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Posted by TheMongKey on 10/21/94 11:40
"Temsonic" wrote:
> I'm surprised someone such as you who very obviously likes to make up
their
> own mind about films instead of listening to the herd's opinions would let
> something like the 'gay sector' or 'liberal media types' liking it put you
> off. I haven't seen it yet but I plan to, and it hadn't occurred to me
until
> now that it might be considered 'un-hetero' of me to want to see it and I
> most certainly hadn't worried about who I might be sitting next to in the
> cinema.
[SNIP]
> Also, I don't see why anyone should be surprised that it's been championed
> by the gay scene. It's not often that anyone makes a mainstream Hollywood
> film that doesn't either caricature gay characters or completely play down
> their sexuality - look at the flak Oliver Stone took regarding a
> historically accurate portrayal of Alexander as being gay, or the fact
that
> Brad Pitt had to get upset about his... ahem... "cousin" in Troy.
Nice post, with which I agree 100%. I thought we lived in the 21st century,
not the 19th... replace "gay mafia" with "gorilla mafia" or "liberal" with
"jedi" and the absurdity of the argument becomes plain.
Also, funny how all the desperate-to-tell-us-they're-hetero types around
here can't even spell it.
TMK
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