Once in a while you just get to have the opportunity to watch a completely random movie, due to being forced to watch it on a flight, just tuning in by coincidence on tv or just clicking blindfolded on netflix.
This is one of those movies, it is unknown without any real marketing behind it.
First lets start with the positives. It has a very interesting premise, it is about the sexual exploration of a middle aged couple who have troubles connecting in bed. The characters themselves on a template are interesting, you have the extrovert wife who is desperately trying everything to liven up the lackluster sex life by putting her husband in all sorts of perverted situations, you have the introvert husband who has all the wrong neurosis preventing him from reaching climax. Even the side characters are interesting on paper, you have the nerdy awkward but seductive husbands coworker who has a buddy-buddy relationship with him and the old childhood sweetheart of the wife who openly embarasses himself by being way too agressive with his advances on her.
It is funny, it is interesting on paper. Heck the movie is even very well shot and lit. Thing is, the actors are just terrible.
Or would i rather say, they would be very passable at a high school play. But when actors can only perform at that level on a production that was obviously over a million in budget it sticks out like a sour thumb. The dialogue is pretty subpar as well but it does not stick out as much as the actors.
This is one of those movies, it is unknown without any real marketing behind it.
First lets start with the positives. It has a very interesting premise, it is about the sexual exploration of a middle aged couple who have troubles connecting in bed. The characters themselves on a template are interesting, you have the extrovert wife who is desperately trying everything to liven up the lackluster sex life by putting her husband in all sorts of perverted situations, you have the introvert husband who has all the wrong neurosis preventing him from reaching climax. Even the side characters are interesting on paper, you have the nerdy awkward but seductive husbands coworker who has a buddy-buddy relationship with him and the old childhood sweetheart of the wife who openly embarasses himself by being way too agressive with his advances on her.
It is funny, it is interesting on paper. Heck the movie is even very well shot and lit. Thing is, the actors are just terrible.
Or would i rather say, they would be very passable at a high school play. But when actors can only perform at that level on a production that was obviously over a million in budget it sticks out like a sour thumb. The dialogue is pretty subpar as well but it does not stick out as much as the actors.