Bottoms.... yes, this is the title of the film :)

[cany10011]

It's not what it seems... but really looking forward to watching it this weekend. Loved Ayo Edebiri in the Bear   and, of course Nicholas Galatzine in Red, White and Royal Blue  

 

Bottoms Clip: Ayo Edebiri & Rachel Sennott Create a Fight Club in Teen Comedy

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MGM has dropped the first Bottoms clip from its forthcoming R-rated teen comedy, featuring Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott.

 

[+ Cash4Trash]

A hilarious new film about 2 lesbians in high school = not what you'd expect. Wildly inventive. One of the stars is Nicholas Galitzine from Res, White and Blue, 

‘Bottoms’ review: In a queer ‘Fight Club’ with a side of ‘Heathers,’ the jokes and punches fly ｜ Chicago Tribune

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The wide, bright, satiric world of “Bottoms,” director and co-writer Emma Seligman’s second feature...

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Cash4Trash

[BuffaloKyle]

I didn't know Marshawn Lynch was taking up acting now! Weird. 😅

[+ Cash4Trash]

4 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I didn't know Marshawn Lynch was taking up acting now! Weird. 😅

He's actually quite good. Caught me off guard as well. What also caught me off guard was that one of my gay friends who saw it with me knew who he was. 

[BuffaloKyle]

5 hours ago, Cash4Trash said:

He's actually quite good. Caught me off guard as well. What also caught me off guard was that one of my gay friends who saw it with me knew who he was. 

Maybe he's a fan of when ESPN would do the body issues for their magazine:

 

[Guest]

The humor in the movie is quite crass, but everyone seemed to be laughing pretty hard. Especially recommended for our Lesbian sisters. Nicholas Galatizine, from Red, White and Royal Blue fame is the nearly 29 year-old playing a high school student/football jock. 

Edited August 31, 2023 by Unicorn

[+ stevenkesslar]

On 8/30/2023 at 5:53 PM, Unicorn said:

The humor in the movie is quite crass, but everyone seemed to be laughing pretty hard. Especially recommended for our Lesbian sisters. Nicholas Galatizine, from Red, White and Royal Blue fame is the nearly 29 year-old playing a high school student/football jock. 

Just saw it.   Hysterical!

As I had read, it was a great satire of everything that is politically correct.  Including itself.  How refreshing.  

Is it now safe to make fun of ourselves again?  😉

Speaking of which:

DOWN LOW Official Trailer (2023)

I love it that instead of queers having to commit suicide at the end of film, we can now just be gross and nasty like everyone else.

[Becket]

Can't wait to see Down Low. The preview looked great. I love the blond guy in the film. He was in the first White Lotus series and got a lil' neeked. It was great. 

[pubic_assistance]

On 10/10/2023 at 8:37 PM, Becket said:

Can't wait to see Down Low.

The trailer was good.

The movie itself...meh.

Lucas Gage (the blond guy) provided most of the comedic moments and did a good job holding up an otherwise cheesy film.

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8 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

The movie itself...meh.

Lucas Gage (the blond guy) provided most of the comedic moments and did a good job holding up an otherwise cheesy film.

True.  I thought the current reviews of Down Low on Metacritic nailed it.  I appreciated it for raunchy laughs.  And as a corrective.  Like this line from the Hollywood Reporter:

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The film pushes against the expectation of queer narratives to follow the same dolorous beats by prioritizing fun and crass humor. 

Although even that is a bit out of date.  These days, Gay suicide and psychodrama is old school.  Being Gay or Bi and in love is all about being Red, White, and Royally PC.  People loved Heartstoppers.  And it already had a season two.  RR & RB was adored by our Straight allies, and is one of Amazon's Top 10 streamed movies this year.  It will likely have a sequel. 

Straight people won't love Down Low.  And don't hold your breath for a sequel.  That could kill you.  Which would just make you necro bait.  Which I guess means there could be a sequel, with you in it.  🤔  

In the spirit of Bottoms and Down Low, let's spell out the limitations of being Red White & Royally PC.

Look.  I am Gay.  Did I mention Gay is spelled with a "G"?  Look.  I am a Bisexual.  I am not Gay.  Being Bisexual is NOT being Gay, okay?  Did I mention the "B" in LGBTQ stands for Bisexual?  Look.  We are holding hands.  That's NOT because we want to fuck each other.  That's because we are deeply in love.  Oh.  Did I mention we are deeply committed?  Not to having sex.  To marriage.  We don't like to talk about Gay sex.  We don't want you to think of us as having Gay sex.  All we need to explain to you is that when we are having something that may seem like Gay sex  to you, off camera - which does not involve mess, sweat, passion, or anal douching - our eyes twinkle.  Did I mention that is because we are deeply in love?

Okay.  I get it.  I get it.  That may be how we won a propaganda campaign for same sex marriage.  And tolerance for LGBTQ people, or whatever the fuck alphabet soup the whole queer thing is about this month.  But it is basically really fucking boring.  Okay?  Can't we just skip the love shit and put Taylor and Nick in a porn movie?  And somebody send Nick to a Gay Gold's Gym for a month first.  Where he hopefully gets fucked in the showers a lot.  He's Straight, so I think he needs the experience.

I think the message of Down Low is that, these days, The Gays can have our cock and eat it, too.  I can be deeply committed to Taylor, and marry him.  (He is Gay after all.)  And meanwhile I can run Nick over with a truck and fuck his dead body.  (He is Straight, after all.  So if he ever has been fucked he was probably face down and lifeless, anyway.  😒  We've all been there and done that.)

The other on target comment one reviewer made about Down Low is that, unlike in Red White & Royally PC, The Gays do not have to explain ourselves to Straight people. Or seek their acceptance.  That actually fits with my real life experience - both ways.  I know some of the best Straight female political activists in the country, who fought hard for same sex marriage.  They completely got why I wanted to volunteer for the cause of marriage equality.  They completely could not get why I wanted to be a Gay escort.  Such is life.  I just accept it.

Needless to say, I don't tell my Straight friends about how many hot dead guys I've fucked.  Hopefully they won't see Down Low, and catch on.  😉

Edited October 13, 2023 by stevenkesslar

[MikeBiDude]

On 10/10/2023 at 5:37 PM, Becket said:

Can't wait to see Down Low. The preview looked great. I love the blond guy in the film. He was in the first White Lotus series and got a lil' neeked. It was great. 

Just watched Down Low. Yeah not an Oscar contender but I really enjoyed it as fun. Loved Lukas Gage, who also wrote it.

[+ stevenkesslar]

On 10/13/2023 at 9:51 PM, MikeBiDude said:

Just watched Down Low. Yeah not an Oscar contender but I really enjoyed it as fun. Loved Lukas Gage, who also wrote it.

A footnote about Down Low.  

I'm liking what I will call Gage's "necrophilia standard".   Or maybe it should be called the "is it too over the top?" standard.  The buddy I watch a lot of TV with reacted to the (Gage) butt eating scene in The White Lotus by exclaiming, "Oh my God!  HBO has finally gone too far!"  Apparently not.  Gage got funding for something even raunchier.

I thought of this a few nights ago when I watched the 1998 coming out film Get Real, which Wikipedia describes as an LGBTQ cult classic.  I liked the film a lot.  That said, as I watched it I felt annoyed by all the Gay denial, and the Gay shame, and the embarrassment about kissing, and the embarrassment about cruising, and the embarrassment about ......... you know, just being Gay.  It was 1998, after all.  I could name just about any other good LGBTQ film made around them, or for years after.  Which was groundbreaking at the time.

So I'm all for the idea of The Gays being fashion forward and fucking dead hotties.  Or munching on Gage's butt while we are cracked up.  It is just fantasy, after all.  And cheaper to rent than a porno.  And perhaps having films like this is moving the Overton window, and hopefully making cinema less shameful about ................ well, being Gay.

 

[Simon Suraci]

I enjoyed Down Low. Not an Oscar film, and it doesn’t red to be. It’s a fun ride without having to appeal to everyone. Dark, irreverent, bitingly funny, and full of heart at the same time.

Zachary Quinto plays the repressed younger-middle aged man perfectly. And who doesn’t enjoy more screen time with him ❤️?! His character reminds me of some of my clients.

Lukas Gage brought so much comedy. I really enjoy when a film takes me past what situations I think the characters can get out of, and then goes even further, such that I am forced to suspend my disbelief and sense of realism and embrace the comedy for what it is, and the richness of the characters moreso than the plot or any sense of realism.

[Njguy2]

Watched "Down Low", was entertaining.  Some good script quips.  Lukas's performance was enjoyable.