Stonewall (2015)

[EvilTwinTwo]

In theaters September 25th

 

[luckynumbah7]

Personally I can't stand the tagline. I read it and m'brain starts listing off all the fighting that was done beforehand. I'll read the reviews but I'll wait a few months to see it, preferably after the hype is gone.

 

[jbrown329]

I'd like to see it, but would end up having to go alone.

I've got this one and like it.

 

[goldenmoth]

Ugh he did the patriot? I hated that.

Oh well I want to give it a go first though

 

[lambdaboy]

When I lived in New York my partner and i met these old guys that went o that bar. Almost every night the police made there life miserable . I wish I could hav ebeen thre the night they locked the police inside after beating the shit out of them tehre were no drugs no back room sex just fucking Cop Pigs bothering them constantly. The building now has listed status and Gay shoould consider it a monument to Gay Rights

 

[miaedu]

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...any-Pre-Stonewall-stories?highlight=stonewall

 

[jbrown329]

Milk was a far better movie.

 

[SFLMAN]

Milk was a far better movie.

How can you judge before you have seen this movie?

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Milk was a far better movie.

Lucy , you have some explaining to do.

 

[jbrown329]

Lucy , you have some explaining to do.

Just going by reply #4.

 

[miaedu]

Look at Roland Emmerich and “Stonewall” (forthcoming in September): a white man imagined a story of a white kid who experienced this moment in history. Why is it always through the gaze of a white man? But we can only represent that which we can see and what we experience. It’s the importance of all of us sharing our stories. If the black trans person doesn’t tell their story, who will? It’s hard for Roland Emmerich to tell a black, trans story if he doesn’t know anyone to illuminate the details of that. It’s more about storytellers of color and transgender and female and overweight and differently-abled folks telling their individual stories so they can share in that knowledge. It boils down to the legacy we each want to leave.




http://www.salon.com/2015/08/27/bei...casting_visibility_and_telling_his_own_story/

 

[goldenmoth]

I wonder what a stonewall movie would look like if Lee Daniels directed it?

 

[miaedu]

Stonewall Featurette "Ray/Ramona"

 

[Rubber Rat]

I'd like to see it, but would end up having to go alone.

I've got this one and like it.

I enjoyed this film as well. I have the DVD.

 

[miaedu]

Why Roland Emmerich's 'Stonewall' Was A Box Office Disaster

There has been a lot of handwringing over Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall over the last week, especially as the film screened for press and it turned out that it really was a story of gay rights history predominately about women of color and transgender people remade into a coming-of-age story for a fictional young white man. I had to miss said screenings (it was a really busy week, as you’ve hopefully noticed from the flurry of reviews over the last eight days), but the narrative that the film was both very bad and explicitly whitewashed became the common consensus leading into the film’s debut weekend. And sure enough, the film that was arguably engineered to appeal to people who had no interest in seeing it at the expense of those who would have championed it was a massive box office failure. The Roadside Attractions release earned just $112,834 in 129 theaters, a meager $875 per-theater-average.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...emmerichs-stonewall-was-a-box-office-disaster