Justin Brookes
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maybe it was just to shut judd apatow up since he apparently has been wanting to make one for a long time
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Hopefully his career won't be too tarnished or damaged by this first big movie outing of his bombing so terribly... I'd hate for him to have to go back to doing all those inane Hallmark Christmas B-movies.
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Tbh I like that approach. At least for this movie. It’s actually refreshing to see a mostly gay cast playing gay characters for once.
I mean the actual reviews of the movie are mostly positive. He'll be fine.
1. its a romcom, and the genre hasn't been very populat in theater for years
2. it came out in october, that's a time where contenders for Award are released and horror movies too, not the right time to release a romcom in theaters.
3. there's no "big name" attached, Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane aren't box office draw.
4. this is a netflix movie...
2. it came out in october, that's a time where contenders for Award are released and horror movies too, not the right time to release a romcom in theaters.
3. there's no "big name" attached, Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane aren't box office draw.
4. this is a netflix movie...
I need to rewatch Killjoys just to see more of this yummy man.
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And he has stayed out of this whole "post opening weekend" fiasco. He has showed restraint and class, and that will also help him going forward.
100%. Bros could’ve had a summer release had Billy not been insistent on making TIFF happen. It’s a major studio film not an indie, so it didn’t need TIFF nearly as much as it needed a different release date. Sad to say but he really sabotaged his own film in a lot of ways.
Luke probably doesn’t agree with where Billy’s placed blame and it’s not like he’s winning his argument. To blame straights and homophobes is pointless. The film wasn’t for them, it was for the gays. At least that was Billy’s initial target audience until he realized it was mostly straight people at the early screenings. Billy doesn’t even realize that to complain about what he did drove home the fact that gays didn’t show up in droves for it either. That’s almost more embarrassing than begging straight people to see your film to prove they’re not homophobic. So yeah, between Billy making a fool of himself and Billy not putting Luke’s name on any of the posters I would be keeping quiet if I were Luke too lol
Luke’s a good actor. Billy couldn’t even mask how bothered he was by Luke’s defense of masculinity here.
Yep - Luke has to pick his battles and this isn't one of them. He is probably more willing to lick his wounds and move on than Billy is. I do hope this gets a boost from streaming. In my humble opinion, it's not a bad movie, and folks just need to know what to expect going in (and with all the publicity since last weekend, I would think that they will know).
It felt very cut and paste to me and the sex scenes were overhyped for what they ended up being (more awkward and weird than fun and hot... even Elite on Netflix had a more graphic + tasteful gay sex scene!), but I enjoyed it so I hope it finds its footing on streaming too. A director's and/or unrated cut could only help
Billy has behaved like a nasty little shit this whole time. His promotion campaign was just self promotional. Just me me me me me. And now he's having fits on twitter attacking people for his movie collapsing. What did he expect - he pre-accused audiences saying conservatives should not turn up for his film and that people who don't watch it are bad people.
And I found him insulting in interviews towards Luke. I understand this is Billy's first big movie so he's excited. But share the lime light with Luke too. Luke's never been a lead in a studio movie before. He barely let Luke talk. In every interview he spoke 3 times as much as Luke, sometimes answered questions addressed at Luke, added to Luke's answers. It felt really condescending to me. I wish they had given them separate interviews.
And I found him insulting in interviews towards Luke. I understand this is Billy's first big movie so he's excited. But share the lime light with Luke too. Luke's never been a lead in a studio movie before. He barely let Luke talk. In every interview he spoke 3 times as much as Luke, sometimes answered questions addressed at Luke, added to Luke's answers. It felt really condescending to me. I wish they had given them separate interviews.
Billy doesn't have the name recognition he thinks that he does. Hopefully the end result not being what he wanted was a wake-up call (though I doubt his ego will stand for him being at fault). Flop or not, Billy should have let Luke have his well deserved moment in the sun without his dark cloud of a shadow.
I wonder if the writer regrets reaching out to Billy to co-write Bros.
Was Dan Levy busy? lol
Justin Brookes
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Great question. Dan Levy has won awards for his comedy writing. I have no doubt he could have written a better movie than Billy.
And Dan would have the grace to know he's not a leading man selling tickets - so he would happily let someone else be the lead. But Billy had to have himself be the lead.
Good point. I am wondering, given Luke's history as a "wholesome guy" with his Hallmark work, how much input he had into the more sexual scenes? I thought it was pretty tame - maybe he had some input into that? So many scenes on Netflix and HBO Max now that make the Bros scenes look like a Disney movie, but maybe Luke wanted it that way?
His nipples were so big in BROS, when you first see him. OMG, he must treat them or pierce them.
He's a traditionally attractive man, and a decent actor. What more do you need?
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