The reviews for Bros are RAVING!! Billy Eichner is a star!! Oscars for Best Picture! Best Actor!!

When was the last time a rom com was nominated for an Oscar?

ugh @ queer

OP = Jeffrey Lyons

It's not a gay film, it's a QUEER film!!!!

If this is sold as “queer” and not “GAY” then they can fuck right off.

It's got trans people in the trailer, of course it's going to be sold as queer.

Look at the size of this sad critic (photos of him in his banner photo on Twitter posing with Lance Bass and LMM). Pretty sure we're not actually going to be seeing a classic based on his word.

More raves!! Billy is a STAR!!!

Datalounge SEETHES!!

More RAVES!!

This generation's When Harry Met Sally!!

More reactions, some writers and some audience members.

[quote] Erik Anderson @ TIFF: I loved BROS so much. Funny, heartfelt, slightly savage, our You’ve Got Mail and more. Come for the gay sex and romance, stay for a Renée Zellweger joke for the ages.

[quote] @TomiLaffly: Nicholas Stoller’s rom-com BROS was a riot. Loved. Didn’t stop laughing.

[quote] Dancin' Dan @ #TIFF22: The importance of the mere existence of BROS cannot be understated, so it gives me great pleasure to report that it isn’t just a great gay romcom, nor just a great romcom, it’s a great film PERIOD. Line for line the funniest film of the year, and a milestone for Hollywood .

[quote] Doug Jamieson @ #TIFF22: BROS might just end up being the funniest film of the year. And one of the most lovable. The screenplay is an absolute dream. So sharp. So insightful. And utterly hysterical. Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane are a match made in heaven. Loved every damn second

Luke is a REVELATION!!!

[quote] Datalounge SEETHES!!

The large contingent of DL that loves Luke is NOT.

OP based on the annoyingly loud trailer . .

“celebrates LGBTQ+ history”

I wonder if this’ll perpetuate the myth that Martha threw the first brick and therefore cement it in the mainstream consciousness?

Any ass or cock?

R13 Oh yuck.

It’s like a movie for the white gay bestie of a white frau. It follows a frau storyline, a frumpy mediocre looking person getting the hot guy who’s crazy about them.

If it was ironic it would be one thing but it looks like it takes that angle seriously.

Not to be Debbie Downer but it seems like the studio is pushing this as a political agenda over actual believing in the movie.

R7 It’s for fat white gays like him who only have females and friends.

I just can’t bring myself to see Billy Eichner in anything that has to do with romance. He is creepy.

Please, these reviews don't matter. Nobodies.

Eichner is repulsive!

I hope sexy Billy has a nude scene.

Billy is our generation's Meg Ryan!!!

Queen of Rom-Coms!!

THR review:

Deadline:

Billy Eichner is here, sucking his own dick to RAVE REVIEWS!

Billy is fug

Billy is a box office star!!!

OP = Billy.

[quote]Billy Eichner is here, sucking his own dick

Pics please Billy.

Wait! Luke Macfarlane is gay??

Our Scotty is all grown up!

Well, there go the midterms...

None of these are “raving,” and he doesn't have the face to be a huge star. Nice try.

A star is born!

83% right now on RT.

I refuse to see it until I hear from Walter Monheit.

The reviews make it sound like it's a gay rom com for straights....

I really do hate some of you people for reasons that should be well known to you.

But if not, can I ask, have you ever enjoyed anything other than anonymous sex?

r38, that is offensive. I'll have you know that I make sure to get the first name of every guy I fuck. No anonymity. So there!

Luke is 42 and been in show biz for 20 years and he is a "revelation"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OP and these bloggers are all graduates of the Sheboygan Conservatory of Boilerplate Public Relations.

From worst review so far:

"However, it defeats its own message of bringing queer history and queer life out of the margins when it centers the love story between two cis, conventionally attractive white gay men. Eichner is the first to point out his privilege; early on his character wins an award at an LGBTQ gala for Best Cis White Gay Man of the Year. But being self-aware isn’t as impactful as de-centering the cis white gay man as the lead, especially when every other queer character in the film still remains on the margins of the story. "

Hmm, this might actually be good!

I suppose writers and filmmakers bear the burden of this cis nonsense and the practicalities of being unable to cram full stories for every character into 120 minutes. And even if they did they'd be shitkicked for appropriating marginal stories.

The upside is we're all rapidly enter who gives a fuck? territory.

They should have just had one of the characters go "actually I am nonbinary" and then that would mean it wouldn't be a love story between two gay white men but a love story between a gay man and a non-binary which doesn't count as man anymore because they said so.

I DESPISE the portmanteau "romcom"!

It is so overused, it's worse than "stigma", but sounds much dopier! Stop saying it!

I saw this today. 2.5 is more than fair.

I find Billy very whiny and unlikable. For most of the film, I wondered why Luke's character would even be interested in him. It's definitely a boost for Billy's ego.

The script needed another draft or two. They cram too much into two hours.

The supporting characters are all paper thin. None of them register as fully dimensional characters. There's a late hookup in the film that actually was more interesting than the main couple.

It's cute and entertaining but it could have been better.

What’s the fantastic Rene Zellweger joke one of the reviews mentions, R45?

Being that it’s Billy, I assumed the title said “whiner” not “winner” at first glance.

I really hate the political push behind this film. See it because it MATTERS! It matters to Billy and practically no-one else except the investors.

Apparently there's some cameo from Debra Messing. Debra Messing sucks so much.

Why are all Judd Apatow connected “comedies” always so over-long? This is 115 minutes (and no doubt there’ll be an extended version for home video). I don’t think comedies should run much over 90 minutes or they outstay their welcome. Nothing worse than when a light, breezy movie starts to sag.

I assumed this movie came and went months ago. I saw the laugh-free trailer and felt I had seen the entire movie. It seems to be the gay equivalent of a minstrel show.

No. Just no.

The Debra Messing scenes should have been dropped. She's not funny in them and they just seem to be included so that Billy Eichner can say "Hey I have Debra Messing in my movie!!"

The movie is really just about two successful white guys finding love.

I fail to see the problem with that. If trans people of color want to be represented as leads in a rom-com, Eichner and Stoller aren't holding guns to their heads preventing them from writing a script and pitching it to the studios.

Heck, maybe Jaye Davidson and Stephen Rea could be talked into starring in a comedic sequel to [italic]The Crying Game[/italic]. It's been three decades, maybe Fergus has been paroled from his murder sentence by now and he and Dil are having wacky adventures in Soho. She's a trans hair stylist with an air of tragedy and a frizzy 'do that was outdated in 1993; he's a former IRA assassin who's trying to explain a 30-year work history gap on his resume; together, they do brunch!

They are annoying but it does matter r48. If this movie bombs getting this type of gay movie greenlit again will be harder.

Billy may have lost weight and started working out, but I don't want to see him without clothes. Or at all.

Wait! Has this even been released yet?? I totally missed it

This will bomb and set back big box office gay films for years.

[Quote]Luke is a REVELATION!!!

R10 Luke is a lifeboat, because it's beyond incredulity to cast Eichner as a lead in a rom-com.

I agree r50. Apatow just won't let go and ends up bringing down the whole production. The one with ant-man and Apatow's wife (40 something?) would have been much more digestible if they had cut about half an hour out of it.

Many people on this site are jealous of Quentin Tarantino. I certainly am one of them. But if Sally Menke hadn't thrown a bunch of film on the floor, his movies would have been even more unbearable

Don't get me wrong. I love QT. But I sometimes have to wonder if Menke was cutting and slicing, or just letting everything fly. I think in the beginning (PF, RD), She was helping shape the movies. But as his head got bigger, her talent was less utilized. JB is one of my favorites. But it went to huge lengths to bring it all together.

Hateful 8, not so much

[quote] Billy Eichner can say "Hey I have Debra Messing in my movie!!

They were obliged to do this. The synagogue demanded it.

[quote]I refuse to see it until I hear from Walter Monheit.

And I from Norma McLain Stoop.

R54 It’s not a problem, it’s just a small audience that is appeals to because white gay yuppies aren’t that interesting or likable to most people, including white people.

It’s the only movie this year that I was able to get a hand job in without getting caught because the crowd was so engaged by Luke and Billy’s queerness! Four loads!!!!

I've been aware only of the broadest outline of the project., but learning that it's a Judd Apatow-linked film gives a lot of pause. He has his hand in a lot of pies it seems, and of the few that I can sit through ("Girls" is an exception, uneven and undisciplined as it was), most are so insubstantial that they fade like a dream before the end credits begin.

I don't hate Eichner, though, and outside of the obnoxious Billy In the Street persona, want to give him the benefit of the doubt for Difficult People, and even his acting in it. It's obvious even from the trailer/s that it tries too hard at too many things, but I'll see "Bros" in any case and hope it's better than the Apatow association suggests. Knowing now that there's a Debra Messinger role will be my cue for a piss break.

What I don't really understand about this movie is why the main character has to be a podcaster / writer / whatever whose sole focus is on "queer' shit? His entire personality is gayness (or queerness as apparently "gay" is a dirty word now). If he's not looking for gay love he's talking about it and the history of queer this and that. His character is even part of a gay history museum project. This is all so obviously intended as Gay101 for a majority straight audience (and I don't blame them, they want to make a mainstream movie that makes a profit after all). I just thought we'd moved beyond this "I am gay and that's all I am" character trope years ago?

Luke mac farlane has the worst nosejob I've seen since Joan Van Ark's

A major movie made by gays, for gays, won’t get as much interest on Datalounge as Megan fucking Markle

[quote] Megan fucking Markle

The BRF IS a major movie made by gays for gays , R68

If this movie bombs getting this type of gay movie greenlit again will be harder.

R55 so let's hope it bombs! This type of movie deserves to bomb

I'm looking forward to it, as a gay, not queer movie. I'll wait til it's streaming, which is kind of funny after Billy Eichner got in trouble for dismissing streaming movies. But still, I bet it's fun.

If it's as funny as the second Eating Out movie I'll be happy.

That's one low bar.

The second one was actually worth watching for the comedy. All the others in the series, only for the nudity.

Ryan the cutie was only in the first one. My favorite.

They are really pushing this breakthrough narrative and it’s getting them a lot of press.

I’ll watch it because I like apatow movies. But definitely online. Not buying a ticket.

R46 I googled it and apparently there's a fictional dating app called "Zellweger" in the movie.

Here's Luke Macfarlane doing press for Bros in the gym. He talks about coming out, his agent's reaction to his desire to come out, whether he is on dating apps, and the one thing he wouldn't do in sex scenes in Bros. (He didn't want the characters to spit on each other during sex as suggested be Billy Eichner.)

Just periodically fast forward through the parts where the interviewer pretends to work out with Luke.

I wonder if bottom Bros will top The Woman King when it comes out?

[quote] Luke Macfarlane has the worst nose-job…

No, R67, he was born that way.

I think Luke is handsome, but I don't think he's aging well.

Bros Rottentomatoes update:

29 reviews, 93% fresh score.

There should be a lot more reviews next week right before the theatrical premiere on September 30th.

Stealth cis film.

On one hand, I'm happy to see something like this being made, but then you hear about stuff like R66 and R16, and it really makes me just not care anymore. No doubt this is being made for a straight majority audience, and it will have all the old tropes.

As for the early reviews, who gives a fuck anymore when it's all such blatant over-hype that you can't even believe people are paid to do that for a living. It's not 'critique' by any means, it's PR shilling.

And honestly, who the hell came up with the idea of headlining Billy Eichner in it, of all people? Really? As a gay rom-com lead?

[quote] "However, it defeats its own message of bringing queer history and queer life out of the margins when it centers the love story between two cis, conventionally attractive white gay men. Eichner is the first to point out his privilege; early on his character wins an award at an LGBTQ gala for Best Cis White Gay Man of the Year. But being self-aware isn’t as impactful as de-centering the cis white gay man as the lead, especially when every other queer character in the film still remains on the margins of the story. "

Oh this bullshit can fuck right off. If these folks are so pissed all the time that something gay actually centers on gay men, tough shit. Make your own damn movie. Finally we get to be the center of the story, and these types are always 'get out of the way, you've had your time' shit. How 'bout these little fucks put in the work for a century and then they can have their own spotlight. Until then, they can fuck off.

Who is this FattyFatatHome and why should I care about his take?

For the straight audience the woman king will dominate. The audience for this is mostly gay men.

Love the stories about this movies that gripe about the leads being two handsome men.

There’s Luke and… um…

[quote] As for the early reviews, who gives a fuck anymore when it's all such blatant over-hype that you can't even believe people are paid to do that for a living. It's not 'critique' by any means, it's PR shilling.

Now you're making me cry.

Billy is definitely on DL. I saw him promoting the movie on Kelly and Ryan (where he talked about going to a party at Andy Cohen's- Madonna showed up, Kelly was there too) and he used on of my recent posts here verbatim.

Fuck you Billy. Get your own material.

One, not on

R82 OK, Miss Mary 64 look 45.

Luke is 42 and looks great.

Calm down R92. I didn't say he was hideous but he looks older than 42 to me. Take this photo which was taken at 41 - he looks good, but older than 41. But his twin sister looks 10 years older than him in your post so I guess he's doing relatively well.

His Fortune is his Face

Time for an eye check up, dear.

Hasn't this fucking thing flopped yet?

Do they simulate the sex where the B-list actor go up into the B-list actor?

Think Eichner and MacFarlane did it during filming?

There's a sex scene where Eichner, MacFarlane and some hot guy are having a threesome. Another character joins in but they don't pay attention to him.

Of course, we're supposed to believe that Eichner is sexually desired by both MacFarlane and the hot guy.

Does that unfunny Chinese queen from SNL have to be in everything?

[quote] There's a sex scene

Is any penis or anus visible????

It can't flop when it hasn't even been released.

It's going to be a box office smash and reinvigorate the rom-com!!!

Comedies don't get Oscars. Gay comedies don't get Oscars.

[quote]There's a sex scene where Eichner, MacFarlane and some hot guy are having a threesome. Another character joins in but they don't pay attention to him.

Oh, that’s just wonderful. Just perpetuating stereotypes.

[quote]Comedies don't get Oscars.

Guess you forgot about Annie Hall, which was a rom-com.

i hope all you DLers bought your tix this weekend! Support Billy! Support Bros!! Make Billy a bonafide box office superstar!! Make Billy a bonafide sex symbol!

Is it opening weekend yet?

I would watch this for free.

But I'd rather get paid.

Has the ugly guy ever had a boyfriend?

I didn't see any evidence there is chemistry between the two leads in any preview.

Also I have seen Billy here and there doing promo. Has Luke been doing promos? Have they done any promo together?

This has the same vibration as Luke's Netflix movie romcom Single All the Way, which was SO underwhelming.

Luke’s Hallmark movie the Mistletoe Promise is must viewing. I saw it twice, riveted by how terrible it was… zero fault of his. Atrocious story, clumsily written and cheaply shot.

FYI:

Release. Bros had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 2022, by Universal Pictures. It was originally scheduled for release on August 12, 2022.

Billy is gross.

He’s delightful, but he increases my mania. Whoever lives with him will need interior security doors or an invisible fence with shock collar.

So, they pulled it from a Summer release to fit it into a film festival premiere? That seems like a mistake, it has much more of a summer feel to it than fall and the august vacationing gays would have eaten it up.

R118 but then it would have been competing with the other gay movie, "Fire Island". I know that was on a streamer but they would have had to compete for media attention.

R119, sorry, I meant "queer" not "gay". Nothing is gay anymore.

R119 Did anyone even remember Fire Island a week after it dropped other than to complain about Asian gays?

R121, no, not even the well-timed social media tussle between Eichner and "Fire Island" star Joel Kim Booster could help boost the profile of that film.