gay movies the best?

i havent watched any of these gay movies and i never will. i didnt know will smith was gay in this one or i probably wouldn't have watched it. i just have no interest in seeing a movie about gay people (just isn't something that interests me). and i do think that gay movies are waaayyy overrated. ppl are just trying to show how they accept gay culture now and they're not homophobic or whatever by giving these kind of movies such good reviews and so many awards. truth is this movie was BAD. it wasn't believable AT ALL!!! some of those lines were absolutely TERRIBLE (especially the phone convo at the end with paul and ouisa)!! the ending was horrible. wtf happened? did she leave her husband? did she ever find where paul was? too many plot holes. just a BAD BAD movie period. the only reason i watched it was because of the good rating it had on here and cuz will smith was in it. i'm gonna have to do a little bit more research next time i guess.

I totally agree. The kokopuff person is showing their ignorance with movie genre: do you watch a 'straight' movie? There are no 'straight' movies per se. There are romances, dramas, comedies, thrillers etc... then there are special interests for the viewers... therefore, we have comedies with a sporting theme, dramas with a war theme etc... Poor kokopuff for believing that you can stay away from 'gay' movies...

This started as a reply, but now it's a more general rambling thing, so make of it what you will.

"a gay character". OK, so Trent Conway is gay, as is Paul. That's two, not one. But I think Geoffrey Miller is also probably gay. The Hustler is at least gay-for-pay, and Rick seems to be bi. So, depending on who you count, it's anywhere from two to five gay characters, certainly more than the average film.

It's a gay movie. The whole thing that started the story rolling is that Trent wanted to find a way to make his instant boyfriend Paul presentable (as a friend, not the truth) to his snobby family, who are likely classist, racist, and homophobic.

One complaint I have with this film is Will refusing to actually kiss Anthony, so you end up with these bizarre camera angles trying to turn BS into a kiss. That's not acting -- it's incompetence. Also, Oz, the actor who gave the speech about his pink shirt being given away, didn't exactly deliver a believable performance. I can't tell if it meant to be comedy. Either way, it fails.

But as for gay films on IMDb, they are traditionally down-voted by the morally correct, whenever their score, like an erect penis, rises high enough to draw disapproving attention.

There are plenty of high-quality gay films, including some I've seen (below). I had to cut down the list to 20, excluding true stories, documentaries, miniseries, short films, and films with other LGBT content that isn't gay male content. I did include a handful where the main character was not gay, because that's life.

By year:

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Xi yan (1993)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Bent (1997)
The Hanging Garden (1997)
Big Eden (2000)
Lan Yu (2001)
Far From Heaven (2002)
9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Cowboys & Angels (2003)
Sommersturm (2004)
Le clan (2004)
Männer wie wir (2004)
Loggerheads (2005)
Another Gay Movie (2006)
Quinceañera (2006)
Les chansons d'amour (2007)
Breakfast with Scot (2007)
Les amours imaginaires (2010)

Contrary to the OP, Philadelphia (1993) was just sort of OK, as is this one.

"... people just looooove to show they accept gay people..."

Where do you live? I live in the U.S.A. I find quite the opposite to be true.

It's a dirty job,but I pay clean money for it.

Gay movies are overrated...........Lonely Child, Innocent and Another Gay Movie were crap and check imdb: they aren't highly rated. Watch Beautiful Thing and you will see a great gay movie and it will show you how everyone is certainly not soooooo intent on showing they looooove to accept gay people.

And I love it when people say movies shouldnt be so focused on the gay stuff. What does that mean? So straight people shoudnt kiss, screw of love eachother because that focuses too much on the straight factor?

"I kept waiting for a twist at the end to explain everything."

Which is exactly why twist endings have jumped the shark.

"I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer." Mrs. Sedley

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This movie sucked because you're an idiot. It not only has a point, it has a lot of points, but the main point is that this movie isn't for people like you- you are the world these people are living at the top of the skyscraper in an attempt to escape from. You are the world that Paul is so anxious to climb past.

And for the idiot who started this threat- Maurice is a gay film and is a beautiful movie. Eating Out is also a gay film and is a sex farce- a genre that exists in both the gay and straight world- and when taken as a sex farce, it is pretty well done. Brokeback Mountain is a gay film and I don't much care for it, but at least its something even stupid people like you saw.

Six Degrees, by the way, is not a gay film. It has a gay character, but the general theme of ostrasized people is about more that gays- poor nice straight white kids are also on the outside (Rick and Elizabeth), black people are on the outside (Paul), people who dissent are on the outside (Louisa), parents and children are on the outside from each other... it's themes are pretty endless and go far beyond the mere token element of Paul's homosexuality. If you called this movie a "gay movie" you would have to include any movie ever having any element of homosexuality- including Go!, Four Weddings and A Funeral, Flirt, My Best Friend's Wedding and The Merchant of Venice.

There definitely are some overrated gay films (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is way overrated in my opinion) but there are also lots of overrated straight movies too. The point is, contrary to what the original poster says, gay subject material alone doesn't get you any cred- if anything, it tends to work against you and certainly tends to limit your audience. Most "gay" cinema, in the sense of cinema that is engineered specifically for a gay audience, is really bad, largely because taste is something the rather lacking in the larger queer community (despite stereotype); of course, straights as a whole don't necessarily have good taste either, but since there is more of them and more film geared toward them, by sheer statistics, more of it is bound to be better and certainly its generally better funded and thus has batter production values, actors, etc. All that said, there are some brilliant movies out there with queer themes, and SIX DEGREES isn't one of them. It's a brilliant movie with a gay character, which is different than being a "gay film". Rather like you really wouldn't call LORD OF THE RINGS a war movie, though clearly there are battle scenes.