Gay movies (not porn)

[manforme]

I search for good gay theme movies. I prefer the ones that have good story lines and characters. My favorites, so far, are "Latter Days", "Handsome Devil", and a few others I can not recall right now. I like romance with my gay movies. Latter Days is very good, imho.

[prof]

1 hour ago, manforme said:

I search for good gay theme movies. I prefer the ones that have good story lines and characters. My favorites, so far, are "Latter Days", "Handsome Devil", and a few others I can not recall right now. I like romance with my gay movies. Latter Days is very good, imho.

Welcome to the site. If you check it out, you'll discover the section labeled "Media and Entertainment" then a subforum called, "Comedy and Tragedy," with a further subsection for "Movies." Searching there will bring up older discussions on this theme that I think you'll enjoy.

[samhexum]

 

 

 

[manforme]

2 hours ago, prof said:

Welcome to the site. If you check it out, you'll discover the section labeled "Media and Entertainment" then a subforum called, "Comedy and Tragedy," with a further subsection for "Movies." Searching there will bring up older discussions on this theme that I think you'll enjoy.

thank you

 

[+ ThroatCummer]

Check out Broken Hearts Club. Pretty cool average gay themed movie. Not too much partying. Not too much sex. Just the right amount of funny. 

[samhexum]

 

 

 

 

[+ Coolwave35]

Love latter days and Billy’s Hollywood Screen kiss is heartbreaking. 

[mike carey]

15 hours ago, prof said:

Welcome to the site. If you check it out, you'll discover the section labeled "Media and Entertainment" then a subforum called, "Comedy and Tragedy," with a further subsection for "Movies." Searching there will bring up older discussions on this theme that I think you'll enjoy.

As Prof said there have been a few threads discussing the subject of gay-themed movies and others about specific films. The British film God's Own Country comes to mind. I'm moving this thread to the Movies Forum to keep all those discussions together. Welcome to Company of Men, @manforme.

[manforme]

4 hours ago, Coolwave35 said:

Love latter days and Billy’s Hollywood Screen kiss is heartbreaking. 

Anderson Cooper i a NO for me. 😊

 

[jeezifonly]

16 hours ago, samhexum said:

 

 

 

 

I second this curated trio!!

 

[+ Coolwave35]

6 hours ago, manforme said:

Anderson Cooper i a NO for me. 😊

 

Anderson COOPER is a no for everyone, but what does he have to do with these movies? 

[manforme]

6 hours ago, Coolwave35 said:

Anderson COOPER is a no for everyone, but what does he have to do with these movies? 

 

6 hours ago, Coolwave35 said:

Anderson COOPER is a no for everyone, but what does he have to do with these movies? 

I have no idea. I just answered the question.

maybe it was inadvertently put in this thread.

 

[mike carey]

4 hours ago, manforme said:

 

I have no idea. I just answered the question.

maybe it was inadvertently put in this thread.

 

The question wasn't asked in reference to this thread, it's in Coolwave's signature, as a rhetorical question. If you check the post where you answered the question you quoted one of his posts, but the system software showed only his actual post not the signature line that includes the Cooper reference.

[TonyDown]

Jeffrey never gets old.  Great cast.

Patrick Stewart is a treasure.

 

 

[+ stevenkesslar]

On 8/12/2023 at 5:42 AM, manforme said:

I search for good gay theme movies. I prefer the ones that have good story lines and characters. My favorites, so far, are "Latter Days", "Handsome Devil", and a few others I can not recall right now. I like romance with my gay movies. Latter Days is very good, imho.

So I was going to start a post called "Our Summer of Queer Love."  But I decided to just post this here, since the thread is about LGBTQ films in general. 

I really liked both of the films above.  The question Handsome Devil begged is what would happen if Nick Galitzine's Gay character fell in love?  Now the whole world is learning.

Queer Stories Strike Back! ‘Heartstopper,’ ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ and ‘Bottoms’ Lead a New Surge of LGBTQ Content

I was curious about how any of these films, or any LGBTQ films we've seen so far, fit into a list of the best rom coms ever.  So I Googled this list on Rotten Tomatoes, which seems as good as any.

THE 200 BEST ROMANTIC COMEDIES OF ALL TIME

It's interesting that all of the Top 5 are from Hollywood's Golden Era.  (I actually liked Holiday, which is not on the list, better than The Philadelphia Story.  But that's what you get when you mix a somewhat more serious love story with rom com.)  The top Gay male rom coms on that list are Fire Island, at #30, and Bros at #52.  I liked both.  But my main reaction to this list is that if Fire Island and Bros are as good as it gets, maybe we simply have not entered the Golden Era of Gay Rom Coms yet.  I can't wait.  

Interestingly, #22 on that list - meaning the best LGBTQ rom com ever according to Rotten Tomatoes - is a film I'd never even heard of: Appropriate Behavior.  Have any of you seen it?  Probably not.  Because the US box office gross was $46,912.  Is anyone surprised that didn't persuade Hollywood to make more rom coms about Bisexual Persian women?  

I'm having a reaction to some really dumb shit that is being said by a few Gay film critics.  Like, where is this stuff coming from?  Here's another one who bitch slaps RWRB by saying it lets Gays "be really freakin dumb" in a movie.  I'm fine with the criticism that any or all of the Summer Of Queer Love films are dumb Hallmark movies.  I tend to like the serious ones that bomb commercially.  Anyone up for Operation Hyacinth, Fireworks, or Mariposas Verdes?  Those are downer movies I tend to watch on my own.

But here's the part I absolutely do not get, in the words of the Gay film critic above:

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It’s astonishing that Red, White & Royal Blue sets out with seemingly no intentions ... Now, it’s gay people’s turn to be moronic. In its own way, that’s beautiful.

I know nothing about Matthew Lopez of the other up and coming queer film makers quoted in that Variety article.  But I feel like I could have guessed how any of them would respond to these criticisms.  And here Lopez is, saying it in his own words:

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“My fear is that it’s [RWRB] a fluke. My hope is that it represents a willingness to allow queer filmmakers and queer storytellers to own their work in ways that I think we’ve never been allowed to before. We are not a monolith. We have as many stories inside of us as there are queer individuals who are telling stories.”

No intention, huh?  I mean, that Daily Beast article was a real head scratcher.  Especially if you feel RWRB is Hallmark level, how could you not get the in-your-face intention of the movie?  And if you are a Gay man that cares about Gay Stuff, how could you not get the real world context it relates to?  Who's the moron?  The film makers and their audiences, or the film critic?  Is the distinguishing characteristic of LGBTQ cinema supposed to be that it flops at the box office?

Here's a list of LGBTQ films I've watched in the last few months.  Either because they are new, or they were on my long list of LGBTQ films I had never gotten around to:  Bishonen, Primos, El Cazador, Mariposas Verdes, Fireworks, My Partner, Golden Delicious.  To my knowledge, not one of them was remotely commercially successful.

Now skip this paragraph if you don't want to know anything about the plots of those seven movies.  We have two Gay honor killings, two Gay suicides, one Straight creep preying on hot Gay kids to do dark web porn, and three actual Gay love stories.  But anyone who thinks RWRB was slow placed or lacked chemistry should avoid these other Gay love stories.  Because they make RWRB look like like a roller coaster ride porno movie by comparison.  Fireworks, which is a new Italian film, was particularly well done, I thought.  With two hot young Italian actors portraying young lovers coming out.  But because they were actually coming out in Sicily in the 1980's, of course they had to be killed - probably by their families.  It's Brokeback Mountain, Italian Style.  And it's a true story that is credited with starting Italy's first and largest national LGBTQ rights organization.

Again, I liked all seven films.  And I'd recommend any of them.  Other than I know they would bore some of my friends to death.

So, for me, our Summer Of Queer Love is like a breath of fresh air.  I hope it is just the beginning of a Golden Era of LGBTQ rom coms, comedies, and love stories.  Thank God for the film makers who are savvy enough to create films that are commercially successful to a broad audience.  They are NOT morons.  They are clearly intentional.  And I can't wait for more.

Edited August 27, 2023 by stevenkesslar

[Rod Hagen]

 Saw this overpraised film in the theater this wknd.  Boring, Trite.

 

 

[+ EVdude]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:39 AM, Rod Hagen said:

Saw this overpraised film in the theater this wknd.  Boring, Trite.

 

Yes, I was all excited cuz I love Gael García Bernal. But sensed something was up with Rotten Tomatoes at 93, Metacritic at 76 and IMDB at 56. 

[pubic_assistance]

14 hours ago, EVdude said:

Yes, I was all excited cuz I love Gael García Bernal.

I thought this might be Gael's way out of the closet.

[Ali Gator]

On 8/13/2023 at 1:30 AM, Coolwave35 said:

Love latter days and Billy’s Hollywood Screen kiss is heartbreaking. 

Brad Rowe was being heralded as the next Brad Pitt. I thought he was better looking than Pitt, more talented, and much sexier. His career didn't go too far after this film. Can't recall anything he's done in the past 25 years. 

[+ Coolwave35]

22 hours ago, Ali Gator said:

Brad Rowe was being heralded as the next Brad Pitt. I thought he was better looking than Pitt, more talented, and much sexier. His career didn't go too far after this film. Can't recall anything he's done in the past 25 years. 

Allegedly he decided to stop acting. 

[newdad]

On 8/13/2023 at 12:30 AM, Coolwave35 said:

Love latter days and Billy’s Hollywood Screen kiss is heartbreaking. 

Then I started to have a thing for Mormon boys.

[+ FrankR]

50 minutes ago, Coolwave35 said:

Allegedly he decided to stop acting. 

I heard the same thing. Really enjoyed him in the movie Shelter. 

[dutchal]

On 8/26/2023 at 6:27 PM, stevenkesslar said:

Here's a list of LGBTQ films I've watched in the last few months.  Either because they are new, or they were on my long list of LGBTQ films I had never gotten around to:  Bishonen, Primos, El Cazador, Mariposas Verdes, Fireworks, My Partner, Golden Delicious.  To my knowledge, not one of them was remotely commercially successful.

 

How did you watch My Partner and Golden Delicious?  I can't find a streaming service or other source for either of them.

[+ stevenkesslar]

I was at a friend house.  Not sure which service he used. I watch a lot of LGBTQ movies with him so I assume it was some queer streaming I don’t have.