Hollywood Doesnt Care About Gay Movies

[Marco Sensual]

The Jim Carrey comedy I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS hit the 2009 Sundance Film Fest to mostly positive reviews. The Hollywood Reporter called it "deliciously funny" while Variety added it will leave audiences both "laughing and stunned." That was over a year ago. How has a well-received Jim Carrey comedy sat on the shelf for so long? I don't know but be prepared for it to sit on the shelf even longer.

Consolidated Pictures Group acquired the rights to the film
after major buyers were scared off by the some of the explicit gayness in the film (Carrey loves Phillip Morris in more ways than one). It was scheduled for a limited release on April 30th but now a spokeswoman for the film says that it won't be hitting theaters on April 30th having been postponed indefinitely.

It just proves the MPAA are still Homophobic.They thinks gay movies doesnt sells.Only straight movies sells.

The movie is supposedly doing well in Europe.Europeans are way more ahead than Americans when it come to gay movies.Actually.Europeans shows hardcore gay sex scenes in mainstream European movies.They show cocks and they even show cum shots.

Hollywood always play safe with gay movies.Can somebody say Brokeback Mountain? Brokeback Mountain was obviously made for straight people.The sex scene is horrible.Nothing happens,its fast and you dont see anything.The MPAA is most likely to blame.

The MPAA really wants to show the least gay sex as possible.Maybe they are afraid that men would turn gay.Because gay movies supposedly makes the promotion of homosexuality.

In other words.Dont expect Hollywood to release a gay version of Basic Instinct anytime soon.

If the movie was called I LOVE YOU JENNIFER MORRIS.The movie would have been released a long time ago.

It looks like Hollywood wants to release gay themed movies only if they have stereotypes.Like Chuck And Larry.Hollywood doesnt seems to have problem releasing movies with feminine gay men.But.Hollywood doesnt seems to wants to release gay movies with masculine gay men.

European gay movies are better than American gay movies.Thats for sure.I like gay movies with lots of gay sex.I dont like gay movies American style with no gay sex.Everybody knows that the MPAA will cut the gay sex until theres almost no gay sex left in the movie.

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS will maybe go direct to dvd.Hollywood really doesnt care about gay movies.

Hollywood got it wrong.Again.

 

[evanrick]

fuck hollywood. i am SICK of all the bullshit romantic comedys. i think people have become brainwashed into thinking what an ideal life is because of what hollywood tells them. i think its systematic and on purpose because its easier to sell shit to people who are brainwashed.

 

[Nomenclature]

fuck hollywood. i am SICK of all the bullshit romantic comedys. i think people have become brainwashed into thinking what an ideal life is because of what hollywood tells them. i think its systematic and on purpose because its easier to sell shit to people who are brainwashed.

I've always thought romance movies were hilarious and retarded, because they idealize relationships so much. . .and the movies always end right when they fall in love.

In real life, everyone knows that falling in love is only the very beginning of a relationship, and that it always gets much more complicated from there. It can't possibly be a "They lived happily ever after" thing, because most relationships end within a few months or years. It's just so silly to me that people - mostly girls - grow up watching this garbage and think that real life is "supposed" to be that way.

 

[wastingmymind]

The trailer and therefore the movie didn't look that coherent to me.

And Hollywood doesn't care about gay movies:
Before Night Falls
Mulholland Drive
The Hours
Monster
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain
Transamerica
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Milk
Doubt
A Single Man
The Kids are All Right

 

[MyReply]

It's all that damn Ricky Martin's fault. If he came out sooner, then Hollywood would care about gay movies.

*snicker*

 

[kallipolis]

One of the best gay themed films ever made, was the 1971 "Sunday, bloody Sunday," where two male actors kiss one another. And the film was made in 1971.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/

A quote from a comment on the IMDB site:

"Sunday Bloody Sunday", which tells the story of two older adults (Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch) who are discreetly in an parallel relationship with a young, irresponsible artist (Murray Head), has never appeared on free television (i.e.: U.S. network and syndicated television). Unlike John Schlesinger's previous movie of two years earlier, the Oscar-winning "Midnight Cowboy", I have never seen this movie in a sanitized, edited version and I'm very glad of that.

Former New Yorker movie critic Penelope Gilliatt wrote a brilliant character study. In a very quiet, non-judgmental and unassuming way, I wonder if the story is a bit of an autobiography in the life of openly gay director John Schlesinger?

Very adult, thought-provoking and extremely well-acted, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was made in 1971 and despite some dated 70s trappings, is still way ahead of most movies that deal with the subjects of sexuality and adult relationships.

 

[Nomenclature]

Mulholland Drive

Straight guys lose their shit over lesbian kissing. This clearly doesn't count.

Million Dollar Baby

It's been awhile since i've seen this, but I don't remember it being a "gay movie". Someone please refresh me on this one?

 

[hotatlboi]

Most of the stuff in your rant is pretty unfounded.

I think the success of Brokeback Mountain pretty well shows that Hollywood is not afraid of a good gay movie. Maybe they just didn't feel this movie had broad enough appeal as a whole. Maybe it was just not a good movie.

I'm not sure why you think Americans have a problem with overt gayness or cock (obviously some do, but not enough to prevent a good gay movie from having success).

Bruno was pretty overtly gay and it showed cock, yet it was still successful in the US.

 

[wastingmymind]

was Casey Affleck gay for Pitt?

Yes.

Straight guys lose their shit over lesbian kissing. This clearly doesn't count.

It's been awhile since i've seen this, but I don't remember it being a "gay movie". Someone please refresh me on this one?

I remember the local queer criticism about Brokeback when the guy from Xtra saying that it was the first mainstream queer movie since Mulholland. And support the lesbians!

And it's Hilary Swank. Of course it's gender ambiguous and therefore queer. I would have put Mysterious Skin, but it's an indie and how much box office/Academy attention did it get?

 

[braex27]

May I add Far from Heaven, one of my all time favourite films and a fantastic gay-themed film.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

YOU COULDN'T DRAG ME TO SEE A MOVIE WITH JIM CARREY IN IT GAY OR NOT ................HE'S ICKY.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

The trailer and therefore the movie didn't look that coherent to me.

And Hollywood doesn't care about gay movies:
Before Night Falls
Mulholland Drive
The Hours
Monster
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain
Transamerica
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Milk
Doubt
A Single Man
The Kids are All Right

Problem is that none of those movies are happy gay love stories... they're all movies where the gay characters are miserable for the whole movie... preferably someone dies at the end. Make sure we throw in few serial killers (let's add Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct to that list).

Straight people in the USA only like gay characters if they...

a) can feel sorry for them.

b) can use them as support staff (Like Will and Jack or the Queer Eyes for the Straight Guys)

c) can be afraid of them and kill them at the end.





I can't believe that I agree with Marco

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

I think the success of Brokeback Mountain pretty well shows that Hollywood is not afraid of a good gay movie.

Brokeback Mountain was about two miserable gay closet cases and one dies at the end to be rightfully punished for being gay. Straight people will accept that.

This new Jim/Ewan movie is a funny, happy love story. Straight people will NOT accept that.

Bruno was pretty overtly gay and it showed cock, yet it was still successful in the US.

Huh? Brüno was an unmitigated bomb in the US. It was a total failure and the term "The Twitter Effect" was coined to describe how it opened huge and was destroyed in 24 hours by awful reviews done from the theater by the audience on their cell phones.

Who told you that movie was a hit?

 

[boxerdudeuk]

hollywood doesn't release the gay movies that gay people want to watch - mostly because heterosexuals won't be drawn to the movies, and they won't make money. the decision to make and release films is purely financial. outside of the hollywood machine, small independent films can get made and released, but not in the number of theatres and not using the distribution channels of the big studios.

it's a numbers game, pure and simple. if we only represent 5% of the population, they're not going to release movies that appeal to such a small demographic.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

hollywood doesn't release the gay movies that gay people want to watch - mostly because heterosexuals won't be drawn to the movies, and they won't make money. the decision to make and release films is purely financial. outside of the hollywood machine, small independent films can get made and released, but not in the number of theatres and not using the distribution channels of the big studios.

it's a numbers game, pure and simple. if we only represent 5% of the population, they're not going to release movies that appeal to such a small demographic.

That's pretty much it.

There also aren't a lot of "black" movies or "Jewish" movies to be found.

Those of us in minority communities have to accept that we make our own culture outside of the mainstream "white, Christian, Heterosexual" box.

There are some great "gay" movies out there... they just didn't play at the ciniplex at the mall.

 

[wastingmymind]

May I add Far from Heaven, one of my all time favourite films and a fantastic gay-themed film.

What the fuck? Why have I not seen that yet? (Also: have never seen a minute of Brokeback and Transamerica neither)

Problem is that none of those movies are happy gay love stories... they're all movies where the gay characters are miserable for the whole movie... preferably someone dies at the end. Make sure we throw in few serial killers (let's add Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct to that list).

Straight people in the USA only like gay characters if they...

a) can feel sorry for them.

b) can use them as support staff (Like Will and Jack or the Queer Eyes for the Straight Guys)

c) can be afraid of them and kill them at the end.

I can't believe that I agree with Marco

Straight people in the USA only like straight characters if they can feel sorry for them. Tragedy's better than comedy as a legitimate art form. Straight people like their movies to be 80% crap anyway.

Do you really wanna see a gay guy and his twink boyfriend fight off robots?

I'm not sure if we're on the same page when it comes to the cineplex thing. I believe that if you can't see something now, find it. A lot of people complain about the lack of queer representation as well as representation of blacks in cinema (Ballast) or Arabs (Paradise Now, Miral, etc.) or Jews (Woody Allen movies, half of the movies about the Holocaust). It's there somewhere.

 

[snapghisch]

The movie is supposedly doing well in Europe.Europeans are way more ahead than Americans when it come to gay movies.Actually.Europeans shows hardcore gay sex scenes in mainstream European movies.They show cocks and they even show cum shots.

I haven't heard of the movie, nor have I seen ANY main-stream movies here in Europe with hardcore gay sex scenes. You occasionally see a limp dick but I've never seen a cumshot.

 

[bounder]

I love how easily you can tell which parts of the OP are plagiarized and which aren't.

Meanwhile, I'll see if I can check this movie out on bootleg.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

While Brokeback Mountain got a lot of attention and acclaim in the US, it didn't perform that well in the box office...

Um... it made $100 million dollars in North America and was the #1 movie for a couple of days, got nominated for numerous oscars and sold really well on DVD.

It hasn't had a long life on TV... that much is true.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

A lot of people complain about the lack of queer representation as well as representation of blacks in cinema (Ballast) or Arabs (Paradise Now, Miral, etc.) or Jews (Woody Allen movies, half of the movies about the Holocaust). It's there somewhere.

True... but most of those movies aren't happy ending love stories... they're more "be afraid" or "feel sorry for" movies from what I understand.