With due regard to Cboy4, The top 50 gay movies.

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Most that were mentioned in the other thread are on there. I thought I'd post a new thread because my post would've been lost... it usually is. Same list up to #11.

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2008/9/50greatestgaymovies?page=0%2C0

These are gay male movies, so I assume the Lesbian films will be voted on soon.

1 Brokeback Mountain
2 Beautiful Thing
3 Shelter
4 Latter Days
5 Maurice
6 Trick
7 Get Real
8 Big Eden
9 The Broken Hearts Club
10 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

11 Longtime Companion
12 Torch Song Trilogy
13 My Beautiful Laundrette
14 Parting Glances
15 Just a Question of Love
16 Mysterious Skin
17 Summer Storm
18 Rocky Horror Picture Show
19 The Birdcage
20 Sordid Lives

21 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
22 Short Bus
23 All Over The Guy
24 Another Gay Movie
25 The Boys in theBand
26 Philadelphia
27 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar.
28 Boy Culture
29 The Wedding Banquet
30 C.R.A.Z.Y.

31 My Own Private Idaho
32 Jeffrey
33 The Trip
34 Edge of Seventeen
35 Priest
36 In & Out
37 Eating Out
38 Velvet Goldmine
39 Angels in America
40 Love! Valour! Compassion!

41 The Sum of Us
42 Burnt Money
43 Transamerica
44 Victor Victoria
45 Bent
46 Yossi & Jagger
47 Bad Education
48 Gods and Monsters
49 Making Love
50 Rent

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1. Brokeback Mountain #1 and C.R.A.Z.Y. #30?

Ooooooook. :eyes:

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2. Never saw that.

I don't think I've seen 1/3rd of those listed. So I think you recommend C.R.A.Z.Y. then? Couldn't you pick a film easier to type?:P

[arcos]

6. LOL...

I haven't seen most either. But yes, I definitely recommend C.R.A.Z.Y.! One of the best movies I've seen.

It's French-Canadian. 2006, I think.

[panader0]

3. What about the original Birdcage- Le Cage au Folle (spelling?)

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4. Online voters. Probably never heard of it.

I agree it is better than BC.

[swimmernsecretsea]

12. That's better than I would've done!

La Cage aux folles

Thanks for mentioning that one. I still recall the advertising when I was a child, and in the reviews in Time. Even something simple like this can move our rights forward.

[terrya]

5. That's a good list, but I wish "Victim" was included.

"Victim" is a groundbreaking film.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Best Movie not Mentioned:The History Boys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Boys_(film)

Best Movie 11-20: Parting Glances

Best Movie 21-30: Boys in the Band ( For the acting and the dialogue, esp.)

Best Movie 30-40: None.

Best Movie 41-50: Tie: The Sum of Us ( an Australian sleeper, as I recall.)
Transamerica ( great flick ; but is it "gay"?)

Worst of the worst: The Birdcage. ( an overrated mishmash of flat jokes, tedious stereotypes and bad acting .... I don't care *who* was in the cast.)

Note: I didn't see about 1/2 of the movies listed. There's probably some good stuff there.

Just my twisted take on things.

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8. Burnt Sum of US off TV. It is Australian, watched it about 6 mos. ago.

First time I ever saw Russell Crowe. He was hot back then too!

[Stargleamer]

9. The real oldies never seem to make these lists. . .

such as Maedchen in Uniform <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maedchen_in_Uniform> and Different from the Rest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_als_die_Andern>. Or perhaps because these are foreign films.

[Duncan Grant]

10. "Lilies" and "Tongues Untied" didn't make either list?

"Paris is Burning"?

"The Life and Times of Harvey Milk"?

"Trevor"?

Hmm, how interesting.

[LoveIsNow]

11. Can we take Rent off, please

That really carries so many stereotypes. The somewhere between transgendered and drag queen Angel. All those gay people with HIV. The cheating bisexual woman. There has to be another movie to take its place ... Cabaret, if you're looking for a musical:
"Screw Maximilian!
I do.
So do I."
Wonderful.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. it was very true to its time. we should not ignore all those gay people with HIV

as though that isn't something that afflicted our community. or still afflicts it.

[Tektonik]

13. Beautiful Thing is definitely my fav

[Rowdyboy]

15. Now every time I hear "Make your own kind of music" I choke up....

That movie touched me deeply. "Beautiful Thing" ranks with "Parting Glances" and "Brokeback Mountain" as my absolute all-time favorites.

[QC]

22. That scene makes me get all weepy. n/t

[DarkTirade]

16. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is on there, so I'm happy.

But Another Gay Movie? I found that to be rather stupid, offensive, repetitive, not at all funny, and that was just the first ten minutes or so that I could bring myself to watch.

Ooh, Victor/Victoria made it too. Nifty. Great movie.

Norma: I think that the right woman could reform you.
Toddy: You know, I think that the right woman could reform you, too.
Norma: Me? Give up men? Forget it!
Toddy: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Victoria: How long have you been a homosexual?
Toddy: How long have you been a soprano?
Victoria: Since I was 12.
Toddy: I was a late bloomer.

[sui generis]

17. Another Gay Movie

were you expecting a sensitive nurturing drama about our place in the world? Sometimes we need to laugh at ourselves. It was "over the top", or over the bottom, as the case may be, ergo drag queen mothers, sparking electro pumps, quiche as "our" substitute for apple pie.

It's worth lightening up and having a chuckle. Sometimes silly is funny too.

[DarkTirade]

18. Hah. If you knew who you were talking to you wouldn't feel the need to offer that advice.

I find unfunny, repeptitive, offensive, and pointless things to be... err... unfunny, repetitive, offensive and pointless.

Low-brow humor can have me rolling in the aisles just as much as high-brow does. But only if it's GOOD.

[sui generis]

29. I guess it takes all kinds

of definitions. I have enough subtlety and high dudgeon political nuance in my every waking moment that I'm finding a need for coarse humor; that's what makes it GOOD.

All the rest of y'all tantric bastards can breathe, chant and come, but I like the organic version better. :P

[cboy4]

19. At least I mentioned the year the movies came out in "my" list.

:eyes:

:P

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20. At least I typed all these, Honey!

1968 -2006. Hows that? :D

EDIT: Really though. I don't mean to jump your thread. I usually don't. Sorry about that.:hi:

[joeybee12]

21. The Women MUST be on this list! It MUST!

The 1933 version, not this current cheesy remake.

Yeah, I know, no gay characters, but if you think anyone EXCEPT gay men watches The Women, well....

[QC]

23. And Sunset Boulevard. Definite gay sensibility there. n/t

[joeybee12]

24. Let's keep going...All About Eve! n/t

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25. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

I win!

[joeybee12]

27. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?

Auntie Mame...all these gay movies without gay characters...have a good night.

[QC]

28. Hump the hostess! n/t

[joeybee12]

31. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ? n/t

[QC]

32. I dance like the wind!

[joeybee12]

37. Then you should go professional!

I'd put a waving emoticon, but the frothing over the debate is slowing DU down tonight.

[Smarmie Doofus]

26. "You know , Eve, sometimes I think you *keep* things from me."

Best movie ever made. But doesn't quite fit the category.

[joeybee12]

30. Best movie of its kind, certainly,

but I have other favorites!

[Smarmie Doofus]

34. I'm adding you to my list of 'things Ill never understand'; like.....

.. collecting shrunken *Indian* heads."

[joeybee12]

36. You mean you don't collect them?

Now I AM shocked.

[Mabus]

33. Beautiful Boxer (based on a true story)

A true story about a Muay Thai boxer who began boxing to help out her family and to get money to pay for her transgender surgery so she could become the woman she meant to be. Here's a wiki link about her life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nong_Thoom

I saw it for the first time last year and it just blew my socks off. If you get a chance to see it, watch it.

[gibbsale]

35. Wow that list has problems

"All over the guy" and "Boy Culture" ahead of "Angels in America" and "Edge of Seventeen"??? "Priest" at 32? "Gods and Monsters" at the bottom?

Not an objective list, certainly...

[jonnyblitz]

38. "in and out" and 'another gay movie" should be on a WORST list.

the movies I DO like are near the bottom on this list. I never DID have much in common with my fellow gays when it comes to tastes in anything, movies, music, guys who one finds attractive, etc.:shrug:

[joeybee12]

39. I can top that...I LOATHE Madonna!

And I think it's required that we worship Her Off-Keyness.