Milk

[Common as Mook]

Not very good. Long, turgid an uninspiring.

However, totally rescued by the performance of Sean Penn. His range and depth of character is outstanding.

Josh (?) Brolin is utter wank.

 

[Don Tmatter]

What's it about?

 

[Les Biehn]

Not very good. Long, turgid an uninspiring.

However, totally rescued by the performance of Sean Penn. His range and depth of character is outstanding.

Josh (?) Brolin is utter wank.

Agree with the first bit. As one reviewer said there is a much more interesting but clearly less Oscar worthy film about the relationship between Milk and Dan White here.

Penn is very good but there is something that just stops me warming to him, not sure if it's his oddly creepy face and or his intensity but I only really enjoy watching him when he plays nasty bastards such as Dave Klein in Carlito's Way.

Josh Brolin was very good. Actually managed to invest a character that has limited screen time with an aching sense of his own intellectual inferiority and desperate need to be taken seriously on a public and personal level.

 

[Acker79]

What's it about?

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in America, why he ran for office, what he did in office, the movement he inspired over there, how it affected his life and so on.

With a side effect of showing how little progress America seems to have made in the public discussion of homosexual issues in the last 30 years.

 

[Common as Mook]

Agree with the first bit. As one reviewer said there is a much more interesting but clearly less Oscar worthy film about the relationship between Milk and Dan White here.

Penn is very good but there is something that just stops me warming to him, not sure if it's his oddly creepy face and or his intensity but I only really enjoy watching him when he plays nasty bastards such as Dave Klein in Carlito's Way.

Josh Brolin was very good. Actually managed to invest a character that has limited screen time with an aching sense of his own intellectual inferiority and desperate need to be taken seriously on a public and personal level.

I loved Penn's performance. It was so out of the ordinary for him and I love the polar opposites of the characters he plays.

I just thought that Brolin's take on the character could have have been so much more. IMHO it was a very bland performance.

I agree totally that the Milk/White sub-plot was a much more interesting aevenue that should have been explored at the expense of someof the other guff.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I heard an interview with Gus Van Sant who said they wanted to cast Alan Cummings but due to funding needed a big name so (sounded reluctantly) Sean Penn was put forward. Funding arrived due to his involvement.

Also said that without being asked Sean Penn went out of his way to look and act like Harvey Milk, Gus saying that as so few people new him that part was not important.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in America, why he ran for office, what he did in office, the movement he inspired over there, how it affected his life and so on.

With a side effect of showing how little progress America seems to have made in the public discussion of homosexual issues in the last 30 years.

Oh, Right. Think i'll give it a miss then.

 

[Les Biehn]

I loved Penn's performance. It was so out of the ordinary for him and I love the polar opposites of the characters he plays.

I just thought that Brolin's take on the character could have have been so much more. IMHO it was a very bland performance.

I agree totally that the Milk/White sub-plot was a much more interesting aevenue that should have been explored at the expense of someof the other guff.

That's what I liked about Brolin's performance, he conveyed the frustration of blandness.

The whole film could have really done without the Jack boyfriend, he was very irritating.

 

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Mmmm.....tit milk...

 

[Spider]

I thought it was a decent film, though clearly very oscar baiting and perhaps not as edgy as it should have been. I think both Penn and Brolin are excellent, Brolin especially as I found the actual writing of his character to be rather clunky, and he is certainly not characterised enough to explain his actions at the end of the film. I also thought that Milk's relationships with his two boyfriends were quite poorly done, especially Diego Luna's character, who does something quite significant near the end of the film and it's not only fairly uninteresting given the fact he is hardly featured beforehand, but also cast off rather quickly.

Still well worth seeing though. Rourke still gets my pick for Best Actor Oscar.