How It Started

Eichner from the trailer: "Straight people are over, they had a good run."

How It's Going:

Eichner: "Why won't these bigots come see my movie I told everyone I didn't want them to come see?

It isn't the best advance promotion idea, I suppose.

As someone who watched the movie. It was funny. It's a nice hybrid of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 40-Year Old Virgin, and 5 Year Engagement. Don't know if you need to see it in a theater, but when it hits streaming, I'd recommend it. It probably will join Game Night as a perfect plane movie.

Wait... so now it's a character flaw to not like Bridesmaids? Bridesmaids is mediocre at best. In no world is that my go to great comedy.

No one said it was a "go to great comedy," just like no one said it was a "character flaw" not to like it. I was simply pointing out the out-of-touch nature in mocking someone for liking it, considering it's a generally popular and well-liked movie.

Funny, though, how you take the side of the guy making fun of someone for *liking* Bridesmaids, but find fault in those who give someone a hard time for *not* liking it.

I liked Bridesmaids. It's not in my top 20 or anything but I saw it with my wife with low expectations and it was actually pretty entertaining.

Another underrated comedy was I Love You, Man. In my top 10 for sure.

And Andy Samberg has a great character as Paul Rudd's character's brother.

I Love You, Man is so great.

I really, really miss that entire 2003-2012ish era of comedy.

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I don't relate to gay culture in any way and Billy Eichner is a jerk. So no, I have zero interest in seeing this movie. Apparently the movie has bombed so far and Eichner is blaming the "homophobic" public (which is absurd), so this makes me even less likely to see it.

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If they wanted to attract straight white middle aged males, maybe advertise it a bit on platforms that my demographic might frequent.

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Would not make any difference. When it comes down to it, "straight, white, middle aged males" is just simply not the demographic that movies like this appeal to. I'm in this demographic and all the marketing in the world is simply not going to make me want to see this movie.

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No one said it was a "go to great comedy," just like no one said it was a "character flaw" not to like it.

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Read the thread title, bro. God you are insufferable.

You literally said "go to great comedy." Now you're telling me to read the thread title, which has exactly zero of those words in it.

Regardless, over the past decade or so, Bridesmaids *is* one of the few comedies that comes to mind as an across-the-board crowd pleaser. That doesn't mean that it was objectively "great," though, only that it stands out as a reference point in the OP's mind.

Either way, once again, here you are calling people out, complaining like you do, all the damn time, in every damn thread, yet when I call you out, I'm "insufferable." You are forever incapable of looking in the mirror.

Why are you so obsessed with me?

Also, I didn't put it in quotes... you did. You have a problem.

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I'd pay to watch TC and Dallas duke it out MMA style.

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I'm sure Dallas, The Debt, aTmAg, and a couple others would love to form a Voltron of disgruntled hypocrisy and annoyance to try and give me what they think I deserve.

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I'd pay to watch TC and Dallas duke it out MMA style.

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AggieUSMC said:

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If they wanted to attract straight white middle aged males, maybe advertise it a bit on platforms that my demographic might frequent.

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Would not make any difference. When it comes down to it, "straight, white, middle aged males" is just simply not the demographic that movies like this appeal to. I'm in this demographic and all the marketing in the world is simply not going to make me want to see this movie.

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um well..........I am have been married to a latina for 22+ years and she has absolutely no interest in this movie either. In fact, she let the "Mexican" out recently when a commercial was on our big screen in our living room and she was like WTF is this? During prime time? Are you kidding me?

The truth is that this film attracts a very small audience across all America. I have no interest in gay male films (sorry, not sorry, I was born this way). Neither does my wife or pretty much anyone we know. No one is talking about this just the same way they don't talk about any other film that bombed. We just don't care. Likewise, I don't watch NASCAR or soccer or baseball. Boring. Not interested. Zero f's to give. Get over it.

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AggieUSMC said:

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If they wanted to attract straight white middle aged males, maybe advertise it a bit on platforms that my demographic might frequent.

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Would not make any difference. When it comes down to it, "straight, white, middle aged males" is just simply not the demographic that movies like this appeal to. I'm in this demographic and all the marketing in the world is simply not going to make me want to see this movie.

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um well..........I am have been married to a latina for 22+ years and she has absolutely no interest in this movie either. In fact, she let the "Mexican" out recently when a commercial was on our big screen in our living room and she was like WTF is this? During prime time? Are you kidding me?

The truth is that this film attracts a very small audience across all America. I have no interest in gay male films (sorry, not sorry, I was born this way). Neither does my wife or pretty much anyone we know. No one is talking about this just the same way they don't talk about any other film that bombed. We just don't care. Likewise, I don't watch NASCAR or soccer or baseball. Boring. Not interested. Zero f's to give. Get over it.

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That's great! It's good to know your Latina wife let out the "Mexican" while having a homophobic reaction to a movie trailer.

Thanks for sharing *passes the 'I will never see it' stick to the next board 16 member*

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TeleAg and TCTTS just need to bang it out already. The sexual tension between you is something fierce.

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Urban Ag said:

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AggieUSMC said:

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If they wanted to attract straight white middle aged males, maybe advertise it a bit on platforms that my demographic might frequent.

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Would not make any difference. When it comes down to it, "straight, white, middle aged males" is just simply not the demographic that movies like this appeal to. I'm in this demographic and all the marketing in the world is simply not going to make me want to see this movie.

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um well..........I am have been married to a latina for 22+ years and she has absolutely no interest in this movie either. In fact, she let the "Mexican" out recently when a commercial was on our big screen in our living room and she was like WTF is this? During prime time? Are you kidding me?

The truth is that this film attracts a very small audience across all America. I have no interest in gay male films (sorry, not sorry, I was born this way). Neither does my wife or pretty much anyone we know. No one is talking about this just the same way they don't talk about any other film that bombed. We just don't care. Likewise, I don't watch NASCAR or soccer or baseball. Boring. Not interested. Zero f's to give. Get over it.

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That's great! It's good to know your Latina wife let out the "Mexican" while having a homophobic reaction to a movie trailer.

Thanks for sharing *passes the 'I will never see it' stick to the next board 16 member*

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So dramatic.

The initial TV commercials for the movie made it look BEYOND awful. It looked like a completely bottom of the barrel formulaic rom com and only trying to use a gay couple to be different. It looked insultingly bad, I would have had no idea Judd Apatow or Stoller were involved.

If it's truly a funny movie, those commercials did a huge disservice to it - in my opinion.

I don't think Rom Coms are doing that well over the last decade - https://www.statista.com/statistics/668722/romcom-box-office-gross-north-america/ for proof - and even if not a homophobe I don't think many straight men are comfortable watching men engage in romantic interactions. And the movie definitely should have every romantic interaction between the leads that is typical of a rom com, it shouldn't sanitize it at all just because it's a gay couple - I hope it doesn't. But that also may limit the potential audience.

I read this entire thread. Hilarious drama.