Favorite (and Least Favorite) Gay-Themed Movies

[AdamSmith]

And poisonous.

 

Truly.

 

Do you mean that to be complimentary, pejorative, or just descriptive?

[Rod Hagen]

descriptive. Liked Dollhouse, thought well-cast Happiness was overpraised, disliked the rest; Palindromes most of all.

 

Off the top of my head, I would say Neil LaBute's plays and movies are "poisonous" as a compliment and a descriptor.

[AdamSmith]

descriptive. Liked Dollhouse, thought well-cast Happiness was overpraised, disliked the rest; Palindromes most of all.

 

I feel much the same, about each one as you say. The thing I admire is that he is willing to risk going too far, in service of seeing how far he can push his talent and vision.

 

Capote, talking of Updike, Styron and somebody else I can't recall, compared them with Flannery O'Connor, saying her strangeness and greatness make clear how those others, as Capote put it, are good, but "don't exceed themselves."

 

Solondz does, at his best, exactly that.

 

Separately, what you say of LaBute makes your contrast clear.

[Rod Hagen]

Not to compare a Goddess to a mere Talent, but yes Flannery O. managed to mix style, "Poison", and substance perfectly (I mean, my God: Good Country People?!!!); N. LaBute makes a similar effort, generally. Todd Solondz really accomplished that only once.

 

Unrelated: In a round about way, attributing this to a "friend", David Foster Wallace called Updike and Roth "penises with pens". I'm sure he felt differently about master Styron.

[AdamSmith]

Not to compare a Goddess to a mere Talent, but yes Flannery O. managed to mix style, "Poison", and substance perfectly (I mean, my God: Good Country People?!!!); N. LaBute makes a similar effort, generally. Todd Solondz really accomplished that only once.

 

True enough about Solondz. Still I credit him for doing what he can with what he has.

 

Now as for Flannery! And 'Good Country People'!!! If you haven't read it, Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life is engrossing. Marvelous recording of her reading 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' at Vanderbilt in 1959: http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

 

Unrelated: In a round about way, attributing this to a "friend", David Foster Wallace called Updike and Roth "penises with pens". I'm sure he felt differently about master Styron.

 

LOL! Although for me Roth is up there with the immortals, while I wonder if Styron will be much more than a footnote in another fifty years.

[Rod Hagen]

Don't know if this movie made it to this thread, but I thought of it because of Frank Bruni's OpEd on how people, gay particularly, hobble families together that have little to do with biology. It's by the same amazing filmmaker who did Steam, which is perhaps my favorite next to Brokeback. Great movie, His Secret Life:

[MrMiniver]

BENT was filmed in 1997 with Clive Owen and Lothaire Bluteau as the two prisoners. Mick Jagger and Ian McKellen had small parts.

[Rod Hagen]

BENT is depressing and good and it makes an even better play, so try to see it on stage. I see Lothaire around town and he's still quite beautiful.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIoG_d420F4

[MrMiniver]

I agree, Rod, it's a very good play. But it needs good actors. I saw a local theater production on LI once and it was deadly dull.

[Moneymike68]

1. Eastern Boys

2. Stranger By The Lake

3. Dead Europe

[Guest]

Just saw Monster Pies: sweet but tragic coming of age love story. One of the two leads was quite handsome, Lucas Linehan:

http://de.web.img3.acsta.net/pictures/13/12/16/15/03/339978.jpg

 

http://imgmf0.starnow.com/96/1612096_4016105.jpg

 

Here he is with co-star Tristan Barr:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ee0iDulI_48/UpnrQ0Cb-lI/AAAAAAAAEfA/dzq_5DLVhYE/s640/Urix13_Feb21_MonsterPies_25.jpg

 

 

http://thelowdownunder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/00e46_408378.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/AvniAZk.jpg

[Guest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrClaV4-yX0

[corndog]

It would be really helpful if y'all would mention where you saw these films... in a theater, on netflix, on amazon prime, or ???

[Guest]

It would be really helpful if y'all would mention where you saw these films... in a theater, on netflix, on amazon prime, or ???

Netflix

[Guest]

Although it looks as if you can watch in on Amazon, too...

(126) IMDb 6.6/10

When Mike's English teacher pairs him up for a class assignment on 'Romeo and Juliet' with hot new kid William, Mike can't believe his luck!. As the two spend more and more time working together on a monster movie version of the Bard's classic tale, they soon realize their feelings for one another may be more powerful than either is truly ready for.

 

Starring:

Tristan Barr, Lucas Linehan

Runtime:

1 hour, 24 minutes

Available to watch on supported devices.

[Guest]

Hey, here's a short movie you can see for free. It won't win any Academy Awards, but it stars two very hot actors, Lars Slind and Caleb Hoffman (Fell free to contact me at calebhoffman93@yahoo.com). Not the most outstanding movie I've ever seen, but if you're gay, it should give you a hard-on. Good cinematography, too.

Lars Slind:

http://img3.hotnessrater.com/get-picture/506090/lars-slind/400/600/lars-slind

 

http://attheloft.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ecca8b988330162fc104778970d-pi

 

Caleb Hoffman:

http://calebjhoffman.com/contents/theme_image.jpg

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqxzxJo0xI

[Rod Hagen]

It would be really helpful if y'all would mention where you saw these films... in a theater, on netflix, on amazon prime, or ???

 

A lot of us saw the movies we've listed before streaming services existed. As such, if you go to google.com and type in the name of the movie and then type "streaming" afterward, you will discover where it is available to watch online (stream), if it is. Also, in the unlikely case the movie is still in theaters, that too should be indicated in your google search results.

[+ honcho]

It would be really helpful if y'all would mention where you saw these films... in a theater, on netflix, on amazon prime, or ???

 

Totally off topic about a not-gay-at-all film, the one time I saw the movie "The Stepford Wives", it was on

broadcast television, interlaced with commercials. Suffice it to say, that was just about the *perfect* context for it

[Rod Hagen]

As such, if you go to google.com and type in the name of the movie

 

I used "as such" so wrongly . Sorry.

[JDXXX]

My All-Time Favorite Movies Are:

 

1. Relax It's Just Sex. A Must See As You Guys Would Love it as much as I do. Watch it, and you'll see why!!!

2. Circuit. Steven Kesslar Introduced me to this film 4 months ago, and fell in love with it ever since.

3. It's My Party

4. Milk

5. Torch Song Trilogy. Awesome movie!!!

6. Love, Valour, and Compassion

7. Road Trip

8. Boy Culture. I'm sure every escort can relate to this film

9. Brokeback Mountain

10. Latter Days