BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Alfie Aliligay Another LGBTQ themed film to lure the gay audiences and yet it ends in Homophobia. But this time I wasn't insulted much. In fact I like the story of the film. Good casting, well run screenplay, some bland acting but still will do. One good thing too is they never exploit much the nudity (for me it's unnecessary) but mixing some religious scene it's an obvious hint that it is not a happy LGBTQ themed movie, it annoys me but we must accept the norm of society. This movie also is almost the same as the story of "Stadt Land Fluss" (Harvest 2011) but with more intimacy and well explained story about the main characters and how their life story plays. A young man(Szabolcs), a football player that after a loss came to a question of his personality and happiness. Went back home to an inherited farm house, his solitude was paid with love by but a man (Aaron) whom also trouble on his sexual orientation. He got a gay friend whom also his lover, his father and the football is always be there for him waiting but he ended deciding for his happiness. Sad and I never expect a tragic ending. But everything is concluded, Aaron is troubled for everything that happens in his life. Before he met Szabolcs he used to have a loving girl, a circle of friends and a welcoming religious community, and a mother but all got screwed. All of his mishap and also the death of his mother was blamed to Szabolcs. The Homophobia here enters Aaron itself, his enemy is his self alone. Selfishness and cowardice dominates him making him unable to appreciate and fight for the love of Szabolcs that he choosed to better end it with a crime yet we know he'll troubled for the rest of his life.

Geoffrey This film is about the young and handsome Hungarian lad Szabolcs who plays in a German football team. One day after a lost game and a fight with his friend Bernard he decides to go back to his home country. He inherited an old and dilapidated house and decides to renovate it. One evening a young lad, called Áron tries to steal his motorbike. He catches him but they end up being friends or some sort of "lovers" and renovate the house together. Áron is struggling heavily with his feelings…The people in the neighbourhood get to know about their relationship and start harassing both boys. I have a double feeling after seeing this movie. On the one hand it is nicely directed, the setting is lovely, the boys are quite handsome (they are even bare-chested half of the film) and the love scenes are touching, dialogues are sparse but sufficient… On the other hand this is one of the so many negative gay movies. We have seen the story over and over again. I know there are still a lot of prejudices against LGTB people in Eastern Europe and many other parts of the world, but this film has almost no positive image in it. It's mostly depressing and negative. Like the director wanted to give the message: if you are gay you will end up living or dying miserably and everyone else will hate you. Why are there so little positive LGTB films? Why is it always about homophobia, difficult coming out, one of the lovers not excepting his feelings… I would definitely not recommend this to gay people.

Richard von Lust Although the themes in Land of Storms are well worn and familiar, this incarnation of the ills of homophobic society is particularly effective at alerting us to the madness of it. It is beautifully made both artistically and dramatically - in many ways it might even be a masterpiece of emotion. Szboliks hails from a small village in Hungary. He is a young professional footballer in a small German league team where he finds himself the subject of unsolicited attention from a fellow player, Bernard. There is a scuffle but the German team mates support Bernard over him and the young Hungarian is beaten to the extent that he returns to his home village. There he meets a young builder, Aaron, and eventually a sexual bond forms between them. But their parents and local community are vehemently opposed to any alternative lifestyle and their relationship appears doomed from the start. Eventually Bernard arrives for a visit and the stage is set for a compelling drama of refuted love and jealous passion. The performances from all characters are solid and entirely convincing. The script is perhaps a little labored but the tension created through the story is so strong that all other considerations are cast aside. The ending is both shocking and poetic - and the story is essentially true. A must see for all eclectic film lovers.

jm10701 Question: Does the world need another movie about homophobia? Answer: No. One was enough.We need to know that it exists; we don't need to be obsessed with it. We don't need to experience over and over - vicariously, through characters in a movie instead of our own bodies - the pain of being hated because we're different. We need to stop wallowing in rejection. We need to stop thinking of ourselves as victims and celebrating our victimhood.Many gay men disagree with me. Many gay men think Brokeback Mountain is the greatest gay movie ever made. If you're one of them, if your favorite gay movies are ones where the gay character(s) get rejected, humiliated, beaten up or killed (often by the straight men they love) then you will probably like this movie. I'm not saying any of that happens in this movie, so this is not a spoiler; I'm just saying if you like movies in which gay men suffer because they're gay, you'll probably like this one.Personally, I'm tired of that suffer-for-being-gay crap. But I'm equally tired of gay movies at the other end of the spectrum, in which toned, tanned, hairless gym bunnies with huge - muscles - celebrate their own fabulousness while inferior (ie, normal) gay men worship them and brain-dead queens twitter comically in the background.AND I'm tired of movies that try to have it both ways, with an hour of pain and rejection followed by a miraculous happy ending, in which the hunky, white-toothed prince carries his frog bride off into the West Hollywood sunset.What I want, and what I believe most gay men need, is movies about ordinary gay men, whose lives are fun but not fabulous, who have friends - gay AND straight - who love and support them, not because they're rejects who need that support but because they're interesting men who are fun to be around.I want movies in which gay men live full, rich, happy, challenging lives with AND WITHOUT partners, in which a gay man isn't defined or validated or made whole by the man who loves him any more than a woman is and - even more important - would laugh at such a stupid idea. We need liberated gay men in movies just as we needed liberated women in movies 50 years ago.I want movies in which no one is humiliated or beaten. I want movies in which no one vomits. I want movies in which the stupid phrase "unconditional love" is never heard.NOBODY loves unconditionally. It's not possible for human beings to love unconditionally. That's as big a lie as Prince Charming. We love what makes us happy, what makes us feel useful and wanted and valuable. That's good, not bad. Unconditional love doesn't exist, so we need to stop insisting on finding it.All I'm saying is that we gay men need to accept the fact that we are human beings, and we need movies that show us acting like human beings instead of like caricatures.