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I feel like he's being taken out of context here. He's saying straight people didn't show up, but he thinks it's a great movie, and unless you're homophobic you should check it out. Didn't seem to me like he was saying people were homophobic for not watching it, or that's why it didn't do well, but he was inviting everyone who wouldn't immediately hate it to check it out.

Also, I suspect this article is actually an advertisement for the movie.

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He's saying straight people didn't show up, but he thinks it's a great movie, and unless you're homophobic you should check it out.

I think a lot of straight people have no interest in checking this out, I don't and not because I'm homophobic. I support gay marriage, I support equal rights for anyone and don't want anybody to have less rights because of some silly identity group. Personally, I resent the implication that it makes me homophobic to not care about the finer points of gay bromance. I was on their side until they started firing shots at me

This kind of crap unwillingly makes me more prejudiced, like with the trans people, I used to just kind of shrug at their oddness, but now I can't HELP but kind of assume they are likely to be militant nazi's and try to avoid any interactions with them. I really don't give a fuck if an adult wants to mutilate their own body, not my problem, the only reason I started unconsciously stereotyping these people has nothing to do with their identity as weirdos, its the militant ideological evangelism that makes me not fucking like people.

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, I resent the implication that it makes me homophobic to not care about the finer points of gay bromance

I don't think that's the implication though, I think this is just contrived controversy to create buzz for the movie. If I made a movie and it didn't do well, and I said it failed because moviegoers are a bunch of limp wristed pillow biters, you wouldn't care.

But look at all these people who never heard of this movie before, like myself, and now there's some controversy, so people might just check it out to see what the deal is, or even to hate it.

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Thought some more on what you said Muskrat, I'm pretty sure you are right.

The audience for hetero Rom-Coms is women and the boyfriends they drag. They know neither of these groups is the target audience of 'Bro's', gay men are. They clearly had a target number of gay men they did not hit, and by making accusations of homophobia, gay men will flock to the movie to defend and support it from this 'vicious homophobic attack'.

Its sleezy marketing perpetuating this wedge between identity groups, and I shouldn't enable these fucks by helping them do it

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But look at all these people who never heard of this movie before, like myself, and now there's some controversy, so people might just check it out to see what the deal is, or even to hate it.

Yeah, you may be right, I'm sure they welcome the controversy after that bad of an opening weekend