Gay Film “1985” - any of you seen it?

yes, looks very good. I'm surprised.

The UK trailer. Similar but a better trailer.

I just bought it from Amazon.

It's very well done, there is a lot to relate to if originate from the Midwest.

It’s set in Texas.

looks tiresome as it recycles what's been done from An Early Frost (1985) on

No it looks very different, and that actor is very soulful.

R7 sounds the same and because it's in b&w it does indeed look different

I can’t wait to see it.

Cory Michael-Smith is often the best thing about whatever he's in. He was excellent in Olive Kitteridge.

Sorry, his name is apparently not hyphenated, my bad.

Chiklis the hot bald Daddy? Wonder what he looks like now.

Treacly, by the numbers and cheap looking. Compare with 'Belfast' where the beautiful b&w seemed right.

Belfast has a bigger budget. This was a small indie film and it looks wonderful.

Despite a smaller budget the b&w seems unjustified artistically and aesthetically ugly. It looks and sounds dreary.

It’s a dreary film and has a lot to do with AIDS. The look and tone fit.

It's NOT a comedy.

Unfortunately, it's dreary in every sense of the word. So unoriginal and so flat.

How about you watch the movie before trashing it? Jesus.

R19 anyone over the age of 12 has already seen this film in one form or another since 1985. Longtime Companion, Angels in America, It's My Party, Jeffrey, Torch Song Trilogy, An Early Frost, And the Band Played On and on and on and on . . .

R20 then don’t watch. That’s fine. But you don’t need to be on this thread bitching and moaning either.

There can only be one film about any gay topic ever. R20 has STATED HER BOUNDARIES.

Where can I find this, OP? The trailer said it's from 2018.

According to JustWatch, it's streaming on the free streaming service Tubi and available to rent on Amazon, Google Play, etc.

Yes. It’s on Tubi for free.

R20 I won't be watching

'Adrian is too flat a character and his plight too generic' SLANT MAGAZINE

'There's little that's new here' MOVIE NATION

'the acting in 1985 is like the script-stiff' ' the film still feels a lot like a sermon' SCREEN DAILY

I knew 1985.1985 was colorful.1985 was a friend of mine. You're no1985.

So you’re not going to watch because of a few bad reviews, while ignoring the positives mentioned in reviews?

R22 how about a gay film not about aids

Just the other day, Gen Z was trending on Twitter for saying on national television that there had been no stigma attached to AIDS in the 80s. There aren't enough films about AIDS.

R28 I saw the trailer and it's so derivative besides I just saw a film from 1985 recently The Early Frost covered the same ground over 3 decades ago as this from 2018. How about something new and original and up to date? Does every film about gays have to deal with AIDS? The times have changed but filmmakers are still rehashing the same old story.

Thanks for sharing, OP. I’ll definitely check it out!

R30 yeah, just like we need more films about slavery!

[quote]during the first wave of the AIDS crisis.

Which wasn't in 1985 but 1981-2.

Wow. This looks very good. Will have to watch.

Thanks OP

I am going to watch tomorrow

It looks okay. There's nothing in those trailers that say great!

Not yet at least.

Shill/OP.

OP has 10 replies alone in this thread. 11 when he replies to me. Calm down, OP!

[quote]It looks okay. There's nothing in those trailers that say great!

It's not meant to be "great".

R39 if it was meant to be mediocre, then I'd say it's a success.

It was OK but it is hard to beat films made during that era.

I usually hate the amateurish and maudlin "gay films" of today -- but i really did like this little gem. Very low-key, honest, believable. It felt like a window to a small-town America that is no longer here. It's one of those good little dramas they don't make anymore.

OP = "preteen brother".......(((sigh))))....Here we go again....

The hater should maybe just not watch it. I’m not understanding why they’re going on and on.

^ are you a publicist? Why are you going on and on?

Watched it today, it’s very sad. I liked the look of it and was positively surprised by Jamie Chung. Loved the actress who played the mother as well. The movie is gonna stay with me for awhile, I think.

R46 it’s a lovely film. Very sad.

i'm half way through. I watch films like I read a novel, I put them down and come back. I haven't taken to his Korean gurlfriend at all - I can hardly understand a word she says, I'm sure Americans don't have this same problem.

and she does stand-up comedy and she's REALLY unfunny.

R49 to be fair, many stand-up comics aren’t that funny

I can't relate to the younger gay generation depicted in the movie.

Just the trailer was enough to smell shitty marginal acting.

Exactly how many shills are typing on this thread?

Yes, this black and white indie film from three years ago has a virtually unlimited budget to pay people posting on an anonymous, obscure gay message board.

At least I'm not a sparkle pony consumer of treacle. I guess there's not accounting for taste. Moi luv this saaaaaad movie sooooo much. The actor is SOULFUL.

R22 the problem is so many 'gay' films cover the same topic as if gay lives were about AIDs and coming out to your stereotypically strait-laced family as you partner bemoans the fact that you haven't told them and feels left out! This is a film made circa 2018 that takes place in the 80s and for a reason!

[quote] “1985” - any of you seen it?

Honey, we LIVED it.

Yawn...I can always count on DL to apprise me of some random kid (usually around puberty age) they spot in a movie...Seriously, grow up. I saw people drooling over Boeberts little kids in a thread yesterday. Some of you really have issues.

She says CASHMERE like he gave her rubies from Chaumet.

Because back then Cashmere was considered some super elegant and high class material.

Didn’t Seinfeld have an entire episode about a cashmere sweater in the 90s?

Cashmere in the 80s and 90s was something super elegant and rarified? I remember in the 60s my grandmother, who was working class, a seamstress, but always well dressed, had cashmere sweaters. And some fur stoles and capes.

R61. Cashmere has always been a luxury material

Of course its luxury but her reaction is so overblown. It's an expensive sweater, not Ed McMahon with the Publisher's Clearing House 1,000,000 dollar check.

Aren’t they from a small town in TX? She is probably not used to that stuff