Anyone want to discuss MILK? — Page 4

Well, that's true. Darn! Born six years too early!

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While it has all the trappings of the traditional biopic, this is nontheless a very entertaining and well-made film. Van Sant turned out to be the perfect director for this...can you imagine what this would have turned if it had been made back when the idea of a Milk movie was first announced? Try Oliver Stone directing Robin Williams. I'm not kidding.

Penn was terrific, once again disappearing into a role but showing much more warmth and humor than is his want. This is also the first movie I liked Emile Hirsch in. And oh my do I have a boner for Joseph Cross!

For me the most devastating image from the movie was at the very beginning. I have never seen that footage of the gay bars being raided. All those men with their hands covering their faces in shame. We have come a long way. baby.

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An entirely excellent and admirable movie. I'd been dreading seeing it, not wanting to be disappointed, but I enjoyed it a great deal. Beautifully made and acted, an ideal piece of thought-provoking political entertainment.

I'm sure Oliver Stone backed out when someone explained to him that Dan White was the bad guy.

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Saw this today. I thought it was terrific. My limited vocabulary prevents me from elaborating.

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Updated On: 1/1/09 at 08:05 PM

Saw the movie last night and agree with everyone here. Great film. Sean Penn is such a good actor.
Forgive me if I should know this, but.. do those tapes actually exist?

The birth of the gay movement? Um, no.

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Milk in Imax 3-D woulda been AWESOME.

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Dan White easily could have inspired his own movie. Brolin tried to get stuff across with subtle facial expressions and such but they could have at least had two or three more scenes with him alone without Milk.

Yes, the "to be played if I'm assassinated" tapes really exist.

So I've basically been full on supporting this movie from the moment I saw the trailer. I hadn't even seen the actual movie (purely because it wasn't playing many places and it just kept not working out for me to see it in theaters)

But I finally just decided to find it online, just to get it WATCHED once and for all. And... I can't even...it was so. damn. good.

Were there little minor things about it that maybe could have been strengthened? Sure, there are in every film. But all in all, I just would kill to sit EVERY single person in the world down and make them watch this movie. It was incredible. And I think it couldn't have come at a better time than right now, on the heels of Prop 8.


So yeah, the movie in general.. much as I love Slumdog, how in the HECK could anyone think Slumdog was better than this movie?? HOW??? It really, truly was THE best movie of the year. And there were a LOT of great movies this year.

Performances were brilliant ALL around. Sean Penn TOTALLY deserved that Oscar. James Franco and Emile Hirsch= completely wonderful. Josh Brolin was fantastic and very VERY scary/creepy.


So yeah, I cannot praise this movie enough. It's.. rather rare that I get super emotional at movies. This one REALLY got to me.

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Best film I've seen in such a long time and Penn's performance was stunning. He brought one of my heros to life, and so deserved his oscar. I think it deserved to win best picture and best director as well. What Van Sant did was remarkable, imo.

I completely disagree with the notion that White's character needed more "screen time". The film was a celebration of Harvey, not the story of how he died. Plenty of White's story is told to show his motivations, there is nothing more to it. The murder of Milk and Moscone was perpetrated in cold bloood by a calculating, sad and pathetic man.

Actually, the relationship between the two characters was wonderfully portrayed thanks to the amazing screenplay and performances.

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double post ---- it was THAT good ! :))

Updated On: 3/1/09 at 06:53 PM