Shortbus (2021)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This is the sickest movie ive ever seen... eww. Crappy lgbt movie which shows how distressed and disturbed those people are. Deep inside they know it so they wanna kill themselves.

An extremely underrated movie, as often is when it comes to touchy subjects like openly LGBTQ characters without someone just trying to be funny. Don't get me wrong, this movie made me laugh, a lot. While it had me laughing in some parts, it had me crying in others. This is a touching story that goes really deep and that does it with good actors too. It is late and I might write this better and longer at some other time. Just had to leave a comment for people.The movie might turn people away with it's openness that the world doesn't really seem to be ready for yet (in general). Do not turn the movie off in the beginning when it might just look like someone is treating you with sex scenes. This movie is so much more!In short: Watch Shortbus. Don't turn it off at once, but let the characters and the movie build. Also, the soundtrack is amazing.

I give it points for being different, and I am all for art porn on principle. But in general, "Shortbus" is too weepy-sensitive to be hot. And John Cameron Mitchell's sexual ideology, as presented, is frankly puerile. A male character lacks affect until he is penetrated, and then all of a sudden, he can feel! A female character (who looks to be the world's worst couples counselor) can't experience an orgasm until she is jointly seduced by a Taylor Lautner-Taylor Swift type couple (we should all be so lucky), and then, well, the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air! The movie ends on that latter scene, actually, and I didn't like it any more than I did when "Adventureland" was structured around Jesse Eisenberg's getting laid, and when he does, mission accomplished, the movie's over. Yuk. It also makes me nervous to think that Lars von Trier's new "Nymphomaniac" is apparently based on this same plot trope, the search for the missing female orgasm. And at four hours or more length, no less. (Word has it that the director's cut of "Nymphomaniac" is five-and-a-half hours.)Large chunks of "Shortbus" do not work at all - a long screwball scene at mid-movie involving a vibrating egg is simply embarrassing. The characters are by and large not engaging (a word I prefer to "likable" in this context - you can be engaged, held, by someone who is not likable, such as Henry Hill in "Goodfellas"). Every now and then, a little bit of the movie clicks - there is a jacuzzi seduction with one guy edging closer to another that packs more erotic charge than all the explicit scenes put together. And I like Justin Bond's line, while surveying an orgy: "It's just like the Sixties, only with less hope." (Bond as the club proprietor, Lindsay Beamish as a dominatrix, and Peter Stickles as a cute stalker are the best performers here.)The film is clearly a fantasy, because it is hard to believe that the thoroughly polysexual Shortbus club could exist in the real world. When it comes to getting down to business, gay men don't like to be around women, lesbians don't like to be around men, straight men don't like to be around gay men, and there are never enough out bisexuals to go around. That leaves straight women, who I believe are indeed more ecumenically minded, but who also tend to avoid such establishments. Straight sex clubs seldom work because of gender ratio problems: they become either gay sex clubs, or brothels. That's the real world. Mitchell's concept of an establishment where everyone just gets along and gets it on is sweetly sentimental, though not without a certain wistful appeal.Beyond all that, I have always maintained that a sex club that is not also a bath-house is an icky proposition. People need to shower!

A movie that begins as an artistic film introducing its characters;A Dominatrix searching for something more in her life.A gay couple ,one completely in love and the other dealing with his inner demons.An Asian woman who cannot have orgasm who also happens to be a sex therapist (but prefers to be called 'marriage counselor').A voyeur who secretly watches the gay couple and some more insignificant characters. the director tries to conjure up an aesthetically looking movie about sex but seems to be confused about what aspect of sex to focus on . he tries to show too many sexual flaws in as many characters but the story(if there is any )doesn't seem to connect or move forward in any way.Why someone is intent on committing suicide because he cannot make love to his partner but yields as easily to another person is beyond explanation.The movie is about sexual liberation but the end does not match up to the theme and the viewer is left wondering what the movie was all about.It could have been much better had the director not tried to mix it all up.This seems to be the case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.You are introduced to a flurry of characters each with their own share of problems but are able to connect with no one.A word of praise to the actors though who try to give and give a decent performance.Had the direction been with more intent and seriousness the movie would have made a better watch.