One of the most beautiful and important scenes in movie history (for gay men)

Really a treasure of a film. Got a little bit of attention but years from now it'll be remembered fondly as a classic gay teen movie.

I love this film. That was such a great scene. So real and punches you in the gut. Nick Robinson is fucking dreamy.

I thought it was awful. In particular, the Ferris Wheel scene. I just saw it the other day,

He's too old for the role. Hyperbole much, OP?

Are you a sparkle pony 23 yo shopbottom who scrapbooks about your favorites dreamy creamy dreamboats?

This haunting Tom Daley portrait is one of the most beautiful and important works in art history (for gay men)

I have rarely met anyone who does not like the film. It isn't Citizen Kane but does a great job for what it is. It was touching and funny and very entertaining. It will have legs like Mean Girls which it resembles in tone.

Oh please op! So mushy I want to throw up.

I'm here at thanksgiving dinner with LeVar Roots Burton, Oprah, and Elon Musk. Even Oprah says it's meh!

She looks like his older sister.

Nobody knows or respects our great classic movies.

Call Me by Your Name

Father's monologue

'Nuff Said

I thought it was also a testament to pretty good writing. "You get exhale now" is pretty truthful.

Mary! It needed Nick Robinson dong.

I need Nick Robinson dong. He made Simon into the most lovable boyfriend.

R14, utterly sexless but lovable. Just right for13-year-old girls.

LOVE, SIMON was an icky, cliche-riddled borefest.

It was designed for mainstream consumption, but the gay character is shady and unsympathetic. He deceives and mistreats all the straight people.

#ProgressFail

Greg Berlanti is a basic bitch whose work puts me to sleep.

"I think I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it. I love you, you don't pay me."

[quote]In particular, the Ferris Wheel scene

Of course. It was a cute movie but the ending was stupid as fuck.

The mother/daughter scene in Kissing Jessica Stein is universal. Tovah knocked it outta the park.

Love Simon was for mass consumption and didn't need sex. It was sweet and maybe cliche but effective.

Complete fantasy parents and sister.

r21 So? It was a nice, sweet movie. It is fantasy.

This was a cute movie! It would have been better if Nick Robinson presented hole in it though.

Yes I like the scene with the clueless father tells Simon he loves him. Such a nice little movie. I hope lead actor has a good career.

I did like that the gay kid can’t dance.

Not believable as a 17 year old bottom nope!

I second the Kissing Jessica Stein scene. Best part of the movie. Beautifully written and played.

Love Simon was for the masses, the flyover people. And it worked. Universally loved. I've watched it over and over because it is so sweet and Nick is sooooooooo adorable.

Gay movies should be fun and light-hearted, not the depressing dreks that most of the independent gay ones are. I hate dramas about gay men - BORING. Another Gay Sequel was trash, it was terrible, but I'd rather watch that than sit through Call Me By Your Name.

How can you not love this guy?

He's like the thinking man's Gregg Sulkin.

Him and Sulkin are nothing alike r30. Robinson has that normal boy next door look, Sulkin has that Hollywood gorgeous look. They are two different types of talent who are cast for different reason.

Is it really that easy to come out these days? Mom is 100% understanding and Dad apologizes for being so unaware? And your friends and classmates (with the exception of a few jerks straight out of central casting) are that welcoming and understanding? I'm in my 60s so I can't relate to any of this but I also understand I'm not their target audience.

I wouldn’t Call Me in the same category as depressing independent movies. The most common plot that I hate is two guys fall in love and one of the guys beats or kills the other.

Handsome Devil is another nice gay film with the two leads don’t even fall for each other.

The one where Richard Burton does Rex Harrison's hair in Staircase?

R30 that hideous lazy eye

Call Me Your Name definitely counts as depressing r33, sure no one dies but it is meant to be a sad devastating ending.

Well the family lived in 2018 and obviously Democratic

I do feel like most gay movies are either way too goofy or way too serious. Every now and then, it'd be nice to just go see a random teen movie, horror flick, or action movie and have a character say "yeah, my partner, Jim, and I..." Just throw it out there. Make it a throwaway line. It suddenly makes the character more unique and interesting and gets us visibility in a realistic, cliche-free way.

Yes he was heartbroken he was also young and beautiful talented rich and probably could find someone new in 5 seconds.

In the book he never gets over Oliver, carries that longing for him for the rest of his life r39.

The one thing I didn’t like about Simon is the other gay guy in school was more transgender.

Ok. You win. It is depressing. I wonder if they really make sequels will it follow the book ?

It won't follow the book, Elliot and Oliver don't meet again face to face til 15 years later in the book.

Sorry, but if it had been realistic, the story would have been "Love, Simon, Who Really Wants to Fuck his Dad."

No kidding. That is one hot young loooking Daddy.

R44 well then mr lazy eye should not have gotten cast. garner and Duhamel would make a much hotter bottom boy.

NR was perfect in the role.

Also, while yes, the other gay guy in school seemed more trans, at the end a lot more people came out on that school website. Also, it was strongly hinted the Miles Heizer character was gay or at least bi.

Blocking R1 and R2 makes most of the ott praise posts go away. Someone has an agenda and seems dedicated enough to get diff ips.

R32 I'm 28. Came out early 2000s. Rural place, semiconservative Boomer parentals.

I made a bigger deal of it than it ended up. They already knew my Internet history, I wasn't good enough about hiding it.

One of them was basically like 'ok', sitting on my bed when I told. The other didn't really talk about it but doesn't really talk to me in general but is friendly to any boyfriend/partner of mine.

I think it was just accepted and basically understood to be a trait of me and that is that.

It ended up working and I think I have one of the most chill attitudes about my sexuality than most gay men I know.

I think if anything my parents were more concerned about potential anxiety, depression, etc that may or may not have been related to my sexuality. But that I liked to be attached to and fuck other boys? Eh, (at least) there's plenty worse.

My (rural) Catholic high school had me and my boyfriend twice at prom/semi-formals. If anything it was kept quiet since this may have been during some regional controversy about this sort of thing.

But yeah in coming out, it was much more of a torment for me to say the words and face the potential backlash, than to face the actual backlash. Oh no, some other kid on the bus asked me if I was 'a fucking fag'? Yeah I guess I am, now sit down and let me grab my own seat.

I'm actually seeing more homophobia (albeit of an implicit nature now) in my city college (with younger Millennials/oldest Gen Z) I've returned to now, than when I was younger in the rural highschool with middle Millennials trying to be more progressive than their bigoted parents. I do believe youth, particularly 'straight white cis males' attempting an identity, now are 'more' conservative than before - they just don't want to be exactly known as that, and it is of a stupid 'meme' nature. It is still progress happening, since even this conservative wave/bump really really really doesn't want to be known publicly as homophobic, while I think Gen X mostly didn't care at the time.

Ironically the international-student/immigrant/refugee Middle Eastern sorts here have been kinder about my sexuality than the white natives (not talking the indigenous definition). What they see as fine-but-home-culture/family-hates, or passively-sinful (ugh), or finally-people-can-be-open-about-it-here!, the white bros may be increasingly seeing as one of the array of threats to their increasingly challenged shitty identities. My partner is Lebanese and genuinely his family is kinder about us (those that know; not talking grandma etc) than many of these college students. But the other sorts of students are more fine - women/older girls, racial minorities, older students with more authority positions, and likely more out GSM people than ever. And still a lot of friendly straight men.

Intersectionality is having its effects it seems, both helpful and dangerous. Forget about neo-Nazis, we're dealing with effectively post-Nazis that think the SJWs are out to get them. This will have something of a lasting effect. But the rest of us will move on.

r48 For real? You are blocking people for continually having a positive discussion over a fucking film? You're trash. Pure fucking trash.

TMI, R49. JK! LOL IDK!

R50 calm your tits Mrs Berlanti

r52 No, that person needs to calm their tits. Blocking over people being positive over a movie? That is overreacting. Like that person has taken the movie so personally they cannot handle positiveness towards it. They were blocked in retaliation. :) Now, I will calm my tits.

And that's MISS Berlanti you handsome devil!

This is such an enjoyable movie! I wanted it to be longer.

Parting Glances.

Dated, but still the best "gay" film I've seen.

Jennifer Garner's twat is one of the most beautiful and important scenes of Ben's premature ejaculations in home movie history (for gay men)

Now that I think about this film, I am surprised at how little award traction “Love Simon” and “Boy Erased” got. You had “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Black Panther,” and “Green Book” which are all middle of the road films and all of the got award love. Heck! One of them got the biggest prize of all.

OP is really deprived.

There's a big canon of gay films out there. Some of them don't even depict a bunch of high-school romance cliches or the gay character doing shady things to his friends all through the movie.

Just watched this again last night- such a fun movie and "Simon" is adorable. He's the kind of bf I would want to have.

I like movies that progress over time esp those over a school year like this and Mean Girls.

Should've gotten a gay actor like Connor Jessup to play Simon, but still a really good movie.

r61 Are we 100% Nick R isn't gay?

But, yes, as great as he is in the role, an out actor would have been nice.

Important film to show that a gay film doesn't have to include psychotic killers, suicide and depression.

I think Nick R might not be a Kinsey 0 or 1.

I wonder what happened to Nick Robinson. At one point, he seemed poised to skyrocket into stardom.

Now, he's nowhere to be seen - figuratively and literally.

r65 He still has time. Maybe he is filming something now?

Still wish he and Miles Heizer would have kissed in the movie. Miles is gay, right? He could have played Simon.

I sort of thought that they should have gone with Robinson for Han Solo if they just HAD to make that movie. Ehrenreich always seems wrong for the part.

Nick does have a gay younger brother who came out during the filming of Love, Simon.

Accurate. Although it’s missing the part where my mom slapped me with the Bible and threatened me with her curling iron.

I don’t understand when people say Beth (Judi’s version)was weak with Philip. While he was her “knight in shining armor” Beth didn’t need him as much as he needed her. That was made clear over and over. She fought through being abused (and then raped) by her stepfather with determination and grace. She then moved on from Phillip when Mindy got pregnant with lightening speed when she started dating Lujack. I think we see her as stronger with Lujack because she was tutoring him and was the aggressor in going after him. She also broke him out of jail then gave herself sexually to him. She was overused on the show (her and Reva were on 4/5 days a week in 84/85) but I always found Beth interesting and a bit fascinating.

R70 Which way to Springfield?

You want happy?

it was cute but 2018 was in no way groundbreaking.

R71 this way! Lol. How did that happen? Oops

Look, it's not a work of art, but I do believe there's a real need and a market for young adult/high school, family type movies that talk about coming out and those first Gay crushes and young love. We have all seen the shit ton of movies for decades focusing on het om coms. I think young people especially those who struggle need to see this stuff.

I loved this movie.

For years, the portrayal of gays in films has been negative: killers, child molesters, sex fiends, flaming queens with offensive lisps. With so many gay writers and filmmakers, one would think that the time is now to present more positive portrayals of gay people, featuring unapologetic gay actors. So, "Love, Simon" and films such as these are important in building up positive portrayals. And to the old queens ( not necessarily indicated by age) who complain about it not being " Citizen Kane," you are NOT the target demographic for the film, so you just sound idiotic; like complaining that "Sponge Bob" has contrived dialogue and unbelievable plots.

My mom slapped me when I came out. See anything on YouTube resembling that?

I remember the scene in Brokeback Mountain when Ennis goes to Jack's house after he finds out Jack is dead. People think of Ennis and those two shirts, but it was even more. Jack Twist came across as a lively out Gay man always pushing Ennis, but when Ennis drove up to that house it looked like a sepulcher. It was a ghostly white on the outside and when he went in it was so grim. He went upstairs to Jack's room and looked out his window, and you realized that vivacious, lively beautiful Jack had come out of this place and you understood so much about his character. Powerful scene.

This movie was terrible. Just terrible. Greg Berlanti is a hack and a sellout.

R77: out of all of those, I would rather watch SpongeBob.