Latter Days

[SolInvictus]

Hey everyone,
this is a thread about the LGBT movie Latter Days
Anyway, I watched it again tonight on dvd, and I cry every time I watch it.
Its that good & touches on a personal level. On a side note: the main actors are really hot too. LOL

To summarize, its about a closeted Mormon who finds love in a man who didn't understand the meaning of the word until they met each other. It highlights, in my opinion, the highs and lows we in the LGBT community face, esp. those w/ a conservative religious background. We see inner homophobia, religious intolerance of gays, the "club scene," hypocrisy, love, betrayal, and much more... Its a great movie.

To those who have or will see it: what did you think of the movie?

[Joe Brummer]

I have bought very few movies over the last few years. I usually just do next flicks.....Latter Days I bought and watch over and over....Great movie.

[pnggrad79]

I read the book first and then saw the movie. It was very moving because I really understood the conflict the Mormon guy felt between the faith he had and the feelings he had and how they were seemingly incongruent. I liked the movie. Say, where are all the good Lesbian movies. I know we have the L word, but no good movies!!! :(

[SolInvictus]

Hey pnggrad79, where are all the lesbian movies? Good question, and I don't know.

Yes, I also, recognize and understand the conflict the Mormon character faced. The movie reminds us to be true to ourselves - an awesome film.

Hi Joe:
agreed, I bought it too. Its so wonderful to re-watch.

[Joe Brummer]

I read the book first and then saw the movie. It was very moving because I really understood the conflict the Mormon guy felt between the faith he had and the feelings he had and how they were seemingly incongruent. I liked the movie. Say, where are all the good Lesbian movies. I know we have the L word, but no good movies!!! :(


See the adventure of two girls in love....great movie. Very cute, very romantic.

[keltic63]

saw it through Netflix. Loved it. it's one of the few gay-themed movies that is actually good. I can't tell you how many duds we've rented, but then again, it's better to rent them; you don't feel as cheated when they turn out to be dogs.

[Zerbie]

I dunno this Latter Days movie, it sound goods - will look for it to rent when I'm in a movie mood.

AS for lesbian movies, I can't think of any I really like much.

There's Aimee and Jaguar, which as I recall from years ago, was good. Depressing, since it's situated during the Nazi Holocaust. Then, and I hated this movie, there's Heavenly Creatures - about selfish teenage girls in a total fantasy world who brutally murder the mother of one of them. I truly detested seeing that.

And a movie I enjoyed a lot when I saw it (again, YEARS ago so it's fuzzy my brain now!) was Yo, la pejor de todas. Had to read subtitles because I don't understand Spanish. It isn't really a lesbian movie, it's more a period piece with a strong female lead, who seems to be lesbian, mayyyybe. It's a long time since I saw it, but at the time I chose to view the lead character as a lesbian, but that was probably my own interpretation.

Oh, there's also one with a title like Claire de la lune, or something fanciful like that, about a "straight" chick who discovers she's bi, or lesbian, but it was pretty plotless if I remember right. And there's another one, French I believe too, called Therese something, about a woman who is remembering back to a passionate sexual affair she had as a teenager with another girl, when they were in boarding school.

A movie I really really enjoy is the French one (how come all the good sexy films with sexy bi/lesbian women in them are French?), about a stay-at-home mom with a cheating husband, when all of a sudden a dyed in the wool dyke drives by in a hippie van, and the van breaks down outside their house. It's a wonderful comedy about the mayhem that ensues, Not supposed to be serious at all. I'm pretty sure the word "French" is in the title, but I think French Twist is a straight love story with Meg Ryan, so I don't think that's it. Does anyone remember this movie, and what it's called? I would totally buy the DVD if I knew what it was! It's my favorite of the ones I've listed here.

[pokhim1]

Geat movie....
Also try Get Real and Like it is...
:lol: :lol:

[Steven E. Webster]

I was just thinking about Latter Days--I just saw Brokeback Mountain and loved it, but was wishing for a happy ending. As I recall Latter Days had much of the same tension and drama, but in the end the lovers are re-united. A classic "boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy reunites with boy" movie.

Steven

[Jamie McDaniel]

Latter Days is one of the best gay movies out there, imho.

A good lesbian movie is But I'm a Cheerleader. It's actually a comedy about ex-gay ministries, but the two lead characters are lesbians.

[scott snedeker]

Great movie! my favorite!

Great sound track too! can get it at amazon.com
Scotty:cowboy:

[Daniel]

Very good movie. Rented it this summer and cried and cried. About the same time we saw Brokeback and cried and cried.

Have to say though, when I saw Maurice when it came out I bawled- and I mean bawled. Touched my little Anglophile heart like nothing else or since. That was the year I broke up with my first real boyfriend.

[sammy1980]

Well, I saw the movie, and I would say it was very emotional and deep. It makes viewers to sympathize with the leading character, Aaron and scold the Mormon Church. I guess this was the director's intention. Now, I don't agree with the Mormon theology but I must say, that the movie highly mischaracterizes the Mormon missionaries. I have met quite a few of them throughout the country and not once I seen anybody saying anything in such a harsh hateful way. They would never say that God hate f--s, like they did it in a movie. Another Hollywood flick. Instead, they would always present things in a sweet charming manner to make you want to convert.

There is some truth shown in this movie regarding the hypocrisy that has pervaded the Mormon Church for the last 160 years. Like, when Aaron is at the excommunication board who publicly ridicule him how unclean he became and brought shame to his family, the ward and God, he poignantly refers to his grandparents being polygamists. You see, over the years, Mormons have altered their Book of Mormon, changed their policies and views in order to fit the pressures of the culture. Like, they practiced polygamy until 1890, until Washington DC refused Utah to join the union and until 1978, they did not allow black people to be members of their church, until Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders, publicly exposed and condemned their actions as racist. They have frequently changed "their word of God." I'm not trying to bash all Mormon people who believe that their religion is true, I respect their beliefs, but I want to reflect on what Aaron, the main character of the movie was thinking and feeling.

Anyway, very powerful movie.

Sam

[Vanessa White]

I had not even heard of Latter days, but now want to seek it out and watch it. For lesbian flicks, I have seen several, Adventures of Two Girls in Love, agreed with Zerbie about Heavenly Creatures (although my beloved Kate Winslet makes her acting debut in it- LOVE HER!!!!!!), Desert Hearts, Tipping the Velvet (which was a mini series for the BBC- very sexually charged), The Hunger (David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon), and if you can ever rent If these Walls could Talk 2, which is all lesbian stories, three of them. Have fun!!!