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Exit to Eden

2004-08-22 02:35:27.132795+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Watched Exit To Eden[Wiki] last night, Alec[Wiki] is working at the video store and crashing at our place occasionally and left it lying around. Somewhere in there there's a good story, maybe even a good script (maybe), utterly destroyed by hideous direction.

It was really trying to tell two or three stories, but along the way it got hung up in being a heavy "message" film and couldn't decide if it wanted to be an erotic film (although, my god, leave the '70s kitsch and the bad porn film music at home, please!), a slapstic comedy, or a preachy "live and let live" sermon. Leave this one on the shelf.

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#Comment Re: made: 2004-08-23 16:46:05.709547+00 by: petronius

The book Exit to Eden is pretty good, showing Anne Rice's erotic side without the usual sanguinary antics of her vammpire novels. The movie is an utter travesty. I suspect the producers lost nerve about halfway through and called in Dan Ackroyd and Rosie O'Donnel to bail them out. Although come to think of it, Rosie's character does treat the various tops and bottoms as slightly ridiculous, which kinda sums up my viewpoint on the seriousness of BDSM's practictioners.