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
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Broadway Legend 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.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
Broadway Legend 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!
"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"
#8re: Best Gay Movies
Posted: 7/8/06 at 6:58pm
Joe, I was one of the kids. 
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
Broadway Legend 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.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Updated On: 7/8/06 at 07:27 PM
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.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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 
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
Updated On: 7/8/06 at 07:57 PM
#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.
Broadway Legend 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
Broadway Legend 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?
Broadway Legend 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.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
Updated On: 7/8/06 at 10:39 PM
-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.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#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.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
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