I really wanted to like this movie. You see this plot done so many times over, in so many ways, that I was honestly a little excited to see what could have been done with it in a natural setting with gay men as the leading roles simply because as a gay man it's nice to be seen as something other than a joke or a token.
But that's exactly what it became, and sadly, not even as part of the intentional jokes! I will give the movie credit that a lot of the scenes could have been done with straight characters all the same (which is what you want more often than not, because humans are humans are humans), but constantly showing gay men as overly flamboyant, bickering snobs is NOT helpful. You take a boy from a negative situation and place him in another negative situation.
I'm not angry at this movie for being predictable. I expected that. I'm angry because there was a chance to show gay men simply as people who have similar life events as others and instead I got this. A few homophobic jokes and this could have been a parody movie written by someone who THINKS they know what gay men are like.
Way to set us back into the same old box. Fantastic.
But that's exactly what it became, and sadly, not even as part of the intentional jokes! I will give the movie credit that a lot of the scenes could have been done with straight characters all the same (which is what you want more often than not, because humans are humans are humans), but constantly showing gay men as overly flamboyant, bickering snobs is NOT helpful. You take a boy from a negative situation and place him in another negative situation.
I'm not angry at this movie for being predictable. I expected that. I'm angry because there was a chance to show gay men simply as people who have similar life events as others and instead I got this. A few homophobic jokes and this could have been a parody movie written by someone who THINKS they know what gay men are like.
Way to set us back into the same old box. Fantastic.