As gratifyg as the film’s endg was, let’s be hont: should have been gayer.
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- OCEAN’S 8: THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF ALL THAT UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSNAS GRATIFYG AS THE FILM’S ENDG WAS, LET’S BE HONT: SHOULD HAVE BEEN GAYER.BY LRA BRADLEYJUNE 8, 2018BY BARRY WETCHER/©2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAMENT.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR OCEAN’S 8.TO WATCH OCEAN’S 8 IS TO DULGE A DISTCTLY EPHEMERAL FORM OF JOY; EVEN IF THE THRILL BEGS TO FA OM MEMORY AFTER AN HOUR OR TWO, THAT DON’T MAKE THE EXPERIENCE ANY LS PLEASANT. THE HEIST AT THE CENTER OF THE MOVIE GO OFF WHOUT A HCH; THE END, OUR SMMER HERO WALK AWAY WH ALL THE RICH THEY ME FOR AND THEN SOME. THERE’S ONLY ONE THG THAT NCLN IS MISSG: A ANK ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE OBV, VEXGLY UNEXPLORED SEXUAL TENSN BETWEEN SANDRA BULLOCK’S DEBBIE OCEAN AND HER BT IEND—“IEND”?—LOU (CATE BLANCHETT).LOOK, FAR BE FOR ME—FOR ANY OF , REALLY—TO PLA ABOUT A ROMP THAT GAVE CATE BLANCHETT SO MANY FABULO SUS. BUT OM BEGNG TO END, OCEAN’S 8 SEEMED TO NSCLY IMPLY THAT THERE WAS MORE TO LOU AND DEBBIE’S RELATNSHIP THAN MEETS THE EYE. THERE ARE TANTALIZG BS OF DIALOGUE, LIKE WHEN DEBBIE LLS LOU, AS SHE OFTEN DO, HER “PARTNER”—AND LOU REPLI, “I’M NOT YOUR PARTNER—YET.” AT ANOTHER POT, LOU TEAS DEBBIE, ASKG, “OH, HONEY, IS THIS A PROPOSAL?” DEBBIE’S REPLY? “BABY, I DON’T EVEN HAVE A DIAMOND YET.” DID THE TWO EXCHANGE A KNOWG LOOK WHEN LOU MET DEBBIE WEARG HER SHARE OF THE HEIST’S HL AROUND HER NECK, OR WAS THAT JT ME? COME TO THK OF , THOSE TWO SEEM TO EXCHANGE A LOT OF LOOKS. ALSO, THERE’S THAT MOMENT WHEN THEY FEED EACH OTHER!BUT AS I DRANK EVERY FURTIVE GLANCE AND WHISPER OF BACKSTORY LIKE A FE WE, I WAS LEFT MOSTLY WH QUTNS. HOW DID THE TWO MEET? DID THEY EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A THG? IS THAT WHY LOU IS BOTH PROTECTIVE OF DEBBIE AND IMPATIENT ABOUT ANY NVERSATN VOLVG HER EX? ALTHOUGH OCEAN’S 8 CLEARLY WANTS S VIEWERS TO TCH THE FASCATG DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO—THE IMPLITNS ARE SIMPLY TOO OBV FOR EVEN THE STRAIGHTT PERSON ALIVE TO BELIEVE THEY WERE SERTED TO THE MOVIE BY ACCINT— ALSO MAK NO EFFORT TO CLARIFY THEIR HISTORY. AND, ’S WORTH REPEATG, THERE’S CLEARLY HISTORY.THAT HISTORY IS ALSO A LOT MORE TERTG THAN THE B OF ROMANTIC BACKSTORY WE DO GET THE MOVIE. LIKE OCEAN’S 11 BEFORE , WHICH REVEALED THAT DANNY OCEAN’S BIG HEIST WAS REALLY A PLOY TO PUNISH THE SO OWNER WHO WAS DATG HIS EX-WIFE, TS (JULIA ROBERTS), OCEAN’S 8 IS ALSO SOMETHG OF A REVENGE STORY. DEBBIE, TOO, HAS AN EX; HIS NAME IS CL, HE’S PLAYED BY RICHARD ARMAGE, AND HE’S THE REASON DEBBIE GOT SENT TO PRISON THE FIRST PLACE. BUT UNLIKE OCEAN’S 11, WHICH SPENT A CENT AMOUNT OF SCREEN TIME PUTTG CLOONEY AND ROBERTS’S PELLG AND PLAYFUL CHEMISTRY ON DISPLAY, OCEAN’S 8 N’T SEEM TO CI WHAT WANTS TO DO WH CL. MORE THAN ANYTHG, HE FEELS LIKE A TTOSTERONE-FILLED WASTE OF SPACE; IF HAD NIXED HIM ALTOGETHER, THE FILM WOULDN’T FEEL ANY LS PLETE. PL, IF HAD, MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE TIME TO FOC ON DEBBIE AND LOU.ITS ENDG IS, PERHAPS, THE FILM’S MOST VEXG MOVE OF ALL. AFTER DEBBIE AND HER CREW EVABLY SUCCEED THEIR MISSN, ROBBG THE METROPOLAN MM OF SEVERAL PIEC OF GIGANTIC, BORRLE-PRICELS JEWELRY, THE FILM OFFERS A GLIMPSE AT HOW EACH WOMAN SPENDS HER SHARE OF THE MONEY. RIHANNA’S POT-SMOKG HACKER CHARACTER, NE BALL, BUYS A BAR AND NAM AFTER HERSELF. SCENE STEALER ANNE HATHAWAY’S NARCISSISTIC ACTRS CHARACTER GETS TO DIRECT HER OWN MOVI NOW. AND THEN THERE’S LOU, WHO MOUNTS HER MOTORCYCLE AND RIS OFF TO THE SUNSET, LOOKG ALMOST LIKE ONE OF THE LEADS THE CLASSIC BLACK MIRROR EPISO “SAN JUNIPERO”—A BETIFULLY TOLD LOVE STORY ABOUT TWO WOMEN THAT END WH MACKENZIE DAVIS’S CHARACTER, YORKIE, DRIVG OFF TO THE SUNSET A NVERTIBLE WH THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, KELLY (GUGU MBATHA-RAW).BUT WHEN LOU WAS RIDG AWAY, WHERE WAS HER KELLY? WELL, STEAD OF HOPPG ON THE BACK OF LOU’S HOG, DEBBIE WAS, SIGH, VISG HER BROTHER—THE NOW CEASED DANNY OCEAN (GEE CLOONEY)—AT HIS GRAVE SE. WHERE’S DEBBIE’S DIRECTOR’S CHAIR, HER BAR, HER GRAND RI OFF TO THE FUTURE—WH LOU BY HER SI? EVEN A Y “WILL THEY, WON’T THEY” NCLN WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SATISFYG THAN A QUIET MURMUR TO A BROTHER WHO NEVER EVEN MA A LIVE MEO THE MOVIE. (BEE HE MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE AD, RIGHT? JT WATCH HIM SHOW UP OCEAN’S 9.)PERHAPS ’S ASKG TOO MUCH TO WISH FOR AN ENDG THAT MAK EXPLIC WHAT WAS ALREADY HEAVILY IMPLIED—AND PERHAPS PAIRG LOU AND DEBBIE WOULD EVEN HAVE FELT PAT. AND YET, LIKE A QUEER CARRIE BRADSHAW, I ULDN’T HELP BUT WONR WHAT ULD HAVE BEEN. MAYBE THAT’S WAG FOR OCEAN’S 9, TOO.MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYFIRST LOOK: PL ML AND SAOIRSE RONAN FACE A DANGERO FUTURE FOEBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY
- OCEAN’S 8 IS THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR, LET’S MAKE OCEAN’S 9 EVEN GAYER
OCEAN’S 8: THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF ALL THAT UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSNAS GRATIFYG AS THE FILM’S ENDG WAS, LET’S BE HONT: SHOULD HAVE BEEN GAYER.BY LRA BRADLEYJUNE 8, 2018BY BARRY WETCHER/©2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAMENT.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR OCEAN’S 8.TO WATCH OCEAN’S 8 IS TO DULGE A DISTCTLY EPHEMERAL FORM OF JOY; EVEN IF THE THRILL BEGS TO FA OM MEMORY AFTER AN HOUR OR TWO, THAT DON’T MAKE THE EXPERIENCE ANY LS PLEASANT. THE HEIST AT THE CENTER OF THE MOVIE GO OFF WHOUT A HCH; THE END, OUR SMMER HERO WALK AWAY WH ALL THE RICH THEY ME FOR AND THEN SOME. THERE’S ONLY ONE THG THAT NCLN IS MISSG: A ANK ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE OBV, VEXGLY UNEXPLORED SEXUAL TENSN BETWEEN SANDRA BULLOCK’S DEBBIE OCEAN AND HER BT IEND—“IEND”?—LOU (CATE BLANCHETT).LOOK, FAR BE FOR ME—FOR ANY OF , REALLY—TO PLA ABOUT A ROMP THAT GAVE CATE BLANCHETT SO MANY FABULO SUS. BUT OM BEGNG TO END, OCEAN’S 8 SEEMED TO NSCLY IMPLY THAT THERE WAS MORE TO LOU AND DEBBIE’S RELATNSHIP THAN MEETS THE EYE. THERE ARE TANTALIZG BS OF DIALOGUE, LIKE WHEN DEBBIE LLS LOU, AS SHE OFTEN DO, HER “PARTNER”—AND LOU REPLI, “I’M NOT YOUR PARTNER—YET.” AT ANOTHER POT, LOU TEAS DEBBIE, ASKG, “OH, HONEY, IS THIS A PROPOSAL?” DEBBIE’S REPLY? “BABY, I DON’T EVEN HAVE A DIAMOND YET.” DID THE TWO EXCHANGE A KNOWG LOOK WHEN LOU MET DEBBIE WEARG HER SHARE OF THE HEIST’S HL AROUND HER NECK, OR WAS THAT JT ME? COME TO THK OF , THOSE TWO SEEM TO EXCHANGE A LOT OF LOOKS. ALSO, THERE’S THAT MOMENT WHEN THEY FEED EACH OTHER!BUT AS I DRANK EVERY FURTIVE GLANCE AND WHISPER OF BACKSTORY LIKE A FE WE, I WAS LEFT MOSTLY WH QUTNS. HOW DID THE TWO MEET? DID THEY EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A THG? IS THAT WHY LOU IS BOTH PROTECTIVE OF DEBBIE AND IMPATIENT ABOUT ANY NVERSATN VOLVG HER EX? ALTHOUGH OCEAN’S 8 CLEARLY WANTS S VIEWERS TO TCH THE FASCATG DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO—THE IMPLITNS ARE SIMPLY TOO OBV FOR EVEN THE STRAIGHTT PERSON ALIVE TO BELIEVE THEY WERE SERTED TO THE MOVIE BY ACCINT— ALSO MAK NO EFFORT TO CLARIFY THEIR HISTORY. AND, ’S WORTH REPEATG, THERE’S CLEARLY HISTORY.THAT HISTORY IS ALSO A LOT MORE TERTG THAN THE B OF ROMANTIC BACKSTORY WE DO GET THE MOVIE. LIKE OCEAN’S 11 BEFORE , WHICH REVEALED THAT DANNY OCEAN’S BIG HEIST WAS REALLY A PLOY TO PUNISH THE SO OWNER WHO WAS DATG HIS EX-WIFE, TS (JULIA ROBERTS), OCEAN’S 8 IS ALSO SOMETHG OF A REVENGE STORY. DEBBIE, TOO, HAS AN EX; HIS NAME IS CL, HE’S PLAYED BY RICHARD ARMAGE, AND HE’S THE REASON DEBBIE GOT SENT TO PRISON THE FIRST PLACE. BUT UNLIKE OCEAN’S 11, WHICH SPENT A CENT AMOUNT OF SCREEN TIME PUTTG CLOONEY AND ROBERTS’S PELLG AND PLAYFUL CHEMISTRY ON DISPLAY, OCEAN’S 8 N’T SEEM TO CI WHAT WANTS TO DO WH CL. MORE THAN ANYTHG, HE FEELS LIKE A TTOSTERONE-FILLED WASTE OF SPACE; IF HAD NIXED HIM ALTOGETHER, THE FILM WOULDN’T FEEL ANY LS PLETE. PL, IF HAD, MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE TIME TO FOC ON DEBBIE AND LOU.ITS ENDG IS, PERHAPS, THE FILM’S MOST VEXG MOVE OF ALL. AFTER DEBBIE AND HER CREW EVABLY SUCCEED THEIR MISSN, ROBBG THE METROPOLAN MM OF SEVERAL PIEC OF GIGANTIC, BORRLE-PRICELS JEWELRY, THE FILM OFFERS A GLIMPSE AT HOW EACH WOMAN SPENDS HER SHARE OF THE MONEY. RIHANNA’S POT-SMOKG HACKER CHARACTER, NE BALL, BUYS A BAR AND NAM AFTER HERSELF. SCENE STEALER ANNE HATHAWAY’S NARCISSISTIC ACTRS CHARACTER GETS TO DIRECT HER OWN MOVI NOW. AND THEN THERE’S LOU, WHO MOUNTS HER MOTORCYCLE AND RIS OFF TO THE SUNSET, LOOKG ALMOST LIKE ONE OF THE LEADS THE CLASSIC BLACK MIRROR EPISO “SAN JUNIPERO”—A BETIFULLY TOLD LOVE STORY ABOUT TWO WOMEN THAT END WH MACKENZIE DAVIS’S CHARACTER, YORKIE, DRIVG OFF TO THE SUNSET A NVERTIBLE WH THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, KELLY (GUGU MBATHA-RAW).BUT WHEN LOU WAS RIDG AWAY, WHERE WAS HER KELLY? WELL, STEAD OF HOPPG ON THE BACK OF LOU’S HOG, DEBBIE WAS, SIGH, VISG HER BROTHER—THE NOW CEASED DANNY OCEAN (GEE CLOONEY)—AT HIS GRAVE SE. WHERE’S DEBBIE’S DIRECTOR’S CHAIR, HER BAR, HER GRAND RI OFF TO THE FUTURE—WH LOU BY HER SI? EVEN A Y “WILL THEY, WON’T THEY” NCLN WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SATISFYG THAN A QUIET MURMUR TO A BROTHER WHO NEVER EVEN MA A LIVE MEO THE MOVIE. (BEE HE MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE AD, RIGHT? JT WATCH HIM SHOW UP OCEAN’S 9.)PERHAPS ’S ASKG TOO MUCH TO WISH FOR AN ENDG THAT MAK EXPLIC WHAT WAS ALREADY HEAVILY IMPLIED—AND PERHAPS PAIRG LOU AND DEBBIE WOULD EVEN HAVE FELT PAT. AND YET, LIKE A QUEER CARRIE BRADSHAW, I ULDN’T HELP BUT WONR WHAT ULD HAVE BEEN. MAYBE THAT’S WAG FOR OCEAN’S 9, TOO.MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYFIRST LOOK: PL ML AND SAOIRSE RONAN FACE A DANGERO FUTURE FOEBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY
* ocean's 8 gay characters *
This weekend I saw Ocean’s Gay. (Although, maybe they should nsir a name change…) This fourth stallment of the Ocean’s anchise, featured a diverse all-female st who showsed telligence, bad-assery and, if you exist for homoerotic subtext like I do, lbian love. While (tragilly) no character was openly gay, there was a near paful amount of sexual tensn between Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) and Lou (Cate Blanchett).
Could she get gayer?! [Anyone remember that ridiculo outcry over LeFou beg openly gay Bety and the Beast? Gay marriage is accepted by the majory of people the Uned Stat and lennials are the gayt generatn on rerd.
So, why are movi ntug to shy away om portrayg openly gay characters? Gayoung Kim...
OCEAN’S 8 IS THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR, LET’S MAKE OCEAN’S 9 EVEN GAYER
This weekend I saw Ocean's Gay. Oops. I mean Ocean's 8. (Although, maybe they should nsir a name change...) This fourth stallment of the Ocean's anchise, featured a diverse all-female st who showsed telligence, bad-assery and, if you exist for homoerotic subtext like I do, lbian love. * ocean's 8 gay characters *
Ambiguoly Gay: She's heavily implied to be Debbie's ex, even kissg her at one pot, and she never displays any kd of romantic tert men. “One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t thk people would accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy.