American Nudist (2011)

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is a tax scam.It's the only logical explanation for how bad this film is. No one could be so talent-less unintentionally. This is a film that needed to lose an investor's money.Highlights include a dumpy, dolled up, potato talking about how she was too hot for playboy so they settled for Holly Madison, but in the end she knew through her 'business degree' to ask to speak to the manager, and basically harassed her way into the back realms of the online only version by claiming they were discriminating against her for not having enough Jewish girls in porn. (This isn't in the script, this person is real, and did this).No, you're right, that has f**k all to do with the title. But neither does anything else in this film - except the 'character' (?) who keeps asking people if they've heard of nudist camps like he's asking them for crack, and when one says they have he reacts like they shouldn't have, like the resorts* are an Illuminati level secret.* He objects to 'colony' and berates one his female hostages for using the term. Only lepers and ants have colonies. Not nudists, they're people. Unlike lepers.

I watched this. That's about the most positive thing I can say about this. I want the last two hours of my life back. And no, it's not two hours, but I think it owes me extra time for putting me through this horrendous excuse for a film. I barely have the words to describe this fustercluck, the screenplay is bad, the acting is worse, *spoiler* you can quite clearly see him clapping his hands when he slaps that woman in the face and the timing is terrible when he's getting repeatedly slapped alternatively on both sides of his face. The cutting is terrible and moves from one thing to the next with no sense of continuity at all. Perhaps this is trying to document his decent into madness as suggested by another reviewer, but it is terribly done, watch Black swan, Birdman or Franklyn for suggestions of how to show someone slowly going crazy.This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. 0/10.

worse than the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915 wherein a train crashed into the wreckage of 2 other trains that had just collided, thereby starting a fire which set a 4th and 5th train ablaze.Tony Young may as well have thrown his career into the lava pools of Mordor. his inability to produce or direct is surpassed only by his laughably inept and ineffectual attempts at acting. if not for the name of the film, only his close friends would have seen it, just like the rest of his calamities.an insult to naturist communities everywhere.hard-earned dishwashing money during the week wasted in an utterly dismal attempt at film making on the weekends.the only bright spot is, ironically, a short, dark segment with Wendy McColm. sadly, even she could not hope to bloom in the wake of this travesty.

I got roped in by a nudist friend to watch this. Luckily, American Nudist is a definitely an art house film. I thought it was interesting they used nudism as the backdrop to tell their point (which, to me, was to be true to yourself). I guess Hollywood is running out of more "conventional" ideas lol! Anyway, once you get past the avant-garde, non-linear story line, it's actually quite an interesting look at someone slowly losing their sanity over their inability to combine what they feel is true and with what society tells them is true.It's really an age-old story - the brilliant but troubled artist who tries to marry his vision with that old the world - and the resulting self-sabotaging behavior, neurosis, insecurities, and escapism that follows. Taylor Kong is a screenwriter who wants to write a groundbreaking film. However, he has a nudist past - something that is still a controversial topic in the United States. He wants to write a film that would bring American nudism to the forefront - to show it to mainstream American audiences as he knew it - an organic, intuitive, and innocent way of life. However, he gets caught up in Hollywood's over-sexualized and demonized version of nudism, and has to fight to maintain his vision and his sanity in a world that won't accept that being different does not mean being wrong. Which, I actually find very interesting, since you'd think that Hollywood (of all places!) would be all over a script on nudism! But I guess it's also a commentary on hypocrisy in society - I mean sex and being naked is pretty common in Hollywood, but when someone comes out and tries to be completely open about it, that's somehow not OK. This of course applies to other things that society at large can be hypocritical about. Luckily for Taylor, his one flicker of hope - his one connection between his world (that of nudism), and the outside conventional world - is Jennifer, and aspiring non-nudist actress who is open-minded enough to give Taylor and nudism a chance. Though they have their differences, they slowly see at the most fundamental level, we are all the same. This is ultimately a story of how trying to conform one's own true self to the demands of society is psychologically toxic and is the cause of mental instability.