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rjh wrote on 03/27/2010:

This film features skinny, whiny, effeminate boys who think they have made it in the real world.

Amos Lassen wrote on 01/14/2010:

“College Boys Live”

Seeing It Like It Is

Amos Lassen

Three young men in an Orlando, Florida suburb struggle to escape their pasts and build new lives for themselves. The live in their new home which is named collegeboyslive.com and here every move that they make is watched by thousands who pay to do so. The creator of the idea says that the reason for this is that he wants to show everyone that it is ok to be gay. Neighbors, on the other hand, insist that the house is a house of prostitution and they are suing to have the boys evicted.
The subject matter of the film suggests that we are going to see is cheap and salacious but in reality we get an honest picture of a group pf young gay men running a website with constant streaming pictures and we enter into their lives. We see a very clear picture of why some guys have chosen to be part of this project and what happens with it. We see bickering and fighting over boyfriends and money and there are drunken brawls and love spats and of course problems with the neighbors. This is a REAL reality show; we are like to watch other people’s lives.
What seemingly starts as a documentary about gay pornography quickly becomes anything but that. Zac and Jonathan have built up a business that is successful and we reap the benefits from it. The participants are observed everywhere and we have a bizarre experiment which becomes entertainment. The boys are expected to interact with the viewers—even while naked. George O’Donnell directed this documentary within a documentary about boys from broken homes who have come to the house to escape dysfunctional lives. There is a lot of drama here as JC, Tim and Charlie try to become a family. The movie is at times disturbing but it is also fascinating. It is not perfect—far from it but it does show us an aspect of gay life we may never otherwise have seen.