I'm watching Loving Annabelle right now, and it's so cliche. >_< I keep having to pause it so I can stop cringing, but damn it if the girls are not cute. However, I know that I will probably be "aweing" by the end of it, though. -_-
Edit: I persevered! That proved to be an interesting exercise in resisting emotional manipulation. Ugh, that was so bad. It's like what would happen if Lifetime produced a lesbian drama. Okay, it wasn't that bad. Damn was Erin Kelly hot, and she's a real lesbian too! :O Michelle Horn was real cute too.
I have to say i like feel good gay movie or gay movies with a nice ending. I wished real life could be like the movies, but it rarely ever is in my life.
Make the Yuletide Gay was cute.
An "openly gay man" leaves college for Christmas vacation to spend it with his family. Leaving his boyfriend there, since he's supposed to travel to spend the holidays with his own (conservative/rich) family. But the boyfriend's parents cancel at the last minute just saying to him that he could go to his house and spent the holidays..alone, while doing some chores. He uses this abrupt change of plans, to visit and spend the holidays with his boyfriend.
Upon arrival, turns out he's boyfriend hasn't come out to his parents, and "girlfriend". So the rest of the movie is their ways of hiding their feelings ,the conflict while dealing with the weird but funny family.
Ending is kinda expected, but with a fun touch that fits with the way the parents act through the movie. Funny, entertaining, good acting; and there's a sequel coming this year, now apparently with they visiting the conservative rich parents of the boyfriend. Can't wait!
Redwoods
Was a little skeptical at first, since it was written and directed by the same one that did Rock Haven (which just sucked). But I've been watching movies with Matthew Montgomery on them and this was the last one. And I'm glad I did, while the movie is not perfect,; it was a big improvement over Rock Haven in terms of characters, script, acting...though had the same problems with music (i.e. sounding like NES Zelda/Final Fantasy) not fitting the movie neither any scene.
Is about a guy that seems to be just not happy with his life. He lives with his partner and an adopted son; but things feel like a routine, more than anything. One day, his partner and son leave for a trip so he has the house to himself, but he doesn't do much since he's used to the routine. So he spends the day with his parents and around town and then back to the house. One day, a stranger arrives on car, asking for directions since he was staying at a place close by to (try to) finish the book he was writing.
Sparks fly, friendship develops. Family likes the writer, everyone's happy with the way things are working out. But one of them is in a relationship and with a son, how's that going to work? There lies the problem with this movie.
The story/script doesn't explain much, so we're supposed to just accept that one person in a relationship, fell in love with another person, is technically cheating on his partner and son; and everyone's fine with it. The movie would make sense for many, only if they watch it with one idea that I (and others it seems) realized during the movie (spoiler):
that the partner and son are dead, and he's living attached to the ghosts of them, hence he hasn't moved on. He tries to when meeting the writer, which is why his family seems to be happy with the idea of him going out with another guy, also related to when his father talks about "wounds taking time to heal". Seems that when his partner and son left for the trip, they had an accident and died, so he kinda blames himself for that and lives life as if nothing ever happened. Also explains why the son, after 5 years passed at the end of the movie, didn't aged.
But none of that it's actually explained, or directly shown in any form. One just has to guess it, and reading around online seems many people didn't and hated the movie in general because for them it was about a "gay man that cheats and we're supposed to feel fine about it". There are other theories, but since there's no official explanation it seems to depend on who's watching it.
Add to that a sad ending. Overall, better than Rock Haven at least.
East Side Story
This one was fun. It's focused on the clash of cultures between Mexico and the US. A young mexican guy lives with his grandmother and they both run a restaurant that sells mexican food. Through the years, he has been going out with closeted real estate agent, that only cares about sex. Their "relationship" comes to a halt, when the grandson says he's in love with him wand the real estate agent, reminds him that basically falling in love is a thing that women and "f*****" do.
While this happens, there's talk in the radio, local people and news about how their city is suddenly begin invaded by "the homosexuals". With the cook from the restaurant sending a letter to the newspaper expressing his hate towards them. This causes the "news" of the grandson of the owner being gay, while she's away on vacations and he was running the restaurant. This, couple with the homophobia of the cook, people in general and the rise of gay men moving around things don't go that well. Add to this that the grandson, is falling in love with a neighbor who just moved to the house in front with his partner of two years.
There are a good amount of funny lines, and scenes. There are many cliches, but they also use the cliches as part of the film (like a scene when the partner of the neighbor enters the house and he sees a few shaved hispanic men and he starts screaming because he thinks thy're robbing the house; only to find out that they were with his partner doing an AA-gay meeting); among other things.
Nice, fun movie to watch. Not great and unique; but fun.
3-Day Weekend
This one was entertaining, nothing great. 3 old friends, 2 being a couple decide to spend a 3 days weekend at a cabin on the mountains. To spice things up, they decide to each invite other people, like to play "matchmaking" of sorts.
One of them on his 40s invites his 25 years old boyfriend, and since they're going as one, they also invite friends on their own. The older invites his yoga teacher, the young one invites an old friend from college. Of the couple that owns the cabin, one invites a shy co-worker in the hopes of this "opening his shell", and the other invites...a hustler..which he paid to be there....and whom he has been seeing for over 2 years without his partner knowing. But he thinks everything will be fine, since they both agreed to be in an open relationship.
That's obviously going to cause problems in the relationship, the shy one you know is going to come out of his shell, truths are exposed, relationships tested, new friendships start and so on. So yeah, nothing biggie, or shocking but a nice movie to watch and Derek Long always being a great actor steals most of the scenes.
Kind a disappointing to see a mention of that great, GREAT movie on page 3 of this thread. Absolute loved it. One of my favorite movies ever.
Other good lesbian movies:
Bound (didn't see this one mentioned.... For shame, Gaf ...)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
My Summer of Love
Imagine Me & You
Fingersmith (TV series, based on book by Sarah Waters who also wrote Tipping the Velvet and Affinity)
Kissing Jessica Stein
And what is it with gay movies that so many covers look like soft porn movies ...?
Yeah that's disappointing, but expected. Since many of them end in the "niche-indie" territory, it seems they make covers that basically scream "gay movie"; so they get a sale or at least a rent based on that.
Though many movies has received praise and good reception in sales and acceptance; had more traditional covers. Many have multiple covers probably because of this, like "well if the movie is not well received let's throw this other cover with the hot guys in front". It seems they sometimes try to play it safe.
Because "gay movies" is being treated as a movie genre, which is pretty ridiculous when you think about it. When you use "gay movie" as a genre equal to "thriller" or "horror", it means that the theme of your movie is homosexuality. And this basically boils down to movies that either deal with the struggles that homosexuality can bring along, or movies about homosexual relationships, which in itself most likely incorporates sensuality, sexiness or sex. All the box covers with cute shirtless guys fall in the latter description.
Very little "gay movies" are just great movies that deal with all sorts of different themes (scifi, detective, romcom, fantasy, heist, film noire, ...) where -oh btw- the protagonist is gay. Because there aren't many films like that, and because those would barely be categorized as "gay movies" to begin with, haha.
Not really a gay movie (main characters were gay and there was a running theme about keeping it kind of secret from the parents) but "Running with Scissors" was the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen.
Because "gay movies" is being treated as a movie genre, which is pretty ridiculous when you think about it. When you use "gay movie" as a genre equal to "thriller" or "horror", it means that the theme of your movie is homosexuality. And this basically boils down to movies that either deal with the struggles that homosexuality can bring along, or movies about homosexual relationships, which in itself most likely incorporates sensuality, sexiness or sex. All the box covers with cute shirtless guys fall in the latter description.
Very little "gay movies" are just great movies that deal with all sorts of different themes (scifi, detective, romcom, fantasy, heist, film noire, ...) where -oh btw- the protagonist is gay. Because there aren't many films like that, and because those would barely be categorized as "gay movies" to begin with, haha.
^ This too!
Is like calling romantic comedies "straight movies"...then again, some call them "chick flicks".
I think is why I enjoyed 'Pornography' a lot. You could technically swap the gay porn, with straight porn and the gay couple with a straight couple and it would've been the same.
I'm keeping my eye on two other films like that too:
Flight of the Cardinal (about a guy that leaves his small town and past behind, no matter what)
Sticke Figures (about a writer trying to work on his next thing, that suddenly learns that he has a daughter)
Fucking Åmål is great. I watched it a long time ago, it's rather simplistic but really cute and sweet. Definitely the one gay movie I liked the most as a teenager.
Brokeback Mountain was good if you watch it as a comedy. That sex scene was hilarious and probably impossible. (Two cold, clammy, uptight cowboys can't just start raping each other like that without a hell of a lot more blood.) Those characters were bumbling idiots. They meet each other for the first time since they left the mountain and the very first thing they do is make out right there in front of that one guy's house, with his wife there inside. They managed to be on the down low for about ten seconds before outing themselves. Morons. I can't relate to any character that stupid.
I think Philadelphia was pretty great. I think it's gotten better with age, even, since now we're looking back at how HIV was seen rather than how it is seen now. I wrote a term paper about it, actually.
Uh, does The Ritz count? That was pretty hilarious.
Cachorro/Bear Cub was softcore porn and stereotypes.
Satyricon is not a gay movie.
Oh, and a friend made me watch To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Uh....
Bound (didn't see this one mentioned.... For shame, Gaf ...)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
My Summer of Love
Imagine Me & You
Fingersmith (TV series, based on book by Sarah Waters who also wrote Tipping the Velvet and Affinity)
Kissing Jessica Stein
The movie Peru sent for the Oscar in 2010.
Simple, beautiful, touching. Lovely soundtrack, set in a Peruvian fishing village with white sand beaches, an idyllic? setting used to great effect. Affirming, human.
Looking forward to another movie by the director Javier Fuentes-Léon. He has a very humane hand, seems
or just look at the picture. These men <3
It's absolutely in the top for me together with
Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love) ... "Men jag vill knarkaa!" <3)
Paris is Burning (Willi the Ninja is so cooool
Low-budget, script/story is nothing new or exciting, average acting, probably bellow average movie. But it was.. likable and big props for being one of those "don't know it's a gay movie until you watch it".
A young guy that works as bus tour guide, is on his last day at work. His work is basically tour people dressed as actors, around parts of the city were movies has been filmed and have fun. But turns out that the tour was only a cover used to pass drugs and other substances without the border patrol noticing it.
He finds the bus driver and other guys exchanging the merchandise, they beat him and the bus driver takes him to another place to kill him. But he lets him go, the other guys start to get suspicious and want to see the body, so the bus driver goes back for him. There he reveal that he's an undercover agent, and that he blew up his cover; so they're both on the run.
At first the only way you know the tour guide is gay, is at a scene when he's checking out the driver, then later when he's nervous next to the driver who just unzipped his pants to fix his shirt. The bus driver later says that he knows the guide's gay, a few scenes later the tour guide says that the driver (now knowing he's undercover) hates him because he is; driver/agent pissed off tells him that kind of attitude is a turn-off to him and kisses him. Turns out the driver's also gay, but as he describes himself "not the usual kind of gay of going to clubs and other places".
Funny also, how everytime they were making out, one of the bad guys always appeared. First time they're kissing? Bad guy in a car. Second time they're kissing and take their shirts off? Same bad guy comes out in the same car, even when they thought he was dead. Third time, when they get naked and start having sex? Main bad guy comes and starts shooting at them. There were a few flashback scenes, like to make the audience remember that the main character's gay, related to apparently the main guy being a teacher, but after having a relationship with a younger student he's asked to quit or they'll press charges. But that didn't added anything to the story, just random flashbacks.
Overall the movie's nothing big or special, but it was nice to watch.
I just watched "Get Real" after a friend's suggestion (though the movie is in the OP too). It was a pretty solid movie but it became kinda predictable towards the end. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it.
this was a big surprise for me, as the trailer was misleading ( in France they sold it like a hysterical gay comedy with big jokes)... But the film is actually very funny, clever and touching and I loved it. I think they just didn't know how to market it to the public.
Happy together is a fantastic movie, but when I saw it, I was in difficult period of my life, I spent the entire movie crying. I've been trying to buy it in DVD, but it isn't available anywhere in France.
I love the 60's, so I liked A single man, even if The film is more memorable for it's visuals than it's story. I wonder what the book is like...
For the Gaf bears, I'd recommend Bearcity, which is a cute movie about a guy who comes out of the closet a second time by acknowledging his love of big hairy guys instead of the usual twinks.
Also there is spanish web series named Gayxample with cute actors and a nice electro / dance soundtrack. I've only seen the first episode so far, but there is a new one every Saturday and it's free, so...
I just watched But I'm a Cheerleader. It was kind of cute, though it was heavily flawed. Natasha Lyonne was adorable. ^_^ Though according to Wikipedia, she lives a rather reckless life. >_> Clea DuVall was so hot, as well.
bud said:
a single man wasn't mentioned on the first page. it's excellent.
Finally watched Make the Yuletide Gay yesterday and even though it was campy I enjoyed it. It is a cute gay movie and Adamo Ruggiero is sooo cute. I didn't even know he was in the movie. I loved him as Macro in Degrassi. Anyways, I'm glad I seen the movie I'll have to add it to my movie collection.
Just saw "Get Real". As far as the Gay Movie genre goes (meaning: the vast majority is utter garbage), this movie was pretty entertaining. It's nothing extra-ordinary, and talks about the typical gay coming-of-age stuff. But while the subject is serious, it keeps a sense of humor and lightness, and the characters were charming. Especially the neighbor girl.
Nothing too special, but I enjoyed watching it.
On a side note: this would be an excellent film to show in schools btw.
Recently re-watched Latter Days and Trick, still nice movies after all this years.
Kinda disappointing that the main actors from each movie, were really good...but their careers didn't exploded as much as I thought, with the exception of Christian Campbell (main from Trick); they usually end in cameo roles.
The movie Peru sent for the Oscar in 2010.
Simple, beautiful, touching. Lovely soundtrack, set in a Peruvian fishing village with white sand beaches, an idyllic? setting used to great effect. Affirming, human.
Looking forward to another movie by the director Javier Fuentes-Léon. He has a very humane hand, seems
I watched The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and it was uneven. The two leads didn't have chemistry, and it didn't really get good until near the end. It didn't help that Laurel Holloman's character totally looked and dressed a lot like my last girlfriend. ;_; Overall, it was an okay movie and I did enjoy it moderately. With each lesbian movie I watch, I am definitely getting more critical.
I also watched All Over Me, which was definitely the better made film.
So I want to watch a gay romance/relationship focused movie, which one do you guys recommend? For reference, I really liked the relationship between David and Keith in Six Feet Under.
I have to say i like feel good gay movie or gay movies with a nice ending. I wished real life could be like the movies, but it rarely ever is in my life.
Subscribed, neat thread. We were just talking about gay movies over in the LGBT thread, but I'll be going through a lot of these I reckon. Keep up the recommendations!
Monster is pretty good as well, though it's more about Aileen Wuornos, but the lesbian relationship is certainly a big part of the movie.
Edit: Sorry if the bump isn't cool, the last post was only from November last year so I thought it'd be okay.
