{"id":28022,"date":"2018-05-08T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28022"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:44:02","slug":"fags-in-the-fast-lane-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/fags-in-the-fast-lane-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Fags in the Fast Lane (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I remember a time where it was nearly impossible to get a film like \u201cFags\u201d made, but now we\u2019re in a glorious time where the LGBT community is allowed to be fun and unleash their creative visions. \u201cFags in the Fast Lane\u201d is Andy Warhol, John Waters, Russ Meyers, and a dash of Frank Henenlotter thrown in to a blender and given some pretty fun tweaks here and there allowing Josh Collins and writer Steven G. Michael to go as far out there as he wants. Thankfully he never loses track of the narrative or the film\u2019s genuinely weird sense of humor once. \u201cFags\u201d is a very LGBT aimed action comedy but it also has an admirable sense of self-awareness always looking for any reason to poke fun at itself.<\/p>\n

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The dialogue is goofy and occasionally eye roll inducing, but it\u2019s all a part of the kit and caboodle that is Collins\u2019 whole vision. Chris Asimos plays \u201ccockslinger\u201d and mutton chop master Sir Beauregard Esquire AKA Beau, and he rides around with his partner Lump, as played by Matt Jones. Together they\u2019re a pair of gay superheroes, aided by transgender Salome as played Sasha Cuhan, they seek out a gang of gay bashers that are attacking their community. During their mission, they\u2019re called in by Kitten (played by the great Kitten Natividad) whose bordello is robbed of its fortune including a golden cock. Now it\u2019s up to the team to take on a traveling burlesque show run by an evil female giant who has a fetish for performing genetic experiments on her victims.<\/p>\n

Narrated by Tex Perkins, \u201cFags\u201d has a unique energy to it with a lot of colorful pastels making it feel very pulpy, and paired with the cinematography, it\u2019s bears a rare aesthetic that\u2019s not seen too often these days. Even in indie film. I\u2019m a big fan of what Collins is able to pull off, using miniature sets and stop motion that adds some admirable ingenuity to a film tight on a budget. You can always tell when Collins is using models to depict the larger scale, and it thankfully adds to the film\u2019s comic tone rather than distract from it. Director Collins also crafts some interesting characters and protagonists including Beau, who is a fun superhero and is played well by Chris Asimos.<\/p>\n

Asimos is a bonafide scene stealer and I liked watching his progression over the course of the film, especially as he struggles to stay on the mission at the behest of his grandmother. \u201cFags In the Fast Lane\u201d is rough around the edges with an overlong epilogue, and some stiff editing here and there, but overall I had a fun time with it. I grinned and giggled a lot and enjoyed the world director Josh Collins unfolded for us.<\/p>\n

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I remember a time where it was nearly impossible to get a film like \u201cFags\u201d made, but now we\u2019re in a glorious time where the LGBT community is allowed to be fun and unleash their creative visions. \u201cFags in the Fast Lane\u201d is Andy Warhol, John Waters, Russ Meyers, and a dash of Frank Henenlotter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,71,501,1401,631,700,703,851,874],"class_list":["post-28022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-indie-film","tag-lgbt","tag-martial-arts","tag-musical","tag-mystery","tag-road-trip","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28027,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}