Looking back on it, Chevy had a point. The intent of Pierce was always to be the old bigot everyone else was repulsed by and occasionally taught to be better, but there was an element of the writers trying to have their cake and eat it too by using the cast’s reactions to his racist jokes as an excuse to tell those…

Yeah that definitely reeked of bullshit. The most generous explanation I can come up with is that Nicholas Stoller was the one who approached the various straight actors, and they all thought “starring in a parody of a gay movie directed by a straight guy? Nah.”

I will also say that attacking the makers of another queer(ish) project is probably not a good idea.

hey billy, if you want a cheaper solution that would definitely still get headlines i have an idea for you

The backlash against “elevated horror” is annoying but there does seem to be a trend of “the real horror is trauma” that increasingly feels like mediocre movies trying to take a shortcut to added relevancy. The world’s most generic haunted house movie doesn’t suddenly become a masterpiece because we get an act one…

Hellraiser was about the extremes a desperate #girlboss with incredible shoulder pads would go to for some good dick.

The first season might as well be a different show. Season 2 was essentially a soft reboot.

Straight women like gay stuff in the same way straight men like lesbian stuff. It’s an idealized and fetishized variant that often doesn’t hold any actual appeal for gays and lesbians. That’s not to say there’s no crossover, but gay-themed media aimed at women and gay-themed media aimed at gay men tend to be pretty…

Precisely. This is why “[x] but gay” is such a tedious approach to media. [x] either winds up being the most generic execution possible because the queer aspect winds up not being enough of a modifier to actually make it interesting or “gay” (in a very specific mode that calcified in the late 90s) winds up completely…

a tremendous self-confidence it mistakes for grace

Yeah, both trailers were incredibly impressed with themselves, but particularly the red band one. It makes the movie look like a victory lap celebrating its own existence first, a treatise on Gay Life In America as experienced by a small but vocal subset of rich white urban men second, and a rom-com somewhere down the…

I love Jim Rash but he’s not bringing people to theaters.

If you put this cast in a straight movie, people would go to see it.

People don’t see comedies to do their social homework. If anything manages that kind of heavy lifting, it’s dramas.

Well, yeah, which is why it’s dumb that he’s complaining now rather than seeing if it has legs after word of mouth gets out. A slow first weekend up against a new horror movie in October was basically inevitable.

It’s also very, very GAY™ ... there’s a lot going on that’s not going to connect with people who aren’t city dwelling gay men.

Maybe straight people could be good sports about the decades of misery they’ve inflicted on us and watch a gay movie every once in a while?

Maybe it should have sold itself more as a comedy and less as a Gay Movie That Is Important And Gay.

I don’t watch romcoms, I don’t like Billy Eichner

Streaming services are filled with ‘em.