[QUOTE=Max Torque]
I’m going to suggest one would probably never occur to most of y’all: A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. I offer the following as evidence:[ul]
[li]The “hero” has the androgynous name “Jesse”.[/li][li]Jessie screams. A lot. At an unusually high pitch.[/li][li]In one of the first scenes, Jesse’s good friend Grady pulls Jesse’s pants down during a baseball game. Naked man-ass shot number 1.[/li][li]Because of that, their coach orders them to do push-ups. Exact words, “Assume the position.”[/li][li]Lest you think I’m grasping at straws with the above, Grady and Jesse then discuss whether the coach is gay.[/li][li]An “unpacking montage” with Jesse, including close-ups of him butt-bumping drawers closed and doing a “yankin’ my crank” movement.[/li][li]Dialogue: “Grady, do you remember your dreams?” “Only the wet ones.”[/li][li]Jesse sneaks out at night, looks for a bar, and ends up at a gay club. And guess what, the coach is there![/li][li]Coach makes Jesse run laps and shower. This leads into Coach’s death scene, which includes Coach being tied up with jump ropes, stripped naked, and his ass snapped with towels. Naked man-ass shot number 2. Total number of boobs in the movie, by the way, is zero.[/li][li]More close-ups of Jesse’s crotch in his underwear.[/li][li]A freaked-out Jesse runs away from his girlfriend to Grady’s house. Dialogue: “Something is trying to get inside my body.” “Yeah, she’s female and she’s waiting for you in the cabana. And you wanna sleep with me.” Grady then agrees to watch Jesse sleep.[/li][li]Then there’s more gibbering and crying and stuff until the very chaste ending.[/li][/ul]
Considering that this was supposed to be a slasher pic, the director made some very odd choices. I felt that he was having entirely too much fun taking pictures of young men in their underwear.
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:eek:
I am gasping not at the notion of a slasher movie with gay subtext, but at the thought of one without exposed boobs. What is the PURPOSE of slasher movies without mammary glands being exposed?
[QUOTE=ever rambling]
No love for batman & Robin? The statues in the background/ phallic goth archectural detail. the hot drummers, and circus peopleand motorcycles .
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No movie named Batman & Robin was ever released. Joel Schumacher began work on it and completed the first 10 minutes, but due to being stabbed repeatedly in the left eye by a knitted needled (wielded by Maria Shriver) he was unable to do any more work, and the protection was shut down.
[QUOTE=ever rambling]
No love for batman & Robin? The statues in the background/ phallic goth archectural detail. the hot drummers, and circus peopleand motorcycles .
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Circus people ? Are you thinking about Batman Forever where we see Dick Grayson’s acrobat family get wasted?
The gayness of Batman and Robin was used as a throwaway joke at the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which itself had a lot of gayness.
Not a mention of Fast and the Furious… I 'mean all the smouldering looks Vin Deisel and his counterpart toss at each other while being good “buddies” just screams “Hellllooooo”
[QUOTE=Walloon]
What makes you think that the gay subtext of Rope was unintentional? Screenwriter Arthur Laurents and stars John Dall and Farley Granger were gay. I think Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
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John Barrowman, Alexis Denisoff & Anthony Head appeared in a production of Rope back in 1993.
I don’t think Barrowman does subtext.
Back to movies. Fellowship is on TNT right now. Legolas & Aragorn were so doing it. When Aragorn wasn’t sharing Manly Man Tension with Boromir. (Tonight, I may not stay with the movie until “My Brother, My Captain, My King.” Sniff.)
And who knows what those hobbits got up to among themselves…
Frankly, the problem with 300 is that it isn’t gay enough.
Sanitizing out the overt homosexuality that was rampant in Spartan culture and replacing it with schoolyard homophobia was a predictable but offensive decision.
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
Ooooh, I end up provoking yet another thread, I’m getting good at this.
Well I’m sticking with my nomination from the original thread - Topgun. Seriously, that film gave me all the masturbation fodder I needed to keep me going through my teenage years until I could get my hands on some real gay porn.
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…and my best friend and I ditched our boyfriends and spent the entire movie making out in the ladies’ room.
The OP excluded movies including “overt homosexual relationships” so I think that one in which River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves played rent boys (and River’s character was gay; it was less clear whether Keanu’s character was) doesn’t count.
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn]
(and River’s character was gay; it was less clear whether Keanu’s character was)
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I think given his vehement statements about guys not kissing other guys and his enthusiastic screwing of the Italian farmgirl makes it pretty clear that Keanu’s character was straight.
