JUST REVIEWED
The idea of Loaded is that Patrick is in his late 40s and Jude is in his mid 20s, and that this generational difference will make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to develop a loving and respectful relationship. While the inherent differences between gay men born in the 1960s and gay men born in the 1980s (mostly surrounding the AIDS epidemic) are certainly touched upon ad nauseam in Loaded, I concluded that the reason Patrick and Jude's affair is doomed is because both of these men are selfish, small-minded, intolerant, and, on some level, self-loathing.