Bros creator Billy Eichner blasts 'homophobic weirdos' after his gay romcom disappoints

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[–]hfxB0oyA 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Straight people just didn't show up"

I'm also not interested in, I dunno - banking. So if I don't watch a movie about that, does that make me bankerphobic?

Also:

Rolling Stone already has BROS on the list of the best comedies of the 21st century.

No further reason to go.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

As a gay man, I'm not gonna watch the movie. It sounds incredibly boring.

[–]LordoftheFlies 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Obviously sweaty, you're one of those self-hating gays with the internalized homophobia. Stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution!

[–]RedEyedWarrior 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Clearly I need to check my cis white privilege and bow before my non-binary tranny Lords.

[–]LordoftheFlies 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"...everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight."

Trying to shame people into watching shit, they tried that with that utter failure of a Ghostbusters remake and it didn't work for them either.

"Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theater playing BROS in LA,' he wrote on Sunday. 'The audience howled with laughter start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out. It was truly magical.'"

r/thathappened

Oh, and it doesn't matter what the critics thought of the movie, their opinions are blatantly biased and that was true even before IdPol became the driving force in entertainment. The real metric of the movie's quality is in those receipts. And $4m on opening says it quite clearly, this one's a floater that needs to be flushed.

[–]bananafridge 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Wasn't tears they were wiping off their faces

[–]SoCo 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This guy was quoted lauding that the strait people didn't watch his show, implying they expected strait people to be a large portion of the audience...

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The name didn't help.

A lot of gay men object to the idea that gay culture is all just bros getting along which a lot of queer identified teen girls are into.

Which reminds me, another Disaffected podcast should be out.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A lot of gay men object to the idea that gay culture is all just bros getting along which a lot of queer identified teen girls are into.

That's interesting. Do you mean a lot of people have this mental picture of a "gay community" as a cozy little group with largely homogeneous views and tastes? Kind of like how they meet a guy from, say, Bangladesh and ask him if he knows the one other person from Bangladesh they've met previously?

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, I mean they have the idea that gay men just love hanging out like a gang of teen girlfriends rather than all jumping on each other in a mass anonymous orgy at the first opportunity.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I feel like he's being taken out of context here. He's saying straight people didn't show up, but he thinks it's a great movie, and unless you're homophobic you should check it out. Didn't seem to me like he was saying people were homophobic for not watching it, or that's why it didn't do well, but he was inviting everyone who wouldn't immediately hate it to check it out.

Also, I suspect this article is actually an advertisement for the movie.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

He's saying straight people didn't show up, but he thinks it's a great movie, and unless you're homophobic you should check it out.

I think a lot of straight people have no interest in checking this out, I don't and not because I'm homophobic. I support gay marriage, I support equal rights for anyone and don't want anybody to have less rights because of some silly identity group. Personally, I resent the implication that it makes me homophobic to not care about the finer points of gay bromance. I was on their side until they started firing shots at me

This kind of crap unwillingly makes me more prejudiced, like with the trans people, I used to just kind of shrug at their oddness, but now I can't HELP but kind of assume they are likely to be militant nazi's and try to avoid any interactions with them. I really don't give a fuck if an adult wants to mutilate their own body, not my problem, the only reason I started unconsciously stereotyping these people has nothing to do with their identity as weirdos, its the militant ideological evangelism that makes me not fucking like people.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

, I resent the implication that it makes me homophobic to not care about the finer points of gay bromance

I don't think that's the implication though, I think this is just contrived controversy to create buzz for the movie. If I made a movie and it didn't do well, and I said it failed because moviegoers are a bunch of limp wristed pillow biters, you wouldn't care.

But look at all these people who never heard of this movie before, like myself, and now there's some controversy, so people might just check it out to see what the deal is, or even to hate it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thought some more on what you said Muskrat, I'm pretty sure you are right.

The audience for hetero Rom-Coms is women and the boyfriends they drag. They know neither of these groups is the target audience of 'Bro's', gay men are. They clearly had a target number of gay men they did not hit, and by making accusations of homophobia, gay men will flock to the movie to defend and support it from this 'vicious homophobic attack'.

Its sleezy marketing perpetuating this wedge between identity groups, and I shouldn't enable these fucks by helping them do it

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

But look at all these people who never heard of this movie before, like myself, and now there's some controversy, so people might just check it out to see what the deal is, or even to hate it.

Yeah, you may be right, I'm sure they welcome the controversy after that bad of an opening weekend

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Im actually open to something like that. It looks horrible.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not everyone enjoys romantic comedies. I myself would be more interested if it were a horror. But it's not.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

He literally made a film in a genre where the audience is 95% female (and 5% the men who they drag along) but without a female lead character.

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