Instant Favorite.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

best movie i've ever seen.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

After reading all of the bad reviews I was sure this movie was going to be horrible. I have to say I was quite surprised.The movie was much better than I expected. I mean, sure there were some moments of bad acting, but really: this is a date movie and it succeeds as such.Marc does a great job as a sensitive, but very sexual guy. He does a great job playing his role without being a characture.My only major complaint is about Caleb. He does a good job of being the "bungling" straight guy, but he was a little too "hard to get" when it comes to the girl he wants.

Some writers are trying so hard to create good gay drama or for that matter good gay comedies...they simply don't understand that there is a fine line between gay comedies and gay drama...most gay movies nowadays have nothing to do with real life...very few actually get a point across and deal more with real life... Eating Out is a terrible movie...the acting is pretty bad, the actors have no chemistry and all the performances seem forced and just out of sync...the plot is all over the place and is one of those movies that make the overused, ridiculous and dumb assumption that "anyone can go gay." Crap like "Eating Out" should be banned...movies like this create an illusive yet really ridiculous scenarios that anyone and everyone can be gay for the sake of entertainment or whatever in the movie...And It Doesn't Work...this movie goes down the line with "Eating Out" "Prom Queen" and "Touch of Pink" and "testosterone"---as all really Bad gay movies...i know there's tons of good and bad str8 movies...but considering that movies with gay themes have less opportunities to go mainstream and on the big screen...at least writers should make an effort to make them better than the rest so they can stand out and More people can see them and not just gay people....oh and that other movie "Ski trip" about the black gay guys who well go on a ski trip...which they keep showing on logo channel...is a horrible movie (they were just begging for laughs in this movie...the flamboyant guys didn't look gay at all and in one part some guy is eating his buggers...out of nowhere..so tasteless and stupid!) I just saw "Brother to Brother" and "The Mudge Boy" (although this one wasn't so much about being gay)...as well as "Brokeback mountain" which were all great awesomely gay movies...they were real and easy to relate to! with all this talk about gay issues i think films with gay themes owe it to themselves to make their films both plausible, entertaining and ways to relate to a wide spectrum of people...Sex is a wonderful thing with the opposite or same sex...but i am really tired of the gratuitous sex scenes in some of these gay movies...they are absurd and dumb...once again watching "eating out" made me wanna throw up! Queer as folk was a good series overall...but it was just too much gratuitous and senseless sex...it made it extremely difficult for me to watch as a gay man..can u imagine a str8 person? there was no reason for that whatsoever...and the fact that they had like 5 seasons and there wasn't a single minority in the show with actual drama was just Appalling...considering that gay minorities in America deal with double the problems! that one show "Noah's arc" in Logo was awful too...just really really bad!

Some other person posted this is the worst gay film since "All over they guy," which struck me as a very bad point since "All over the guy" is well received and amongst netflix top rented 20 gay & lesbian film charts, and has remained a top rented for over 2 years. Yes, "Eating Out" is very amateur. Yes, it is a no budgeter, silly plot, and some of it is badly edited. But, ya know what? I enjoyed every minute of it. Part of the reason is I really love Ryan Carnes. I have liked him ever since he appeared on "Desperate Housewives." Ryan is a natural actor and physically a major turn on for me. And there were quite a few funny site gags as well. No, there is no message in this film, there is nothing very realistic in terms of how us gay dudes live, and the entire plot was beyond silly. But among all the low low budget straight to video gay themed comedies flooding the DVD market, this is one I really enjoyed. Yup,many will not agree, but I don't really care. To each their own, right? I liked "eating out."

How on earth did this get an average score on IMDb of over 6 (at the time of writing)? Where to start with why it's so dire? The "acting" and dialogue are worse than that in the average porn movie (if you've ever seen a porn movie you'll know what I mean).The direction is appalling - there are so many scenes where you can see the actors freezing waiting for either the next line from one of the other characters or their director to yell "Cut". It's like watching the rehearsal of a bad stage production designed to "project" to an audience that just happens to have been filmed.There is no "chemistry" between any of the characters.The male "muscle Mary" lead, who admittedly has more charisma than most of the rest of the "actors" put together, and is very easy on the eye should NEVER have been cast as a "straight" lead. One certainly doesn't believe for a fraction of a second he is "in love" with the fag hag who he is supposed to have fallen for. Cast him as someone in love with himself and you might have a movie that walks.And the script, while containing some witty and "daring" (yawn!) bitchy one liners is insulting in its depiction of stereotypes. The plot strands are so ridiculous they become funnier than anything the "comedy" writer originally intended. The UK DVD has been deliberately "gayed down" in an attempt to shift copies, with a cover claiming this is "A modern-day variant on a Shakesperean comedy". No - it's a diabolically bad amateur movie that will only be of interest to a gay crowd wanting to see some eye candy (who would be better off spending their money on gay porn). To add insult to injury the UK DVD is a full-priced non-anamorphic copy that looks like it was transferred from an out-of-focus print.Avoid!