STRAIGHT MAN vs. SAD GAY MOVIE - The Normal Heart Reaction | EDITOR'S CHOICE

[@7DeadlyBananas]

⚠ Watch the FULL UNCUT REACTION! Come watch it with us! 🔗bit.ly/TNHMRC

[@janetcooper1074]

MATT BOMER, known for his gorgeous physique, lost 40 pounds to play this role...Matt Bomer is a phenomenal actor, and also a phenomenally BEAUTIFUL man...To watch him disintigrate before our eyes is heart-rending...He actually lost 40 punds to play this role, while still filming episodes of his TV show "White Collar" at the same time...Julia Roberts said of him, "He lost half his weight and came back twice the man..." The scene in the subway where all Felix's fear and pain show in his eyes as he watches the old man covered in sores is like looking into the pit of hell...It is Felix's gentleness, sweetness & goodness that opens Ned's bitter, angry heart...At the end, Felix gently tells Ned to "find a way to fight again"...Ned's real-life counterpart, author, political firebrand & activist Larry Kramer went on to form ACT UP...

[@soft_serve_666]

No movie has ever made me so utterly devastated and furious at the same time. My heart breaks for everyone we lost and their loved ones. Reagan and Bush have their blood on their hands.

[@bluefriend62]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for reacting to this. It is such an important and superbly acted and directed movie. Admittedly, it's a hard watch. But it's really too bad that so many people don't know about it, or if they do, they don't want to watch or react to it because it's "too sad." Hell yes, it's sad. But this happened. This was real life for gay men of my generation. I'm a 61-year-old gay man, and by pure dumb luck I dodged the bullet and I'm still here, but so very many like me are not. Sometimes it feels like people, including younger gays, don't even want to know about this period in LGBT history, but we shouldn't let it be forgotten. By the way, this is based on the play by Larry Kramer, which he wrote in 1985, during the still early days of the epidemic, and is fairly autobiographical, with the Ned Weeks character being based on Kramer himself. Thanks again for reacting to this and for being such an ally.

[@KurtAnderson812]

Okay, so I was a member of ActUp in the timeline of this film. It’s pretty accurate to the events in real life. From my circle of friends in NYC back in the 80s I am the only one who made it to the year 2000. The anger you see in the film is nothing compared to what we were all feeling at the time.

[@swysocki3920]

Hugs and more hugs.

[@Overtime-sn7xi]

You, sir, are a hero

[@emilymalloy4316]

I would really recommend the 2014 film 'Pride'. Set in a similar time to this, in the UK, about solidarity between striking miners and LGBTQ+ community

[@wordstowordlessthings]

yeah, he now deserves to watch Pride (2014), the most warm-hearted, realistic but uplifting queer movie

[@cloudlandsst6032]

Thank you for doing the reaction video to this film. I cried multiple times while watching it. This film deserved the Oscar, the Emmys or the GG. Please do a reaction video on "Fellow Travelers", an exceedingly great mini-series on Showtime / Paramount+.

[@MichMeister16]

Now you must watch the FELLOW TRAVELERS limited series. The script was written by Ron Nyswaner, the same guy who wrote the screenplay for "Philadelphia". It stars Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. It's AMAZING!

[@CillaFlorchi]

I saw it because I had just seen White Collar, Marvel movies and was curious. I cried so much, it hurt my soul for them to go through it and being an 80's child I never saw how it was. 😢

[@lakv126]

The hardest part of this movie is realizing that these things not only really happened but that this is the sanitized version. Once you recover from this movie, I highly recommend seeing the film Bent (1997) it stars Clive Owen, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, and several other stars before they became well known.

[@tomterrific4377]

In the summer of ‘79 I had just started dating a guy from Colorado. One Saturday afternoon he got a call from a friend in Denver telling him about a mutual friend who had just died of something they were calling, “The Gay Plague”. By 1983 I was experiencing an ongoing anxiety attack. Two friends of mine became AIDS buddies. They would visit victims in their homes. They would usually cook, clean and shop for and even bathe them. Sometimes they would also hold them while they died. I also lost two friends whom I had previously dated. I am now 74 and in good health. I often wonder, “Why am I still here?”

it wasn't known as the 'gay plague' until late 1981. if someone died of AIDS related disease they were just know to have passed away from whatever disease (s) they had, they didn't join the dots until 81 when Doctors in LA and NYC discovered young, healthy gay men were dying of cancer.

[@davidcwitkin6729]

Seeing you react in such a human way is just both shocking and heartwarming. Great job.

[@Itz.masonfox]

Just to let you know. A LOT of the marvel actors have lgbtq+ backgrounds. Which is the FUNNIEST shit ever. Literally all 3 Spider-Man’s have been in a gay role.💀💀💀

[@EdgyIntellect]

This makes me feel seen!!!

[@XeonAlpha]

I love/hate this movie. Love because it really showed what it was like at the time, and hate it because it showed what it was like. No one cared about us. Jim Parsons talking about his drawer full of little cardboard tombstones broke me.

[@rachelfondeur]

Ah man this movie destroyed me. I remember seeing the trailer and being so excited about it and once I saw it I cried uncontrollably all the actors put their souls into it

[@captainKbobkeeshan]

So... how wonderful to have an ally and someone who is empathetic and compassionate to the travesity that occurred in the movie. I don't think anyone has reacted to the Normal Heart. I'm not sure I would recommend that as a movie for straight people to watch, much less LGBT+ peeps. Only because it's very sad and frustrating and angering. It's a great movie but a tough one to watch. You're editor gave you a hard one. What's next. Longtime Companion. Which is also a great movie. Anyway thanks for watching it and more importantly being a good person.

[@marilynacevedo1008]

Thank you for reacting to this my mothers close friend passed away from aids he was so young it breaks my heart to see this happen to so many people and not being able to help 😢

[@jamiefaryniak8894]

Try watching the movie AND THE BAND PLAYED ON. Great HBO movie about AIDS. Almost plays like a documentary about how AIDS came about. Great actors in this movie, you'll see sooo many names.

[@donnaread]

Your reaction gave me chills. Ive watched the Normal Heart several times. You're awesome!

[@7DeadlyBananas]

Wow, thank you! 🙏

[@evergreen4114]

Omg this movie is sooo good, I never thought the editor would make u watch this, love it 👏💞

[@hollysmith420]

FANTASTIC MOVIE, looking forward to this reaction

[@joescott5322]

It’s a sin is a fantastic tv mini series that follows a group of friends living in London over a 10 year period during the HIV epidemic. One of the best written shows/films to come out over the last few years.

[@nandosflowers]

YOU SHOULD WATCH THE BOYS IN THE BAND!!! another Ryan Murphy film, Matt Bomer and Jim Parsons again but this time with Zachary Quinto and a few others, entire cast are out gay actors, it will put you THROUGH IT but it's incredible, very rich history behind the creation of it too

[@elizabethsommerer2164]

You asked if it was mostly younger men that got it, and I think in the earliest years that may have been true. It was post-Stonewall and after Harvey Milk. Younger men were unapologetically out, or experimenting and coming to terms with themselves.

[@Vertigotheatre1]

This is based on an iconic play. So good, the play is heartbreaking

[@PhoenixFit2024]

I can’t watch these movies. I graded HS in 83 and moved to Denver after college. Normalizing close friends dying and then getting up to go to the work the next day, going out dancing with friends, and burying it all. The brain does an amazing job of coping with the unthinkable, and I just can’t

[@cuitlamcuautencos8306]

At the end Felix has CMV. That’s why his eyes look as if he was going blind.

[@TagJones18]

OMG I just noticed. Yes, he has colitis too which is shown in the movie. It gets more nightmarish as I observe each detail

[@eddie6228]

i’d love to see you react to ‘beautiful boy’ it’s such a good movie!!

[@vee_the_tree]

This movie BROKE me.

[@babyjki444]

this movie is so heavy 😭 i haven't watched it in years but it took me out every time i have. phew.

[@nyemahdrayton5453]

You should watch GIA next it’s really sad but also beautiful and the true story of gia carangi 10/10 recommend

[@avamai]

this movie BREAKS me

[@janetcooper1074]

The celebration was really because the DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act) was overturned that day...

[@brianwilliams81]

you know what would be an amazing watch?! Angels In America!

[@stephanieleblanc6948]

Matthew McConaughey in Dallas buyers club lost 50 lbs.for that movir

[@edabillano106]

Thank you for your reaction to this movie. Learned a lot about you from this reaction.

[@Stardust-d1s]

Next FAULT IN OUR STARS AND SPOILER ALERT( REAL LIFE STORY OF THE DIRECTOR)PLS

[@rachelfondeur]

Omg you want to destroy him 😩

[@faithfullkadan2969]

I watch this movie to remind myself of the generations who've come before me who went through a real fight to be acknowledged and respected. They fought to be seen as human beings. Todays generation is giving the trans community that worked hard to be seen as well a bad rap by demanding that women spaces be accepting to anyone who says their women even if they arent going through the steps to transition. They should be fighting to create their place among us like women and gay and lesbians have had to do.

[@adrianpilarski4860]

Thank you.

it's a good film this but I hated the way the gay community didn't listen when they were told don't have unprotected sex because your disease is deffo spread via sex. even that activist told them, Larry Kramer (RIP). lots of lives may have been saved and it may not have spread to other areas via blood supply and IV drugs.

[@hannehanskov7560]

incredible movie but it hard work to watch it,its not something you should put on without warning .

[@totovassallo7255]

Ho pianto troppo per questo film straziante e bellissimo

[@GoddessOfWhatnot]

Thank you for this reaction! The Normal Heart is beyond brutal, but I think it should be required viewing ❤️‍🩹