This movie was super uncomfortable if you ain't gay…
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jstang411 — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 08:14 AM)
watching two men screwing each other is supposed to be suppressed.
If that was in the movie I missed it. Will admit the kissing in bed scene did make me a bit squeamish though. For some reason I was fine when the kisses when they were upright though. At the same time, I knew what the movie was about before I started watching. Didn't see I had any right to complain. -
ridge-m-1 — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 09:05 AM)
Spoken like a true homophobic, under-educated individual. It has nothing to do with political correctness. You yourself used the term "gay". The impolitic label would be "fag" or "queer". Don't be a hypocrite as well.
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BulmaPunkRocker — 11 years ago(January 01, 2015 10:47 PM)
You said it well OP in your post, it's YOUR truth, but the tittle of your thread it's a wrong generalization.
I'm not gay and I found this film great and very moving.
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LionInWinter — 11 years ago(March 22, 2015 06:43 AM)
It didn't make me uncomfortable, in fact, I thought it was cowardly to not even include a single "proper" gay sex scene. If you're going to make me watch 2 hours of gay propaganda oscar bait, at least go all the way.
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IStillAmBig — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 12:35 AM)
paomiazoh,
Though I respect your feelings on the subject, and feeling the way you do appreciate your openness in viewing the film in the first place, I have to say your comment comes across as somewhat juvenile.
As a gay person, I have been viewing straight love and sex scenes my entire life, and am not always comfortable with them, so can understand that if this was something new to you it may well have been an uncomfortable feeling to see.
Nonetheless, as you were open minded enough to give it a shot, it strikes me as disingenuous of you to go to the trouble of making a post specifically aimed at the film's content. The very heading of your post assumes that all straight people feel as you do and only the LGBT community will be comfortable with the subject manner.Untrue.
The film's critical and relative box office success suggest that many people of various sexual orientations admired the production. Perhaps this indicates that the problem lay not with the film's content and subject matter, but rather within yourself?
Personally, I'm not a fan of sex scenes in film as a rule - I tend to fast forward through them when possible as I find them boring - but in an instance when they are pertinent to the plot and forward the story, I watch because they're a part of telling the story.
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Ceephax — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 06:21 AM)
Hetero guy, no problems here. Best film Gus Van Sant has made, one of Penns best performances, one of the best films the year it came out. It's like the type of film Oliver Stone would've made early in his career if he were gay.