Lists Are Hot: 10 bad lesBian movies you shouldn't watch

By Natazzz on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 22:02

Lists Are Hot is a monthly column for all those of you that love lists. This time I want to talk about a topic we all love to hate, or hate to love: bad lesBian movies.

In the time between I realised I was into girls until after the first two years of coming out, I watched pretty much any movie with lesBian content I could get my hands on. Needless to say, not all of those films were very good. In fact, at least half of them were rather crap, but I did not care, because it had girls in them who liked girls and they often ended up making out with said girls.

These days I try to watch movies because I think they are going to be good, fun or interesting and the fact that it has lesBian content has become secondary. This lessens the chance of finding more bad lesBian movies, although of course working for eurOut doesn't really help. I watched and reviewed plenty of bad lesBian movies the last 2 years, most of those have ended up in this list.

I have picked 10 movies with lesBian content that I thought were really bad, for various reasons. Obviously, there are many more and you might even like some of my choices. If so, feel free to tell me off or add your favourites in the comments. Here are my bad lesBian movie picks in no particular order (apart from number 1).

Do take note that a number of the clips included in this list are NSFW!

10. Go Fish (US, 1994)

Go Fish was one of the first lesbian movies I ever saw. I rented it from my local video store, hidden among a bunch of other films. I remember being scared, yet intrigued, wondering if lesbians were really like that. I hoped not, because I didn't think I would fit in. I watched it again a few years later and I was amazed at how bad this movie is. I get what they were trying to do here, but it clearly didn't work.

As for the love story… I think the very young Guinevere Turner is kind of cute, but after all these years I still don't buy she'd fall madly in love with the other lady. They had no chemistry whatsoever, and let's just leave it at that.

9. Chasing Amy (US, 1997)

Another movie I watched around the same time was Chasing Amy. I know, it's a controversial pick, as lots of people like this film. To be fair, the quality of the movie isn't that bad, but the storyline bugs the hell out of me! In a nutshell: uninteresting, dumb, average straight guy falls for lesbian, who can't resist him, but he can't handle her previous sexual experiences.

The main problem I have with this film is they make it out to be like any lesbian could just change teams if the right guy comes along. (It would've been better if they had just made her out to be bisexual in the first place, but then, we wouldn't have the 'interesting' plot.) Seriously, would you switch teams for Ben Affleck?