What is the best gay movie?
This one didn't make the cut for me.
In and Out on the other hand, now that was funny!
That was probably the worst "gay" movie I've ever seen. ALL of the jokes were made at the expense of gay people. All of the "real" gay people in the movie were stereotypes, and poor stereotypes, at that. Vin Reines couldn't just be a big gay firefighter, he had to be a big MINCING queen of a firefighter. Once he came out of the closet - he had to turn into a fairy, tweedling his fingers at Chuck and Larry whenever he saw them. True, all of the straight people in the movie were stereotypes, too. No one was a NORMAL person in that movie, and that could have worked, except it just wasn't funny. It was hateful. It was sophomoric (oh wait - a Sandler movie? And I was expecting it to have DEPTH???)
Save your money - and your time. Devote it to sorting your navel lint, instead, at the end you'll have been better entertained.
David Traversa. If you didn't see ANY of the turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek movies, please, please!! try to find: Hamam (The Turkish Bath)-1997
Le Fate Ignoranti (Sorry, I only know it by its italian title)-2001
La finestra di fronte (again, its italian title)-2003. If you don't see these
films you'll be missing a magnificent director's works (works of art!). I was
simply mesmerized by his work, the humanity in his characters, the treatement, and most of all, the script!! Unbelievable. What a director!! to me (he works in Italy) he is now the italian Almodovar.
You can also see from Spain: Segunda piel (Second Skin)-1999 by director Gerardo Vera, with Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà and Ariadna Gil. Marvellous movie!! And of course, ALL Pedro Almodovar movies. There is a long gay cinematography out there, but as far as I remember the ones that I mentioned are true masterpieces, gay or whatever (the gayness in these movies doesn't diminish the true work of art contained in them).
David Traversa. To compensate for your lost time watching a bad movie, I'd like to recommend these ones to you, all of them SUPERB!!:
Le placard (The Closet)- French commedy -2001, By director Francis Veber and actors Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu.
A couple of old movies, but never equaled by ANYBODY: La cage aux folles (The Queen's Birdcage --my own translation, I don't remember the english title)-French-Italian -1978. This movie is SO FUNNY you'll have to watch it more than once to enjoy all the goings on. I saw it again a few night ago and couldn't believe how OUTRAGEOUS it was at the time. It's outrageous nowadays, so, you can imagine then!! one of the big hits of all times.
And of course, being so successful, they made 'La cage aux folles II' (1980). Believe it or not, as funny and excellent as the first one.
I hope you'll enjoy these movies.