Longtime Companion
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Movie Reviews of Longtime Companion
Movie Review: Touching, and honest
Summary: 3 Stars
I agree completely with the Boston Phoenix, "That this film got made at all is a cause for celebration."This starts out in the early 80's when there was a wave of terror known as the "gay cancer." The film follows all through the 80's, as it concentrates on a circle of homosexual friends.Little by little they die off, and the surviving members have a harsh reality to deal with around them. This movie is so brutally honest that it's hard to sit through at times.The most touching part of the film is at the end when two lovers that survived the decade along with their female friend stroll on the beach talking. One man says, " I just want to be around when they find a cure." Then all the people who died from the disease all come together on the beach, hugging and smiling. Then we realize that it was just a dream as it pops back into the future with the three of them still standing on the beach, silent and sad. Again, the young man says, "I just want to be around when they find a cure."Straight or gay, you have to watch this. Talk about a wake-up call.Movie Review: Dreary And Not All That Watchable
Summary: 3 Stars
I respect the ultra-realism of Longtime Companion, and have no doubt this landmark production accurately conveys the horror that is HIV/AIDS, and tells how this plague arrived unforeseen in the 1980's, ending what had been a golden age of American gay existence, taking so much life and causing so much misery in that community and beyond, yet not only does a portrayal of that tragedy make for a dreary viewing experience, but Longtime Companion isn't a movie with much more to it than its central message. Longtime Companion (which derives its title from the term that showed up in so many obituaries at the height of AIDS--"...survived by his longtime companion...") lacks a plot that runs deeper than a showcase of deaths and ruined lives, and its characters are basic stereotypes: the hot young guy, the co-habiting couple, the rich, older type, etc. Overall, it doesn't have a lot to it except a single message, and single message films normally don't work that well, especially when there is as little depth as there is here.Movie Review: The feel bad movie of the century
Summary: 2 Stars
Don't watch this movie if you're in a good mood because it will drag you right down into the depression that exists in this movie. It starts out great. People are happy, making jokes, enjoying life. Then all the sudden a guy gets AIDS. Then another guy gets AIDS. Then another and so on. They all die. Pretty much the entire cast dies. I could understand this if the movie was like "Queer As Folk" and had guys going to bars and taking home different men nightly. But these guys seemed intelligent, responsible men and you never see any of them sleeping around. So how do they get AIDS??? At a certain point in the movie you're just asking yourself "Ok, who is gonna die next?" I'd give this movie 1 star if it wasn't for the fine acting the cast gives out even though they didn't have much to work with.