Best Gay Movies
Best Gay Movies
#0Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:30pm
The Event
Happy Endings
The Talented Mr. Ripley
24 Nights
As Good As It Gets
Bent
The Hours
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#1re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:32pm
well I've only seen 2 of those in their entirety, and I would agree with both
(and thank you for not saying bareback mountain)
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:37pm
"As Good As It Gets" is a gay movie? In what sense of the word? In that there is a stereotypical gay character who is the catalyst for the totally unbelieveable heterosexual straight romance?
And then there is the Adjective "Best" which really tries my nerves. First, the tremendously successful gay painter has NO insurance, NO savings and, apparently not a single friend who can help him. Argh-- well I know people liked it, I'll stop there.
Bent is wonderful-- OK on film but spectacular on stage!
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#3re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:44pmIsn't there a movie called In and Out? I saw it as a 7 year old...watched it by myself. I have NO idea why I picked it out at Blockbuster or why whoever I was with let me get it.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:55pm
Yeah Parks there is and it's gay gay gay.
It's like all them kids who grow up wondering why in the world Dorothy would ever want to return to dull old Kansas when she can stay in the FABULOUS Emerald City!
#7re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:56pmTHE BIRDCAGE!
#8re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:58pm
Joe, I was one of the kids. 
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:03pm
OK here's a few that come to mind:
Longtime Companion
Beautiful Thing
Torch Song Trilogy
Y Tu Mama Tabien
#11re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:27pm
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,
and its Drag-Queen-Pavilion-at-Disney-World counterpart, Too Wong Foo- Thanks For Everthing, Julie Newmar.
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#12re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:34pm
It’s incredibly depressing, but I think Kar Wai Wong’s gorgeous “Happy Together” would top my list.
And JoeKv, I agree with you completely about “As Good as it Gets"...Jesus, I loathed that movie.
#13re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:39pm
I never even made it all the way through As Good As It Gets.
Loathsome.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#14re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 7:57pm
Urbania 
Love and Death on Long Island 
Angels in America 
Mysterious Skin 
Trick 
Can't Stop The Music 
Chuck and Buck 
Longtime Companion 
Head On (199
(This is not porn) 
Kiss Me Guido 
Mambo Italiano 
Tales of the City 
But I'm A Cheerleader 
An Early Frost 
#15re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 8:52pmNot a Gay movie, but Val Kilmer has an amazing character in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 9:05pm
Definitely not the best of the best, but there is:
Get Real
Lost and Delirious
Beautiful Thing
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 9:28pm
i'm not sure i understand what constitutes a "gay" movie.
i mean, would THE WOMEN or COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN qualify?
would anything by john waters, pedro almodovar or todd haynes?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 10:35pm
What about Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Not *very* gay, but still awesome.
#20re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 10:39pm
Urbania is AMAZING! I had forgotten about that one. Dan Futterman needs to come back to Broadway.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#21re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:00amThe Wedding Banquet.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#22re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:45am
As much as I loved the performances in Mysterious Skin, it left me rather flat, and I currently don't remember why, i just remember being disappointed. conversely, i really liked the premise of A Home at the End of the World, but Dallas Roberts made me cringe.
Also, But I'm a Cheerleader is definately my favorite movie turned Musical. Its such a great movie.
Mambo Italiano was also a cute little flick.
#23re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:25am
You I Love
Beautiful Thing (I love the Mama Cassidy black girl)
Trick
Anything by Pedro
Anything that stars Gael Garcia Bernal
But I'm a Cheerleader
#24re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:39amHappy Endings was a piece of crap IMO, All About My Mother is one of my favorite gay movies.
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