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Just got home from seeing this.  I enjoyed it a lot. 

More than a little eerie to see how many parallels there were between the Prop 6 fight 30 years ago and the Prop 8 fight today. 

Okay, that's kind of freaky. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. Jesus, now I really feel like a minority.

Hadn't heard of this, but I'll have to see it.

Haven't seen this yet, but need to.  All I can say is that I went on a picture taking/walking day through San Francisco several months ago, and went walking up to the front steps of city hall as they were filming this.  I didn't even realize it, and it looked like they were giving a press conference on the steps of city hall.  I went walking into the middle of it with my Cannon thinking "Cool!  Whats going on here!  Something official!" and was almost tackled by several very angry security guards.  It was shortly after that I noticed that for some reason, everybody was wearing ugly 70's looking suits, had side burns, and all the cars nearby looked really old....

But yeah, go see the movie, just because the story of Harvey Milk is so strange yet so unknown outside of California that it deserves to be told.

I'm getting this in next week, so I'm looking forward to watching it.  Going to be a busy weekend at work for me though since I work at one of the bigger theaters in the Bay Area.

Just got home from watching this. I hope Penn get an Oscar for this performance, and maybe Van Sant for directing it.

That would be another case of throwing away an Oscar. If it doesn't go to Ledger or Langella, something is wrong. We need an Oscars thread.

Penn got his nod with Mystic River... Probably won't get one again.

Seems like everyone's intentionally trying to get an Oscar with all of these "human interest" stories coming out. Pitt, Penn, even Will Smith.

Revolutionary Road isn't out yet, but apparently, DiCaprio and Winslet both are really good in it. Then there's Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt.

Last but not least, Mickey Rourke apparently kicks ass in the Wrestler. It's the only one of these I really care to see.

Anyhow, Ledger isn't going to win. That's all I know.

Best movie of the year (as far as I can remember), Penn definitely should get the Oscar for Best Actor.

Very good film, although sad on a couple of different levels: 1) what happened and 2) that we are still fighting over giving gay people civil rights 30 years later.

The scene that made me go WTF was the bit where Milk was telling the gay political machine that they were making a mistake by not referring to gay people explicitly in their advertisements, because people needed to be reminded of who exactly the thing was going to affect if it passed.  Remember the last week or so of the anti-8 campaign where they decided that they had to appeal to "moderate" voters by not mentioning the scary gays in any of their TV spots?