And the most homoerotic movie ever made is...

[Koxinga]

Or any of the Jay and Silent Bob movies?

[Tuckerfan]

Or The Phantom of the Opera? You know, the deformed guy, has to hide himself from society (in a theater), thinks that only one woman can “save” him, and is horrified when she rejects him because of his deformity. Sounds kinda like the story of a closeted gay man to me.

[gonzomax]

The correct answer is still Kiss of the Spiderwoman".

[Isamu]

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

[Scissorjack]

@The_Scrivener

No, that’s not what I was thinking. Rather, there’s a certain type of overly macho, dumbass, lewd and crude personality type, of whom some individuals are deeply closeted (even to the point of gay-bashing) gays. These are the kinds of guys who’d form heavy metal bands and write arena stompers to [women’s] “big bottoms,” etc. Come to think about it, a guy who’s desperately trying to pass as straight by adopting those mannerisms is kind of emotionally retarded – but because he’s living in denial and not because he’s gay per se. As for the guys in Spinal Tap, gay or straight, they’re emotionally retarded because they’re in a third-rate, stuffed-crotch, tongue-wriggling glam-ish hair metal band, but there is something about their pervasive sexual crudity that often smacks of overcompensation.

Well, that’s just nit-picking, isn’t it?

[Hypno-Toad]

@The_Scrivener

I got my copy out but couldn’t find it. Mine’s the Studio Canal/MGM “Special Edition” single-disc issue with over an hour’s worth of extra footage (the Joe Franklin Show interview, six TV commercials, some radio spots, etc.) but no listing of deleted scenes. Is your copy a rare Criterion or what? (And is there no doubt about what Nigel and David were referring to… this wasn’t a case of letting a fellow drunkard sleep it off on their couch or floor, was it?)

I’ll have to go look again. The scene takes place in a hot tub, and the humor is that the one telling the story doesn’t seem to realize that he’s outing the other (who is rather uncomfortable about the subject). And it seemed pretty clear that the sailor wasn’t there just to crash for the night.

Another deleted scene is David meeting his estranged 18 year old son for the first time in 10 years who is totally into the new wave scene. There’s a deleted scene in the Fort Worth Zoo where Nigel talks about apes being “bread-eaters.” and some other stuff with Derek working out his divorce over the phone and getting a roadie to help him with the cucumber.

[Moirai]

@gonzomax

The correct answer is still Kiss of the Spiderwoman".

It can’t be- that’s ALL text.

[ouryL]

I am partial to the movie “The Day the Fish Came Out” (1967). Two pilots crash land in the ocean and spend the entire movie clad in underwear or less.

[levdrakon]

@ouryL

I am partial to the movie “The Day the Fish Came Out” (1967). Two pilots crash land in the ocean and spend the entire movie clad in underwear or less.

Damn it! It’s not on Netflix! I want underwear-clad pilots in the ocean!

[Walloon]

It’s an oddball comedy that could have been made only in the '60s. The two pilots scamper around the island in their skivvies, and are mistaken by the locals for foreign spies.

[Hypno-Toad]

@Hypno-Toad

I’ll have to go look again. The scene takes place in a hot tub, and the humor is that the one telling the story doesn’t seem to realize that he’s outing the other (who is rather uncomfortable about the subject). And it seemed pretty clear that the sailor wasn’t there just to crash for the night.

Just watched it and it’s Nigel talking about when he and David were sharing a flat and David would bring home sailors to “Share the hide-a-bed.” David reports that it was all in an “Experimental frame of mind.”

[Henrichek]

Meh. I don’t find movies like 300 to be gay. Just because a movie contains some buff men doesn’t make it gay. Same goes for a movie like Gladiator. Are Arnie movies gay also? If that’s you peoples’ standard for gay, then you’ve made whole genres gay.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Henrichek

… If that’s you peoples’ standard for gay, then you’ve made whole genres gay.

yup

[MrDibble]

“Homoerotic” does not equal “gay”

[Henrichek]

@MrDibble

“Homoerotic” does not equal “gay”

Well, the OP mentioned “gayest movie”, hence my wording.

[aruvqan]

@Savannah

Ooh! I see what you mean. However, it’s a nice treat for my Sunday morning surfing.

um … bathtub …

wow.

i need a moment alone …

[ShibbOleth]

We’re missing a whole genre. What about pirate movies, or just movies of ships at sea. That’s practically a cliche.

That and Midnight Run.

[Punintentional]

I haven’t seen 300, but can i ask why it is so often cited as a hugely homoerotic film?

It can’t only be because it features a great deal of hot male bodies can it?

[Bridget_Burke]

@Punintentional

I haven’t seen 300, but can i ask why it is so often cited as a hugely homoerotic film?

It can’t only be because it features a great deal of hot male bodies can it?

From the Village Voice review:

Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the “gates of hell(o!)” Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara’d Xerxes. When he’s not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.

[HMS_Irruncible]

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