Is America ready for Gay Cowboys on the Big Screen?

I can see the tag line now

"Yee Haw, ride-em cowboy!"

[SossMan]

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When I first saw this preview in theatres, I was seriously disgusted with the reactions of the people around me. I was sitting next to these two girls who were friends of friends and they were like laughing and being like, "omg..! so gross..!" etc, and there were similar reactions to be heard and seen from other people in the threatre as well. It seriously made me...angry in some way. Granted these girls and most of the other people I saw react this way were younger and probably somewhat immature, but it still pisses me off.

I don't know if America is "ready" or not, but I think more films or other forms of media showing homosexuals as "real people" and in a positive light is a good thing for America, whether they're ready or not.

GoT

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[Shajen]

The bottom line I think is the movie companies aren't ready for Gay Cowboys on the big screen.

Most of America won't waste their time watching a movie like this because it isn't interesting to them, therefore the movie companies willl LOSE MONEY. They don't give two shits about gays or anything else, it's all about the money.

I personally won't watch it because wtf does being gay have to do with being a cowboy? Not a goddamned thing.

[exist]

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I personally won't watch it because wtf does being gay have to do with being a cowboy? Not a goddamned thing.

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i agree. i don't watch any normal cowboy movies either cause the characters are always straight. i mean wtf does being straight have to do with being a cowboy? not a goddamned thing.

[El Barto]

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When I first saw this preview in theatres, I was seriously disgusted with the reactions of the people around me. I was sitting next to these two girls who were friends of friends and they were like laughing and being like, "omg..! so gross..!" etc, and there were similar reactions to be heard and seen from other people in the threatre as well. It seriously made me...angry in some way. Granted these girls and most of the other people I saw react this way were younger and probably somewhat immature, but it still pisses me off.



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I think your reaction is unjustified. People have honest reactions to what they like in a relationship. If I were to post a picture of an ugly woman and we got the standard gross-out reactions, that would not mean that those posters are bigoted against ugly girls. Ugly girls just don't fit into their personal preference. The same is true of those people you describe in the theatre.

Stop attributing motives to people who you don't know. We don't need the thought police here, do you presume to know how people should think? Do you presume to have the right to define what relationships people should prefer and how they should react to those they do not prefer?

[M2d]

we do not need another freakin cowboy movie, gay or not.

[GuyOnTilt]

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I personally won't watch it because wtf does being gay have to do with being a cowboy? Not a goddamned thing.

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This makes no sense to me. Because the movies includes characters who are both cowboys and gay and you think (correcctly) that the two are not correlated, you will not see the movie? That seems completely illogical to me.

Couldn't I make that exact same statement about any movie? I won't see Saving Private Ryan because what does being a solider have to do with being a schoolteacher/having brown hair/being married? Yes, the answer is nothing. But who said they did and what does that question have to do with anything whatsoever?

GoT

[Dominic]

if it's a good movie, I don't care what the subject matter is.

[JackWilson]

Obviously I'll go see it, although I hate cowboys in general and these guys are really not my type...but I'll see it because it's interesting and different. The title would have been better as "Bareback Mountain" tho. Seriously...Brokeback? WTF is that?

[Shajen]

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This makes no sense to me. Because the movies includes characters who are both cowboys and gay and you think (correcctly) that the two are not correlated, you will not see the movie? That seems completely illogical to me.


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I never claimed to be logical. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I have not seen the previews. I just simply don't have an interest in seeing this movie, mainly because I imagine the central theme will be about them being gay.

My personal take on gay/lesbians is who gives a [censored] if you are gay or not? Does it impact me? No? Ok then. So, if this is indeed central to the movie, I won't watch it, because I don't care.