why did it bomb?


it got a big red tomato

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Because nobody wants to see disgusting faggots doing disgusting faggoty things.

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Well that’s a bit harsh, and the fine folk at Focus Features would possibly beg to differ considering the $178 million Brokeback Mountain earned made it their most successful release at the time.

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People went to see that movie like they go to see a freak show. Now that it's being forced on us from every direction no one is laughing anymore.

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Haha.. Jesus Christ on a bike.. when did straight people become such hysterical drama queens? Forced on you from every direction? Really?? Name me three other gay themed movies released this year.. come on, if you’re being “forced from every direction” this should be easy for you…

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Every movie, TV show, video game, book, comic strip/book has alphabet bullshit injected into it. It's injected into school curriculum against parents wishes. Anybody who says anything against it on any social media gets banned. It's everywhere and nobody asked for or wants it. If you can't see it you're blind.

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But you can’t name three gay themed films released this year, right, but somehow “every movie” has gay themes?

That to me says you are overreacting and being hysterical over nothing. Seriously, you don’t have anything better to do than complain about a film you won’t watch anyway? That’s not gay people’s fault, that’s all down to you having too much time on your hands.

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But you can’t name three gay themed films released this year, right, but somehow “every movie” has gay themes?


Thor Love and Thunder; Bros; Bodies, Bodies, Bodies; My Best Friend's Exorcism; They/Them; First Kill; Crush; You Can Live Forever; Doctor Strange 2; Catwoman: Hunted; The Sandman; Harley Quinn; Arcane, Yellow Jackets; The Wheel of Time; The Last Duel; The Mitchells vs The Machines; The Colony; Fear Street; Anne+, and Sentinelle to name just a few.


That to me says you are overreacting and being hysterical over nothing


No, he's being reasonable. Normal people don't want to be entertained by fringe, fetishist propaganda. And no matter where you look it's thrown in your face. What's more tiring than the propaganda are the narcissists who attack normal people for being tired of having it force-fed in every single one of our entertainment mediums.

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May I remind you of this member’s original post:

“Because nobody wants to see disgusting faggots doing disgusting faggoty things.”

Who is attacking who now?

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His statement isn't an attack, it's an explanation. No one other than gay men want to see gay sex, even women, bisexual women, and lesbians don't want to see two men get it on:
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2018.1563935
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000047

The short and relevant bit from a separate survey on the same topic.... '"63% of women, however, say they wouldn't date a man who has had sex with another man

"This suggests that these women hold on to the view that while women occupy a wide spectrum of sexuality, men are either gay or straight," says Savin-Williams.'


And a large majority of women don't want to see two men hook up, nor have any romantic relations with them. Hence, to Befus' point, normal men don't want to see what Bros has to offer, and neither do most women.

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Ok FAGGOT whatever you say FAGGOT.

See what I mean?

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Okay?

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I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would ever want to see this movie. Not if it was free, not even if I was paid to see it.

The only LGBTQ-themed shows mainstream audiences want are about Dahmer and Gacy.

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I suppose that’s why Will and Grace ran for 11 seasons and was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49 from 2001 to 2005… because mainstream audiences only want to watch gay shows about serial killers. Righty-o 👍

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We're over that wise, sensitive, witty gay sidekick thing. It was a novelty way back when, but it hasn't aged well. We now know that show and all the other rom-coms with that dynamic were a Trojan Horse gambit to get people to admit gays into the mainstream.

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Dude.. you are panicking over nothing. The gays won’t hurt you. The overreaction makes you seem, forgive me for saying so, kinda sissy.

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Gays literally procreate by hurting people.

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Anything gay is going to get 100% or near that on RT or on any other review site. This movie was made for the 2% of the population that is gay. No one else.

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I AM NOT GAY...I WILL SEE IT...I JUST DON'T DO THEATERS...I KNOW MULTIPLE OTHER STRAIGHT MEN WHO FEEL THE SAME...SURE THE MAJORITY WON'T...BUT YOUR LINE WAS JUST WRONG.

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Yeah. I just don't think romantic comedies are the kind of movies people turn out to see at the cinema any more. The film's got good reviews. I'm sure it'll do just fine on streaming.

And the producers may have been hoping for more from the box office, but I suspect they always knew it was going to make the majority of its money in the domestic market. If I know it's not the kind of film that people see at the cinema in 2022, I'm pretty sure the bean-counters at Universal Pictures are aware of it too.

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Why Did Billy Eichner’s ‘Bros’ Bomb at the Box Office? Straight People Aren’t Entirely to Blame

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/31758136-why-did-billy-eichner%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98bros%E2%80%99-bomb-at-the-box-office-straight-people-aren%E2%80%99t-entirely-to-blame

Billy Eichner’s Universal-backed comedy “Bros” flopped at the box office during its opening weekend with a $4.8 million bow, about half of the $8 million to $10 million that the studio projected. Eichner, in a now viral tweet, claimed that straight people not showing up to an LGBTQ comedy was a driving force behind “Bros” underperformance.

“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore, etc., straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for ‘Bros,'” Eichner wrote. “And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”

Eichner is certainly correct that some straight moviegoers weren’t interested in the material, while homophobia about two men falling in love also likely figured in. During a recent trip to a multiplex in Georgia, for instance, this writer saw a group of men being openly homophobic by mocking the “Bros” poster for featuring a guy putting his hand on another guy’s butt. However, the $4.8 million opening for “Bros” is so low that it also means many LGBTQ viewers didn’t show up to see the comedy in theaters either. So why did “Bros” disappoint?

As mentioned above, the official poster for “Bros” featured the backsides of two men. Why? Because leading stars Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane just aren’t box office draws at this point in their careers. Coming out of the pandemic, star power has become far more integral to successfully opening an original title that’s not a superhero movie or a horror movie, the two most enduring genres at the box office (see the $22 million opening of “Smile” over the weekend).


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The Data Lounge's summation doesn't add up when you in figure in that Elvis did pretty good numbers domestically, and I've never heard of the guy in the leading role before he showed up in the film.

Films like The Bad Guys nearly did $100 million domestically, and it's not like it has A-list Hollywood talent leading it either. Same could be said for Nope, which actually did far better than it should have at the box office without even B-tier Hollywood talent in it and it's rated R.

Where The Crawdads Sing and The Black Phone also did decent against their budgets. In the case of Where The Crawdads Sing there are no well-known movie stars in that film, and for The Black Phone has Ethan Hawke and a supporting cast of nobodies.

So yeah, even factoring in movies that neared or crossed the $100 million mark at theaters without A-list Hollywood talent, there were still various films that charted that weren't solely superhero films or strict horror films. In fact, a film like Nope should have done WAY worse given that I'm not even sure what kind of film it is (haven't watched any trailers) and other than Michael Wincott and Keith David, I'm unfamiliar with the rest of the cast.

I think the simple explanation is that regardless of star power or marketing, no one was going to go out and see a film like Bros.

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I've never heard of either Billy Eichner nor Luke Macfarlane, until Eichner became America's latest crybaby.

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“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore, etc., straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for ‘Bros,'” Eichner wrote. “And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”


YEAH...A REAL CRYBABY.🙄

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yep , homophobia is to blame, should have made a billion

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In romcoms it actually matters if the audience can directly relate to the characters.
So unless there are big names involved not a lot of folks will be interested in a gay romantic comedy.

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It bombed cause people will barely watch a romcom even when it has A List celebs in it. Even this new J.Lo Shotgun Wedding is dropping straight to streaming.

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