My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Women In Trouble (2009)

Sebastian Gutierrez makes a chick flick disguised as a film meant for guys.  Or that's how I can best describe this film where you have porn stars and hookers delving into their emotional pasts with complete strangers.  There's three stories at work here: porn star Electra Luxx finds out she's pregnant and then gets stuck in an elevator with a woman dealing with a daughter who thinks she's her aunt, a psychiatrist finds out her husbands sleeping with one of her patients, and a dumb hooker wants to celebrate her birthday with a girl she's in love with but ends up almost getting killed in the alley of a Lesbian bar.  There's lots of talking and weepy monologues for actresses to work their magic on and it's fun to see how all the characters connect.   The problem is that it doesn't always work and feels inconsistent.  Still I'm going to have to check out the sequel someday, since Carla Gugino's Electra Luxx's character is in it.  Grade: B   

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