Ben Stiller Brings Gay Teen Comedy “Alex Strangelove” To Netflix

So is the actor actually gay this time?

Does it really matter, R1? It's called "acting" for a reason.

And good for Ben Stiller, who has always been relatively G&L friendly,, and all the others behind this project, regardless of their own sexual orientation.

Don't be silly r1, gay actors in gay projects? That is crazy talk.

[quote]Does it really matter, [R1]?

Yes.

If you see gay men constantly asking this questions about gay movies, then it probably means it does matter .

question*

Ugh! Daniel Doheny is probably straight but certainly Canadian.

So not only did he beat out some poor young gay actor for the part, no American was even given the chance. It just never stops.

FF Ben Stiller for being a cunt !

Will it show more skin than Love, Simon?

Ben Stiller will do a lot better job than Greg Berlanti's milquetoast B.S. story about a shady gay kid who skeeves the audience out like Simon.

Gay, Canadian, potato, po-tah-to...

If Greg Berlanti isn't involved, neiter is any openly gay actor. Berlanti is the only one giving any opportunities to newcoming gay actors.

R10 e.g. KJ Apa

R10 Greg B AND Ryan M

Well, Antonio Marziale is gay so there's that. He was just in Altered Carbon and it's nice seeing him get more work.

[quote]. Berlanti is the only one giving any opportunities to newcoming gay actors, [bold]but only as supporting characters.[/bold]

Fixed it.

The more gay content, the better. I won't bitch about who plays the gay characters just yet.

Mondrian? Mondrian? You don’t deserve to sit in that chair

Will this be the theme?

In what universe is Antonio Marziale considered handsome?!?

What is the concern studios have with gay actors playing gay characters? Is it the relationships these gay actors will get involved in off screen? The hand holding? The kissing?

Must we suffer through yet another gay coming of age story? Doesn’t anyone have interesting or compelling ideas anymore?

There are many good or mainstream ones. So good for this one!

I meant there are not many good mainstream ones.

Hopefully it'll have a happy ending

If the movie doesn't include explicit sex scenes with lots of nudity, Datalounge will hate it. For reference, see any thread about the movie Moonlight.

Yet, old prissy DL trolls whine about hot Instagram fitness models dudes and porn models posted here.

[quote] Must we suffer through yet another gay coming of age story? Doesn’t anyone have interesting or compelling ideas anymore?

How about a monogamous adult gay male romance set in the United States with a happy ending?

r20 I guess the casting people simply chose the one who had the best audition. I'm pretty sure inquiring about his sexual orientation or denying him a job because he's straight would be inappropriate and also discriminatory.

[quote]Will it show more skin than Love, Simon?

[italic]Silver Spoons[/italic] showed more skin once Ricky finished puberty.

[quote]How about a monogamous adult gay male romance set in the United States with a happy ending?

Oh, please. Who in the world would believe that kind of fantasy fiction?

[quote]Oh, please. Who in the world would believe that kind of fantasy fiction?

Don't project your own inability to commit onto every other gay man alive.

R29, why are you thirsty to have nudity and sex depicted among children or underage characters?

R32, why aren't you in the CMBYN threads asking that?

Very gay and very cute.

Tom of Finland tank!

I wish they’d do a show with a homely lead. Gay characters always have that Disney cutie pie look, which is popular and wonderful, but a little stale.

People don't want to watch ugly people on TV or in movies.

I beg to differ, r38.

r34 Is he out as gay, or "blind item" gay?

OK, I think r35 answers my question.

Omg, I hope he really is gay!!

Here's a spoiler-ishy review.

Something (not) surprising from the review-

[quote] While it’s nice that the girl isn’t simply brushed aside as a bothersome obstacle, it’s curious that the film spends far more time on Alex and Claire than Alex and Elliott. One would hope for a little more boy-on-boy action to go with all that R-rated teen spirit.

Nice that it’s not going to be as wholesome as Love, Simon. Gay boys need raunch too.

r44 Eurgh. Of course.

Love that one comment from Andrew Garfield under the review. Has he [italic]seen[/italic] the most recent photos of himself posted here on DL?!

So it's gay, but not too gay

I cannot wait for you all to see #AlexStrangelove. Coming this June to your ex-boyfriend’s Netflix account that he still hasn’t changed the password to not that u mind 🏳️‍🌈

Trailer.

Looks sweet R49.

It's nice to have some feel good gay teen movies for a change instead of all the sad drama stuff about Aids and Greek tragedy death.

Premieres June 8th and the preview trailer looks pretty damn good, actually.

Hopefully it's not as cheesy as it seems

r52, thank you for sharing the date. Looks great. Funny, it's available on 8th of June and Love, Simon DVD & Blu Ray will be released on 12th of June.

Heteronormative version of Love, Simon. (also that fucking homophobic whore from beach rats)

Bad parody of Love, Simon.

Yep, not gonna watch this

Ew who let these helix models become actors

....

Drops tonight!

Does it have any hot dudes?

It has fairly positive reviews. Look forward to watching it this weekend.

Seems to be a "Love, Simon" type movie if the characters behaved like real teenagers and not Disney-teens.

Not all teens are vulgar hellions. In fact, surveys show Gen Z is much less likely to engage in drugs and sex than previous generations

How obtuse r61.

People don't have PG-13 conversations in real life. I'm not talking about doing drugs and sleeping around, I'm talking about them talking them using profanity and talking about sex/masturbation. Which real teenagers do. The benefit of not being restricted to being a family-friendly movie.

It really depends upon the group of teens, and where. Some don’t use profanity, often for religious or cultural reasons. That’s true in general. Now, specially for Love, Simon, I’m not sure what would be true to life for them. They might not have been Socially conservative, but they lived in small town Georgia. As a southerner, I can tell you that openly using profanity is still thought of as crude, immoral, or uncouth. In fact, it’s still often technically illegal in many places.z

[quote]Ben Stiller will do a lot better job than Greg Berlanti's milquetoast B.S. story

He didn't.

It's fine, but the hetero action gets more attention (and skin) than the gay action, which we all should have seen coming. I think the guy who starts Alex down his path of coming out has a total of three scenes.

Yeah, the movie is ok (love the best friend and his sister bickering at each other), but if you watch for the gay content, it's probably - if you are generous - 1/3 of the movie. The main plot is the relationship between Alex and his girlfriend Claire. Hell, I believe Alex's friends have more screen time than Elliot (Antonio Marziale).

But I do like the movie and the soundtrack is ace (features The B-52s classic Dance This Mess Around).

I'll say however, that Alex and Elliot did have really great chemistry. Probably more than Nick Robinson and Keinyan Lonsdale, although that wasn't for lack of trying on the latter's part.

The actress who played Claire was quite good. As was Katherine Erbe as her mother.

Have there been howls of "bi-erasure!" from the usual quarters yet?

Erbe is in another gay film called Dating My Mother, so I guess that's her thing now.

Shouldn't there be howls of "gay erasure" instead, if the gay content only takes up a third of the movie?

No, because Alex spends some time wondering if he's bi before realizing that he's full on gay.

Oh, I see. Well, that's a very common experience at that age so I hope there isn't any blowback to that plot from the bisexuals.

God, I sound like a scared hostage, even though we belong to the same community. How did it come to that?

There is a nice scene where Daniel Doheny shows off his bulge wearing underwear on a hotel bed while waiting for his girlfriend to come out of the bathroom.

Doheny plays a hilarious, socially awkward dork in Adventures in Public School.

But he’s skinny, so meh

Creating a fantasy world, where in reality LGBTQ people will be denied service in businesses.

Video review by two movie critics - a straight frau and a gay guy.

The one negative review (although a few of the positive ones are lukewarm) on Rotten Tomatoes says "Just watch Love, Simon" again.

Daniel Zolghadri is so cute, more so than the actors playing the gay boys. I loved the scene where he showed his cock at school.

I started to watch but the bad acting and stupid dialogs were too much

I love Madeline Weinstein.

This is her second movie sleeping with a closet gay. She's getting typecast. ha ha ha

"Stupid Dialogs"??

I just watched it and enjoyed it very much. Well made. Much better than a lot of gay themed films.

I loved how they basically took every YouTube coming out video and used it for the final scene.

Really wish they'd cast Nik Dodani as a gay character, he always seems cast straight. Oh well.

Plus Antonio Marziale is cute. Wish he'd lose the hair though. He was also on The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, not sure if he's gay in real life though.

Antonio Marziale looks like a Greek God with the curly hair.

He is white and "cis-gendered." We are not interested.

Spoilers:

So the gay lead fucks (or attempts to fuck) two separate girls, with requisite sex scenes. But with the boy he likes? One kiss at a dance. There are naked breasts but not so much as a male butt cheek. Oh, Hollywood.

Thank you, r85. My plan to skip it shall proceed apace.

[quote] But with the boy he likes? One kiss at a dance.

That's not all. Alex attempts to have excruciatingly embarrassing sex with two girls, but he also spontaneously initiates a kiss with that same boy while they are on the boy's bed. It's just a kiss, but it's the most sexually electrifying moment the movie will generate, and it scares Alex.

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[quote]It's just a kiss, but it's the most sexually electrifying moment the movie will generate, and it scares Alex.

It's a good kiss. And Alex having to imagine Elliot shirtless to get it up to even attempt to have sex with Claire is probably familiar to a lot of gays.

I just don't buy that in 2018, it never occurs to Alex that he might be something other than straight until he meets Elliot.

The straight making out scenes are, imo, played up for laughs. As r89 mentions Alex has to think about Elliot in order to be able to put on the condom.

The film is about Alex's struggle to figure out whether he is gay, bi, or straight.

[quote] I just don't buy that in 2018, it never occurs to Alex that he might be something other than straight until he meets Elliot.

Spoiler:

There is a scene close to the end where he almost drowns in a swimming pool and he remembers a repressed memory of getting a boner while showering with other boys when he was a boy himself. Which helps him to finally admit to Claire that he is gay.

Funny that in the early parts of the movie, when he's going through various types of animals and their mating rituals, he's not quite sure what animal he would be, and settles on a penguin. Given that it's one species that has well documented homosexual behaviour (even made it to storylines in Will & Grace and Parks and Rec).

Not sure I liked the use of "strangelove" in the title but overall it was an ok teen comedy/rom-com. Like a lighter less indie version of Perks of a Wallflower. Perfect stay-at-home date movie for young gaylings to "Netflix and chill" if they still call it that.

I miss gay films with dong. Maurice, Come Undone, Stranger by the Lake.

Have you seen God's Own Country r92?

R93, I forgot to add that one. Very good.

THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME!

It's SO much better than LOVE, SIMON -- Ben Stiller is actually cool and he knows what he's doing, unlike that lame-o-zoid Greg Berlanti.

Strangelove is in pretty much in the same situation -- but he is MUCH less of a douche than Simon and much more likable. No over-the-top, high school movie cliches like embarrassing people in front of the whole school, which plagued SIMON.

Daniel Doheny is absolutely adorable. Most of the cast is. And there are ACTUALLY FUNNY jokes, like you'd expect from Ben Stiller and comedians who know what they're doing.

3.5 OUT OF 4 STARS!!! This is the movie that should have been in theaters!

R6 is a homosexist discriminator and aTrump-style protectionist.

FF her, please.

What ever happened to "the best one for the job?" We need to judge people and professionals by the content of their character, not how they were born. And r6 is a shit-guzzler.

Nick Robinson is STRAIGHT, idiot @ r10!

R97, he wasn’t when I was fucking him.

Now there has to be ugly actors, r37?

FYI there are tons of indie, mostly FAILED shows with ugly leads just for you. Watch CUCUMBER from the BBC or GUY DUBAI.

And just to show pity on your mis-thinking mind, I'll tell you the name of a GOOD gay movie with ugly leads: the Spanish Bear epic CHUECATOWN. It even has a "hot guys are evil" theme, just for you!

Then what is this "Opiod Crisis" I keep reading about, r61?

Obviously the movie was going to be straight-washed which is sad seeing this is 2018.

With that out of the way, I thought Ben Stiller made a better coming out story than Greg Berlanti.

WRONG, r85.

The boys also kiss in their bedroom. There is no nudity, but ALEX STRANGELOVE has more scantily clad people than SIMON, including the guys who show off their limbs/bodies/underwear.

Alex Strangelove is about the struggle of figuring out your sexuality. Once the lead finally figured it out the whole coming out process (to his friends) was skipped.

In Love, Simon the struggle of figuring out your sexuality was skipped and the movie is about the struggle of coming out to your friends and family.

In both movies they end up with the guy they love.

r89, the movie shows that Alex is lying to himself and everyone else. The girlfriend Claire (Madeline Weinstein) addresses your exact concern in the movie to bust him.

SPOILER:

Alex eventually admits that his attraction to guys was "always there," but he was trying desperately to overcome it.

They need to make a sequel. Maybe one where he actually comes out to his family.

I will never understand the "struggle to figure out your sexuality". It's kind of obvious what makes your dick hard, and who makes your heart skip a beat. I knew I was gay since before my 11th birthday.

If only gay actors should play gay parts, does that mean only straight actors should play straight parts?

[quote]I will never understand the "struggle to figure out your sexuality". It's kind of obvious what makes your dick hard, and who makes your heart skip a beat. I knew I was gay since before my 11th birthday.

You should understand not everyone has your same experience.

Dear r91,

I don't think the title is labeling gayness as "strangelove."

It's labeling a closeted, gay man's pathetic attempts to be straight as "strangelove."

r103 misinterpreted the movie, r107.

Alex DOES EVENTUALLY ADMIT that his attraction to guys was "always there."

Which is a pretty normal response, in hindsight it was obvious I was gay, but denial ain't just a river in Egypt as they say. I was older than Alex when I finally consciously admitted that to myself. And like a lot of gay boys, I did think I was bi at first.

R109, please explain to me how you can not grasp what makes your dick hard, or who makes you swoon with romantic feelings. How can you not TELL? It's unfathomable to me.

Ben Stiller didn’t write or direct this movie — let’s stop giving him the credit (or blame) for it. It was written and directed by Craig Johnson, who also made The Skeleton Twins with Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.

It's disappointing that some people on this thread have no interest and place no value on a show just because it's "only focused on the gay romance 1/3 of the time."

You are dependent upon straight people. The way straight people treat gays and interact with us should still be important to you.

If you're such a Philistine that it has to be gay sex all the time, then just stick to porn and quit whining about movies -- which are supposed to be for everyone.

It's like you think that straight people can't enjoy gays or interacting with them. You really think there should be no movies for straight people exploring how they interact with gays?

Pigs/dumbasses.

PRODUCERS CHOOSE TALENT AND SCRIPTS, r114.

Ben Stiller and his partners have good taste and wisdom of selection that Greg Berlanti does not.

[quote] Pigs/dumbasses.

Morons!!!

Very gay, Tom of Finland tank.

[quote] please explain to me how you can not grasp what makes your dick hard, or who makes you swoon with romantic feelings. How can you not TELL? It's unfathomable to me.

LOL. Are you serious? Even in 2018 some people are still under that spell that being gay is WRONG and they can't trust their own feelings and urges and have to ask others for advice, or seek their guidance, because they believe others know them better that they know themselves. They need others to tell them what is right and what is wrong and push their own treacherous feelings aside.

R118 meet r35.

Boys kiss boys, God smiles

I couldn't get passed the opening credits. I was appalled by the font they used.

This is not good. I loved The Skeleton Twins but to liken this movie to a gay Superbad? It's not funny and the majority of the movie is about his annoying girlfriend.

Love the Muna song I Know A Place.

[quote]I will never understand the "struggle to figure out your sexuality". It's kind of obvious what makes your dick hard, and who makes your heart skip a beat. I knew I was gay since before my 11th birthday.

r107, you are, of course, correct. I don't believe actual homosexuals have to 'figure out' their sexuality, rather, we struggle with accepting it in the face of societal disapproval.

Bisexuals usually go through the process of 'figuring out' their sexuality, as it relates to sexual and romantic preferences between the two sexes. Apparently many gay-leaning bisexuals will misidentify themselves as gay (for varying reasons) and that's why this idea of gay people 'figuring out' their sexuality persists.

Was Shawn Mendes up for this role too?

[quote]Hey friends, I recently watched and loved the film Alex Strangelove, now available only on Netflix. I thought it was so fun and relatable to my experience as a confused and quirky teenager. I was recently back home a couple weekends ago, and I couldn’t help but think back to my days as a high schooler. I remember being so quiet and insecure. I was definitely not popular, but also never really bullied. I just blended into the crowd as a nice guy, trying so hard to be liked. I remember love was always so confusing, and how my biggest fear was that people would find out or think that I was gay. I held onto this insecurity throughout college and into my mid twenties, before finally mustering the courage to come home and tell my family. I actually told my Mom while sitting around this pool. I was so afraid, but I remember being so relieved after the words left my mouth. I think it is so cool that there are now movies like Alex Strangelove that have leading characters who are gay. It would have meant so much to me to see characters like myself in the media as a high schooler. The film is all about figuring out who you are, whether queer, nerd, jock etc., and that it is ok to be yourself and have quirks. I’m really happy with who I am today, but I also wish I could’ve found this confidence much earlier. This film is so fun, and it is now available only on @netflix .

Who is she at R127?

Just a random guy on Instagram praising the movie

It has a hashtag ad, and I have never seen this guy discussed on DL before. Why it was posted here, I do not know, makes me suspicious.

R124 when I first saw the song title on closed captioning I was expecting Petula Clark lol.

[QUOTE] I couldn't get passed the opening credits.

Oh, dear.

Are you sure it wasn't just that your English isn't good enough to understand the dialogue?

Watching it right now. With 20 minutes to the end, I’m calling it:

It’s utter garbage.

Ok except for the real-life masc jock at the end

Antonio Marziale has stated he's straight, yet at the age of 21 he's only done gay roles. Is she taking a cruise down the River Denial?

Where did he state he was straight? R135

No way Antonio is straight

Yeah why is everybody referencing Ben Stiller? He only has producer credits (which anyone with a name can get with very little effort).

Loved the ending with the real life videos, very moving.

Agree pretty much with everyone else that the girlfriend is the best actress in the bunch, Truelove Is adorable, and his best friend is the breakout discovery.

From the candid shots seen in some links here, it looks like the Indian (Pakistani?) supporting actor is very gay and very out.

The soundtrack and cultural references, from Keith Haring to the B-52s to Sixteen Candles, we’re all much geared towards their parents generation. I guess they want people of all ages to enjoy this film.

Finally, I can’t believe a Dusty Springfield song made its way into the soundtrack, especially at such a crucial moment. That was a pleasant surprise

I finally watched this. It is cute, but there is no getting around this is not a gay love story. It is primarily about Alex and Claire's relationship, with the gay love interest playing a supporting role.

Though Alex's coming out journey reminded me a lot my own in certain respects, I also had a great highschool girlfriend who eventually called me out for behaving like I wanted to have sex with her.

The main cast (Alex, Claire, Dell) were all pretty likable and talented.

[quote]There is a nice scene where Daniel Doheny shows off his bulge wearing underwear on a hotel bed while waiting for his girlfriend to come out of the bathroom.

I noticed that too. Alex seemed to have a nice sized bulge in those underwear, maybe magnum condoms weren't so optimistic.

not behaving* obviously

Interview wit Craig Johnson, he has been trying to get this movie made for 10 years.

[quote]The spark that I was talking about was actually lit in 2008, when I went to a concert for the British pop singer Mika. I was at his concert and I was blown away by the number of out-of-the-closet teenagers that I saw there, just living out loud, mingling in groups and holding hands, with no shame. I just thought, “Wow, high school is a different time!” That’s when I thought, “What if I took my coming out story and did it as a high school movie?” Then, I just saw the whole movie. I wrote the first draft, in 2008, in two months. That was 10 years ago, and I have been trying to get it made, ever since. It’s been my passion project for the last 10 years, and I would pretty consistently update it. The biggest rewrite happened in the last couple of years, just as high school life has gotten a little more progressive. Kids have gotten more open-minded. Coming out in high school is now not only an option, but there’s the option to come out as gender queer, or trans, or asexual, and everything in between. I thought that was a fascinating world to set a story of sexual confusion in because that makes everything more confusing. When you have all of the options available to you, you have to be really honest with yourself about what you want, which is Alex’s struggle.

wish they’d called the movie Alex Truelove.

Wish there had been twink nudity. What a waste!

[Quote]Antonio Marziale has stated he's straight,

Link or it didnt happen. He doesn't pretend to be straight at all, quite the opposite.

Dell seemed like your typical high school movie cómic side kick until he had that great scene in which he read Dophie for filth, for stomping on his emotions.

Sophie

I loved Dell. Best part of the movie.

meh.....an ok coming of age movie,a bit better than Samuel but they're both nothing special. I actually thought it was the same actor. Overall more tongue-in cheek and better acted than Simon. It's a cute movie and that's it.

Daniel is straight and Antonio is gay according to this

^^OMG they are BOTH adorable playing Gay Taboo. Also, both seem to be decent impersonators.^^

its edgy fun and cute/sexy

check it out

That is so adorable at R150.

R95 obvious troll 😶

Elliot's actor follow a lot of gay people on social media and also follows Grindr. At least the hot one in this movie is gay, I hated Alex, he looks like Andrew Garfield

[quote]Elliot's actor follow a lot of gay people on social media and also follows Grindr.

Well yes, as r150 has just shown the dude is openly gay.

[quote]At least the hot one in this movie is gay

Haha, no doubt Antonio is reading this thread and happy to hear someone thinks that.

[quote]No over-the-top, high school movie cliches like embarrassing people in front of the whole school, which plagued SIMON.

Yes, the ending of Love Simon was ridiculous.

The problem with the ending is that the producers picked the wrong guy for the Blue character. It really should have been Miles to play Simon’s love interest. I just didn’t feel the chemistry between Simon and Bram. No, I have nothing against mixed relationships, I just think the producers wanted things to be diversive and surprising. But, I wasn’t surprised by the ending, I had a feeling that it was Bram in the emails.

...but it’s Bram in the book.

Shh r159, it was the totally filmmakers just wanting to force evil SJW diversity!!!111

I didn’t read the book, r159...sorry!

[quote] I just think the producers wanted things to be diversive

I read an interview with the author of the book who was very happy with the completed film. She indicated that the one non-negotiable aspect of the book when she talked with the writers/director was that Blue had to be Bram, a mixed race boy, just like in her book. The filmmakers agreed with her.

Can we get back to Alex Strangelove? Really not interested in discussions about Love, Simon as I’m sure there are plenty of threads for that.

Didn't care that much for Daniel in Alex Strangelove, but in r150's clip he looks damn hot.

So I enjoyed this more than Love, Simon. Mainly due to the raunchiness of it all and because I identify more with goofy characters. I couldn't get past the Helix looks of the lead at first but I quickly forgot about that because of his acting chops; he's so in control of his face and his body, which is perfect for comedies. He looks like a taller, narrower KJ Apa, but actually competent when it comes to acting. I liked the lead actress quite a bit as well.

I made a gif out of this awkward cute moment.

And the resolution.

And this one. He's so goofy.

I didn’t like the beginning. I thought it started too snarky, vulgar, and hipster social justice warrior jargonish. It seemed to lack the quaint all-American Appeal of Love, Simon. However, I thought it ended strong, with a more mainstream charm.

Just saw it, it's a good movie.

They could have updated the script a bit more from 2008 - the reference to WWJD bracelets was out of place

Watched it last night - it's OK. I really wanted to know more about Elliott (e.g. he had graduated high school already, so what is he doing now?) so that was a wasted opportunity in order to focus almost solely on the guy-girl relationship so that straight audiences won't run for the hills. Some of the dialogue was very clunky and forced (how many high school kids would even know what NAMBLA is?) and the guy playing Alex looked like a young Bill Hader (who was in the director's much better SKELETON TWINS).

Looks like my reference to a rightly notorious and destructive pedophile group was censored in brackets, so hopefully people here will know what I was talking about.

It's strange because that acronym gets automatically censored and then uncensored shortly after. Happened to me in the past as well. The moderator probably approves of it manually or something.

I wish I liked this more than I did... the opening scenes were excruciatingly overwritten and overdone. But, it did get better and although I initially wasn't too into the gay love interest, he grew on me as it went along - although the B-52s dance scene was over the top. The girlfriend was fine but the storyline was ridiculous and impossible to buy. Either he has a raging hard-on or he doesn't, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out if your boyfriend isn't rock hard 100% of the time when he is around you, let alone kissing you, that he just isn't into you and 99% chance he is gay (especially 17-year-olds). Please.

Commendable effort, but LOVE, SIMON was genuinely moving and entertaining whereas this was just a stupid comedy with a dash of sincerity/"message". 5/10.

I just watched Strangelove, and it was wonderful. Loved the B-52’s scene.

Alex Strangelove was much better than the other recent Netflix teen movie Kissing Booth, based solely off the lack of cringe induction. Although Doheny is waaaay less fuckable than thick bodied twink Joel Courtney.

Lovely movie. But, the ending was kind of bittersweet, because you feel sorry for the girlfriend who was left behind.

Is Kissing Booth a gay movie? Haven't heard of it.

No, The Kissing Booth wasn’t gay at all, R178. I watched it solely for the hot actors who played brothers.

It was good, but I still have my gripes with it. This is the second mainstream gay movie that we have gotten this year that has been completely devoid of gay sex. Because, you know, gay teens don't have any.