Not Another Gay Movie!

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2018)

***watched for the 2018 oscars
Good god this took forever to get through. I kept pausing it because it just couldn't hold my attention. There was no reason for it to be as long as it was. It just felt like it was dragging on for hours with no real purpose for doing so. In its 132 minute runtime, it manages to be both uneventful and completely empty.
Call me By Your Name is nothing other than just another gay movie. It does nothing to separate itself from other gay romance movies in the slightest. How is this any more than the male version of Blue is the Warmest Color?
Isn't the entire plot of this borderline pedophilia? Like this kid is 17 having sex with a 24 year old, who by the way looks far older, probably more like 30 (which is how old Hammer was when this was shot). Either way, there is seemingly no chemistry between the lead actors.
It's set in the 80's, but there is no noticeable stylization from that decade, or any other obvious reason for it to be set then.
Much like this, a number of other elements just didn't seem to matter or have any effect on the plot line at all. Why was it set in Italy? Who knows. Why were the characters Jewish? Doesn't matter apparently.
Gay porn is probably much more satisfying than this.