'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
They don't all have to be good, they don't have to all get it right.
But I do get that the gay men sex==anal sex==painful or unpleasant is, intentionally or not, stigmatising a group of people, including the ones that have no intention of having anal sex.
The director is the one presenting it as an either/or.
Yeah, you have a point ita, I won't disagree there. But just because that's where mainstream films start, it doesn't mean they have to end there. There have already been gay sex =/= painful depictions on film, but I'm thinking art films, not big movies.
From what I've read and seen (including slash, dear god, including slash), all gay men have anal sex, and anal sex always comes with a dose of pain, extra when it's your butt v-card. For a director to say "Gay sex hurts, Daniel! We have to make sure this is conveyed in our movie!" it's...it's a face, not a facet. If we did have the sort of proportional appearances in stories that has been suggested accomplished, then a range should be representative too.
Just because there are lazy stupid criminal black people doesn't mean I don't get agitated when they start dealing the cards from the negative end of the stats.
GRAVITY is a movie about depression. Interesting take.
This may be my favorite of the Hard SF tweets:
In the post-apocalyptic future, a lone US Postal Carrier continues his rounds. He is arrested for breaching furlough.
Wes Anderson film is Wes-Anderson-y: [link]
Ralph Fiennes has quite the way with Wes Anderson-y dialog.
Wes Anderson films remind me of John Irving in tone. Or possibly because this was a hotel. But I enjoyed the trailer.
that made my DAY.