Rating: 
Summary: get a new shirt
Review: I gave GREEN PLAID SHIRT three stars for the following reasons; the audio was very poor;( I purchased the DVD version ) turning the treble all the way up on the tone control on my television helped ( there is an apologia before the film begins, perhaps this is what they refer to ); and the film failed to move or inspire me. The acting was good, no problem there, it was one of those movies that goes on and on and on.
The story centers around two people Phillip (Gregory Phelan) and Guy (Kevin Spirtas) who meet at a garage sale in 1978 when Phillip buys a Green Plaid shirt lays it down on a table for a moment to pay for it and Guy picks it up to try it on; of course Phillip informs Guy He had just paid for it and wants it back. Later Phillip is with one of his best friends Jerry at a [same sex] bar and Guy happenes to run into philip there and stops over to say Hello; Phillip asks Guy to join them and next thing you Phillip have become lovers and have moved into together. Two other of Phillips friends Jerry and Deven play a supportive role of the bitchie-stuck up friends who are not impressed with Plillips new lover. Guy developes AIDS ( refered to in the film as the " Gay Disease"), along with Jerry then Devon. Phillip finds his world is collapsing around him. Guy has then "cheated" on Phillip and moved out of the new house they have bought together with his new lover ( Tony ). ...
The film flashes from present to past to present ect.
There are no hardcore [physical] scenes but some body nudity. In my opnion there are better [same sex] films to purchase; ...
Rating: 
Summary: A movie that grew on me
Review: I have a new CD player and wanted to test it out with some of the gay flicks that I missed over the last couple of years. As noted by other reviewers, the sound stunk and their were numerous technical glitches. On the other hand, for some reason I really connected with what was going on with the lead character. To be so in love with another man, and then see it fall apart. I was glad to see that things did not work out where they lived happily ever after like in most gay flicks. I watched it again with the directors comments on and was quite amazed to hear how they had put this movie together on a shoe string budget. I am impressed how they put together such a great movie on such a small budget.
Rating:
Summary: A movie that grew on me
Review: I have a new CD player and wanted to test it out with some of the gay flicks that I missed over the last couple of years. As noted by other reviewers, the sound stunk and their were numerous technical glitches. On the other hand, for some reason I really connected with what was going on with the lead character. To be so in love with another man, and then see it fall apart. I was glad to see that things did not work out where they lived happily ever after like in most gay flicks. I watched it again with the directors comments on and was quite amazed to hear how they had put this movie together on a shoe string budget. I am impressed how they put together such a great movie on such a small budget.
Rating: 
Summary: Lilies is a brilliant and visually stunning film!!!!!
Review: I have not seen Green Plaid Shirt, but I have seen Lilies, and let me tell you it is a brilliant and visually stunning film! It is the story of a Priest held captive in a prison while the prisoners reinact scenes from his youth. As a tale of two boys in love unfolds, one of the boys, now an elderly convict narrorates and makes the Priest own up to his past and admit to the things he did. The way the film jumps between the flashbacks and reality on the prison stage is fabulous. Because the action really takes place inside the prison, even the flashbacks, all the actors are men, and in the flashbacks they are in drag to portray the women. All the actors give very believable, tasteful, and convincing portrayals. It is a heart-warming and very endearing film, classy yet entertaining, reminiscent of a Merchant-Ivory masterpiece. It will leave your heart aching, your mind racing, and you thorourghly entertained. I cannot wait to own a copy of Lilies, and add it to my collection.
Rating:
Summary: Journey through One relationship
Review: I liked this movie, alright at the start it was a bit hard to follow and work out when everything was set. The sound was poor for the first half, but by the end you really don't notice. I found it to be a warm, honest, and realistic view of two people in a relationship, and the relationships they had with the people around them. Nobody's perfect, and I believe that's shown throughout the whole movie, but honestly, the acting was brilliant, the cast were well placed, and the storyline was good. Not your average hollywood glossy, where everything comes up roses in the end.It was good to see that you know where the relationship started and ended, but the movie finished with a memory, not a death. it's too often we look at the glossy "perfect relationships", beautiful bodies, and glamour of the high budget movies, this one deserves praise for realism, both in the script writing and the acting. By the end of the movie I thought I was looking at any one of the people I knew, perhaps even a little of me and my partner. The one thing I do know, is that although not the best gay themed movie I've seen, It's one of the one's I'll keep going back too. The Soundtrack stopped it from being a 4&1/2 stars
Rating: 
Summary: Abysmal.
Review: I wanted to like this, but there is not much to recommend here. In this day and age there are enough insightful or fun movies about being gay that gay subject matter alone does not make a film interesting. Whoever is responsible for this film doesn't seem to have learned this lesson. See this if you want to be supportive of independent cinema, or if you want to support gay cinema. Either way, though, seeing it is an act of magnanimous charity. The acting is stilted and most of the characters are annoyingly self-indulgent and distasteful. The flashbacks and voiceovers are pretentious given how little substance there is to the narrative and how little we care about the narrator. Finally, the green plaid shirt as a plot driver doesn't work all that well.
Rating: 
Summary: Calm down, it's just a movie
Review: I'm mainly writing this because I'm a little baffled by the anger expressed in so many of the reviews found here. When I first saw "Green Plaid Shirt" -- on VHS, and yes, as many have noted, the quality of the transfer is agonizingly bad; let's hope some effort is made in this regard for the DVD release -- I was most struck by the relationship between the two main characters. Yes, they are both very attractive (a common criticism of gay films and gay characters which you almost never hear about their straight counterparts), but even better, they both can ACT! Like most films, the main characters take the main plot. And of course, additional characters will create sub-plots. What is unfortunate is when the sub-plots do not add to the main plot. In which case they actively work against it. That happens with this film as well and it's too bad because there was a lot of potential in the relationship of the two main characters, had Richard Natale wanted to concentrate on them. I enjoy this film very much for the main story. There are some beautiful and also some unusally moving moments in it. The characters are appealing and multi-dimensional, and the performances (Gregory Phelan and Kevin Spirtas) are both naturalistic and of real quality. As for the rest of it ... I just fast-forward. I'd definitely like to see more from Richard Natale.
Rating:
Summary: Calm down, it's just a movie
Review: I'm mainly writing this because I'm a little baffled by the anger expressed in so many of the reviews found here. When I first saw "Green Plaid Shirt" -- on VHS, and yes, as many have noted, the quality of the transfer is agonizingly bad; let's hope some effort is made in this regard for the DVD release -- I was most struck by the relationship between the two main characters. Yes, they are both very attractive (a common criticism of gay films and gay characters which you almost never hear about their straight counterparts), but even better, they both can ACT! Like most films, the main characters take the main plot. And of course, additional characters will create sub-plots. What is unfortunate is when the sub-plots do not add to the main plot. In which case they actively work against it. That happens with this film as well and it's too bad because there was a lot of potential in the relationship of the two main characters, had Richard Natale wanted to concentrate on them. I enjoy this film very much for the main story. There are some beautiful and also some unusally moving moments in it. The characters are appealing and multi-dimensional, and the performances (Gregory Phelan and Kevin Spirtas) are both naturalistic and of real quality. As for the rest of it ... I just fast-forward. I'd definitely like to see more from Richard Natale.
Rating:
Summary: A misfire ...
Review: It's hard to be critical of a movie so well intended, but we've seen it before and done better. Acting is good, but even on the dvd half the dialogue is lost.
Rating:
Summary: Toss the shirt
Review: Long gone are the days when we should go see a gay film simply because it is gay. with the amount of different movies lately with gay plots or subplots I've come to expect a few things. The first being a script, the second being well....a script. Seriously this film seemed to be under the impression that just putting somebody up there who has lost their lover is enough to keep us tearful and involved for the 17 hours this movie seemed to last. The fact that the sound quality was so bad I had to rewind several times to try and catch important passages was a minor annoyance compared to the complete lack of interest I was able to maintain. It is sad to say that a movie supposed to be sad and about a very serious subject had my friends and I laughing at our foolishness for renting this.
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