Monday, October 03, 2022

BROS

 








If Billy plans to continue to promote it, I will promote it as well.  It's going to be  huge hit on streaming, BLU RAY, etc.  I'm going to include what I said in today's snapshot at the end but I want to make a few more points.  

The first thing is nearly five million is not bad.  Comedies have not done well since the pandemic hit.  Adult movies have not done well since the pandemic.  And don't bring up TOP GUN unless you think it's proof that American will see a film starring a gay man.  :D  TOP GUN is Howard Hughes' HELLS ANGELS.  It's not that impressive of a film -- it's the planes and the cinematography of them.  


BROS is hilarious. The only comedy that's really done well is THE LOST CITY.  I love Channing but it's Sandra's film (I love Sandra as well).  Her audience turns out.  But if you looked at opening weekend and judged by that, you would have been as stupid as DEADLINE and all the rest were.  Sandra's fans show up.  They don't want to be there opening night.  It was week day ticket buyers who put it over the top and they want to avoid 'kids' and the candy kids throw in the auditorium and the lack of any adult staff in these auditoriums.  


This is not my argument.  This is the argument people present me with and have for years now -- I've been speaking out against the Iraq War since a month before it started to groups all over the country.  I know what I'm talking about.  


Young couples -- not kids -- and older couples prefer to see a film during the week to avoid the nonsense.


Now BROS?  You'd especially want to avoid the nonsense because the country has been in a backlash against LGBTQs for some time.  Jonathan Turley, I love him, I know him.  But I'm appalled that he has never once written of the threat against the LFBTQ community in this country as a result of Clary Thomas' opinion in DOBBS.  I see it as homophobia.  He doesn't see his silence as homophobia, but that is what it is.  You've got a voice, you're a legal genius and you've refused to seriously address what DOBBS means for LGBTQs.  


If you're gay or gay friendly in parts of the US, it's not going to be easy for you to buy a ticket in this climate.  You will have concerns at the very least -- outright fears at the most.


BROS is never going to be for everyone.  And you can remove same-sex scenes from it and it still wouldn't have been for everyone.  No movie is for everyone.  I actively loathe THE ENGLISH PATIENT, for example.  

Billy made a great film.  


Some are saying if Channing Tatum had been one of the leads, if only!!!!


No.  That would have been as ridiculous as LOVE SIMON -- a film that the female idiot star tried to drum up support for -- see it for gay people!  But the actor wasn't gay -- or wasn't out gay.


As with LOVE VICTOR, the makers wanted credit for a film about how it's okay and normal to be gay -- and they prove that it's okay and normal . . . by casting a straight actor in the gay role.


Billy was brave and made a funny and brave movie.  No one can ever take that from him.


BROS will find its audience.  I hope that happens while it's in theaters.  But great films sometimes don't get recognized in their initial release.  BRINGING UP BABY was not considered a comedy classic -- or even a good comedy -- when it was originally released outside of a few people who knew comedy and didn't let "box office poison" talk scare them off from a film starring Katharine Hepburn.


If she were alive today, would she go see it?  Or would she stay in the closet?


Let's have that conversation.  Let's have the reality of the long line of people in our history -- contemporary and ancient.  Because Clary Thomas argues that abortion has no history -- despite quickening and despite the long history Sarah Weddington laid out in A QUESTION OF CHOICE.  Clearly, people don't know their history.  And before Thomas tries to strip away marriage equality and other rights, we need to grasp that LGBTQs are nothing news, they have always been in our societies -- not just the Greeks, Africa, for example, had a long history of boy wives.  They are the norm and liars like Clary Thomas have to distort history to push and pimp their hate.

I could go on and on -- and will over the next days.


From today's snapshot:


I don't have time for too much on this, I'm trying to finish the snapshot, but THE NEW YORK TIMES is stating BROS failed at the box office.


Did it?


I believe the theaters failed BROS.  That's what I was saying -- and warning about -- before the film was released.


No City, USA has 7 theaters.  All carry SMILE and BROS for opening weekend.  But they show SMILES repeatedly -- eight to nine times -- a day while only showing BROS three times.  Due to the lack of showings, BROS is, in fact, in what is known as limited release.


I wrote about this in the gina & krista round-robin and Stan posted about our conversation on this topic in "BROS will get screwed due to poor metrics" which went up Thursday.


I'm not at all surprised that it came in fourth.  I also don't see that as a failure.  The predictions were way off for a number of reasons including that it's not a 'youth' picture.


It'll be interesting to see what the box office on BROS is during this week.


It's a great film.  One you should see.  But homophobia -- on the part of theater chains -- was apparent before it opened.  There's other homophobia at play as well.


For example?  Let's take the tale of some walking out on one scene.  


Billy and Luke Macfarlane have finally talked and spent time together.  Both have commitment issues.  But Billy wants Luke to come up to his place.  Luke's been seeing two guys -- he's in a thruple -- and wants Billy to go with him there.  They bicker.  Then we cut to the two of them seated.  We see them from the neck up.  Billy, looking strained, says he's going to go ahead and leave.  The camera goes wide and we see two guys in front of Luke's lower body.  They're servicing him.  Despite the fact that no peen or balls are shown, some were grossed out by that.


Homophobia.


I seem to remember a much bigger oral scene involving dozens in THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.  Does no one else remember that?  Nobody walked out on that.


The difference was that in MARY, those gay men were an object of ridicule.


So if it's ridicule, some ticket buyers are happy to stay seated and laugh at the gay men.


BROS is a great movie.














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