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dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:57 am

Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature "The Times of Harvey Milk," but "Milk" -- filmed on location in San Francisco -- is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man's life and career. It looks great, and also features Emille Hirsch.

windedsailor · **Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:33 pm

Finally Gus Van Zant is putting the gay in a movie that requires it.

fitzy · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:30 am

windedsailor wrote:

Finally Gus Van Zant is putting the gay in a movie that requires it.

That looks good.

Oscar time for Sean?

Dev · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:00 am

just saw this and it was one of the most intensely emotional films I've ever seen. I was holding back tears as much as I could a few times.

broken iris · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:37 pm

windedsailor wrote:

Finally Gus Van Zant is putting the gay in a movie that requires it.

This guy lost it a decade ago.

YOUR THE MAN NOW, DOG!

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:55 am

I can't wait to see this.

Dev · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:57 am

SmilinSkullRing wrote:

I can't wait to see this.

probably the best new movie I've seen since There will be Blood

Monkey_Driven · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:43 pm

I still think this was better than Slumdog. Great acting all around in this one, especially Emile Hirsch.

parchy · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:50 am **Posts:** 11842

this is about homos right

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:13 pm

parchy wrote:

this is about homos right

62strat · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:37 am

Great movie. Sean was amazing in it. Everyone was.

Depressing that we still deal with the same fucking issues in the US 40 years later.

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:36 am

Brilliant. I adore this movie. Intense, emotional, and so damn sad in the end.

The Argonaut · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:54 am

I enjoyed this one. The documentary about Harvey Milk, The Times of Harvey Milk, was slightly more effective, but this was still good. Penn, Franco, Brolin, and Hirsch (four of my favorite actors right now, hell four of everyone's favorite actors right now) were great as expected.

Spoiler: show: Hilarious moment when Dan White is drunk at Milk's birthday party, and Milk's boyfriend Jack comes up to them. So perfect by Brolin. "Latino man."

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:51 pm

Yeah, Brolin was great at that moment. I literally had to laugh out loud at him. I really want to see the documentary as well.

f.u.b.a.r. · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:12 pm

I quite liked it. Sean deserved his oscar for it, and Emile, yeah, great.

¡B! · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:18 am

Great flick. I loved it. Makes me cry for the passage of Prop 8.

tree_ · **Posted:** Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:34 am

this movie sure weeds out the homo-neurotics

i'd like to see my dad sit through sean penn making out with franco

Chloe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:15 pm

Got this for my birthday - genius.
Is there a movie where Sean Penn isn't amazing?

Mrmattsitwrame · **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:01 pm

Just got through watching this.
SO a guy murders two public figures and gets only five years because they said he ate too much junk food??? hmmmmm..... ok.

62strat · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:09 am

B wrote:

Great flick. I loved it. Makes me cry for the passage of Prop 8.

movies like this that point out how little we have progressed as a human culture depress me....

Movie: Milk

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