SHORT BUS!!!

topic posted Mon, March 26, 2007 - 4:28 AM by  Arne
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I watched Short Bus last night, what an amazing film, anybody else see this sexy movie yet???
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Arne
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  • Re: SHORT BUS!!!

    Mon, March 26, 2007 - 1:05 PM
    We saw a preview this fall at Short Mountain as a fund raiser for RFD.

    I think is will become one of those cult films, It reminds me of Rocky Horror, when I was coming up, that movie was mind blowing back in the day. I can imagine today being a queer youth, and having my whole paradigm shifting after seeing Short Bus.

    They spent years on it, that's why the characters are so believable. But maybe they spent so much time on the film just to rehearse the sex scenes, they were pretty good too, and the movie would have sucked if the sex didn't work.

    I still haven't processed the metaphors, but I had dreams about the movie after I saw it.

    Don't read this next comment if you haven't seen the movie, but I don't think it would ruin it for you any way. Go see the movie.



    The only thing I didn't like was the ending. Don't get me wrong -I love that movie.

    but It was tied up in a bow. The voyeur and the Boy-Toy getting together? Huh? It doesn't matter, really, because did those characters every know each other. It would make more sense to me if they were the only ones feuding at the end -you know, the last scene at Short Bus the camera pans to them and they're pouting and sitting back to back. It seemed gratuitous to have them 'find' each other. If that was the case then why didn't we see the garbage men getting together, and the dude at the porn shop and the waitress, and everyone else that happend to walk by in the background and a long pan over the city, to the park and the squirrels are mating and the birds are chasing each others tails. . .
  • Ted
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    Tue, March 27, 2007 - 11:12 PM
    Great movie! I thought going into it that I was going to hate it, but just the opposite. I downloaded it via BitTorrent, but then went and bought a copy.
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    Wed, March 28, 2007 - 4:15 AM
    oh my god, incredible incredible film. i was speechless, and then went right back the very next day to see it again.
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      Wed, March 28, 2007 - 11:46 AM
      I have it at home, watched it like 4 times. Then it recently played here at the Red Vic, so I saw it again.

      My favorite part was hearing and watching all of the straight guys fidget, cringe and hang tight to their girlfriends every time there was a gay sex scene. The big fakers.
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      Wed, March 28, 2007 - 11:46 AM
      I have it at home, watched it like 4 times. Then it recently played here at the Red Vic, so I saw it again.

      My favorite part was hearing and watching all of the straight guys fidget, cringe and hang tight to their girlfriends every time there was a gay sex scene. The big pussy fakers.
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    Sun, April 1, 2007 - 6:03 PM
    Hi,

    I just rented this on NetFlix and had heard a lot about it. It was shocking and fabulous. I thought it was a great commentary on the cultural flattening of NYC...If this is NYC I want to go back. It was hilarious the way a lot of the characters were so concerned about how they were going to run out of money...were some of those kids on trust funds (I hope so).
  • rax
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    Sat, April 28, 2007 - 3:02 AM
    Thanks for recommending it!

    Totally sick movie!

    Love John Cameron Mitchell.
    I'd never would've believed he's suck pussy.

    Definitely watch all the extras on the dvd.


    "we all get it in....the end" - ha!
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      Sat, April 28, 2007 - 3:26 AM
      both me and my st8 friend loved it!!
      what a blast of a movie!
      true true true
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        Sat, April 28, 2007 - 7:37 AM
        LOL we are hosting a queer people's movie night tonight and showing it on the projector. I am Bringing all my guy friends and B is bringing all her Lady friends. Should make for an interesting gathering!

        I've already seen it, and I loved it! well filmed, well put together. And the model of the city was phenom!
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          Sat, April 28, 2007 - 10:24 PM
          I was invited to be in it when JCM was casting, but quickly declined, as public sex is not my thing. :0
          I still haven't seen it.
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            Fri, May 4, 2007 - 2:41 PM
            Why oh why couldn't that invite have gone to MEEEEE??! Oh that would have been amazing
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              Wed, May 16, 2007 - 11:55 AM

              Short Bus was a hit at Zuni Mountain Sanctuary this year

              and lent itself to some rather profound discussion for weeks afterwards.

              Kudos to all the fae who helped to manifest this film.

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                Wed, May 16, 2007 - 1:54 PM
                I agree, I think it took almost all our guests a hour just to move from the couches and start to prepare for the dancing ahead, but it was on all of our tongues for weeks afterwards. I must say seeing it with a room full of lesbians sure changed it for me from the previous viewing in a theater full of gay men. All around very enlightening, and I have to say better the second time through.
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                  Thu, May 17, 2007 - 4:02 AM
                  God, I really do love Wolf Creek and all, but I think I need to come to Short Mountain for next Beltane. That experience sounds GOR-geous! mmmmmm.
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                    Thu, May 17, 2007 - 4:03 AM
                    Oops, I meant Zuni. Heh, slip of the faerie tongue, four years now and I've never been anywhere but Wolf Creek. (and Zuni ain't too far away from me neither, I need to start planning)
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                      Thu, June 14, 2007 - 5:59 PM
                      short bus drag bus st mt....we do... get it in the END!.. ITs LIKE NASHVILE, THE MOVIE FOR freaky queerz. like you and me!..im so happy for kiki/ mr bond, an ALMOST tony, a big movie, whats next!!.....it is great to makeand see a happy flim about sex and loving...we need to get our mamas to love this movie maker for a new world veiw
  • Ed
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    Fri, May 4, 2007 - 12:14 PM
    yes.....loved it!!! Love Jay Brannan's music - check his site and myspace. Loved the music....Justin Bond's "We all get it in the end" was great.
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    Thu, June 21, 2007 - 8:25 AM
    I had read about it in reviews and finally located a copy. Watched it twice so far and was reminded of Bent and Cabaret. We seem to be in a time bubble but I have definite concerns about reactionary amerikan taliban poised to strike. So let's enjoy while it lasts.

    Trillium
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      Thu, June 21, 2007 - 11:18 AM
      "reactionary amerikan taliban" = current American gov't, the same people who destroyed the twin towers.
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        Wed, July 11, 2007 - 4:33 PM
        smell me....starfuckers....... you know, i had the opportunity to "audition" for one of the sextras, but passed it up because my mother had just passed away... so went to fla for healing time while that happened...
        i'm just so proud of the whole bunch of them... so proud to know and love them...
        (i had such a lovely magic moment with "james and jamie' at sun set on beltaine... ahhhh sweet love.....)
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          Mon, July 16, 2007 - 12:16 AM
          Awww, they were at Beltaine? When I heard in the commentary that Bitch and "Little Prince" went to Short Mountain, I was like "yessss, haha, I thought I smelled faeries in this film"
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    Sat, July 14, 2007 - 12:25 AM
    yes, absolutely gorgeous, true to my experience movie that hit a bit close to home in parts. ten minutes after I stopped crying, I was on the internet ordering a copy.
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    Sun, August 12, 2007 - 9:28 PM
    I love this movie! But that's only relevent if you understand that I am going through what I call a quarter-live crisis. The actors and even the charecters seemed like they belonged to something bigger than themselves which is something I really held onto. Even if you go past the film and all of the metaphors they try to make you understand that everyone involved feels like they are connected to something. Which is something I am longing for. So I really conncected to the sense of belonging in the movie which is what I see is the connecting thread thoughout all the charecters in the movie. I mean, if they didn't want to belong to something the wouldn't show up to "short bus" in the first place, everyone was looking to belong and they found it at the club. I really connected with that which is why this is one of my favorite movies.
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      Mon, August 13, 2007 - 2:41 AM
      aww... i don't purport to speak for the director or the cast, many of whom are all my closest and dearest friends for many years...

      but i know for a FACT that JCM would approave of your post on so many levels... it's exactly the point of the film. =]

      much love,

      jonny in NYC... and yes, it CAN be like that here

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