Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

ComedyFan2010 Henry Hart comes back to his sick grandpa into the fictional town Big Eden and finds love. It is a simple script but I like how it is done. On one part it is not 100% realistic. It is more of a gay utopia. A small town in Montana where everyone is not only gay accepting but doesn't even seem to care that anyone is gay, they just want them to be happy. This helped to make a gay romance movie that is different. It isn't about a coming out or worrying about homophobic neighbours. It is a simple romantic movie like they would do with a straight couple.I loved all the characters and how they presented them. The lady who tried to hook Henry up with women first but then got the idea and the whole town went on helping Pike to get with him. Including those cowboys sitting in his store all day doing nothing and yet making little moves to get him closer to Henry.And then some parts are more realistic than in other gay movies. The characters are normal men. Over 30 or even 40. Not models but looking like a normal guy. I think this formula of switching what is usually more realistic and more fiction in the common gay movies and creating something very different. This was a nice and a pretty sweet result.

moonspinner55 While "Big Eden" has lots of aw-shucks charm, and a rather surprising amount of male-to-male affection, it features relationships and character quirks which aren't always made clear--and, as a result, its plot gets bunched up in knots. Arye Gross seems rather fatigued and unfocused as a gay, single artist in New York who travels back to his hometown in Montana after his beloved grandfather suffers a stroke; once there, he meets up again with the straight best friend from high school he's harbored a crush on for many years. Nicely-made, nicely-judged movie about getting a gay relationship off the ground, although Gross's heart isn't really into this role (he only comes to life during a dance at the outdoor festival). The straight hunk he's loved from afar (Tim DeKay), divorced and with two kids, is a much more interesting and complicated man than the shy, awkward Native American (Eric Schweig) who is added to the mix, yet writer-director Thomas Bezucha doesn't allow either of these supporting characters to bloom. In the straight fellow's case, Bezucha gives him little bits and pieces of on-screen time in which nothing important gets said, and the Indian is so insecure he comes off as anti-social. Still, the attempt is certainly there, and all the others in this friendly town (full of cracker-barrel wisdom and united mischief) are a wily, fun bunch. The soundtrack songs are exceptionally smart and the woodsy settings are very attractive. **1/2 from ****

bruceprzybylski It's really hard to find a portrayal of gay men, much less men-of-color, who are not prissy, have a fashion obsession or catty. This movie does a pretty good job, except for the "fruit fly" female character playing the manager to the lead male's painter. Man, does she ever shut up!?! She's on the screen for mere minutes and you want to never see her again, a total throwaway character.The story is typical guy holding torch for some guy who showed him some attention when he was younger, now after 20+ years he has a chance to see him again, blah blah blah. The truth is any gay man over the age of 25 realizes dreams like that never come true and if you are lucky you find love in places and whenever you least expect it. So that part of the movie comes off as pretty stereotypical, gay man staring and acting like a big ol' girl when the straight crush is around. The Pike Character was a real good job by Eric Schweig. It was great to see a brown man who isn't willowy and hanging on a middle-aged white guy like he's going to faint. The shyness of the character is interesting, no cloud of shame or second-class "so grateful you white/straight people like me". You don't even know where his heart lies until well into the movie, moving into it like a puff of air on the edge of a wheat field and forming gentle designs as it moves across. When the time comes and the lead character is in Pike's arms you see a really powerful image, the white lead is a molehill to Pike's mountain and probably one of the best kisses on film.

taho00 Here are few lines to share this wonderful film's songs. All is said. About the story, wonderful people who take care of each other, beauty of landscape : forest and mountains, and of course love, true love which comes from heart and soul, central thing of our life. Now just listen again to the songs and remember the scenes. "I'm a thousand miles from nowhere / Time don't matter to me / 'Coz I'm a thousand miles from nowhere / And there's no place I want to be / I got heartaches in my pocket / I got echoes in my head....." and the next, my favorite one "Welcome to my world, want you come on in / Miracles I guess still happen now and then / Step into my heart leave your cares behind / Welcome to my world, built with you in mind"...if you love it, so just end it :o)