Best Gay Movie / Worst Gay Movie

[plane...@hotmail.com]

This topic could be crap...but Im looking for new gay themed movies.
I have seen most of the well known ones, and probably a good number of
obscure ones. In general I am curious to what everyone else has seen,
and what is your favorite and least favorite.

I watched "Small Town Gay Bar" tonight and really loved it. Its a
documentary about rural gay bars in MS (there are only two...). It
was really interesting. It also made me sad that Fred Phelps actually
exists. Not to get off on a tangent, but he picketed the funeral for
the 19 year old guy that was beaten, strangled, stabbed, partially
decapitated, and lit on fire to die in the woods because he was gay.
Anyone that does this is not human, and anyone that praises these acts
and holds signs saying "you son is in hell" at the FUNERAL is less
than human. Fred Phelps is a real person, not a villain in a comic
book, and I honestly think he is the only person that I would actually
want to die for the betterment of the world.

On to happier subjects!

Favorite Gay Movie: Mysterious Skin (I loved it because it was so
moving, and introduced me to Sigur Ros; although it was disturbing in
some parts...hard to watch)
Least Favorite Gay Movie: My Life on Ice (boring, bad plot, total
cock tease)

Steve

[somethin...@gmail.com]

FUCK FRED PHELPS. people like him make me sick XP

My suggestions:
-Shelter (pretty recent. the main characters are cute [obviously..
they gotta cater to the audiences] and not the stereotypical gay guys)
-For the Bible tells me so (documentary that was shown here on campus.
there was a big debate between some very fundamental christians and
liberals/gays like myself)
-Brokeback Mountain... you've probably seen it

I'm gonna check out Small Town Gay Bar sometime. Sounds really
interesting!

xoxo,
David

[Doug]

I also watched Shelter! GREAT! I really liked it! And I really liked
their relationship in the movie! I had the chance to meet one of the
actors at Gay Days @ Disneyland... but I didn't have time to go over.
Bummer.

I'm gonna throw this one out there:
Not Another Gay Movie.
LOL - it's kinda hilarious. Don't take it seriously. It's just a funny
movie to watch.

[plane...@hotmail.com]

Cool- I have seen Shelter on the shelf before, but never got it. I
will have to check it out. I have seen "For the bible tells me so"
and I loved it.

By the way- I just recently got Netflix because you can now stream
their "Instant View" movies directly to the XBOX 360. This works
beautifully, and they have a ton of independent films available for
streaming. I have like 10 movies in my instance queue that I have
wanted to see for a long time (small town gay bar was one too). I
highly recommend it. You can use the instant view without the 360,
but I think you have to watch it on your computer

Steve

[Doug]

YES! I also have Netflix! I'm so happy that Instant View works for Mac
computers now too! It used to only be for the PC!
So I have a bunch of stuff on there waiting for me to watch them. I
just need to find the time! lol.

[plane...@hotmail.com]

So continuing my procrastination of not doing homework, I watched the
following on Netflix today and yesterday:

1) Expelled: No intelligence allowed - Ben Stein's "inconvenient truth
wanna-be" documentary, where he is trying to point out that science is
running off course by disqualifying intelligent design. I had to turn
it off. I cannot listen to this kind of insanity without blood coming
out of my ears. He is trying to make a case for Intelligent Design,
but he misses the point exactly. I agree with him that scientists
shouldn't be so arrogant to think that they know ID is false, but its
the same reasoning for why you wouldn't try to promote ID... "I don't
know and you don't either", and guess what- we don't have to randomly
speculate! there is nothing wrong with saying "we don't
know"...arggghhh religion makes me ANGRY!

2) Red Without Blue - Documentary about two identical twin brothers
who are both gay, but one of them is transgendered. I actually found
this very interesting. I have to admit- I totally don't get being
transgendered, but that's probably because I don't believe that my sex
and gender are mismatched (just like straight people don't get gay
people....because they're not gay!). I always like watching
transgendered documentaries, because these people have the deck really
stacked against them. These are the lepers of the 21st century and I
feel terrible that they have to go through so much pain to feel
normal. I found this particularly enlightening, because you got to
hear two different, but similar perspectives. Also, the brothers
argue alot, which I think is good. Anger between siblings produces
alot of honesty per word, and that gives alot of insight that might be
missing from a gushy, heart-warming story with no conflict.

3) Cocaine Cowboys - documentary about two famous cocaine runners in
the 70s that worked for pablo escabar and other columbian drug lords.
I feel asleep- its not that it wasn't interesting, but it was late,
and ....actually it wasn't that interesting.

4) Fall From Grace - documentary about Fred Phelps and the westboro
baptist church (his church). This one was tough...there was a lot of
screaming at the TV and throwing things, which is bad because its an
expensive 61" DLP TV that doesn't take hits from heavy books well :-
( Fun fact: the only members of the westboro baptist church are Fred
Phelps family members. This sounds like its small and quaint, but
they don't use any birth control. Fred Phelps has 13 children, who
now have all kinds of children of their own. It is now a small army
of hate. And its so sad seeing those kids, so young, like 6 years
old, screaming about how they want to kill fags but they dont have to
because god will. I highly recommend this, because its informative,
but only if you have the stomach and no heavy objects nearby.

5) Gay Siblings - mini-documentary on...well...gay siblings! The
story of a women, whose all five children are gay! Also, an adopted
woman who finds that she has a brother, who is also gay! Lastly,
twins (boy and girl), who are both gay that try to piece together
clues 10 years later after their older brother committed suicide.
Turns out he was gay too! Very interesting, worth 45 minutes for
sure.

6) Education of Shelby Knox - documentary about a high school girl's
fight for real sex education in schools in Lubbock, TX, which
currently only preach abstinence-only sex ed. Here is the kicker, she
is a southern baptist Christian, who believes in abstinence-only and
made a "purity pledge" that she would remain a virgin till marriage!
She is awesome, because the documentary covers three years of her HS
and you can see the gears turning in her head. She starts to just
barely question what shes being taught, and three years later she is
using logic instead of tradition to answer moral questions. Its a
great documentary, even though I want go punch alot of stupid kids in
Lubbock, TX for being incredibly, unforgivably dumb. Worth a watch,
and Im curious what she's doing now. She is surely doing well, and
her parents were great. Even though they were die hard christian
republicans, they saw the value and letting her form her own
opinions. Thats really important.

That's it for now! In the queue:

1) A Certain Kind of Death
2) Ralph Nader: an unreasonable man
3) Crude Awakening: the oil crash
4) Scratch
5) Street Fight
6) Gender Rebel
7) Confessions of a Superhero
8) The Business of Being Born
9) Fired!
10) Out on the Job
11) Les Paul: Chasing Sound
12) Tom Down and the Language of Music
13) Becoming Queen

Anyone seen any of these?

Steve

[Aaron Rowling]

You sure watch a lot of documentaries!  (which is a good thing, but I have to take documentaries in small doses--that much reality is too much for me). My favorite gay movie, by far, is "Get Real."  Others I like are "Beautiful Thing," "Trick," "Mysterious Skin," "To Wong Foo," and probably others I can't remember.  My least favorite is "Gods and Monsters."  Yawn!  And I still can't decide if I liked "Brokeback Mountain" or not (mostly because I hated the ending so much that it ruined the whole rest of the film for me). Aron --- On Fri, 11/28/08, plane...@hotmail.com <plane...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[ajc...@gmail.com]

The only gay movies I have seen are pornos... do they count?

haha..

On Nov 29, 12:08 pm, Aaron Rowling <aron2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You sure watch a lot of documentaries!  (which is a good thing, but I have to take documentaries in small doses--that much reality is too much for me).
>
> My favorite gay movie, by far, is "Get Real."  Others I like are "Beautiful Thing," "Trick," "Mysterious Skin," "To Wong Foo," and probably others I can't remember.  My least favorite is "Gods and Monsters."  Yawn!  And I still can't decide if I liked "Brokeback Mountain" or not (mostly because I hated the ending so much that it ruined the whole rest of the film for me).
>
> Aron
>

> --- On Fri, 11/28/08, planetx_...@hotmail.com <planetx_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: planetx_...@hotmail.com <planetx_...@hotmail.com>

[Zee]

I doubt it has been released on DVD yet but if you have the chance,
watch "A Jihad for Love." It talks about gay Muslims. It isn't the
best documentary ever created but it is the only one I have seen on
the subject.

[plane...@hotmail.com]

Thanks! I have added it to my netflix queue - but you are right its
not out just yet.

Steve

[Mr.HCI]

Since I spent a while putting a list together for the GaTechGuy1's
"Thoughts of a College Boy" blog (http://gatechguy1.blogspot.com), I
figured I'd just repost it here.

Yeah, I'm a slacker . . .

Recommendations:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Beautiful Thing (our absolute favorite gay movie of all time)
Big Eden
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Cowboys & Angels
Dorian Blues
Du Er Ikke Alene ("You Are Not Alone")
Glue
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
A Home at the End of the World
L.I.E.
The Living End
Ma vie en rose
Madame Satã
La mala educación ("Bad Education")
The Mudge Boy
Mysterious Skin
The Naked Civil Servant (first gay movie I ever saw; I watched it
twice on PBS when I was 13 and the 'rents were out)
NaPolA ("Before the Fall" - strong undercurrents of homoeroticism and
longing but nothing explicit)
Our Lady of the Assassins (good but adult/teen relationship is creepy)
Prom Queen
Sebastian
Shelter
Sommersturm ("Summer Storm")
Tan Lines
Tarnation
Torch Song Trilogy
Totally F***ed Up
The Two of Us
Urbania
Whispering Moon
Wild Reeds
Wild Tigers I Have Known

Just OK:

Brokeback Mountain
Defying Gravity
Nico and Dani
You'll Get Over It

Disliked or even hated:

. . . And Then Came Summer
Another Gay Movie
Blue Citrus Hearts
Come Undone
Don't Tell Anyone
Edge of Seventeen
Fag Hag
Get Real
HellBent
Issues 101
Jeffrey
My Life on Ice
Poster Boy
Put the Camera on Me
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

What . . . the . . . FUCK?:

A Slice of Terror

[plane...@hotmail.com]

See I didn't hate Put the Camera on Me, but it definately was not
good. And I don't think I hated Jeffrey either, but it wasn't great.
Never heard of slice of terror...I almost want to see it just to
understand the awfulness!

Mr. HCI- you have convinced me that I have a lot to catch up on!!
Netflix queue here I come....

Thanks!
Steve

[Mr.HCI]

"A Slice of Terror" is available from NetFlix. The story concerns a
nerdy gay pizza delivery who is tormented by some "straight" teenage
boys. He somehow hypnotizes them and forces them to kill some girls
(their girlfriends?) then to have sex with each other. The actors are
all pretty obviously gay and one of them is even wearing a jockstrap
under his jeans when they are made to strip. The pizza guy makes them
suck each other off and fuck each other then kills them all. The
fucking was simulated but the oral sex was most definitely *not*;
plenty of visibly damp hard-ons and semis. So . . . lousy for horror
and lousy for porn. Meh.

[Mask...@gmail.com]

Hmm, gay-themed movies. I've seen some of those . . .

The ones I've liked are:
- Latter Days
- A cause d'un garcon (You'll get over it) - French
- Shelter

Other ones I didn't like as much:
- Brokeback Mountain
- Mysterious Skin (actually, this one was pretty good)
- Presque rien (Come undone) - French
- Not Another Gay Movie (so silly -_-)
- Eating Out
- Eating Out 2

There are likely others, but they must've been so crappy that I
blocked them out of my mind. Of course, that's not entirely true. :P

[plane...@hotmail.com]

I saw Totally F***ed up tonight, and I liked it. I wasn't really
around for that dress style...unfortunately or not. I saw Terminator
2 on the marquee in the background in one scene, and realized how old
the movie was! It was a good story telling experience, and while it
did have some of that Gregg Arakian tone that I guess I would expect
(the music in the last scene was great)- it still didn't have a
cohesive tone that really hooked me in. Thats what I love about
mysterious skin is as disturbing as the movie is in many places and
hard to watch (i can't watch him getting beat up)- the tone was so
perfect. That ending scene makes me cry almost just because its so
beautiful.

Adventures of Sebastian cole comes next.

Steve

On Dec 1, 6:50 am, "Mr.HCI" <cqw...@gmail.com> wrote:

[lam...@gaybelgium.be]

Best gay movie ever, for me I think it's Summer Storm, German movie,
very touching and funny.