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Summary: Good fluff!
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect of "The Fluffer". I guess I didn't have much expectation out of it but I was surprised. Althought it wasn't as good as "Boogie Nights", which of course it would be constantly compared to, it is still an interesting film nonetheless. The story revolves around a young gay man that is obsessed with his favorite gay porn star and is eventually drawn into the world of gay porn. The performances by the actors are good and the dvd has some extra bonus features that are enjoyable. Worth adding to your collection.
Rating: 
Summary: Two stars for the DVD cover.
Review: If a film has enough heart, character development, and storyline, it can overcome whatever it may lack in production values, budget, and talent. This is not the case with "The Fluffer". This film has none of these. Here are a group of people Mother Theresa wouldn't care about on her best day. The story itself is nonexistant. Here it is.... everyone in the "adult" film industry is screwed up. The end! Roll credits! If Scott Gurney wasn't beautiful, and his face and torso was not on the DVD cover this bad film would go away and no one would even notice.
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Summary: THIS FILM ROCKS!
Review: If you liked BOOGIE NIGHTS you will love THE FLUFFER! It's funny, serious, and extremely sexy. The two guys who made it clearly know the sex industry, plus they are excellent filmmakers. I especially loved some of the fake porn set scenes--they are hilarious. I would go see it opening weekend where ever you are--it is definitely worth it!
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Summary: Terrific! Sort of a Low Budget, Gay Boogie Nights
Review: It's hard to explain what a "fluffer" is on a family website. Suffice it to say that a fluffer is someone on the set of a porn movie who makes it possible for a male porn star to maintain the illusion that he is enjoying what he is doing on screen. Women can fake it. Men, obviously, cannot.That said, *The Fluffer* is a realistic picture about the gay porn industry. It is also about how vanity, insecurity, helplessness, and ultimately, self-destruction, get expressed in the life of a man who appears to have everything: beauty, fame, people who love him and willingly sacrifice themselves and their own dignity - for a while anyway - to take care of him. In many more important ways, it is an almost perfectly realized cinematic exploration of the relationships between longing and fulfillment, fantasy and reality, love and obsession, the glitzy and the mundane. It's also about growing up and the deep sources of self-respect, how for some, as Blake said, "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," while for others, it leads to spiralling self-destruction and, finally, to despair. The movie treats all of its characters with respect almost bordering on tenderness. The porn superstar's self-destructive dive is not played as a stereotype. Some of the characters in this movie seem functional if not particularly happy with their lives. Others - the three main characters really - find themselves on a pathe to either imminent self-destruction or imminent self-discovery and transformation. The movie does present, for one thing, a morality tale. But the general morality of porn itself is not examined in this movie. A final word: the excellent commentary track is revealing and deeply provocative, pointing out the places where the screenplay or the camera (or both) is communcating the film's dramatic insights as well as it's perfectly wrought structures. Highest recommendation.
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Summary: All in a day's work
Review: Less ambitious in scope than BOOGIE NIGHTS, which imagines the porn industry as a microcosm of American ambition and capacity for self-delusion, Richard Glatzer and Wash West's feature also weaves together the stories of a cross-section of characters who work in the adult film business. Aspiring filmmaker Sean McGinnis (Michael Cunio) has just moved to Los Angeles in hopes of getting into the business. Imagine his disappointment when he rents CITIZEN KANE, only to find that the video store has given him a gay porn movie called Citizen Cum instead. But Sean's first glimpse of Johnny Rebel (tounge-out hottie Scott Gurney) more than makes up for the mistake. Enchanted by the studly personality (to call him an actor would be a stretch), Sean does a little research and then offers his professional services to porn production company Men of Janus. He's hired as a cameraman, despite sales manager Chad Cox's (Robert Walden, of TV's Lou Grant) concern about his lack of adult-film experience. Soon Sean is on the set with Johnny, and quickly discovers that his dream hunk isn't what he expected. For one thing, Johnny swears he's straight and only does gay porn because the money's better for men than it is in straight smut. Johnny has a stripper girlfriend named Babylon (Roxanne Day), who loyally bails him out of the trouble he gets into with monotonous regularity. How can she resist a guy whose repertory of sweet nothings includes, "When I need wood, I think of you"? Thoughts of Babylon notwithstanding, when Johnny has on-set performance problems, he asks Sean to help out (that's what "fluffing" is), and Sean happily obliges. Though Babylon and Johnny both swear they're going to get out of the sex business, neither seems able to break away, and soon Sean has been sucked in as well. His social life revolves around porn industry-related events, partly because he wants to be near Johnny and partly because he's seduced by the self-contained industry's sense of community. As Johnny's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, Sean must confront his obsession and ask how far he's willing to go in its pursuit. Screenwriter and co-director West - who works in gay porn - evinces an easy and even-handed familiarity with the milieu, and his characters only occasionally lapse into broad caricature. The film is studded with cameos by real-life porn filmmakers, and features a small but effective appearance by Deborah Harry, playing a strip-club owner
Rating:
Summary: Barely adequate
Review: Like a lot of gay-themed films, this has a pretty box but leaves a lot to be desired inside. There's actually a good 60-minute story here inside an approx. 90 minute running time, so it's too bad the director didn't edit out all the boring parts and make what is now a 2 star movie into perhaps 3 stars. One entirely boring subpolot involves a girl's pregnancy and I can't for the life of me figure out why it's there. It's pointless and dull. There is some nice acting and some nice visuals of the porn star and the fluffer. Just keep your expectations LOW on this one and you might enjoy it.
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Summary: *YAWN*
Review: My reaction to this movie: Oh! Hot guy on the cover! Whats this movie about? Hmmm. Interesting. Lets watch it. Okay. Interesting. Stalker-esque type guy trying to hook up with a "Straight" gay porn actor. Hmmm. Hot porn star guy has drug addiction... yada yada ya... nothing new. Okay... pick up pace. Mmmm hmmm... The porn industry is sordid... moving on... angry pregnant girlfriend... Mexico... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Seriously. This movie sucked and not in the good way. I know its not supposed to be porn but the story and actors were so boring they could have at least made it little more steamy.
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Summary: I admit it! I watched this for the hot guys!
Review: Okay, so I'm superficial and shallow but anytime a movie has some hot guys like this in it, I'm renting it! I also have an extensive gay porn collection and wnated to see what it was like behind the scenes at a shoot. I don't think this was as well made or as complex as Boogie Nights but it did have some poignant moments and I thought it was pretty funny as well! Well made but could have been better!
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Summary: Not all fluff
Review: One of writer and director Wash Westmoreland's porn films, The Devil's Bottom, was the first ever adult film, gay or straight, to be included on the LA Weekly best films of the year list, and his break-out into the mainstream is promising. The film opens with a misunderstanding, as Sean (Michael Cunio), a young ingénue newly arrived in Los Angeles, borrows Citizen Kane from the video store only to discover he has been loaned a gay porn film called 'Citizen Cum' by mistake. West's porn industry training is put to good use in the opening sequence of Citizen Cum, which is strikingly erotic, whilst avoiding any explicit images, and which successfully fetishises its star, the anti-hero Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney), for the viewer from the outset. Significantly, this is also the first and last time in which sensuality can be found in the porn film sequences and shoots, which are subsequently sterile and ludicrous. Sean's ensuing obsession with Johnny leads him to procure a job as cameraman at Men of Janus, the production company that has an exclusive deal with Johnny. Much of the film's considerable humour rests on the early porn movie scenarios, always an easy source of laughs but presented here with freshness and originality. A city slicker dominates two hapless dungaree-wearing rustics, a pool cleaner does some unpaid overtime with his boss and the actors steal viagra between scenes to maintain the illusion of arousal. Men of Janus (Janus being, as the boss explains, "the god of entrances and exits") have produced such vintage movie titles as 'Tour De Ass' and 'Tranny Get Your Gun'. Both Sean and the reprehensible yet magnetic Johnny invite empathy throughout, despite their complicity in the many tragic events the story narrates. The capacity of Johnny's girlfriend Babylon (Roxanne Day) to convey innocence and goodness even when dressed in pseudo-bondage stripper costumes is remarkable. Sean's immersion into the sleazy world he is experimenting with occurs with disturbing and insidious imperceptibility. His job description rapidly expands into 'fluffing': helping the porn stars out when they have problems maintaining arousal. Encouraged by Johnny to experiment with crystal meth at an industry party, the hilarity of Sean's wired description of Hitchcock's Vertigo as 'pure porn' temporarily masks the sinister nature of his transition from classic movie buff to fluffer and criminal accomplice. On potentially dangerous ground with both their morality tale plotting and heavy use of symbolism, the directors somehow make it work. Sean removes the batteries from his kitchen clock in order to fuel his remote control for pausing Citizen Cum lovingly at every body shot of Johnny Rebel. The frozen clock, eternally trapped at the same moment, remains a motif throughout the film, until a new clock faraway finally chimes the next minute for Sean, relieving him of his emotional stasis. The protagonists' descent into emotional betrayal, drugs and loss of selfhood is enacted with considerably more plausibility and directorial restraint than the orgiastic downward spiral of Boogie Nights. Black and white flashbacks to Sean's childhood and the almost inevitable introduction of a childhood abuse subplot are less successful. Though the motivation is clear, the equally tired plot device involving characters crossing the border to Mexico in this as in other movies produces little more than a sense of gratitude to Ridley Scott for driving Thelma and Louise into the Grand Canyon instead. However, even the handling of these elements is far less crass than the treatment they receive in many Hollywood studio pictures. Indeed, the film throughout merits particular praise for its subversion of traditional cinematic narratives: unrequited love, coming of age and crimes of passion follow unpredictable courses in an intelligent and compassionate movie.
Rating:
Summary: possibly the worst
Review: Quite possibly the worst movie I have seen in a long time. Not well written, not well acted. Don't waste your time - it's not even sexy enough to be interesting.
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