There’s a weird New Zealand film called Desperate Remedies, and besides the actual lesbian plotline, there’s an exchange which goes on between a half naked and incredibly hot Kevin Smith may he rest in peace, and an almost as hot half naked Cliff Curtis. Even though they end up stabbing at each other later on, it looks a lot like they’ve been gettin’ it on hot and heavy before their mutual (female, who happens to be a muncher) love interest shows up.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Jeepers Creepers 2 (maybe nobody else has sat through that drek?). Not only is that movie really really gay but it’s done in a very creepy way. A frail boy is picked on by the big tough football player who then goes out lines up shirtless with several other muscular boys who then all pee together. The monster has a large fleshy fold on his face that is so a vagina who proceeds to point at a boy on the buss and licks the windows. By about halfway through I was bursting out laughing every time I caught another creepy gay vibe from the movie. Even my friend who is about as deep as a spoon quickly started catching the weird tone of the movie and was laughing with me. We just about died at the end of the movie where the director couldn’t resist but put one more muscular shirtless boy in the movie for no reason what-so-ever.
Later I found out this guy was the director. Imagine my lack of surprise.
Disclaimer I understand that gay does not equal pedophile this guy just happens to be both
Spot on. All the crying and “I love you Mr Frodo were dead giveaways”, Sam only married Rosy as a cover.
“Can you see the bottom?”
I sat through it (and drek it was) and now that you mention it there was a pretty homoerotic theme going through it. The hot boys in it did spend an inordinate amount of time with their shirts off.
Not that I was complaining…
Wait, didn’t they end up sleeping together? Wasn’t that kind of implied at the end of the film?
I can’t believe that I forgot to mention The Lost Boys, if only for the bathtub scene.
I once read an entire Smallville slash fic based around the subtext of that film, so I know it wasn’t just me.
I picked this up on VHS because of the Xena connections–but was amazed by the movie. Totally over the top in every way.
No DVD release, alas.
Bearing in mind that everything is second-place to 300, count this as another vote for the LOTR trilogy. All those big strong men (and some tall willowy men) riding off into the mountains together away from the womenfolk. Too bad they left out the nekkid-hobbit-bath scene from early in the books.
TAKE THAT BACK!!!
(stupid vbulletin won’t let me yell when I need to.)
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I don’t see it in that movie for anybody other than Sam & Frodo (and even then it’s just that Jackson was accidentally true to the books and captured a different culture). In the first movie, Legolas & Gimli can just barely stand each other.
How about Ben Hur?
According to co-screenwriter Gore Vidal, Stephen Boyd and director William Wyler (as reported in the book and the movie The Celluloid Closet), there didn’t appear to be sufficient motivation for Messala’s actions, especially his actions against Judah Ben-Hur’s family. Although there wasn’t any suggestion of it in Lew Wallace’s novel or the 1925 silent version, they decided that Messala had been in a homosexual relationship with Judag Ben-Hur before he departed for Rome, and was hoping to resume it upon his return. His being disappointed in this lead to his spiteful actions. According to TCC, you can see Messala’s expectations in his gaze at his reunion with Ben-Hur at the beginning.
According to them, Heston wasn’t in on this, but played it straight. “Don’t tell Chuck”. That’s plausible, if true – it would explain why their characters experienced such a mismatch.
Makes you wonder, when you re-watch the film after hearing this.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960426/REVIEWS/604260301/1023
To me, THE 300 was just a terrible movie!
Question: when did the greeks start wearing pants? Did they learn from the persians?
How can you mention Point Break and Shaun of the Dead right next to each other and not reach the logical conclusion of Hot Fuzz? I’d say that Nick Angel and Danny Butterman have way more homoerotic subtext than Shaun and Ed- although with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, you can pretty much expect homoerotic subtext whatever they do. But it’s especially prevalent in Hot Fuzz, since Nick was originally scripted with a female love interest, but she was in the way of the story, so they just gave most of her lines straight to Danny instead.
Did they use that gag in Shaun of the Dead? I thought it was from Spaced.
“He’s not my boyfriend. (picks up phone) Hey babe.”
When did they wear pants? All I saw were jockstrap things that even Till from Rammstein would be too modest to wear.
Also, for all the talk of 300, no one’s specifically mentioned the two big gay moments:
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Astinos and Stelios (Buff Spartan #1 and Buff Spartan #2, in case you’re confused about anyone other than King “SPAAAARTA” Leonidas) flirting while stacking dead Persians. Only in 300 would this seem romantic.
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Xerxes basically offering to make Leonidas his queen. What gets me isn’t the over-the-top sparkly body paint and BDSM getup Rodrigo Santoro is sporting, but that when Xerxes puts his hands on Leonidas’ shoulders, Leonidas doesn’t jerk away or snarl at him to stop touching him – but instead he sort of leans back into Xerxes’ hands, as though waiting for a backrub. Tragically, this dialogue was cut:
XERXES: We will kill your men and rape your women! Oh, and… are you doing anything later?
LEONIDAS: Your tent or mine?
New version. The original was made in the mid-1970s sometime, probably before Tyrese was even a zygote, much less an actor.
I’m pretty sure there was an answering the phone version in Spaced and a drinks version in Shaun of the Dead. Well, I know for a fact about Shaun, since I watch that movie at least once a month.
That’s right, Legolas and Gimli hate each other at first, because of ethnic rivalry. But through shared hardships and competing to kill the most orcs, they bond, and overcome their learned hatred for one another, and by the middle of the third movie, they’re sharing a horse! Doesn’t that pretty much spell it out for you?
Legolas = Twink
Gimli = Bear
And they wrap their thighs around the same horsey at the same time! Holding tight to that bucking bronco, as they gallop across the plains on the steed given them by the horsemen of Rohan!
They learned the hard way not to have sex with any from Gondor, lest they catch Gondor-ea.
I said I didn’t see it for the FIRST movie. I agree that there’s Legolas-Gimli subtext in the other two, as they reconciled up in Lothlorien. And nobody has sex in Lothlorien, as everrone’s too busy pining for the unattainable Galadriel and frantically thinking of ways to earn their way into her bed.
Well, everybody except for Celeborn, who’s already in her bed, and Arwen & Celebrian, as that would be ooky.