I know this is a zombie thread, but I take it no one else has seen the absolutely lovely British film Weekend? I saw it 3 times in the theater and fell so in love with it. It’s been described as a sort of gay Before Sunrise. Two very different men meet and spend the weekend together. At first it’s fun and games (and lots of very frank sex and sex talk) but then they start to connect emotionally in a way neither expected. The only dilemma is that one is leaving to go study in America for 2 years and it’s something they have to deal with. It’s a very beautiful movie about two men you’d really like to know, to have as friends, friends you want to see happy, friends you want to see married with children.
The first time I saw it I knew nothing whatsoever about the plot, and throughout the movie I was tense, on the edge of my seat, because I liked both of them so much, and I thought it was going to turn out that one of them was a serial killer or something “edgy” but no, it’s a simple love story. So I had to go back and see it again so that I could watch it relaxed and feel the love. Then I saw it again just because. I highly, highly recommend it. I Love You, Phillip Morris is an odd, quirky, funny and unexpected love story, another one I fell in love with and saw multiple times in the theater. Pshaw if you will, but Jim Carrey deserved an Oscar nomination, I kid you not. He’s an uber-conman, always with a scheme, but eventually a lot of what he does he does because he is deeply in love with Ewan McGregor’s sweet sweet Phillip, and wants to shower him with gifts and financial security. It’s all completely unbelievable, except that it’s based on a true story!
I have a soft spot for Were The World Mine, but it’s horribly and unabashedly twinky.
Another Gay Movie is fun if just for the reversal factor.
I rated Broken Heart’s Club 4 out of 5 stars but I don’t remember a thing about it.
Does Naked Boys Singing count as porn? Most of the songs are awful so the culture factor’s a bust. The only one I don’t remember making my ears bleed, slightly ironically, was the Perky Little Pornstar. The Window to Window shit was particularly dire.
Kidding! But I did want to say that I find films like In And Out and the cheerleader one to have cop-out endings. [spoiler]“Everyone says I’m gay! But I’m not! Or am I? Wait, I am! And oh look, here’s an attractive partner all ready to fall in love with!”
Although I appreciate that having the characters turn out to be straight after all might have been seen as portraying homosexuality as a “bad thing narrowly avoided”, having them really be straight would have made the endings more interesting IMHO.[/spoiler]
Not a date movie or a toe-tappin’ rom com, but the relationship between J.Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson in the recent movieis really poignantly portrayed at times.
May be hard to find outside Australia but an early Russell Crowe film The Sum of Us, has him living as a single gay man with his over-supportive father who keeps trying to fix him up. Genuinely nice. I’d turn for Russell in this one.
50 bonus points for gratuitous Jonathan Wild reference. May I ask (and it happened three years ago so you may not remember), did you quote that right from the Fielding novel or is that phrase a “meme” of some kind nowadays?
Did anyone see Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., a Bollywood comedy with a gay subplot? Might be along the lines the OP is looking for.
There’s a very good Cuban film called Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), about a gay relationship in Castro’s Cuba. That was another one we watched based on Ebert’s strong recommendation, and I still remember it. It was also nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.
Bear City isn’t a bad way to kill time if you like romantic comedy. You will probably want to shank a couple of the supporting cast by the end, though.
50 bonus points for gratuitous Jonathan Wild reference. May I ask (and it happened three years ago so you may not remember), did you quote that right from the Fielding novel or is that phrase a “meme” of some kind nowadays?