Milk

[Gemini Cricket]

Milk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/)

Wow.
I mean, wow!

Honestly, the most important film of my life. So powerful. Harvey Milk is one of my all-time heroes and to see a movie about him done well made me so incredibly happy.

I was in tears for 45 minutes after seeing it.

I haven't been this moved since Brokeback. I think it should go up for and win all the major awards out there. Sean Penn should win Best Actor. And I have long loathed James Franco (almost Ryan Phillipe loathing level), but his performance in this was solid. I love him now.

Five stars.

ETA: It was also out of the closet gay. They showed a lot in this film for a mainstream flick. I loved that. It was in good hands from the very beginning methinks. Focus Features knocks another one out of the park.

[Gemini Cricket]

The parallels between then and now are astounding. Same kind of fight, same rhetoric used by the other side... This movie could be a used as such a rallying cry for those of us fighting for marriage equality.

[Stan4dSteph]

Thanks for the review. I plan to go see it when it opens here, probably some time next month.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I want to see this. Thanks for the review!

[€uroMeinke]

Just don"t see it at a Cinemark

[innerSpaceman]

People are wondering if the movie had just been released a month earlier, it could have changed the tide of California history in the way its subject fought so hard for.

We can never know. I'm dying to see it .... but there's an "official" gay community effort afoot to have it be the top box office draw when it opens wide the weekend of December 5th, so I'm going to wait until then.


But I'm really looking forward to it. Reviews have been stellar, it parallels the circumstances that have taken over my life of late, and ... well ... Gemini Cricket RaVeS about it. ;)

[Kevy Baby]

The should do a twin bill of this movie with the 1989 Peter Falk comedy Cookie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097109/)

[Gemini Cricket]

"Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all the sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant's and John Briggs' are doing their part on TV. And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says "Homosexual elected in San Francisco" and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said "Thanks". And you've got to elect gay people, so that thousand upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us's: without hope the us's give up. I know that you can't live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope."
-Harvey Milk, 1978 Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvfexvihri8&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/milk.html&feature=player_embedded)

[innerSpaceman]

ok, i don't think i can wait.


Tonight or tomorrow night. Gonna see Milk.



Wanna see it again, GC?


Anyone else wanna check it out tomorrow night or tonight?



(If so, lemme know by cell or text ... I'll be cleaning up El Mio and far away from the LoT. No internet in the Victorian Age.)

[Gemini Cricket]

I am booked tonight, tomorrow morning and tomorrow night.
:(

[innerSpaceman]

I hate you, Gemini Cricket.





I keep telling myself that so I won't fall apart. I've no idea why your leaving town has hit me so hard.


Anyway, I'm very sad that it may turn out the last time I will have seen you before you go was at your going away party. That may seem appropriate, but we talked about it not being the last time, and I was hoping it wouldn't be.



I know you're leaving Tuesday .... but, whatcha doin' Monday night? :cool:

[Kevy Baby]

... but, whatcha doin' Monday night? :cool:Masturbating?

[Gemini Cricket]

So, I watched it again today.
Call me a glutton for punishment.
I loved it again.
Great film.

I noticed one thing I hadn't before. It was Dan White checking out a TV crewman after the morning talk show spot that he and Milk finished up. I couldn't find any other reason for the shot and why he looked.

I really, really love the scene where he and Scott talk on the phone one last time. It hit me harder this time than last time.

I hated one moment in the film. The Cleve Jones "I'm calling one friend and he'll call another and another" moment where a gay male Mormon Brady Bunch pops up on screen. It's a weird moment that should have been cut.

I needed a good cry and this fit the bill. It's amazing how much of a tear-jerker this flick is. It was the first show of the day, half full house and everyone was blubbering like babies. Wonderful.

[Chernabog]

I saw it tonight and loved it. Totally cried when Milk was talking on the phone for the first time to the boy in the wheelchair.

And James Franco..... it is absolutely impossible for him not to look hot.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I hated one moment in the film. The Cleve Jones "I'm calling one friend and he'll call another and another" moment where a gay male Mormon Brady Bunch pops up on screen. It's a weird moment that should have been cut.


I didn't mind that terribly (oddly enough, when the dishware Brady Bunch shows up in Beauty and the Beast, I refuse to watch it.)

But I did mind the Jack Lira character. I presume they intended to show what an utterly frustrating pain in the ass he was, and they very much succeeded in that; I cringed so much whenever he was onscreen (and I love Diego Luna, typically, so that was a surprise.) I was so cringed out that by the time he, you know, had his last scene, I couldn't feel a lot for him.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Oh, I thought he got clingy-crazy just right. I've dated a few of those boys.

[Strangler Lewis]

Finally saw the movie on I-Tunes. I liked it well enough, but it seemed unusually low-talky on my computer--a problem I have not had before.

Was it a low-talky movie on the big screen?

[lizziebith]

I didn't have that problem, although I watched it on Dish on demand hehe. I thought it was one of the best films I'd seen ever. Period. So well done. I hate coming to the party late but that's my lot in life. :)

[Gemini Cricket]

Finally saw the movie on I-Tunes. I liked it well enough, but it seemed unusually low-talky on my computer--a problem I have not had before.

Was it a low-talky movie on the big screen?
What the heck is low-talky?
:confused:

[Deebs]

What the heck is low-talky?
:confused:

I dunno, but I like the way it sounds when you say it out loud.

I'm guessing it's when the dialogue is hard to hear throughout and it just seems like everyone is mumbling the whole time? I use closed captioning a lot at home. I like to know exactly what's being said. No likey low-talky. (If I am right about what it means)

[Strangler Lewis]

Deebs has it. It's from the Seinfeld episode with the lady who was one of them low-talkers. Jerry couldn't understand her, but he kept agreeing with her. That's how he wound up in the puffy shirt on The Today Show.