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Mr Downtown Wrote:
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> As a gay man, though, I found the tent scene
> completely wrong in tone, like some straight
> person's imagination of what sex between men would
> be like.
So all gay men have exactly the same sexual experience?
Wow!
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As a matter of fact, my wife and I just saw this film this afternoon. Excellent film - it was as wrenching and tragic a movie as I have ever seen. The performances were wonderful.
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I actually thought that the gay sex scenes were generally a poor choice. For the record, I think that most sex scenes are a poor choice unless it really adds something to the story. In this movie, as in most others, it seemed more like a publicity ploy to make people talk about it, like what's-her-name showing her beaver in Fatal Instinct. It didn't improve the story any, but everyone remembers that scene. I think that they could have shown the relationship develop just as effectively without the sex scenes being so explicit. It was a very good story but overall not as good as everyone keeps saying it is. The short-story may be better.
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I think it was essential to the story.
I think the fumbling and the sort of animal immediacy of it kind of made it out to be what it was, two guys who really wanted this to happen but weren't quite sure how to go about it.
Heck, there are more explicit heterosex scenes in 90% of the movies these days.
I mean, they pull each other's shirts off, there are a couple of grunts, and that's it.
It ain't no big thang.
What the movie really explores best is the pain of the closet - of trying to play to everyone else's expectations instead of your own heart.
Michelle Williams was brilliant, by the way.
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Sex scenes are the reason some of us go to movies.
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They are certainly the reason I first went to see Debbie Does Dallas!
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Downtown, I totally agree with you. BGnR, I guess it seemed like there was no tenderness in it, and was just mechanical, and was more like porn than reality, but I guess most movie sex is pretty stupid, with clothese just coming off in seconds without any fumbling.
I don't think the movie would have gotten as much attention without mainstream stars and a mainstream, very well known director. There have been plenty of gay love story movies, many better than BBM, but they didn't have the big budgets and big names or show in big chain theatres so people don't see them.
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I think it was one of the few "gay" movie from a major studio with major director. . .I think no name stars still would have gotten the attention. ..without the big name director. ..it might not have gotten the exposure though. . .
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