Very well executed

good back-story, and good acting

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Got what i expected.The lines of this movie CRAVED to be called smart. I was expecting that the movie will freeze every moment, someone will pop out and state: 'Wow, this was smart'.The character of X was so unconvincing that i wanted to slap him out of the movie. The guy looks like a freaking teddy bear while he was supposed to be an ice queen! I mean come on! (I could talk about how wrong his character is for days, but unfortunately i can't, not here.) The story of him and Andrew was unnecessarily complicated by so called 'tricks' and it annoyed me very much. Andrew never justified the attention and such an important place he got in the whole setting. Gregory's character was quite good, on the other hand. Still a bit too pretentious, but very good nevertheless. Joey was fun to watch, infused the setting with life and created needed quarrel.Now, the thing that annoyed me the most: 'Forgive me father..' SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP Honestly, it didn't feel witty even the first time! I don't know whoever thought that it could be a good, clever leitmotif... It was just a nuisance. Every time X started the sentence with 'Forgive me..', i've had urge to vomit.In the end, i want to admit that this movie isn't a total disaster, cause, after all, i did shed a tear in the end. Cheap shot, Q. Allan Brocka.

I did not like this movie. Sure, the main character (X, who comes up with such a lame "aka"!?) is a sexy hunk, but that's no guarantee for a good movie. They made him walk around with a sullen attitude and spill his monosyllabic remarks in a dull drone and he never once convinced me of being such a popular escort (except for his looks). Even worse, he never convinced me of being gay, I mean: he must be the most heterosexual looking guy that played a gay in a gay movie! (Of course I'll stand terribly corrected if the actor turns out to be really gay himself!). The same goes for the other guy Andrew, as if the makers of this movie carefully wanted to avoid any stereotyping. But on the other hand the third person in the triangle, Joey, was stereotyped in a totally over the top & caricature kind of way!! The story didn't seem to go anywhere. The grave way in which everyone communicated with each other suggested all kinds of deep meanings, but apart from such clichés as: "sex in or outside a relationship are two different things" and: "when you grow older, you grow a little bit wiser too", I didn't grasp anything more. The voice-over of X didn't help either, his enigmatic lines were just pretentious and irritating. And why on earth this dark and gloomy atmosphere? Here's yet another gay movie that pictures the gay community as a sad bunch of self-pitying and sex-driven losers. I mean: what was the problem of everyone?? Three gay gorgeous young guys living on top of each other in the same apartment and each of them craving for the other two – what's there to mope about? Then there were all these illogical things, like: if X was so successful as a very expensive escort, why did he live in this shabby shared apartment that didn't even provide walls around his bedroom? And why did all the pick-ups of Andrew leave the house exactly at the moment that X came in? Were they waiting for him behind the door? And why introduce a "best girlfriend" and don't give her more than 2 minutes screen time? The only thing that I liked was the part of Patrick Bauchau as the old gay that had seen it all and had learned that people are more important than bodies and sex.All in all this is a movie just for the eyes (if you're into some soft-focused and very discreetly filmed nude male skin), and not for the heart or the mind. When I come to think of it: it took itself much too serious and sorely lacked some sense of humor.

This movie's only saving grace was that it had some attractive cast members. The story line was weak. The acting was lack luster. No matter how hard he tried, Darrell Stephens just sounded and looked Like "Noah" through the whole film. Derek Magyar seemed like any run of the mill drugged out tweaker that you can find cruising airport bathrooms. Also, the characters were these recycled, lame clichés that you find in just about any gay bar after happy hour. Hopefully, the next time a gay film comes out it will have a strong, talented cast that makes acting it's main goal and not just being "hot". I was hoping that this film actually showed some guys actually trying to portray what it is like to really find someone in the gay community. "Boy culture" failed miserably and I want a complete refund!

BOY CULTURE looks like it might be trash, but it really is a treasure. The saga of a male prostitute dubbed X and his falling into love with his roomie. First off, the film looks terrific. This is a smart and classy movie. Second, the writing and performances are really quite good. Even the supporting cast is terrific - I only wish there were more time for them in the story. I loved the lesbian waitress and the entire family of the roomie. The story could have easily been trite and the dialogue cliché, but it neatly avoids that most of the time. It reminded me of an upscale episode of QUEER AS FOLK (before it devolved into soap opera hysterics). All in all, this is well worth a look see - gay or straight.