episodes of the "Gay/Supernatural" series called "Dante's Cove" and I must say "WOW..HOT!" (The butler certainly DID IT with a dick THAT BIG!).

However..I don't know who exactly carries this series..it sure ain't Comcast! ..soo..who is it? Thanx!

[XXXWriterDude]

I've been fortunate to see the first 2 episodes of the "Gay/Supernatural" series called "Dante's Cove" and I must say "WOW..HOT!" (The butler certainly DID IT with a dick THAT BIG!).

However..I don't know who exactly carries this series..it sure ain't Comcast! ..soo..who is it? Thanx!

You thought it was hot? Hmmmmm, if you like cheesy, sensationalist, leering sex scenes that are closer to late night Cinemax skinflicks than to anything that resembles art, then yeah, I guess you could consider that trash "hot." LOL!

Seriously, I was immensely disappointed with the show. Here! TV (the network that it is airing on) sent me the first three episodes (edited into one 90-minute long "movie"), and a friend of mine sat and watched it together, and we pretty much groaned the whole way through it. Is this the kind of "entertainment" that gay executives think the gay community wants? Is this what they think reflects our lives?

I understand it's "just entertainment," and I know it's supposed to be a guilty pleasure, but the script was so heinously bad and the sex scenes so grotesquely sensationalist and exploitative that it made Queer as Folk look like Shakespeare.

I went to the Trevor Foundation benefit show last night (Lisa Kudrow was a riot, by the way), and afterward I was talking with a couple people who had read my review on Brokeback Mountain, which happens to be a brilliant piece of filmmaking that, for once, accurately depicts "the gay experience," and this led us to theorize on why it is that most gay entertainment simply sucks. And we came to the conclusion that it's because gay people can't make anything without infusing it with overwrought and heavy-handed dramatics, nor can we abstain from turning everything into an opportunity to make a soft core porn flick. With the exception of Longtime Companion (which was written by Craig Lucas), nearly gay movie has fallen prey to the same cliches and pitfalls. We either have to throw ourselves a pity party b/cuz everybody hates us or we have to shove our sex lives in everyone's faces. Dante's Cove is a perfect example of this. And I was actually looking forward to seeing it, as I thought the premise was great. But in the first 15 minutes, the two main characters had sex THREE times... in a car, in their hotel room, and on the beach. And in all three cases, it just felt wrong to me.

I'm not against showing gay sexuality on the big screen, not at all, but I'm really sick of it being presented as something that is SUPPOSED to be "shocking." And that's how Queer as Folk and Dante's Cove present the sex. Why can't we simply include sexuality in the movies that we make as just something as ordinary as eating? It's this unbalanced focus on our sex lives that continues to push our so-called "art" into the subcultures of obscurity.

I think one of the few exceptions to this, apart from Longtime Companion, is the Australian film Head On, in which the lead character's shocking anonymous sexual encounters are integral to the film's story and to his character. I love the way these scenes were handled in that film. Has anyone seen it?

Anyway, I know the Dante's Cove director, Sam Irvin, wants the show to be Buffy meets Queer as Folk, but it's a lot more like Melrose Place meets Dark Shadows. Buffy had heart and soul, but this show lacks either of the two in a big way.

That's just my $.02, though.

[dalimili]

Heck, I hated American version of Queer as Folk, as they just copy/pasted the original british version, which was great!!... but then, when they started to throw in a bit of Dynasty and Dallas and Bold and the Beautiful I started to enjoy the crap ... as it suddenly became so hilarious (I'm a sucker for stupid nonsense tv crap)


As far as the Gay themed movies go... heck you have tons of great stuff, which was not made by Americans, I can think of 10 british movies, 3 french and many other that were just great in many ways....

If you want a list, I can let you have it...

[XXXWriterDude]

As far as the Gay themed movies go... heck you have tons of great stuff, which was not made by Americans, I can think of 10 british movies, 3 french and many other that were just great in many ways....

Yes, you are right; foreign films with gay themes are often superior to American gay flicks, especially the French/Spanish stuff.

[Slade]

You thought it was hot? Hmmmmm, if you like cheesy, sensationalist, leering sex scenes that are closer to late night Cinemax skinflicks than to anything that resembles art, then yeah, I guess you could consider that trash "hot." LOL!

Everyone's a CRITIC!! Oh..that's right..you ARE a critic. Well..so be it. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I enjoyed it for the PURE EYE CANDY DUDE! Yeah, acting, plot, scripting..all that was crap. I just enjoyed seeing NAKED MEN having simulated sex. What can I say? The MORE movies/programs there are with naked men in them the better I say.

I will die fighting my right to see naked men in cinema! (At least good looking ones!!) TADA!