LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

taylormhertzberg-44735 We need more movies showing the lgbt community in a positive light. Milk was a bit slow at times, but overall a pretty good watch. I wish there would have been an lgbt actor playing Milk. I would recommend this movie to anyone who wants to know how the lgbt community was treated, what rights they had and what they had to go through for us to get to this point in our history.

merelyaninnuendo MilkUnlike any other biography, it floats on to its wisely picked specific topics and stays true to its nature throughout the course of the feature which is of around 2 hours and is filled with enough material to feed the audience. Gus Van Sant's attempt is plausible and visible but it fails to project the aspired on-paper script that is adapted powerfully and written brilliantly by Dustin Lance Black. Sean Penn; as the protagonist of the feature, is doing some of his career's best work here that is not easy to ignore and is supported well enough by the cast like Josh Brolin and James Franco who holds tightly onto their parts. Milk has a smart written script that is unfortunately not executed to the perfection (it sticks to you throughout the feature) but is overpowered by stellar performance and a heart right at the centre of it.

Leah McCormack In Dustin Lance Black's film, Milk, a story is told of the "heroic" and hardworking Harvey Milk.  Milk was born in 1930 in New York and moved to San Francisco in 1972.  In the film, it is set starting in the early 1970s going until Harvey's murder of 1978.  Although this seems like a spoiler, the film introduces both Harvey and Mayor George Moscone's death within the first five minutes.  The primary actors in the film include Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, and James Franco, who all except Josh Brolin portray gay men.       The film starts with playing many different original clips from 1978 when Harvey Milk's death was announced and the White Night Riots begun.  This is seemingly interesting because the film does not show or go into the actual White Night Riots as well as the film ends quite quickly after Harvey's death.  The storyline goes that Milk and his lover, Scott Smith, move into a cute apartment on Castro Street.  They open up Castro's Cameras and that begins to create a LGBTQ community based in the Castro district.  Once this starts to build up, Milk seems more like a leader of this district and this spurs up the idea of him being more of a political leader.  He runs three times before finally being elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977 as the lead candidate to the city council.  He becomes the first openly gay man to be elected into a political position and stands by his hardships as he works to focus on and fix the outside views of gay rights to lead to more equality.  Milk passes the "Pooper Scooper" law, still active to this day, as well as oppose the Proposition 6 which was powerful because the initiative granted the government the right to fire anyone who was gay or supported gay people from their jobs in public schools.  Though Milk only served 11 months before being murdered, the film depicts his story as interesting, fierce, and challenging.     Although well put together, a major issue with the entire films portrayal on Milk is his monogamous behavior.  Although in the film Harvey simply has his long-term partner Scott Smith, and a shorter-termed  relationship with Jack Lira, Milk's real life was nothing like this.  Documents say that Milk went out often and slept around quite a bit.  The issue with this is the sugar coating of the film so that it is better fit for straight audiences who are not comfortable with homosexual acts.  The film does not properly show who Milk truly is and this leaves a romanticized left-over of his life, which is not accurate and may confuse viewers into looking at Harvey differently.       Another large issue in the film was that Milk seemed to be the complete, one-and-only hero of the homosexual gay rights movement.  He is portrayed not as a measly supervisor to the mayor, but as someone comparable to a state senator or someone even higher up.  Although Harvey Milk did justice and worked very hard on the gay rights movement, he was not the sole face to the movement that helped defend against Proposition 6.  Although a film about Milk makes some sense to emphasize his importance, it dramatizes his contributions to the movement while downplaying the organizations that had laid down a foundation from about a decade before.     Overall, the movie was spectacular, interesting, and moderately insightful to this era and Milk's life.  It contains some inaccuracies, but they're made to soften the realities of that time for the audience trying to be reached.  This film came out in 2008 at a good time for the gay rights conversation to be continued and explored through the past.  At some points the film seems to be a movie, and at others it seems to be a documentary because of it's old footage and seemingly accurate details.  Milk makes itself to be a good movie for heterosexuals looking for a somewhat thought provoking, interesting Friday night film, but does not entice many LGBTQ viewers as it doesn't portray everything how it actually is.

blakelogsdon1 As a man that comes from a long line of milkmen, I was very excited to hear there was going to be a movie named Milk. Finally, Hollywood had latched onto the compelling and exhilarating story that surrounds the rise and fall of the dairy industry! Corporate farms, mass-scale shipments, cheese production! What more could viewers hope for? The history of the milk companies in this country is thrilling to say the least, and it is filled with new truths at every turn. For example, who would have thought that California leads the country in milk output annually? Not me! And I don't believe the majority of audiences would have seen that twist coming either! This exciting, eventful tale would be a nice change from the unstimulating, dull superhero and alien invasion flicks that are currently being spewed out of the bowels of the Hollywood studios.But when I learned that this was not a film about the story of the milk companies in the US and instead about some gay dude trying to do a bunch of gay politics, I felt as if I was drowning. And not even drowning in milk, which is a death I would be happy to endure. I was drowning in the hot, steamy liquid of betrayal produced by Hollywood's homosexual community. The very same community that had tricked me with this tomfoolery of a movie. For some reason, the film companies decided that America needed to hear the story of some gay milkman imposter than a true, realistic story on the origin and evolution of America's dairy corporations. I would like to say that the makers of this film are corrupt, lying, evil swindlers, and if they don't think the dairy world will fight back against the distribution of this movie, then they thought wrong! Because the dairymen and dairywomen of the world are a family! And we are also an army! An army that can crush the movie industry as a whole with one swift flick of the utter! So, you better watch out writer Dustin Lance Black and director Gus Van Sant because we aren't coming at you with 2% of our force. We're coming at you with the WHOLE thing. And it ain't going to be pretty. You've been warned.Sincerely, Your fellow IMDb user blakelogsdon1