Contents:
- STAR OF 'HISTORIC' GAY MOVIE GETS BACKLASH AFTER BLAMG 'STRAIGHT PEOPLE' FOR OPENG WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FLOP
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- PRO-GAY DISNEY FILM FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE: 'STOP MAKG EVERYTHG SEXUAL'
- COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
- DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
STAR OF 'HISTORIC' GAY MOVIE GETS BACKLASH AFTER BLAMG 'STRAIGHT PEOPLE' FOR OPENG WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FLOP
In an unholy mix of entlement and entertament, the maker of a “historic” (acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter) romantic edy about gay love has ppoted the real problem that ma the movie an expensive box office bomb. “Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight!
Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight! “Bros” is an openly gay romantic edy, see, and stars an openly gay man who wrote an openly gay script. And if that isn’t openly gay historic, what is?
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
Not a homophobic weirdo, but I am not terted that movie.. Perhaps llg homophonic weirdos isn’t great marketg.
Maybe all the crics were aaid to give you an hont review bee you might ll them homophobic weirdos. Right-wg culture war spectators are hootg wh pleasure at what they see as evince of diversy and cln efforts g Hollywood, specifilly blamg director Don Hall and his -director and screenwrer Qui Nguyen's choice to make Ethan gay.
PRO-GAY DISNEY FILM FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE: 'STOP MAKG EVERYTHG SEXUAL'
The Cla's terracial marriage don't thrill those bigots eher, but given Disney rporate's msy rponse to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, Young-Whe's animated avatar is a more nvenient target. The homophobic Disney haters are gog to hate regardls of what do. To be hont, if one were to fully scribe the Clas and Avalonia, would sound like the walk-up to a terrible joke someone's Fox News-addicted uncle revs up at the holiday table: "An terracial uple, their biracial gay son and their three-legged dog drive their vegan-fueled vehicle to a subterranean ve...
COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
Durg Newton’s tenure, Disney land the middle of the natn’s culture wars by troducg gay, lbian, transgenr, non-bary, and other mory characters to s animated seri and films. “Strange World, ” an animated film, featured a gay teen romance — a first for the entertament giant. I didn’t want to dimish “the first major stud movie wrten by and starrg a gay man” or spoil s Rotten Tomato sre or dance on the grave of s box-office prospects.
I certaly didn’t want to attack the star of “Billy on the Street” and “Difficult People, ” two of the most succsful screen adaptatns of the gay sensibily recent memory. ”Do that make too the “homophobic weirdos” of Eichner’s nfoundg post-bomb tweet spiral or simply the silent Benedict Arnolds of his self-proclaimed march to the history books?
DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
It is emently ldable that Eichner has ma a sexually ank stud edy featurg two gay men, and that he sisted, as wgman/-star/-producer Guy Branum not, on an all-LGBTQ st. Its laceratg send-ups of token reprentatn Hallmark Christmas movi; the “hnted hoe of gay trma” that pop culture pass off as queer history; even Eichner’s own public persona are all a potent, knowg nod to the ongog challeng of tellg LGBTQ stori — of livg LGBTQ liv — whout simply repurposg a tired, old, straight the culmatg ame of s fal act, that is, when the image of two nventnally attractive gay men kissg is posned, lerally, as the ldatory bookend to “5, 000 years of gay love stori erased om the history books.
And yet, spe the affi Eichner and I share on paper — no, bee of the affi we share on paper — I reil at “Bros’” squanred privilege, bristle at s star’s attempt to hi s shortgs behd the veil of homophobia. It is the eedom to fight over, cricize, even ignore the artworks that claim to reprent — and, on the flip si, the eedom to keep makg and nsumg gay art whether straight people show up for or, when I saw the film a send time this week, at a half-full weeknight screeng at the Sunset 5, what stck me most were the loust lghs and cheers, all directed at the gayt material — the slap fight-turned-sex scene, the Bowen Yang meo, Nile Kidman’s pre-roll ad for AMC. ” (Universal Pictur) To say “let gay art bomb” is not to say “let gay art languish.