Giving this a generous 5. I don't know how you can mess up a story like this. Lost opportunity.
While the production quality and narrative was promising for the first 40+ minutes, the movie jumped the shark as soon as Tom went to the Hollywood pool party. Talk about a 180 in story direction and focus. Has anyone involved with the movie actually been around the Leather community, in their environments? (Guess what's passing for Leather bars now is too commercial and bubblegum) - Their goal wasn't to be shown as the most flamboyant and nelly boys on the earth. So explain how the hyper masculine figures that Tom of F drew, translates to shrieking queens at a overly disco'y daytime pool party? They don't.
The movie spent an awful lot of time focusing on Tom's sister...how confused/hurt/jealous she was of their new male flatmate. OK, we get it. We got it in the first 15 seconds of that story line.
This movie was rated R. Why? You are doing the history of THIS artist, and there is virtually no nudity as you would have expected from his type of imagination.
Again, the over the top queenie shrieking for the "leather bar" scenes in the States, was really not accurate.
Have you gone to the official Tom of Finland website, and read some of his biography there? Ya, that part about how he would be drawing in his locked room would have been a bit more interesting.
If you are going to do a film based on one of the most copied, homoerotic cartoonists of gay hyper masculine characters, I would think the people that the artist encountered (and thus given him ideas) would be good looking, or masculine. Or both. ...Que the Sylvester music. :(
While the production quality and narrative was promising for the first 40+ minutes, the movie jumped the shark as soon as Tom went to the Hollywood pool party. Talk about a 180 in story direction and focus. Has anyone involved with the movie actually been around the Leather community, in their environments? (Guess what's passing for Leather bars now is too commercial and bubblegum) - Their goal wasn't to be shown as the most flamboyant and nelly boys on the earth. So explain how the hyper masculine figures that Tom of F drew, translates to shrieking queens at a overly disco'y daytime pool party? They don't.
The movie spent an awful lot of time focusing on Tom's sister...how confused/hurt/jealous she was of their new male flatmate. OK, we get it. We got it in the first 15 seconds of that story line.
This movie was rated R. Why? You are doing the history of THIS artist, and there is virtually no nudity as you would have expected from his type of imagination.
Again, the over the top queenie shrieking for the "leather bar" scenes in the States, was really not accurate.
Have you gone to the official Tom of Finland website, and read some of his biography there? Ya, that part about how he would be drawing in his locked room would have been a bit more interesting.
If you are going to do a film based on one of the most copied, homoerotic cartoonists of gay hyper masculine characters, I would think the people that the artist encountered (and thus given him ideas) would be good looking, or masculine. Or both. ...Que the Sylvester music. :(