Lounge of Tomorrow

Lounge of Tomorrow (http://74.208.121.111/LoT/index.php)

- Beatnik (http://74.208.121.111/LoT/forumdisplay.php?f=9)

- - Milk (http://74.208.121.111/LoT/showthread.php?t=8873)

Milk

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.

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.

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

I want to see this. Thanks for the review!

Just don"t see it at a Cinemark

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. ;)

The should do a twin bill of this movie with the 1989 Peter Falk comedy Cookie

Quote:

"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

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.)

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