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The Normal Heart

Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge what a generation of gays went through, but I am SO over this gay=HIV thing. I find it nauseating.
 
HBO's 'The Normal Heart' Fetches 1.4 Million in Premiere


A total of 1.4 million viewers tuned in to HBO's opening night of The Normal Heart.

By HBO telepic standards, The Normal Heart's launch was slightly unconventional -- airing on a Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend. The first telecast, at 9 p.m., pulled in just shy of 1 million viewers and added 434,000 later in the evening

As it stands, The Normal Heart premiere ranks fifth in viewership among the 17 HBO Films originals to premiere since 2010. Expect a significant boost once time-shifting and HBO Go views are taken into account.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-hbos-normal-heart-707304
 
Recorded it and watched it last night.

Sure brought back some painful and poignant memories.....


....and Matt Bomer and Mark Garaffalo and even Julia were great in it.....Bomer's physical transformation was as disturbing as Jared Leto's and Matthew McConnaughey in Dallas Buyers' Club. It brought back recollections of at least a dozen men that I knew who died of AIDS with Kaposi's Sarcoma.

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Vitamin said:
Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge what a generation of gays went through, but I am SO over this gay=HIV thing. I find it nauseating.
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This movie portrayed what some of us guys went through during this period. It was hard for me to watch. My husband and I watched my oldest brother die from HIV during this period, along with some very close friends. What I find nauseating is your attitude. Your acknowlegement is hollow but I am glad you are so over it.
 
I heard the ratings were disappointing- only half that of 'Beyond the Candelabra'

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why was this moved from Entertainment??
 
I've been trying to find a release date for Australia and haven't had any luck yet. I want to see it. I remember being a child when GRIDS, then HIV & AIDS first broke headlines. It was a terrifying time.
 
I saw it in a preview in LA with Ryan and Matt being interviewed and schmoozing with the peeps in the lobby afterward.
The medium of film adds so much to the storyline. The close-ups, varied locations....hospital, funerals, etc. For those who feel it is an anachronism, you should see it. I remembered a time of fear and dread when not only patients, but friends, acquaintances and even some relatives (surprise!) became ill and invariably died often miserable, painful deaths. Others awoke in the night with pneumonia and died before dawn. Everyone, myself included were so paranoid about every symptom and change in our bodies. There was nothing to do but treat the opportunistic infections that attacked brains, lungs, eyes, skin...That Larry Kramer was angry when too many of us were scared and ashamed is a universal lesson in courage and power we hold. It is a history lesson and forms the basis for not only the advanced therapies for HIV, but the escalation of the ongoing struggle for the human rights of the LGBT commmunity worldwide.
 
It is an anachronism in the same way that the Holocaust is an anachronism......


It clearly underscores that the inactivity by the US President and congress and the slowness of many countries to act because they thought it was a dirty 'Gay Plague' has now resulted in 36 million....yes 36 million deaths around the world. It brought the homos to the brink of being excoriated and hated by the far religious right and the homophobes.....

For everyone who wasn't even a hershey bar in their father's back pocket at the time...this era and the idea of seeing dozens of your lovers, friends and family members die....well, you may never get it. Until maybe the next time...when a simple virus rips your whole world apart.
 
rareboy said:
It is an anachronism in the same way that the Holocaust is an anachronism......


It clearly underscores that the inactivity by the US President and congress and the slowness of many countries to act because they thought it was a dirty 'Gay Plague' has now resulted in 36 million....yes 36 million deaths around the world. It brought the homos to the brink of being excoriated and hated by the far religious right and the homophobes.....and irrationally blamed and feared by almost everyone else as carriers and spreaders of plague.

For everyone who wasn't even a hershey bar in their father's back pocket at the time...this era and the idea of seeing dozens of your lovers, friends and family members die....well, you may never get it. Until maybe the next time...when a simple virus rips your whole world apart.
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Sorry, didn't realize that the rest of this sentence had been lopped off.....
 
holocost?

hey actors of 2D ya got world kick a roud ball fa audience wot suck farts a eons
olympids same
etc so s on

get wit it

thankyou

world public wanna stop fartin few million yr anslistan
 
Who cried .
For some reason i couldn't stop my self crying at the end of the movie.
 
ibill1 said:
Why would you do that? You come into a thread about a movie that affected a lot of your fellow homos and mock them and offer nothing about the subject of the movie. That is selfish and childish and pretty low. Do you have any friends?



This movie portrayed what some of us guys went through during this period. It was hard for me to watch. My husband and I watched my oldest brother die from HIV during this period, along with some very close friends. What I find nauseating is your attitude. Your acknowlegement is hollow but I am glad you are so over it.
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Maybe I would be less inclined to be over it if Tom Hanks hadn't already done this movie, and there wasn't a Broadway musical on the same topic. How about they make a movie about straight people with AIDS for once? God knows no ones done that before.
 
ibill1 said:
Why would you do that?
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I haven't seen the 'movie' yet.

But I see what goes on here and I'm going to respond to it and to them. I agree that it's petty and childish. I wish I could rise above it.
 
LeicsDom said:
Everything that you did and happened to you in the past colours how you are today
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To sum it up by me today, my earliest remembrance was that is was something really big and really scary--it was on the news for crying out loud. I knew what gay was before I knew what this big scary thing was and it took a lot of unlearning to unlearn it.
 
Vitamin said:
Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge what a generation of gays went through, but I am SO over this gay=HIV thing. I find it nauseating.
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ibill1 said:
Why would you do that? You come into a thread about a movie that affected a lot of your fellow homos and mock them and offer nothing about the subject of the movie. That is selfish and childish and pretty low. Do you have any friends?



This movie portrayed what some of us guys went through during this period. It was hard for me to watch. My husband and I watched my oldest brother die from HIV during this period, along with some very close friends. What I find nauseating is your attitude. Your acknowlegement is hollow but I am glad you are so over it.
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Vitamin said:
Maybe I would be less inclined to be over it if Tom Hanks hadn't already done this movie, and there wasn't a Broadway musical on the same topic. How about they make a movie about straight people with AIDS for once? God knows no ones done that before.
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Than you ibill1, some people like Vitamin and alxwhtmr95 will never get it. Sad.
 
Fuck it...it is too difficult for me to watch and I am throwing in the towel. Normally I would beat myself up and engage in an inner battle and guilt trip....

I think Angels in America was the best film I have ever seen...or ever will see.

I have shared most of my adult life with ghosts and memories that have debilitated me for years...I have lived with PTSD having Survivors Guilt and I can't remember not having it anymore.....

I'm tired.....I can't watch anymore.....It is too difficult now....I know if I watch I will relive everyone's death like I do everytime I see a movie about AIDS and what happened....
 
eastofeden said:
Fuck it...it is too difficult for me to watch and I am throwing in the towel. Normally I would beat myself up and engage in an inner battle and guilt trip....

I think Angels in America was the best film I have ever seen...or ever will see.

I have shared most of my adult life with ghosts and memories that have debilitated me for years...I have lived with PTSD having Survivors Guilt and I can't remember not having it anymore.....

I'm tired.....I can't watch anymore.....It is too difficult now....I know if I watch I will relive everyone's death like I do everytime I see a movie about AIDS and what happened....
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You are correct. I've steered clear of these movies for years. I'm not sure what possessed me to watch it but I did. I never experienced Survivors Guilt over the whole ordeal, but the hashing over of all those memories was painful.
 
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