Also Read: Bulbbul Movie Review The Half of it The only difference ‘Love Simon’ has is the protagonist here accepts his sexuality, unlike Alex. It reminds me of the similar kind of movie ‘Love Simon’ which is not available on Netflix, though. The movie talks about a teen who is exploring his identity and struggling to accept his being gay. ‘Alex Strangelove’ is a coming-of-age film that follows a high school student Alex who is dating his long-time best friend, Claire.Īlex started questioning his sexuality the moment he met Elliot, who has a crush on Alex. Still, I would say it is one of the best LGBTQ movies on Netflix to watch. It got a mixed response from the audience. The movie got premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and later started streaming on Netflix. The movie is shot in black and white mode, and it builds the story at a slow pace. The couple’s victory was short-lived as soon the villagers started harassing them, and both had to flee to Portugal. In 1901, both married at the San Jorge church in A Coruna, north-western Spain, but since it wasn’t legalized, then Elisa pretended to be a man and dressed like a man and took the name ‘Mario.’ Last night I watched Isabel Coixet’s ‘Elisa & Marcela’ that tells a beautiful love story of Elisa Sanchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two beautiful women who are passionately in love with each other. It is a love story that evokes compassion and a landmark film for remembering Heath Ledger. Their togetherness, and they share a bond of emptiness when they went apart. This is a movie about friendship which soon blossoms into a romantic bond. The movie is set on a Wyoming mountainside, talks about two young cowboys and their love story in a period when being gay was illegal. I am glad that Netflix has finally added this breathtaking movie. When we talk about LGBTQ movies, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ should be always in the list. Had to.Related Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix Brokeback Mountain If anyone has a lead, we could not BE anymore curious. We reached out to Netflix for comment but the mystery of the missing lines remains. Anyone with a decent memory who's turned on TBS reruns for background noise or re-watched episodes on a plane might notice the oddly random cuts made on the Netflix episodes. A number of the missing lines were not specific to the DVD versions. But, for this, we wanted something that we, the creators, felt represented the show as we always wanted it to be remembered, which is the original NBC broadcast versions."Ī number of publications have pointed to this statement as the reasoning behind the shortened Netflix episodes - but, viewers are calling bullshit. Bright explained, "The deleted footage was, frankly, added specifically for one home video release.
Similar complaints about editing arose in 2012, when the series was released on Blu-ray, including significantly shorter episodes than those in the original DVD set. And, as for quality? Well, if that were the case, you'd think they'd cut some of the gay jokes and open transphobia, which might have seemed socially acceptable in 1997 but come across as merely dumb and prejudiced now. Was Netflix airing syndicated episodes? Were these edited for time or quality? The timing issue seems unlikely, since Netflix doesn't have to deal with commercial obligations. Reddit took up the cause last month, trying to figure out what exactly happened. Perhaps most unforgivable is the trimming of the famous leather-pants scene. But, for many people who grew up on the series, the missing chunks are obvious and weird.įor example, you won't find Monica's song-and-dance phone message: "A guy from Ralph Lauren called, you got a second interview." And, the scene where Ross sees Rachel naked has been edited (" I'm sorry, but Ross, you kicked off your shoes!").
For the most part, the edits lift seamlessly from the episodes, without disrupting story lines.
Sometimes, it's just the end of a sentence, other times it's whole minutes of dialogue between characters. Soon after the release, viewers noticed that a handful of lines and jokes had been cut from almost every episode on Netflix. But, if you're one of the die-hard fans reliving the '90s every night, you may have noticed that something's a little off. Since Friends hit Netflix's streaming service on January 1st, it is estimated that approximately everyone you know has been going home to secretly binge-watch the series at the end of the workday.