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Epicurus.com - No Skin Off My Ass

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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $69.69
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Strand Home Video Starring: Kate Ashley, Caroline Azar, Nicholas Davies (II), G.B. Jones, Laurel Purvis
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Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304819715 Format: Black & White ISBN: 6304819714 Label: Strand Home Video Manufacturer: Strand Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Strand Home Video Release Date: 2000-09-26 Running Time: 77 Studio: Strand Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Customer Rating:      Summary: For people who don't 'get' this film... Comment: Two observations for people who don't 'get' this film...
First of all, the style: grainy B&W film with voice-over narration, was clearly done as an homage to earlier sex/art films, in particular the early Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey films. This film - 'No Skin' - was made in the late 80's or early 90's and clearly the director could have gone with sync-sound home video, IF, he was simply trying to make a low-budget film.
Secondly, this film is obviously much more enjoyable to anyone who would fantasize about sex with a skinhead young man. If that's not your thing, then the sex in this film will probably be an overwhelming turn-off! (Likewise, I have no interest in seeing Hostel or Saw II because I'd rather see young people getting blown than getting blown away!)
--Gary
Customer Rating:      Summary: Poor...and that's being very polite. Comment: I usually go into indies with an open mind, and keep it until I form an opinion...after the movie. But, almost immediately, this movie really looked like an attempt by the author to exploit his personal, sexual, relationship for the sake of his other love - film-making.I easily got past the gritty cinematography. I've enjoyed other movies with such poor quality image; seeing past the artist's financial limitations for the story they are trying to tell. The problem was that this movie simply regurgitated a story (A Cold Day In The Park), and did it poorly. The dialog is actually a narrated script. It was like watching an episode of "South Park (tm)" with a dozen actors playing the parts...but 2 guys doing all the voices in overlay. The sex...which is, I am sure the biggest draw to buy...is downright porno. There is fellatio penetration and some simulated sexual activity. However, it is not even believable that the participants want to be doing it. A fact which makes even less sense when you realize that [rumor has it] the skinhead boy is actually the main character's boyfriend in real life. Overall, this movie is for the dedicated followers of Bruce La Bruce and nobody else. I don't believe it tells a good story, or that it makes any sort of film statement whatsoever. It's an excuse to redo a film and attempt to make it 'saucier' through the director's exploitation of his personal relationship. I gave it 2 stars...but really as a reward to myself for making it through the entire film.
Customer Rating:      Summary: JUST PLAIN BAAAAD!!! Comment: Sorry folks-I love low budget, off the wall, extreme camp, all the cult films, etc but this one just doesn't cut it in ANY genre. A lot of it is the same footage played over and over, same with the music. The sound quality is HORRIBLE, not to mention that a lot of the sound was recorded seperately and doesn't even match up to the moving mouths of the (dare I say?) actors. I think Bruce La Bruce might have been shooting at an "artsy-fartsy, foreign" type feel with this film, along with the B & W thing, but fell WAY short. The skinhead stays mute for about the first half, where he basically takes a very stupid & LONG bath, then dances around badly in only his boots, flailing his arms around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Purely stupid film. I rented it, so I FORCED myself to finish watching it, hoping something, ANYTHING would develop. The thing ended as stupidly as possible and made no sense whatsoever. Do yourself a favor and rent something else.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Oi, slag! Not your average queer film. Comment: This movie really isn't for everyone - the poor sound quality and sometimes poor black and white filming will easily discourage the casual viewer from finishing the film. Those who stick through it, though, will be treated to a wryly humorous, adult love story which borrows its basic plot from "That Cold Day In The Park".Bruce La Bruce puts in a fine performance as a hairdresser with a skinhead fetish. He comes across a skinhead in a park (played by the very cute Klaus von Brucker) and invites this seemingly mute fellow back to his apartment. The story circles around the hairdresser and his obsession with the skinhead (and skinhead culture). Along side this main story is the skinhead's sister (played by Gloria Jones) who's making a film about feminist revolutionaries...more-or-less. Throw into this a great soundtrack (including Operation Ivy and Fifth Column), a truly bizarre apartment (just where did that pool/grotto come from?) and some Very Explicit Adult Content (yow!) and you've got something that defies easy classification. Occassionaly slow, but always interesting, it's definitely worth checking out.
Customer Rating:      Summary: This "comedy" is neither "lame" nor "way good". Comment: OK. I dare say this film does not belong under general comedy. Others may say it does not belong in Amazon; I am surprised that it is. This is a special kind of "Not Rated" film that has a rather DEFINITE (attn. ALL reviewers: that is how the word is spelled) target audience. It's the kind of film to which the poor, impressionable Motion Picture Association is not normally subjected. Following the pace of the film, which actually waits awhile before revealing its true purpose, this is an indie gay porn flick. The plot begins with a meditation and variation on a stereotype, one of few interesting parts about the film. In a sickeningly self-indulgent role, Mr. LaBruce (ugh) plays a hairstylist with a skinhead fetish for (hey/ha ha, it makes sense, right). In a highly convenient turn of events, he meets one who lives in the park and is cold, so he takes him home and basically locks him in his apartment. Fortunately (?) the skinhead turns out to be fancy lad also, otherwise there would be no porn but rather a potentially interesting situation of a gay man with a Nazi locked in his bedroom. But nooooo, they have to fall in love, and he makes sure we miss neither the tender moments (i.e. the bathing scene: "here, let me help you with the soap.") nor the opulent, animalistic orgy scenes. (You WILL look away.) Incidental characters are thrown in to explain why the skinhead plays a frustrating mute routine for half the film, but they have no bearing on the plot. LaBruce spends considerable time "developing" the independent pornographer character (a woman, haphazardly tossed into the fray for balance?) but she somehow manages to be the worst in the film, despite flaming competition. Basically, there is little redeeming value to this thinly-masked F*-fest. The snippit with the Nazi salute, followed by the limp-wristed version, is briefly amusing, and the aqueduct scene is oddly interesting; but no nonsexual action is anything but biding-time before the next bombardment. I grow fearful that until now this is beginning to appeal to some people. The dubbing is rather poor, camerawork is annoying, and I've mentioned my issues with the plot. Objectively, it's an impressive work for an independent filmmaker. Realistically, is a gee-darn piece of filth. I saw this with a gay man and a budding bisexual as a part of our college film series in '99. The latter walked out early, and the former declared that the film quite nearly "scared him straight." For me, it was one of those things you can be proud say you did but you would probably not choose to do again or even in the first place. This film should be relegated to the back alleys of SF and never released to the mainstream again. It is pointless and disturbing regardless of one's sexual orientation. If you prefer graphic gay violence to graphic gay sex and gay Chinese men to German, I suggest "Happy Together", which was also shown by our film series. That one was annoying and no good either, but others seemed to like it (I won't bother reviewing it; it seems many have gone into depth). Note to parents (yeah, right!): the colleges of today study nothing but homosexual pornography. I hope I've been more helpful than the previous reviewer.
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