Anyone want to discuss MILK?- Page 2

[KrissySim]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 1:57pm

I too think the word "amazing" is over used. So are the words "great" "good" "super" "awesome" "fabulous", not to mention the words "bad" "sucks" "horrible" and "terrible".
They should all be banned.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:47pm

Fabulous is in the Hall of Fame.

[KrissySim]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:51pm

"Fantastic" is still on probation.

[Hest882]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 4:00pm

I'm very much looking forward to seeing the film. I recently re-read Randy Shilts' "The Mayor of Castro Street" in anticipation, and I wonder how different the film would have been if they had been able to base it off the book instead of having to try so hard to distance themselves from it. Plus, I think the most egregious omission will be the disappearance of Harry Britt, so with this and with Shilts' biography so fresh in my mind I'm curious to see how much of the usual tweaking of history that comes with any biopic is going to bother me.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 1:56am

Very good film. I knew nothing about Harvey Milk or the incident in 1978 prior to seeing this film. I agree with you guys on the acting. Casting was spot on. Aside from Sean Penn, I enjoyed seeing Emile Hirsch and Alison Pill in their roles. The movie was a little too long, and certain things didn't make any sense to me, but since it was based on real people and true events, I guess some things I'll just have to accept.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 8:23am

I really want to see this movie. Even though I don't know much about the story.

[Paul W. Thompson]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 11:41pm

I just got back from seeing it! What an amazing, fantastic, inspiring, wonderful, well-made film. I don't care if these are overworn adjectives or not. Everyone should go see it. It is superb.

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:16am

The lines have been so long! For the last few nights, the lines have stretched around the block, past Mix, and to the corner.

CRAZY!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:24am

We watched the Oscar-winning 1984 documentary tonight--The Times of Harvey Milk. I can't recommend it enough.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 2:24am

If I see the word 'thrilled' in one more bio, I'm going to puke.





And it'll be amazing!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 2:52pm

We just came back from seeing it.

I don't wish to discuss it.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 4:03pm

It did very well per screen this weekend.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 4:31pm

Best post ever PJ.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 5:54pm

Agreed PalJoey. The times of harvey milk is such a moving piece of work.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 7:00pm

They did a story on CBS Sunday Morning about the movie and the life of Harvey Milk this morning. Now I really want to see it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 9:26pm

It's required viewing. And that's all I want to say about it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 9:48pm

Agreed. Whole-heartedly.

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 11:47pm

Great movie. I saw it today. I think Sean Penn will win the Oscar for this role.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:21am

The fight goes on. This is a moving video of the 30th Anniversary of the assassinations in San Francisco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LBtJ1iiS0M

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:15am

The CBS Sunday Morning piece was very powerful. I'm still thinking of Emily Mann's EXECUTION OF JUSTICE, a remarkable play that cost a fortune to produce and run and closed too quickly on Broadway. Mann worked her way deep into the aftermath of the Milk-era Castro using only actual transcripts. Though it's more about the murder than the extraordinar phenom of Milk, it was required in its time. Alas, it was turned into pedestrian HBO movie with little of the power (Peter Coyote played Milk, devoid of charisma).

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/6/08 at 11:38pm

I just saw my friend's screener of the film. I thought it was a well documented account, especially for those who knew nothing of the events. It was clearly presented except for one aspect.

I just didn't get that White was such a loony during the film. I think it's important in a film about a murder that we know a little more about the murderer than what we were given here-that he couldn't get his job back. It didn't make sense to me how he suddenly went off the deep end like that and shot and killed two men.

I had been to a gallery installation about White, which went into depth about his over-indulging in sweets (twinkies). The installation was a room with wire fencing as the walls. In each hole of the fencing was stuck a package of Hostess Twinkies. And then there was White's bed.

I had expected the film to enlighten me about White's craziness, but it didn't at all.

I was telling my friend that Sean Penn is the male Meryl Streep. He can act the hell out of any role. I'm certain he'll be nominated.

But my favorite role of his career was without a doubt in Dead Man Walking.

about the over-used adjectives. I don't care, I'll use them because they describe how I feel. Give me some other, better words and maybe I'll use them.

Updated On: 12/6/08 at 11:38 PM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 3:56am

Rich from FourFour on Milk

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 4:03am

"I had expected the film to enlighten me about White's craziness, but it didn't at all."

The film was about Harvey Milk, not Dan White.

I liked that the main focus of the film was solely the extraordinary man that was Harvey Milk instead of spending too much time on the less-than-extraordinary Dan White.

[Q]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 4:48am

"I knew nothing about Harvey Milk or the incident in 1978 prior to seeing this film."

I teared up when I read this statement.

I have no idea if I'm going to see this or not. Lived through it, have remembered it ever since, and it fuels much of my anger with what I continue to live with on a daily basis.

I'll be curious to see how it does with the general public.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 10:30am

thanks for the link, Mr. Midwest.