Favorite movie with a gay/bi theme?

[just a thing]

Bound

 

[CURIOUS1026]

Here are my selections

Threesome......Chasing Amy.....Billy's First Hollywood Screen Kiss (the blonde guy is a fricken hottie!!!!)........there is another but I can't remember the name of it. It is a British movie where the "nerdy" highschool kid has a crush on the popular "jock". Anyone seen it???

 

[MintSoda]

Bound was good, very suspensful at the end especially

But I'm a Cheerleader was just plain hillarious

Chasing Amy but I also think Kevin Smith is adorable

I liked the last few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Willow (Alysson Hannigan's character) came out. It actually portrayed lesbians as *gasp* regular, well adjusted women.

I liked To Wong Foo but I was a little perterbed that John Leguiazamo in drag was prettier than me.

I would have liked Mulholland Drive but the whole movie made zero sense to me, so aside from the steamy parts I was just baffled.

Does Boondock Saints count as a gay themed movie? The Wilem Defoe character was a very interesting glimpse of a self-loathing gay man trying to come to terms.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

My girl

intro'd me to *Lost and Delirious* a beautifully done movie that kept me crying from the half way point on...

 

[Etoile]

I liked the last few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Willow (Alysson Hannigan's character) came out. It actually portrayed lesbians as *gasp* regular, well adjusted women.

Please forgive me for giggling at this, but I would hardly say Willow was well-adjusted! She went evil and had to be sent off to live with British nuns!

I do know what you mean, though. I'd phrase it as that Willow, Tara, and Kennedy weren't portrayed as lesbians. They were just girls who were part of the Scooby gang and happened to date other women. They were fully-rounded characters in other ways too - being lesbian wasn't their only defining trait. (Except mayyybe Kennedy, but we didn't know her very long.) Is that what you meant?

 

[MintSoda]

Please forgive me for giggling at this, but I would hardly say Willow was well-adjusted! She went evil and had to be sent off to live with British nuns!

I do know what you mean, though. I'd phrase it as that Willow, Tara, and Kennedy weren't portrayed as lesbians. They were just girls who were part of the Scooby gang and happened to date other women. They were fully-rounded characters in other ways too - being lesbian wasn't their only defining trait. (Except mayyybe Kennedy, but we didn't know her very long.) Is that what you meant?

That was after Tara was shot. I don't know about you, but watching my lover get shot would pretty much send me over the deep end too. Before that she had problems, everyone does, but she had the wherewithal to recognize her problems and try to change. The fact that she was gay didn't feel tacked on unlike a lot of shows, Friends I'm looking at you, where the show didn't ADD a lesbian character to be trendy or have girls kissing just to get ratings, it was all in natural character progression and felt natural.

As for the Kennedy character, I didn't like her. There didn't seem to be much of any chemistry to me and when you've got two actresses/actors that are straight trying to play gay they need to have something of a spark or it really is going to look forced.

They made it feel normal was what I meant. Willow coming out and coming to terms with her sexuality felt like a normal occurence, like it was natural for her, and she was better for the realization. That's what I meant by normal and well adjusted.

 

[Etoile]

Ah, gotcha - I understand. One thing I did kind of wonder about for a while was Willow's apparent switch - was she always a lesbian, and just dated Oz and crushed on Xander to fit in at high school? Was she bisexual but dating men as a high schooler? Was she straight and did a complete 180? For a while I was thinking they should be referring to her as bisexual - the "hello, gay now!" line made me a bit uncomfortable, as if there were no such thing as bisexuality.

I didn't like Kennedy much either. I don't know how much Iyari Limon contributed to the writing of her character, but she played the part as extremely standoffish and I just can't imagine Willow would go for somebody like that.

 

[Metrodance]

It may have been mentioned before but my favourite is Tipping the Velvet.

I know, it was a television series but I saw it first on DVD so it felt like a film.

It was slightly different from the book.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Il Conformista (The Conformist)

I wouldn't say that the overall theme is gay/bi, but that's part of it.

 

[Mike260]

The Conformist is a great, great film for its lush images and devastating exploration of the not so banal evil of cowardice.

But then, again, there's also Doom Generation with its wacked out high school guys wacking off, which I really liked.

 

[tiedmuse]

But I'm a Cheerleader
is hysterical, and weighty.

I watched it a couple of nights ago with some friends...

one girl, who recently came out, hadn't seen it since it in a couple of years..

with her new found freedom, and sexuality, she found the movie in a whole new way..

 

[Stefani]

"My Own Private Idaho." Not a great movie, but I love ANYthing with Keanu Reeves. Was cool seeing him play a gay hustler.

 

[Mike260]

"My Own Private Idaho." Not a great movie, but I love ANYthing with Keanu Reeves. Was cool seeing him play a gay hustler.

Stefani:

I've loved your other posts. But River Phoenix couldn't even stay awake through "My Own Private Idaho." And he was one of the main characters! And neither could I.

Mike

 

[Stefani]

Stefani:

I've loved your other posts. But River Phoenix couldn't even stay awake through "My Own Private Idaho." And he was one of the main characters! And neither could I.

Mike

Hehe. I think River's character had narcolespy in the movie. But I know what you mean. The story was not the greatest. I was a high school English teacher for a while, and I know I should have all sorts of artistic reasons why I liked the movie, but in truth, I don't. I liked it simply because I love Keanu. And I thought it was extremely cool of him to play a gay character.

Not sure if you ever heard this or not, but Keanu gave his entire paycheck for Matrix 3 to the crew. I forget the actual numbers, but say it was something like $20 million dollars and there were 40 people on the crew - and each got $500,000. Remember reading a newspaper article about it. Keanu said he'd already made plenty of money on Matrix 1 & 2 and he wanted to pay homage to the people behind the scenes that helped make him look good.

Sure he could have given it to fight AIDS or for World Hunger, but I imagine he was giving it to the friends he'd made on the set... people he knew. Just thought that was rather amazing.

Steffie

 

[DustyWolfe]

Nobody has mentioned either

Fried Green Tomatos or
Boys on the Side

Perhaps they werent the best, but they were both very good movies.

Frellme

Well.... as far as Fried Green Tomatoes goes... When they made the movie they just didnt do it justice. It's really hard to tell from the movie that Idgie and Ruth are a couple unless it's something that you are really looking for. In the book however, it is much more obvious. Great book by the way

 

[DustyWolfe]

Yes, I don't watch it very often, currently I think it's at my best friend's house, but, it is very heart-breaking. It was one of those movies where after my best friend and I watched it the first time we sat there in stunned silence for several minutes. The first word out of anyone's mouth was "wow" tear's still streaming down our cheeks.

I will say that this (Boys Dont Cry) is one of my favorites (for quite obvious reasons) even though it pisses me off so badly. But there are so many things in that movie that I can just feel inside or that I can empathize with. And I cant even imagine what it was like for Brandon to be an FTM back then....
The first time I saw the movie I was at a friend's house. And of course I cried and cried not to mention being pissed off to the core at the injustice of it all.
Oh... and is it just me or... or is Hillary Swank not the hottest Trannyguy you've ever seen? (too bad it's only in film )

 

[DustyWolfe]

Okay... now for my list

Boys Dont Cry (even though it pisses me off)
Better than Chocolate (was just amazing)
But I'm a Cheerleader (funny... cheeky... I enjoyed it)
All Over Me (was really good, that punk girl was just... (okay I wont say I thought she was hot, because it would make me feel like a pedo)
Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (one my absolute favorites)
Go Fish ( I liked it even though it was slow)
The Truth about Jane (good coming out movie)
Chasing Amy
The Watermelon Woman
What Makes a Family? (very sad, but good)

Oh... I saw some good stuff at the Gay Lesbian Film Festival
A Few Good Dykes
One set I saw was all about FTM's and one about MTF...
Umm a dialogue between the latino ftm/butch community
Willie's Drive Thru (was about transition expenses etc, an animated short. I liked it alot)
Sex, Lies and Darwin was a dialogue with Joan Roughgarden an MTF transsexual that wrote the book Evolution's Rainbow It was reallllly interesting, and I highly recommend the book. It's a discussion about gay, lesbian, bi and trans being completely natural occurances.

It's sad that there arent more movies out there, but it seems like so many of them are all about sex and have no plot. Dont get me wrong... Sex is good, but if I watch a movie I want a PLOT, otherwise I would be watching porn.

Bound... I bought it.... Got ready for a romantic evening with someone special, but the romance was stalled when the scene of fingers being chopped off started. So yeah... I traded the movie in... didnt bother watching the rest.

 

[Stefani]

Dusty,

Good call on "Boys Don't Cry." Great movie! Hilary Swank was incredible. She was so convincing, as I was watching it, I began to forget that she was really a woman.

Though I couldn't watch the ending. I knew what was going to happen from reading about Brandon Teena's story in the news. I walked out on the ending... just couldn't watch it.

Steffie

 

[BohemianEcstasy]

Can I just say that this thread is a dream? I'm president of our campus GLBTQA organization, and we're doing a movie night soon for pride week (around National Day of Silence). We want to keep it appropriate, but a good movie (and not a downer), so these informative little spots have been JUST what I needed!

Oh, and Stefani, the person in the picture in your signature is one HOT girl. You?

 

[Mike260]

Stefani. I too get the sense that Keanu Reeves is a pretty nice guy. Have you seen him in "Parenthood?" He's great.