I watched a bunch of older action movies like Top Gun, Point Break, and Commando, and the fact that those aren’t gay characters is the most confounding thing about them. At this point, I want there to be a movie that in every way is like one of those classic action movies, with gun fights and car chases and hot dudes flexing hard muscles… and then have it be exactly as gay as it seems. Big guy blows something up with a rocket launcher, delivers a one-liner, then turns to his boyfriend, kisses him, and they ride off into the sunset on a speed boat.
Truly, if you watch some of the action movies from the 80s and 90s, that would be a more tonally consistent ending for quite a few of them.
Yeah, now that I think about it the closest I can think of to that is a lesbian spy movie. Y’all deserve some hypermasculine gay action movies! And not the “oh we decided to queer the genre” crap, no you deserve a “yeah we just kept always being surprised by movies in the genre where as a twist the guy who seems solely interested in the masculine side of life winds up with a woman, and so we decided not to do that.”
@captainlezbian@GraniteM Hot Fuzz kinda did that, with the two main leads basically going all life partners with each other.
It seems the script originally had a female love interest which was found to be a bit extraneous, so they gave all her dialogue to Danny, making for some very subtext-laden discussions about life and stupid action movies.
The director’s other cut is the whole gay subplot going along in the moments you don’t see between scene changes.
The real reason so many conversations go “There’s no time to explain!” then cut to 30 minutes later driving and delivering the next line? All. Out. Boning.
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I watched a bunch of older action movies like Top Gun, Point Break, and Commando, and the fact that those aren’t gay characters is the most confounding thing about them. At this point, I want there to be a movie that in every way is like one of those classic action movies, with gun fights and car chases and hot dudes flexing hard muscles… and then have it be exactly as gay as it seems. Big guy blows something up with a rocket launcher, delivers a one-liner, then turns to his boyfriend, kisses him, and they ride off into the sunset on a speed boat.
Truly, if you watch some of the action movies from the 80s and 90s, that would be a more tonally consistent ending for quite a few of them.
Yeah, now that I think about it the closest I can think of to that is a lesbian spy movie. Y’all deserve some hypermasculine gay action movies! And not the “oh we decided to queer the genre” crap, no you deserve a “yeah we just kept always being surprised by movies in the genre where as a twist the guy who seems solely interested in the masculine side of life winds up with a woman, and so we decided not to do that.”
@captainlezbian @GraniteM Hot Fuzz kinda did that, with the two main leads basically going all life partners with each other.
It seems the script originally had a female love interest which was found to be a bit extraneous, so they gave all her dialogue to Danny, making for some very subtext-laden discussions about life and stupid action movies.
I’m not a huuuuge fan of romance + action, but the lack of gayness feels pretty noticeable at this point. It’s like a loud silence
The director’s other cut is the whole gay subplot going along in the moments you don’t see between scene changes.
The real reason so many conversations go “There’s no time to explain!” then cut to 30 minutes later driving and delivering the next line? All. Out. Boning.
I mean obviously
I’m pretty sure there’s a gay campfire orgy in 300, with half of the Athenian contigent sitting and watching.
Umm I think you may have been watching the porn parady 😂🤣.
Maybe a deleted scene on the DVD extras.