One of my all time favorites.

As Good As It Gets

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I really have to read the back of the DVD box 'cause I wandered into a gay movie again.Being that this is a movie about a persecuted group of people, I have to say that I'm a tree huggin' liberal. I'm for equality down the line.But this was really pretentious. Done well, without a doubt. Good direction, acting and writing.But I really didn't like these people. Very dysfunctional. We're all dysfunctional, but really? If you're having sex with your best friend as a teenager, straight or not, and you expect to be just friends after that, then you have to reassess your common sense. Not to mention basing the rest of your life on that common sense.I get confused by these movies. They don't show gay men in a good light. Gay men can be gay men if they like. There are a lot of annoying straight people. I guess there are annoying gay men, too. But it doesn't work well when your heroes in a movie are annoying. Give it a try with action movies, the sexuality of the heroes are cursory at best. Let's try it with gay men, as an exercise.

this movie is so pure. bobby loves who he loves and makes no conditions or boundaries. i just adore all of these characters. there are no agendas, some jealousies, and some leaving. nothing is forever, but what works for now is oftentime enough.robin wright is so right, a little older and wiser than the boys. she knows what she wants and she gets it.this is the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.the movie covers the whole gamut of the '70's. the highs and the lows.it also embraces every emotion.if it doesn't make you tearful and happy you are not human.happy, sad, longing, desire, despair, ENJOY! and the music is amazing.

This movie disturbed me. The relationship with these two guys was dangerous and heart wrenching.The gay guy truly loved this other guy. But Colin used him and teased him when he wanted too.Then when they finally grow up and they move in together. Colin starts up with using him and teasing him - you know with the dancing and kissing and touching - something the gay man wanted from Colin for the longest time - then what does Colin do - fall in love with the weired fag hag they are living with. Then Colin does the unthinkable and sleeps with said fag hag - just as the gay man is coming home. Brilliant. Well of course the end result of the movie turned out exactly the way I thought it would. I'm not going to tell you here - but. At the end - I said out loud - so everyone could hear me - I said "Typical". And I got a lot of head nods and "MM-MMHM's" from the other movie goers.Typical ending, just like all of the other gay themed movies I have seen. The gay person is either beat to death, dies of a disease - or winds up alone, like always.

There haven't been many movies to leave me in tears while causing me to laugh and smile tremendously at the same time. With other movies like "The Broken Hearts Club" and "Mysterious Skin," the beautiful love stories and tragic plot twists make this movie into a piece of cinematic magic. The subject matters of the movie are the reasons it didn't reach a wider audience in the end, but as long as the viewer keeps an open mind to the same-sex relationships and the drug usage then I feel everyone will come to love the movie.Envy, love, sadness, and desirers of my own emerge after watching this movie. There are so many things that touch me on a deeply personal level in this movie and I've got a feeling I'm not alone. If you haven't seen this movie before, I urge you to run out now and find it either at a video store or order it online. A word of caution: for your first time, don't watch this movie alone. It's not because it's too sad or horrific, but it would be good to have someone around for the passions that come up.I hope I didn't spoil anything for you, but there is no way to do this movie justice. And remember...while white may go with everything, it's a house and not an outfit they are talking about. And in the end, it goes from just being their house, to being a love-filled home.