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Let's do it again, only with gay themed films!

Anything goes. M/M, F/F, slashy-vibes-only. Films you liked, films you hated. Please don't hesitate to suggest something, even if you don't have time to say why you liked it or didn't like it. (Although please, *please* say whether you liked it or didn't like it. If you don't say, I'll assume your comment means that you liked the film.) Also, feel free to say you didn't like a movie someone else did.

(Warning - There will surely be spoilers herein. If you don't like them, avoid this post and wait for the master list.)

Movies I liked:

All Over the Guy - Two gay guys. Tom and Eli are unbelievably adorable, separately and together. Gah. This is one of the best gay films I've seen. Great acting, good filmmaking, very real characters. I even like the soundtrack. Tom and Eli argue so realistically.

Beautiful Thing - Very sweet. Lovely British boys and kissing. As

mogigraphia said when she suggested it to me, the end scene is something utterly unlikely to happen, but it's a nice movie, although the parenting it demonstrates leaves a bit to be desired and I wouldn't suggest watching it with younger kids in the room.

Better Than Chocolate - Two young women fall in love. A fun movie with lots of talented actresses. Lots of nice kissing. Mmm.

Big Eden - This is a romance. I've heard some people say it's boring, but I think it's beautiful. It's a movie about two people falling in love much more than it's about gay men.

The Bird Cage - I like it. It's over the top, definitely.

Drift - This movie is... hard to explain, and if I were to try, I'd spoil it for people, I think. So I'll just say that I enjoyed it. Gay men. Discussions about sex. There's no bad here.

Get Real - Gay drama about a high school boy who's known he's gay for a long time, then falls in love with a jock who's in denial. Some nice scenes between the two of them, and the main bloke has a fat girl for a best friend, which is lovely. Not a typical happy ending, but it's not really an unhappy ending either. Worth a watch.

Heavenly Creatures - Kate Winslet is wonderful in this dark film based on the true story of a girl who murders her mother with her best friend's help, but it's Melanie Lynskey who really captured my heart. Angsty and overly dramatic in the way teenaged girls are.

In and Out - I know some people have mixed feelings about this movie, but I love it. I pretty much love anything with Kevin Kline, though.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - This stars Baby!Laurel Holloman, who played Justine on Angel and is now on The L Word. Two girls in high school. Very nice scenes as they get to know each other and fall in love. An old favorite.

I Think I Do - Gay movie about college roommates who meet again after several years. I didn't find either of the guys very appealing at the beginning of the movie, but they grew on me as it went on and by the end I was pleased at the happy ending. Not a great movie, but better than some.

Jeffrey - Patrick Stewart is in this. What more needs to be said?.

Latter Days - Very good film about two guys who get together despite the fact that one of the them is a Mormon and believe it's wrong. A series-of-coincidences film. I liked it, I'd probably watch it again. Happy ending.

Lilies - I don't even know how to describe this one. It's like a cross between Dead Poet's Society and Quills, with a gay relationship between two boys (told in flashback through a play put on by men in prison, so all the parts are played by men, even those of female characters. I didn't realize this at first. This 'woman' came on-screen and I thought "Wow, that's one masculine, flat-chested lady" only to realize five minutes later that, yes, it was all men.) Not the best film ever, but worth watching if you liked Quills, I think.

Lost and Delirious - A new girl at a boarding school discovers that her roommates are lovers. Very angsty, but beautifully filmed and well acted.

Maurice - Nice to look at. Pretty. Has a pseudo-happy ending, but for the most part it didn't leave me feeling all warm and cozy.

Priest - Beautiful film about a gay priest struggling with his faith for a variety of reasons. Wonderful slashy vibes in addition to erotica. Linus Roache and Robert Carlyle are gorgeous and very talented.

Touch of Pink - This was good. Two gay guys in London, one of whom isn't out to his mom. She comes to visit, so there's the inevitable 'pretending we're just roommates' thing, but this one is a little bit different than the typical. It's pretty real, the acting is very good, and there's a happy ending with smoochies. No complaints here.

Torch Song Trilogy - I found this movie so traumatic to watch the first and only time that I saw it that I've never watched it again. But it's good.

Velvet Goldmine - Sexy Ewan McGregor.

I'm putting the original UK Queer as Folk, the US Queer as Folk, and The L Word on here, too.

Movies I didn't like:

Circuit - Gay cop moves to LA, goes to clubs, does drugs.

Gone But Not Forgotten - Gay forest ranger rescues man who then wakes up with amnesia. A relationship develops between them, then amnesia-man discovers who he really is. More than once. Barely worth the rental.

Luster - Pretty gay boys. Modern. Lots of drug use. When it was over I was kind of disappointed. But at least there were some interesting moments. It had a bit of an independent-film feel to it, like the person working the camera didn't quite know what he was doing.

Red Dirt - Gay men in the south. One of them with a seriously fucked up family that includes his female cousin who's in love with him and his mentally ill aunt. It was actually a well-made movie, but the two guys *don't* end up together at the end, which made it feel like a wasted couple of hours.

10 Attitudes - Movie about a gay guy who finds out his boyfriend is cheating on him and goes back out into the world of dating. Really horrid. So boring that I stopped paying attention halfway through. Don't waste your time.

Trick - Eh. Let's just say that this otherwise cute, light-hearted, sort-of-comedy about two gay men trying to hook up co-starts Tori Spelling.

Under One Roof - Terrible. Gay guy living in his mother's house begins a relationship with a boarder she's renting to. Nothing memorable here. Cheesy porn would be a better use of your time.