I’ve only heard good things about this movie all the festivals it debuted at!
This movie is another “watchlist movie for September” of mine!
This movie is a Comedy and Romance and a LGBTQIA+ movie.
It starrs Billy Eichner (Apple Tv+’s “Dickinson”), Luke Macfarlane (“Supergirl”), Guy Branum (“The Mindy Project”), TS Madison (A24’s “Zola”), just to name a few. This movie was directed by Nicholas Stoller (“Neighbors”).
Onto the premise: Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.
Bobby (Bill Eichner) is a professional gay – writer, media person, chair of a not-yet-open LGBTQ+ museum, and believes in non-committal sex. Aaron is a wills and estates lawyer.
Bobby trolls internet sex sites for hookups, but has no collection of dick pics or even ass pics to show.
Billy is bulked up, and hangs around gay dance clubs shirtless, watching other bulked-up shirtless guys dance. Bobby is a New York City boy, where at age 12 his parents brought him to a Broadway play that opened with 7 naked men, soft penises on view. Aaron is from upstate NY, played on his high school hockey team, is seen wearing a Buffalo Sabres shirt, and loves country music, especially Garth Brooks. (I think I heard strains of Friends in Low Places.)
This unlikely pair meet up at the dance club, and have an on-and-off relationship, with self-doubts and recriminations occurring . There is a lot of humor in play, with motor mouth Bobby skewering how gays have been portrayed, and the diverse museum board each pushing for more representation of their own minority group, as cis-white gay Bobby tries to keep control.
This is a big-studio film that aims at a general (i.e.
Mostly straight) audience, and I think the “1” ratngs come from those who don’t like the gay theme or don’t like multiple depictions of gays kissing and having sex.
On the flip side, the depictions are tamer than films geared towards gays – I didn’t see any dicks, and even asses were a rare sight. It brings up the scenario where, getting out of bed after having sex, they already have their underwear on.
Overall, this is a very good movie , with compromises made for a general audience. It so cool to see more people who are representing the LGBTQIA community in movies and tv shows, it really makes me so happy as a member of that community myself.
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