A romantic comedy about gay men. The usual target audience for rom-coms is straight women. And for all virtue signaling, most straight women are absolutely disgusted by homosexual behavior in men.
Surprise. Straight men don't watch "rom-coms", let alone one for faggots. Lesbos aren't interested and shlick-bait for straight women needs to involve straight relationships.
Right. Men want to see the guy save the world and get the girl. Not 90 minutes of him acting like an incompetent cuck who is inexplicably drawn to the most milquetoast made-for-cat-lady-self-insert wahmen.
Why would anyone be surprised by this? I don't give a shit if they want to make a movie about gay dudes. I'm not interested in seeing it. Most other people probably wouldn't either.
By their own fucking "intersectional" logic, people need to feel "representation" to enjoy something, so if they're not "representing" 98%+ of the market, you shouldn't expect much of the market to want to see it.
That said, I'm glad it looks like it's going to completely bomb. Somehow I hadn't even heard about this one, but it looks like it got all the usual "stunning and brave" and "breaking barriers" nonsense critic talking points, so IMO it deserves every penny it loses.
This is an important data point. It reflects the true demand and how it's involvement in entertainment for normal people is purely vampiric. Nobody wants it, clearly not even gay people.
The famous line from "Brokeback Mountain" was "I wish I could quit you".
Looks like they can.
Seriously, though, a movie like this might have made waves 20 or even 10 years ago, but what exactly is new about gays in movies these days? We've seen gay people in Marvel movies and even in Star Wars.
They're gay, whoopdie do. Do you have anything else? No? Okay, move along.
Consider the libido of the average young male in this movie's focus group, multiply it by two and you'll understand why gays are notoriously considered sex fiends. Now they release gay porn with all talking and no porn and wonder why it tanks. A series of gay jokes is of no interest to anyone.
Not surprising; because it wasn't a bastardisation of an already beloved series, they didn't have any fans to call bigots and thus draw attention to it. Their "target audience" is also about as tiny as their box office returns.
They shouldn't have ignored the lucrative middle-eastern market! That's where the money is at.
A romantic comedy about gay men. The usual target audience for rom-coms is straight women. And for all virtue signaling, most straight women are absolutely disgusted by homosexual behavior in men.
It is fetishized by them, but only as a supporting role.
No one better than a faggot wingman?
“Gays make the best friends!”
Because even women don’t want to be friends with women.
Disgusted isn't the right word. More like terrified.
What about yaoi? What about slash fiction? Women love that shit, fictionally at least.
That is a small amount of female weebs and female weebs are a small amount of women.
O hell yes
That is a small amount of female weebs and female weebs are a small amount of women.
Blacks need black movies or else they can't relate. Women need woman movies or else they can't relate.
But why should normal people relate to uwu fagboys?
You intentionally ignored the part about black people, right? Both are equally idiotic, but you just had to. Tism can't let you not.
They had to call it Bros because no one wanted to see the accurately titled Screeching Faggots.
"You wanted white protagonists, right?"
lol.
What audience lol
The critics are the audience for this one
> Chase 3-5% of the population
> HOW COULD THIS BE HAPPENING TO ME.
Surprise. Straight men don't watch "rom-coms", let alone one for faggots. Lesbos aren't interested and shlick-bait for straight women needs to involve straight relationships.
Not the sort that gets called a "rom-com," anyway. Give the love story a backdrop of adventure instead of urban makework and we're far more amenable.
Plenty of "rom-com" in the original Indiana Jones.
Romancing the Stone was literally Indy meets a RomCom. And wasn't entirely terrible.
Right. Men want to see the guy save the world and get the girl. Not 90 minutes of him acting like an incompetent cuck who is inexplicably drawn to the most milquetoast made-for-cat-lady-self-insert wahmen.
>Brings in $6M
>Costs 22M
>Still a better result than Bored Of The Rings.
Gays don't need to take their dates to the movies.
All they need is some meth and a bathroom
Why would anyone be surprised by this? I don't give a shit if they want to make a movie about gay dudes. I'm not interested in seeing it. Most other people probably wouldn't either.
By their own fucking "intersectional" logic, people need to feel "representation" to enjoy something, so if they're not "representing" 98%+ of the market, you shouldn't expect much of the market to want to see it.
That said, I'm glad it looks like it's going to completely bomb. Somehow I hadn't even heard about this one, but it looks like it got all the usual "stunning and brave" and "breaking barriers" nonsense critic talking points, so IMO it deserves every penny it loses.
Not even the gays want to see it.
It's an IdPol vanity project for that dude who ruined Timon with his whiny voice. Not that the rest of that Lion King remake was any better.
Charlie's Angels was another IdPol vanity project.
This is an important data point. It reflects the true demand and how it's involvement in entertainment for normal people is purely vampiric. Nobody wants it, clearly not even gay people.
the modern audience was too busy
Surprised "get it?? we're gay!!" Isn't doing better
I'm willing to believe it might be a good movie, but it's a niche product that most people will be indifferent to at best.
The famous line from "Brokeback Mountain" was "I wish I could quit you".
Looks like they can.
Seriously, though, a movie like this might have made waves 20 or even 10 years ago, but what exactly is new about gays in movies these days? We've seen gay people in Marvel movies and even in Star Wars.
They're gay, whoopdie do. Do you have anything else? No? Okay, move along.
Jeffery was a better gay rom-com
And was put out by Orion Pictures, a major studio in the 90's.
Consider the libido of the average young male in this movie's focus group, multiply it by two and you'll understand why gays are notoriously considered sex fiends. Now they release gay porn with all talking and no porn and wonder why it tanks. A series of gay jokes is of no interest to anyone.
So ... Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ... without the drag or the bus.
Not surprising; because it wasn't a bastardisation of an already beloved series, they didn't have any fans to call bigots and thus draw attention to it. Their "target audience" is also about as tiny as their box office returns.