I would do anything to have that hour and a half of my life back. I saw clips of this movie at the movie's official website (which I believe is down now, thank god!) and the misogyny, poor cinematography, and unrealistic situations (please! how many women are really fighting over the Basco brothers?) was for some reason was not enough to warn me not to watch this in full. I think better movies could come out of the ass of a pee pee joke obsessed 3rd grader.
Here's just a sampling of the cinematic monstrosity this "film" has to offer.
* The use of the sand font in the opening credits and such awesome use of Final cut pro transitions as the window wiper and spinning cube.
* The Basco Brothers doing a sorry ass "spoken word" set about brown race empowerment to preface the opening scene where the same boys are talking about bitches f*cking them. (Nice. You kiss your mother with that mouth?.... Apparently so, because "The Basco Family" is thanked in the credits.) * According to some of the press, these guys are seeking "international distribution" for this film. Though the best use of this movie is as a date rape prevention video for teen girls ("Girls, watch carefully, these are men you should look out for and run from at first sight.") Or perhaps it could be shown at a women's empowerment event as the video presentation ("Ladies, Don't be like the woman giving head to Dante Basco.").
* Gratuitous bare and not very impressive chests. For fans of gay porn, some of the shirtless scenes of the brothers together begs to be accompanied with royalty free casio music. The awful set pieces help too. You almost expect at any moment for Dante and Darion to start grinding on each other the way they keep describing in graphic detail how women want them. Thank god Derek doesn't take his shirt off much.
* The pasty white bare chest of Pauly, the guy whose acting guru must have been Pauly shore. This guy might as well have a megaphone the way he projects his lines.
* Dante Basco getting a blow job while his brother watches. Oh... you think I'm lying about this? She wipes the sides of her mouth and everything. You can't imagine how good this looks when shot in digital video. It's almost as sharp as Citizen Kane. I feel so sorry for Hilliary, the actress (presumably picked off the street) who plays the girl caught between two Basco Brothers. I can't imagine she'd want this movie to ever surface if she ever finds a legit career.
*Forced dialogue about "issues" of race in Hollywood. Big arm gestures used by the actors for emphasis.
* Poor lighting. Every time they get a visitor from outside, it looks like Jesus is following right behind them.
In short, watching this movie is like watching the Basco brothers masturbate in a circle jerk for an hour and a half.
As an art piece, creates a new stereotype of the hypocritical Asian American man. Seemingly empowered but insecure and misogynistic as hell when it gets down to it.
As a product of their acting teacher, Gloria Gifford, I cannot think of a worse advertisement for their acting program than Naked Brown Men.
I can imagine that if this movie actually found a distributor or play on the festival circuit, that it would only highlight the rep the Basco Brothers have as the cheesiest most over-hyped family of no-talents in Asian America.
Here's just a sampling of the cinematic monstrosity this "film" has to offer.
* The use of the sand font in the opening credits and such awesome use of Final cut pro transitions as the window wiper and spinning cube.
* The Basco Brothers doing a sorry ass "spoken word" set about brown race empowerment to preface the opening scene where the same boys are talking about bitches f*cking them. (Nice. You kiss your mother with that mouth?.... Apparently so, because "The Basco Family" is thanked in the credits.) * According to some of the press, these guys are seeking "international distribution" for this film. Though the best use of this movie is as a date rape prevention video for teen girls ("Girls, watch carefully, these are men you should look out for and run from at first sight.") Or perhaps it could be shown at a women's empowerment event as the video presentation ("Ladies, Don't be like the woman giving head to Dante Basco.").
* Gratuitous bare and not very impressive chests. For fans of gay porn, some of the shirtless scenes of the brothers together begs to be accompanied with royalty free casio music. The awful set pieces help too. You almost expect at any moment for Dante and Darion to start grinding on each other the way they keep describing in graphic detail how women want them. Thank god Derek doesn't take his shirt off much.
* The pasty white bare chest of Pauly, the guy whose acting guru must have been Pauly shore. This guy might as well have a megaphone the way he projects his lines.
* Dante Basco getting a blow job while his brother watches. Oh... you think I'm lying about this? She wipes the sides of her mouth and everything. You can't imagine how good this looks when shot in digital video. It's almost as sharp as Citizen Kane. I feel so sorry for Hilliary, the actress (presumably picked off the street) who plays the girl caught between two Basco Brothers. I can't imagine she'd want this movie to ever surface if she ever finds a legit career.
*Forced dialogue about "issues" of race in Hollywood. Big arm gestures used by the actors for emphasis.
* Poor lighting. Every time they get a visitor from outside, it looks like Jesus is following right behind them.
In short, watching this movie is like watching the Basco brothers masturbate in a circle jerk for an hour and a half.
As an art piece, creates a new stereotype of the hypocritical Asian American man. Seemingly empowered but insecure and misogynistic as hell when it gets down to it.
As a product of their acting teacher, Gloria Gifford, I cannot think of a worse advertisement for their acting program than Naked Brown Men.
I can imagine that if this movie actually found a distributor or play on the festival circuit, that it would only highlight the rep the Basco Brothers have as the cheesiest most over-hyped family of no-talents in Asian America.
