Hey Ple! The Castro Theater is running triple-feature that's right up your alley.

February 9
“MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS” presents
SO STRAIGHT, IT’S GAY TRIPLE FEATURE! ALL THREE FILMS for only $10.00!
Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks
When misogyny and homophobia in the 1980s reached their most extreme, a new genre was born, oozing with confused sexual repression: “So Straight, It’s Gay.”
F 7:30p: Road House
Directed by Rowdy Herrington (Jack’s Back); Containing: Sir Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara; 1989, 114 mins, ‘SCOPE
This mean-spirited knuckle- bruiser of a film crowns Sir Patrick Swayze as the head bouncer in a small town bar named the Double Deuce Club (except I swear they keep saying the “Double Douche Club!”) What follows are the most over-the-top, ultra violent bar fights ever filmed! But nothing will prepare you for the countless confusing one-liners, the amazingly awkward straight sex scenes and Swayze’s ultimate oily Tai-Chi routine, epitomizing the most sexually confused decade of all… The 1980s.

F 9:45p: Top Gun
Directed by Tony Scott (Days of Thunder); Containing: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside, Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan; 1986, 110 mins, ‘SCOPE
Many joined the Air Force after watching this pinnacle “So Straight, It’s Gay” 80s film. But for the rest of us, we started to pick up on some of the undertones (that only co-star Val Kilmer seems aware of.) This slick, bare-chested macho fest follows Maverick, who finds himself in the danger zone as he cruises to achieve Top Dawg in the fleet. But oddly enough, the dynamics between Cruise and Kilmer (The Iceman) are much more breathtaking than any scenes with his intended heartthrob, Kelly McGillis. Come re-live those tighty-whitey, synth-pop glory-days (all hail Giorgio Morodor!) except this time, you’ll be rooting for the other side of Tom Cruise.

F 11:59p (midnite): Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Directed by Jack Sholder (The Hidden); Containing: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Clu Gulager, Robert England; 1985, 87 mins
With the tagline “You’ve got the body, I’ve got the brains,” Freddy takes a different approach in this infamous installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series. This time Mr. Kruger “inhabits” Jesse, a sexually frustrated teenage boy (Mark Patton gives the performance of his career… literally!) As Jesse confronts Freddy and his inner most fears, a sexual dilemma emerges from him (as well as a very high-pitched scream), resulting in an abundance of teen murders. This highly interesting, subversive (by default?) slasher film asks many more questions (of course) than it understands the answers to. But what would you expect from writers that also concocted sequences including killer basketballs and psychotic parrots who unexplainably self-destruct?! Preceeded by a gaggle of slasher trailers from the 80s!

Aimee. I share the amazement. The whole redefining of slavery thing makes me wonder if they are on crack.

I mean there are tiny absolutely miniscule grains of truth is some of this. There are cases of slavery in the U.S. today - taking place illegally, but none the less happening, and some of those cases are housekeepers or nannies. (Others are sweatshops, farms, and prositution.) But is is a long and crazy leap from "a very few people are kept as slaves and made to do x" to "all (or most) people working at x are slaves".

Porn and Pancakes!

Top Gun really IS one of the gayest movies of the 1980s.

And, almost 20 years later (good god! it can't be 20!), I still find the volleyball scene totally drool-worthy.

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I have a few minutes to kill. Anyone around to kill them with me? And what is our weapon of choice?

You know what's gay?

Tango and Cash.

Damn, that's some quality queer RIGHT THERE.

Damn, that's some quality queer RIGHT THERE.

I KNEW you were going to say that. (and you're right, of course).

You know what's gay?

Tango and Cash.

Possibly not as gay as Point Break, though. Especially Point Break with the sound off. That's as gay as Gunn and Wes in S2 Angel.

But is it gayer than early Smallville?

So we're killing my minutes with teh gay? Fitting.