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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
I'm with you on happy endings, x-man. I often see movies as a form of escape. With rare exceptions (BBM obviously being one), I don't want to finish the movie feeling worse than I did when I started.
x-man:
Excuse me, everyone. On my posting above I was confusing Undertow with Bent.
oilgun:
--- Quote from: x-man on August 25, 2013, 10:33:34 am ---
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Next time I want to tell you about Strapped (TLA Releasing 2010), perhaps the best gay film I have seen.
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Interesting. I didn't care for Strapped. I'm not sure why but it just didn't move me and the characters didn't seem believable to me.
As for happy endings, they are often overrated, some of the best films I've seen, gay or otherwise, have tragic and depressing endings.
serious crayons:
I distinguish between movies that are "sad" and movies that are "depressing." The former includes BBM, for example, and I'm often fine with them.
The latter includes Leaving Las Vegas, Platoon, both Elephant Man and Blue Velvet, that one with Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox in Vietnam, the one where Nick Nolte lives in a small town, and Requiem for a Dream. All of the latter (arguable exception: Platoon) are well-crafted, well-acted movies. But I was sorry for having seen all of them. Now, if I suspect a movie is going to be depressing, even if it gets glowing reviews, I avoid it. If I think it will contain a scene set to Barber's "Adagio for Strings," I avoid it. Direction by David Lynch, needless to say, is a red flag.
I'd rather see a light comedy any day, even if it gets worse reviews.
Maybe my own emotional stability is too fragile to mess with. :-\
brianr:
I guess a lot of the movies I see are sad as I often have to sit through the credits with tears trickling down my face trying to compose myself. Brokeback was over the top. The first time I had tears streaming down my face for about half an hour in the nearby food court, very embarrassing for a (then) 61 year old male. ;D
I rarely discuss movies here as we get them so much later than the US. However I rate movies on IMDB and my list shows I gave 10 to BBM naturally and
A Very Long Engagement
Les Miserables
The King's Speech
Young Victoria
and 9 to
My Afternoons with Marguerite
Mao's Last Dancer
Patrik Age 1.5 (a swedish gay movie)
Ladies in Lavender (surprised I did not give it 10 as I have seen it twice and would do so again)
The Last station
December Boys
I've loved you so long (nearly equalled BBM in the tears it produced)
The Help
Milk
Chocolat
Doubt
So you an see I like sad movies :)
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