To be perfectly honest with you, I’m writing this post because I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to headline something, “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” but after just watching the trailer to this movie that is set in the Hamptons, I kind of want to see it, even though the critics seem to hate it.
I never trust movie critics anyway.
Admit it, you clicked on the headline because you thought to yourself, “What the hell is going on with David today?”
I got to say, I want to see this movie this Labor Day Weekend, but it seems like the only place to go and check it out is in Stony Brook, which seems pretty strange to me, considering the entire movie is set in the Hamptons.
It seems like the movie is getting beat up pretty good with the review crowd. Rotten Tomatoes gave it an audience likability score of 56%, which isn’t an ABSOLUTELY terrible score for an indie movie.
The professional critic reviews are nothing short of abysmal:
“You don’t review a movie like A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy. You autopsy it. There’s a less polite term for orgy (it begins with “cluster”), and that’s really the best description of this boorish, smirking, barrel-scraping smut opus.” [Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribute
“The movie consists of an hour of everybody talking about the orgy, watching sex tapes, buying sex toys and making the usual dude-you’re-gay jokes that lead merely to a few seconds of nudity, as body parts keep winding up strategically blocked. Old-fashioned? Yup. For an equally sexy experience, consult a coffee-table book about Victorian bathing costumes.” [Kyle Smith, New York Post]
I think the trailer looks pretty great though. Do you have any desire to see this movie?
