“Is It Jt Me?,” a mistaken-inty romance, upends perceptns of the gay datg scene.
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- ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
- "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
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There is still much terrory to be med stori about datg the digal age, life big ci, g of age as a gay man a more tolerant society, the relatnships between gay men and women and young gay men and their elrs, but I gus we'll have to wa a ltle longer for those stori. I know the ffee shop where some of the actn tak place, and the magaze that is highlighted, which would seem to dite the film tak place Wt so, 's an alternate universe where everyone is whe, unr 30, gay or gay-iendly.
The women we enunter are by and large fag hags who exist only to fort or antagonize their gay panns (the one whose only personaly tra is havg sex wh a ridg crop particular).
) over 50 and he is treated, as is often the se films but not real life, like some wise sage, a knowg gay Gandalf who aga exists for no other purpose than to support the young hero. In the same way that a person wh ltle experience would see olr gay men only as quippy, ntered fairi, gal-pals as emotnal tampons and go-go boys as hot-pantsed ('s not a "g-strg" btw) olr brothers, one might look at a "good relatnship" between two people as somethg built on a uple great phone lls and attractive looks.
"I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
Andy (Michael Carbonaro), Jarod (Jonathan Chase), Ni (Jonah Blechman) and Griff (Mch Morris) are gay teens and recent high-school graduat. The four iends are also virgs, and make a pact to lose their nocence before they leave for llege the fall. * just me gay movie *
And s happy Gay Boy scene----was a wild and zany place Director Todd Stephens' 2001 film and later here 's a quieter and more trospective place, the script given by Director J. Oh, and while speakg of "X", let's not fet his oh-so-helpful landlord / old "Gay Philosophizer, " enargly (and too often, terptgly) played by a well performg Bce, but far om least, we have our explosive tertiary lead, Cameron (Adam Hs).
My overall imprsn of this work leads me, as so often happens wh gay themed films, to wonr: As opposed to better foreign productns / directors, why n't US film makers nsistently give gay romance films which romantic emotns and physil acts e across such a way that we, the dience, n SEE and FEEL the closens between two men?
You know exactly what is gog to happen and featur the ual gallery of gay die clichés, the fag-hag, the slutty iend and the dryly funny/ miserable old queen. Believe me I get , there's ltle money gay cema and we need our rom-s too but we need more genre benrs like Hellbent and Another Gay Movie, I n't keep watchg the same story jt to support gay die films. Normally, wh gay romantic edi I don't expect too much bee they te too hard, but this film was enarg whout beg overbearg and ( some stanc) was downright actors were well-st, wh an pecially good edic performance by Canadian Bce Gray, and the story is somethg that I thk many gay guys n relate to --- tryg to fall love sea of sexual nquts the big cy.
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After seeg , I chatted wh a father who brought his teenage dghter, some elrly folks, as well as gay iends, and everyone loved the way portrayed gay men seekg romance and love the same way that straight characters would. It's not that the experience of beg gay isn't different - certaly n be - but the end we're all human and we want mostly the same thgs, such as love, rpect, the abily to take re of our fai and live our liv openly and as we want to live them. I won't repeat the tails, which have been provid by other 's far too easy and mon to dismiss gay films as stereotypil pictns of gay characters and their relatns to one another.
That's like cricizg Cary Grant's romantic characters as stereotypilly heterosexualThe film is populated by gay men who n be found drov real life, and the suatns are not at all like Blae n be romantic, shy, sweet, put off by men who are too aggrsive or fearful of Camerons of the gay i are the oppose: full of themselv, firm the belief they n "have" anyone and/or sexual typifi the middle ground. There were a few mor annoyanc, like Blae speakg out loud the words he was typg, and his job suatn at "USA TOGAY" was a b bizarre, to say the least. One last issue I had was that the movie was a b too homo-normative; the four ma characters are all gay guys, and most of the scen are eher their rpective hom or a pletely gay tablishment (like a ffeehoe or a gay bar).
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You uld say 's rehg that the foc was not at all on a specific gay issue but more on a universal issue, but I thk the movie uld've done a b more to set self apart om non-LGBT films, and really addrs some of the issu that make LGBT such a promisg area of film makg.
What is not is a superficial, Gay Rom-Com, but a heartfelt story of a lonely, leral, young man (betifully acted by Nicholas Downs) meetg the love of his life (brilliantly portrayed as the humble, scere David Loren) and the almost farce like twists and turns for them to fd one another... Y, one of the characters is a go-go boy and there is an olr gay man whose character adopts some stereotypilly effemate attribut, but the two prcipals are very much "regular guys. All of them were very handsome, articulate and each actor brought somethg different to the party pendg on their filtered perspective on gay life.