Quote Originally Posted by Jasun
Apparently Jake Gyle-thing-a-hootie said that the movie plays better to stragith audiences who like to see their homosexuals full of internal torture than to gay audiences who like to see their homosexuals strong.
Whatever. I thought it was a piece of crap.
Well I haven't seen the movie yet, but will. However I noticed in the WSJ review that the screenplay is by Larry McMurtry. Well I've read Lonesome Dove and the Last Picture Show..... I think it would be safe to say that many of McMurtry's characters - depicting the modern day male in the West - are all filled with internal emotions.

Just go watch Hud sometimes, which is a great old movie. It's not really a gay thing - more of a genre thing. Movies like the Last Picture Show are what made the Westerns in the 1970s different from the John Wayne "strong" western man characters from decades earlier.

Maybe you just don't like the way that genre treats men in general.

Steve