tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post813654155502145458..comments2024-01-20T06:29:42.450+00:00Comments on Not so wunderbar: I couldn't help but wonder...jondrytayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014577384156823525noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-41937620303672822022010-06-01T16:52:27.544+01:002010-06-01T16:52:27.544+01:00I have to admit that Fritz and I will sometimes re...I have to admit that Fritz and I will sometimes rent (or watch on Logo, our gay TV cable channel) some gay fluff, particularly if the boys are serious lookers and/or appealingly underdressed. But "Another Gay Movie" hasn't appealed sufficiently as of the moment.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-18229697691916609262010-06-01T16:38:08.127+01:002010-06-01T16:38:08.127+01:00Glory- yeah, Lindy West's been given a bit of ...Glory- yeah, Lindy West's been given a bit of a free pass, hasn't she?<br /><br />David, I think I'd rather walk naked through the streets of Abu Dhabi and face the consequences than see SATC2 (although I will doubtless end up having to watch it on DVD or Sky at some point). I haven't seen 'Another Gay Movie' but from what I read on wiki it looks more like a gay 'American Pie' than anything else...jondrytayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07014577384156823525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-71592378913854004292010-06-01T14:42:29.741+01:002010-06-01T14:42:29.741+01:00On which note, I should ask you both if you've...On which note, I should ask you both if you've seen a quite outrageous turning of the tables on Porky's, Animal House et al in the form of Another Gay Movie? We watched it at home last night. The four stars are the teenage answer to Carrie and co. It's actually a bit sexy too, if truth be told, and very, very naughty. I wonder if Graham Norton's 'fans' knew he was in this sporting... but no, you have to see it.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-56283070275168935022010-06-01T14:39:46.681+01:002010-06-01T14:39:46.681+01:00I didn't think for a moment you would, Will. I...I didn't think for a moment you would, Will. I was more curious, if you don't mind, to know whether our host intends to take a dip in shallow waters, or desert sand...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-51034314788011398552010-05-31T12:04:54.598+01:002010-05-31T12:04:54.598+01:00No, I have had limited contact with SITC during it...No, I have had limited contact with SITC during its television run and that was enough. We go out for a few independent films, foreign films, and the few (very few) intelligent films made in Hollywood, usually by fringe directors. The vast majority is all live performance of theater, opera, modern dance and symphony.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-63764526754379956882010-05-31T11:54:10.493+01:002010-05-31T11:54:10.493+01:00Yep, very interesting - I hadn't picked up on ...Yep, very interesting - I hadn't picked up on that in the thisisbeyondbad reviews I read. Except for one which found the winkwinknudgenudge handling of the 'gay wedding' at the beginning utterly baffling given that the gay director might have shown more ease with it.<br /><br />Anyway, it would be impossible to sit through this movie, I reckon. Do you intend to?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-151221611583374582010-05-31T03:42:06.919+01:002010-05-31T03:42:06.919+01:00Here in the U.S. the assault on gay men is in full...Here in the U.S. the assault on gay men is in full swing. The latest is that if the loathsome Don't Ask, Don't Tell is repealed openly gay soldiers will run riot at night in the barracks, imposing fellatio on innocently sleeping straights. There's no depth to which they will not descend. <br /><br />One of the earliest incidents of what you describe concerning SITC 2 that I can recall concerned Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? It was rumored that his original concept was for the script was to be played by four gay men. I know for certain of one production that was cast as three gay men and a woman. Albee always denied that he ever had anything in mind other than two heterosexual couples.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295296336756910308.post-39191853274731876522010-05-29T17:37:49.582+01:002010-05-29T17:37:49.582+01:00That's so interesting. Most of the SATC hatin...That's so interesting. Most of the SATC hating/critical deconstruction I've been exposed to has been by people who were feminists and/or gay, on account of its vapidity and tokenism. And by my mum because of its 'smutty badness'. <br /><br />I've just read Lindy West's review, and in it we've also got a ho-ho-humourous rapey metaphor, a dig at the lesbian relationship of Cynthia Nixon, and a backfired ironic Jewish name joke. And she calls the smutty badness one a prostitute. Ironically. Perhaps. So you could take your pick of offensivenesses really. Yet she left out some ironic jabs at the gay cliche wedding of the century, as Bryan Safi called it over at That's Gay.<br /><br />I always felt the series was a woman's representation of a particular kind of gay man's representation of a woman. The kind of man who'd buy the box set.Glory von Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04045115246564812877noreply@blogger.com