Between Love & Goodbye (2009)

Truly Dreadful Film

A different way of telling a story

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

first off I'm very upset it only got 5.7 stars, its a very good movie. People are saying its not good i think its because they haven't been through or thought about going through what the characters in this film was going through. its actually quite simple the brother was bitter he didn't like his brother lover for no reason he wanted his brother to his self and he corrupted his mind badly, which caused the 2 to break up and go through a series of problems. i been obsessed with gay themed films lately and i must say this is one that made me and i couldn't watch another for a while. i think when it comes to breaking up with someone u loved at first sight and actually made it with that person to last 2 years, this film is what you need.

I've read much of the comments here, those long and boring essays people write. In my comment I will try to be brief, short as possible. So, I will begin.When I saw this movie I was like..."awesome", "great"... and things like that were going again and again through my mind. I think the movie was well done, the colors (the use of symbolic colors like gray, strong red...), the development (use of flashbacks, shuffled scenes...). But what I didn't like was the end. I've seen a lot of dramatic-gay films and I think it was just another "of those ones". When I say "of those ones" I talk about gay dramas that end in death. When I began watching the film I though it was going to be different; but not, it was the same sketch, the same diagram that seem to have most of gay dramas.I've heard people saying that "gay relationships end in tragedy" and I detest when people say this, and when I see this on gay movies. It would be better to have some gay dramas with less tragic ends, it would be better to have some happy endings, we have to show people that gays can "survive" on relations like most of heterosexuals do. It would be better for this movie to have a happy ending... like for example... Kyle at hospital recovering from the accident...or something like that... But that scene of Kyle laying on the floor... losing his life... and Marcel crying at the apartment...I think it was lame...I think it was more of the same... I think the end was not original.

well, i do watch a lot of gay movies and a lot of them are awful. i mean, really awful. so... i had absolutely no expectation that this movie is gonna be good. and... of course this movie wasn't superb. but... hey, this movie wasn't so bad. this movie was much better than now classic gay movie latter days. i felt the hatred feeling towards each other, obsession, jealousy are genuine. i went through those things. didn't you? and two of the songs that featured are pretty good (especially the first one played during the opening title) there are bad things. cheesy dialog, over-used yellow filter, stupid slow motion... but i didn't fast-forward a bit. if you love gay films (for just guilty pleasure), watch this, rather than latter days or velocity of gary.

First, the good news is that this movie has some interesting concert scenes, the soundtrack is pretty good, and it is quite entertaining. (In the same way a train wreck is entertaining. You want to look away, but you can't.) That said, I saw this at the NY screening on 1/30/09, and it is certainly among the worst ten films I have seen in my life. Probably top five. Perhaps the worst, period.My main complaint is with the writer (and director) Casper Andreas. His script is absolute garbage. He has enormous potential as a director, but he needs to learn that he shouldn't poison his own movies with his own words.The dialogue is totally awful - the experience is akin to being force-fed heaping spoonfuls of sugar until your body falls into a coma. The lines is so forced, so overwrought, so charged with false drama, that I didn't believe the story I was being told.I would be able to forgive Andrea if he had written it in a single, late-night, drug-induced rage the day before shooting.But no. Speaking at the Q&A following the screening, he mentioned that he had written it around ten years ago.Ten. Years.Ten years, and this is the result? I felt embarrassed for Andreas. What a waste of the talent of his cast. What a waste of twelve bucks.