Kiss the Bride (follow up to Latter Days) -- Horrible Film

[Guest alanm]

Maybe Lucky was right after all about "Latter Days." I was blinded by lust for Steve Sandvoss. Sandvoss is back (in a minor role) in C. Jay Cox's follow up film "Kiss the Bride," but he's the only good thing in

the movie.

 

In "Kiss the Bride," Philip Karner and James O'Shea play teenage lovers who meet again ten years later when O'Shea is about to marry Tori Spelling (!) back in their hometown. Karner and O'Shea are sexy, in a bland male model way, but generate no sparks together on screen.

 

Spelling is ridiculous as the over-the-top gay friendly bride to be. The somewhat interesting secondary characters (Sandvoss, Joanna Cassidy) are never developed beyond one or two wacky traits.

 

When I go back and watch "Latter Days" again, and focus on the story (rather than Steve Sandvoss), I am afraid I will find that the movie is

not so great after all.

 

I can not remember looking at my watch so often during a film as last night when I watched "Kiss the Bride" at the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

[Epigonos]

I really think that many of us who have, over the years, enjoyed "Latter Days" never thought of it as a great story. I for one have always considsered it a great gay soap opera -- nothing more, nothing less. Also for many of us who grew up spending time in Utah exposed to Mormon culture it definitely hit a chord. And finally it certainly didn't hurt that the two lead actors were gorgeous and the nude sex scene sensational.