"God's Own Country" (2017)

Yes. A very good film.

No, nothing like BBM.

Is the "Search" not working, OP?

I really liked it. I am not sure I would have been a fan if the two protagonists were not gay. Which might be an odd thing to say but the sexuality was the most interesting thing about it. It’s wortg watching though as felt realistic and the lead was excellent.

*worth

Unfortunately most gay-themed movies are really bad so this was a surprise. Great story and very well done.

[quote]Is the "Search" not working, OP?

Seriously, there were oodles of threads on this movie.

FF this thread . If we can't talk about CMBYN, this shouldn't be allowed either.

I liked it. Saw it right after Love Simon and I was glad to see gay men in both. These guys didn't appear to be sexually fluid ala CMBYN so I appreciated that aspect.

I love the theme song.

Armond White wrote a great review of the film saying that it's more of a corrective to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, which makes a lot of sense.

I wanted to like it more than I did. I just didn't think the leads had the sort of chemistry you need to pull off a love story like this. But it's clear Francis Lee is quite talented.

And R11, I can believe that. The Brokeback influence is quite heavy, right down to a couple of shots seemingly lifted wholesale from the earlier film.

"Cunts Grown Oddly" (TBA)

We have a God's Own Country troll. Endless threads on this dumb movie.

I hated it.

R13 ^^^^^^ will be story of female genital mutilation

[quote] I am not sure I would have been a fan if the two protagonists were not gay.

Well, of course not.

The peen was outstanding. The ball’s in your court, Timmy and Armie.

Very good film- quite different from CMBYN. Both excellent films.

Loved it! Yes, the characters barely communicated by speaking, but that really was effective emotionally.

[quote]the characters barely communicated by speaking

Actually, they did. We just couldn't understand a word of it.

IS IT GOOD?

NEVER HEARD OF IT

LOVE IT.

But where have you been, OP?

Not like Brokeback. SPOILER. Brokeback is the misery of the closet. Grim grim grim. GOC is a angry young man who figures out he can love, be tender and have a relationship. That's the best part of it. Its a farm boy and a roma but its many gay young man's story of figuring it out.

Yeah there is the superficial similarities to Brokeback because of gay farmers, but that is where it ends. The two movies really aren't alike at all thematically.

'Rolling around in the mud' sex scene beats pumping off into a peach any day.

G C is too closety and sad

gimme the exhuberant joy of CMBYN anyday sir

Um, R27, the God's guys end up together.

In CMBYN, Oliver dumps the twink and marries a woman, leaving the twink in a flood of tears.

"Exhuberant joy?" Frau fantasy, more like it.

I liked CMBYN more than GOC, but only one had a happy ending, and it wasn't the movie I liked more.

I'm from Yorkshire, that was an impressive attempt at the Yorkshire accent. Other than that I wasn't particularly wowed by the film. I really wanted to see passion during the sex scenes but it came across as two straight guys trying to do gay sex like Brokeback. It's 2018 and we're still not seeing "proper" gay sex in gay themed films and they still choose straight actors as the lead. Disappointing.

Hmm. Okay, given, R30. They are closety at first.

Can you kink something of different UK accents? I love when Brit, Scot and Welsh celebs are on Graham Norton's show comparing accents. How is Yorkshire different?

link, not kink (although that'd be okay, too)

How is this not Liverpuddlian?

Beautiful film. Immensely moving.

Loved this great movie!

Wonderful movie!

The lack of chemistry was disappointing and I've seen that story many times before.

I said it on another thread about the movie: it might be a bit unsettling if you're squeamish or a germaphobe. I liked the movie in the end but I found some parts gross.

one guy was cute. the other was fug ugly

CMBYN....both were hot as fuk

R38 Yeah, that's how you critique films, you retard.

R38 I find one of the cmbyn actors fug as hell also.

Both guys were in Gods were average but cute for being young. Their physical looks were hardly the point of interest in the story.

R8 Be gone stupid fangirl.

What's particularly special about it, I think, is that on one level it's about the value and importance of intimacy and of physical touch. In effect, Gheorghe teaches (or shows) Johnny how to be intimate with another man and this filters through into his other relationships (like the scene where Gheorghe strokes Johnny's hand with his finger and then, in the following scene, Johnny does the same to his comatose father's hand in hospital, which the father responds to). I think it's a really great thing in a gay movie to have this emphasis on intimacy and physical touch.

r39, I can't either. So I don't. I have Purposely Bad Speller blocked. Twice.

[quote]What's particularly special about it, I think, is that on one level it's about the value and importance of intimacy and of physical touch.

With another man instead of a sheep.

^ Make that "instead of numerous, anonymous sheep."

What is gods own country? a cartoon?

Its a dessert topping, R47. Available in The South.

[quote]With another man instead of a sheep.

The majority of the film is about the growing intimacy between the two men. The scene where Gheorghe nurtures the lamb is symbolic of the way he nurtures Johnny. There's plenty of touching, stroking, kissing and fucking between them. It's a lovely film. And it's the diametric opposite of that frau shit set in Italy.

I thought the love scene was erotic, when the guy is on the ground naked, while the other guy is going down on him.

I agree with everyone that the emphasis this film places on learning how to be intimate rather was refreshing, and a lesson that resonates in the lives of a lot of gay men.

It was a beautiful movie but too grotesque in the handling of the animals. I know people that walked out of the film at Sundance when Gheorghe skins the little dead sheep.

The first sex scene is hilarious though, Johnny just walks to [a peeing] Gheorghe already touching himself. lol Johnny was just too horny he couldn't be bothered with asking the guy if he wanted to have sex with him or if he was attracted to him at all.

Johnny didn't have the skills to approach it in a better way r52. His whole life was quick anonymous hook-ups, you see how amused Gheorghe is when he realizes after the hook up Johnny doesn't even know how to behave around him. He is not used to handling anything other than a wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

The bit I don't get with that first sex scene is when Johnny is walking towards him with his hand down his pants and when Gheorghe sees him he rolls his eyes. I don't understand why he rolls his eyes like that.

The movie that is better than CMBYN

R10 Interesting. Is the Patrick Wolf guy gay?? I've also heard his music on another gay-themed film

[quote]Is the Patrick Wolf guy gay??

Yes.

[quote]I don't understand why he rolls his eyes like that.

Because as you said.

[quote]Johnny is walking towards him with his hand down his pants

Gheorghe is like really? This is your move to take it to more than friends, cruising me out of the blue like we are in a gay bathhouse? But he is horny enough to let it happen.

r58 Ah, yes. I understand now. The reason I wasn't sure is because I didn't think that Gheorghe knew or suspected that Johnny was gay and the sex scene is so rough that I've always assumed Gheorghe initially thought Johnny was about to punch him and the fight turns into sex after they both realise they need each other's sex juice.

[quote]the other was fug ugly

I don't need a pretty face, I have a big dick!

At least that was my interpretation r59. I was sad to see there was no commentary tracks on the DVD, I would have purchased one if so.

GOC is a VERY simple film. Its lovely and well done but no masterpiece. CMBYN is a bit treacly and it is so annoyingly bourgeois. Still, its pretty good, too.

Josh O’Connor is really attractive in real life r60

He really uglied up for this role (lost 30 pounds, godawful hairstyle)

Alex Secareanu is is better looking in real life...when he grows out his beard...aya caramba

Josh was gorgeous in that Durrells series.

Do we know if the actors are straight/bi/gay in real life?

They are, of course, both straight r65. Isn't that the way it always goes.

[quote] Johnny is walking towards him with his hand down his pants and when Gheorghe sees him he rolls his eyes

That's what I was talking about, Georghe sees Johnny touching himself as he is coming closer, and Johnny actually grabs Gheorghe's hand when the other is still peeing, very Harvey Weinstein of him.

R66 But how did Josh know the stereotype in gay movies?? He said it was nice to have a film that is NOT about oppression, sickness... etc. He said it perfectly.

Gonna find the link.

Josh is very awkward and he pings.

He ghayy

I'm going to guess he's able to read, r68, and perhaps listen, when his director talks about his character.

Found it!

Starts on 3:14

Anywhoo.. Josh is so fucking cute, I hate him.

[bold] 13:14 [/bold] NOT 3:14. UGH.

He's ethnically Scottish, Irish or English? Needs to get his ears tacked. Those ears seem Irish, bu the big cock, not so much.

Cheltenham, England.

R71 Okay, he sold me on this film.

so when he says "we"... is he saying he is part of the community?

No.

I know he is England born. But that name isn't English ethnically. So ?

O'Connor was also in a short film last year about a gay couple in the 1950s being blackmailed. It's called THE COLOUR OF HIS HAIR and is written and directed by Sam Ashby (who does a lot of film posters, like the one for WEEKEND)...

Enjoyed the film but probably not enough to watch it more than once. Was very impressed with the actors, especially Josh O’Connor. He is naturally very bubbly and cheerful, but you would never think that from this performance.

I actually found O'conner sexy, he makes a hot top and has a nice big dick.

Johnny is a bottom, isn't he?

Nope, in the film he does the fucking I think.

[quote]No.

elaborate please. He pings, the is no denying it.

[quote]Nope, in the film he does the fucking I think

He goes to fuck Georghe during that first sex scene and Georghe stops him and makes it quite clear he's not interested in doing that, which is why Johnny sucks him off. The second sex scene is where Georghe fucks Johnny. From then on, their relationship seems to suggest that Johnny is the submissive one.

Johnny also fucks the twink earlier in the film.

r85 But it's clear that Johnny isn't enjoying the sex in that scene. Interestingly, one of the deleted scenes shows him driving to a cruising area and following an older man into the darkness.

Not only did he enjoy it, he went for seconds when they had oral sex later in the film.

So anyone knows where we can see Josh's short film ? It's not available for stream that I can see, not even in the usual gay torrent sites.

[quote]Not only did he enjoy it, he went for seconds when they had oral sex later in the film.

That's a different twink. And O'Connor is clearly pissed out of his skull in the later scene.

r87 THE COLOUR OF HIS HAIR is still doing the festival circuit, I think, so it's unlikely to be available anywhere for some time.

Josh is not exactly attractive by his features, but he's utterly charming.

And he has a huge dick. The poor other guy looks like he has a pencil dick compared to Josh's big bratwurst.

did this movie play in many theatres? never heard of it.

Are any of these streaming?

You can rent or buy God’s Own Country on iTunes.

We don't do Apple.

The movie is everywhere r94. Amazon, OnDemand, the pirating websites. How do you make it through the day without someone holding your hand.

You can see the trailer for THE COLOUR OF HIS HAIR on vimeo, but that's all that's online. Incidentally, Sam Ashby-the writer/director of that short film-also did the poster for GOD'S OWN COUNTRY....

Frankly in terms of their sexualities, I liked the film a lot, but I knew nothing about actors watching it and I never doubted they were straight. Neither one could even make me believe they were gay.

R95, it is no longer available for streaming on Amazon. I got it there when it first came out, but it's unbuyable now.

I think Alec Secareanu, who played Gheorghe, is really adorable and photogenic. I don't care that his cock isn't gigantic.

I was told not to see it

just another treacly 'omg am I really gay' mess..

r100 Homosexuality is secondary in this movie. It's about gentleness, letting yourself be open and vulnerable, how that then gets transmitted to other people etc... Who is this authority figure in your life who tells you which movies to see and which not to see and you blindly follow their advice? Just watch it for yourself and see if you like it.

I still maintain it's a twin movie vis-à-vis CMBYN because it's also about returning to your authentic self. It's just that one depicts lush greens and peaches and the other one stark surroundings and lambs, so people think they're completely different movies. But it all flows from the same source, as conveyed by the motif of streams, waterfalls, and water in general. Both films should be lauded as they tie homosexuality to nature and not depict it as something that occurs in large cities only. You'd be surprised just how much of a shock that is for rural people (like my family in our shithole) to see. It neutralizes their homophobia right at the root.

[quote]It neutralizes their homophobia right at the root.

No one could be homophobic anymore when they spot Josh's dong.

R87 You can buy it on Amazon in a short story dvd, called, Boys-Film-18-Heroes. I think it's $9.99.

It will be released in England on April 23, R103. I don't find a US Amazon listing yet.

Great analysis R101

I would like to buy a beer and a tater tots and to talk about movies on night

Great! I can't wait!!

Thanks for that interview r71. I like how Josh O'Connor subtly shades CMBYM there, and how he makes the honest point of of how sex/nudity is an integral part of getting into a character's life. And he speaks about it better than Chalamet "except for all the crazy stuff" does.

Insightful observations at r43

I keep hearing about this gods country thing?

what is it

cartoon or animated?

I saw it yesterday, and liked it. I think the shift from physical to emotional intimacy is a significant step for a lot of gay men, and I related to it from that point of view. But I don't think it was particularly groundbreaking.

To be honest, dick or no dick wouldn't have changed anything with the film, though I do think depicting sex is important and that was a major weakness in CMBYN (which I thought was a far more interesting film, despite its own flaws).

Unconventionally sexy. I love jug ears.

[quote]o be honest, dick or no dick wouldn't have changed anything with the film,

I disagree. I think there is an inherent sense of intimacy when you see two people being naked together and it isn't a big deal. When the camera purposely does angles to hide that it creates this emotional divide with the audience, reminds you that you are watching a movie.

It’s only available on iTunes.

R112, what movie is that?

R114 Freier Fall (2013).

R100 You were misinformed. There is no sudden self-awareness, both characters are gay the entire movie.

Jon K said he liked the movie on his new Instagram story.

[quote] and they still choose straight actors as the lead.

OMG! I saw a movie where a supporting character was supposed to be an astrophysicist, but he was just an actor!

When will these travesties in casting end so I can return to the cinema?

Netflix

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Three active threads on this heartfelt movie, available for all to see on multiple platforms.

Did anyone get a stiff one during the sex scenes?

It is nothing like Brokeback.

I jerked off to the sex scenes.

R124 i just got precum

I thought the actors were very good, but the script was very - well - expected. I liked the happy ending, but it did feel very Brokeback in many scenes.

Can someone please explain why Gheorghe wouldn't go to Johnny's room and insisted they kept it to the caravan?

Because he didn't want Johnny's dad and grandma to hear them fucking.

Is this one of those new fangled homsexsicle movies nobody has ever heard about let alone seen.

I personally didn’t find it to be very entertaining.

It was moving and lyrical, in a harsh way, r130....not so much entertaining

I dont know how many calls this BBM. I cant see it.

[128] OK, I get that now but why was Johnny sulking with him when he went to the caravan?

I'm asd so have a hard time reading some situations.

I think Gheorghe was more respectful of people than Johnny and, in that situation, probably felt it was more appropriate to Johnny's father and gran to fuck each other's brains out in the caravan. There's probably something symbolic about the separation of caravan and house going on, too; which might be why the final shot is of both Gheorghe and Johnny going through the door to their home.

PS - the only thing that seemed a little off about that final shot is that I think it would have been better if Johnny opened the door for Gheorghe to walk through first, rather than the other way round.

There's an entire Tumbr blog which is devoted to "God's Own Country" and they've talked about your question R133

Link to that Tumbr below

I just watched it on Netflix last week, it's really sweet. A tad too much of the animal husbandry up close shots, but otherwise, both leads are beautiful men forming a beautiful relationship with a sweet ending. In contrast to CMBYN's bittersweet sad ending.

R136 No gay movie can beat Love,Simon

Who was the bottom? Johnny topped that guy in the horse trailer so I assume Gheorghe was a bottom.

From the tumblr blog- "As for the pouting behavior of the caravan, again, we see he hasn’t substantially changed in any way. He’s still all take, take, take while avoiding any serious implications involved."

r138 Gheorghe definitely isn't a bottom. In their first sex scene Johnny goes to fuck him and Gheorghe makes it quite clear that he doesn't do that.

I thought he did that because he didn't want to be just another fuck.

Or maybe he wanted some lube first.

Yeah ol' spit in one hand Johnny wasn't exactly a skilled lover. Gheorghe had to teach him a few things.

I thought the plot was really boring. I wish it had been a thriller Phantom Thread type shit where Johnny forces the Romanian guy into sex in exchange for a decent wage, and then becomes sexually obsessed with him, after which the Romanian ends up causing the father's accident and taking control of the farm, and Johnny as well.

Perfect R144

I wish there had been a Silence Of The Lambs type plot, where grandma was skinning traveling farm hands so she could use their hides to make a human sweater for Johnny...and Georghe has a perfect amount of chest hair.

It would have been more enjoyable with a few show tunes thrown in.

r11, the setting was so bleak and unforgiving, I'm truly surprised they didn't take the horror movie angle, whilst telling a story of homosexual passion at the same time. But there probably would have been a huge backlash from the LGTB freaks.

I am moving to Romania.

Are Romanians hung?

I think a gay horror movie would be interesting. I just think there should be more gay movies in general.

I love Josh's double digit dong.

Josh really got into method acting for this part. I wonder if that included fucking around with guys?

[quote]I wish it had been a thriller Phantom Thread type shit where Johnny forces the Romanian guy into sex in exchange for a decent wage, and then becomes sexually obsessed with him, after which the Romanian ends up causing the father's accident and taking control of the farm, and Johnny as well.

That would have been a great film. We need more films with gay storylines.

Josh's dick makes even Leo Giamani look small.

Both actors have beautiful uncut cocks.

Unfortunately in this politically corrected society, gays are only allowed to be portrayed as misunderstood victims. If we had aggressive gays in horror movies, we would go back to being seen as charismatic deviants, and what's wrong with that?

....

Hmmm....I smell the stench of Matt Anscher ^

bump

I liked the movie. It’s a good and positive film with happy ending l, which is rare. It’s not great and doesn’t have he wow factors like BBM or CMBYN.

R160 ikr!! I watched CMBYN and I was like, "WOW, that's it? Just how shallow are the people who liked it?"

CMBYN seems to really appeal to people who yearn to be upper middle class squares with a fully stocked library of unread art books.

R160 I watched cmbyn and my my thoughts of it were wow THIS is BORING!

r162, exactly. Call Me By Your Name appeals to the indie set, who aspire to be seen as deep thinking artistic people and, more often than not, don't have an interesting thought in their head.

People into CMBYM tend to be more educated, sophisticated, artistic and well to do.

r165, no, they just like to seem that way, as a status symbol, because they regard themselves as superior and keep their cruder tastes private.

We also just like Timmy more than anybody in any of the movies under discussion.

"We", please don't think the Chalamet fangurls speak for everyone. Just because you are vocal about your obsession doesn't put you in the majority.

“We” refers to “people into CMBYN,” dumbass.

Anyone who actually knows about archaeology and classical studies would CMBYN risible. The way they behaved would have been outrageous in the 1880s, let alone the 1980s.

'would find', obviously

[quote]“We” refers to “people into CMBYN,” dumbass.

Yes, everyone into CMBYM is a Chalamet fangurl. Except not.

God, the Chalamet obsessives kept derailing much of the discussion and their antics made it harder for me to root for this film, which I had been excited for since I was a fan of the book from years ago.

Just announced: Josh O'Connor will be playing Prince Charles in the next two seasons of The Crown. He's got the ears -- will he show peen?