“Bros” will start streaming on Peacock this Friday

Must-not see TV!

Out of the frying pan and into the storage closet.

Now Billy can get his share of the $1.99 per month I paid to watch Days of Our Lives.

Snarky comments aside, I'm glad. I'd like to see it but just didn't feel like this was a movie I HAD to see in the theater, and I was not paying $19.99 (more than a theater ticket) to rent it on iTunes.

Let the positive word of mouth begin!

His face looks fat and dirty.

Haters gonna hate.

I saw it in the theatre. While it has problems and comic bits that don't work, the central story is funny, sweet, and well done. McFarlane is delightful and he and Eichner are quite good together.

See it and judge for yourself.

Great! An audience of millions will be given a second opportunity not to watch it!

Nobody doubts the movie is good. It's the idea that releasing it wide to the masses and thinking it would be a hit is what's so fun to discuss. This was narcissism at it's highest by all concerned.

Some friends of mine went to see it, and said it was abysmal. I’m keen to see whether I agree.

Per Streamable, it was already known back in September that Peacock would be streaming it by December.

What happened to renting it for $19.99? Did no one bite?

We will never forget where we were on certain days--when JFK was shot, 9/11, and when Bros started streaming on Peacock!

$19.99 is an ABSURD rental price R12. I'd be surprised if people paid that to BUY Avengers Endgame. They just wanted to extract money from people who really wanted to see it, but didn't want to go to a theater (and I don't blame them one bit - producing a movie is $$$).

Most reviews were fairly positive. I don't think this is homophobia. It is just a movie with a limited audience. I mean, what did Donton Abbey (the movie) do? It is just a niche audience, and that's fine, but the budget of the movie has to match the expectations

R14, the first Downton Abbey movie made a net profit of $88,000,000 worldwide.

Uh, this damn movie. I tried to give it an honest shot, but damn was it basic. But I did start it at my parents’ house and my dad wanted to watch. I told him he wouldn’t like It. He made jt 10 minutes. Once that awkwardness was over I could focus on this mess of a film.

The biggest crime is that the lead is a preacher asshole, that doesn’t deserve a scorching hot A-lost looking gay. Billie’s character brings NOTHING to that relationship beyond negativity.

And the two leads lacked any chemistry what so ever. I wanted this to be good but it failed.

On the flip side, “Fire Island” made me want to finally visit FI. It also made me envious, if a tad sad, seeing the relationships at the end. It felt almost aspirational. “ Bros” felt forced. But with FI, that white boy would have been a flake in real life but the movie still made me smile. “bros” made me upset for this lost opportunity.

Preachy asshole*

This clip showed up on my go-to porn site and it is a real boner killer. Billy is hideous and Luke should be shot lovingly—but doesn’t look so hot in this scene either with his sun damage and flared nostrils. The cinematography looks very “television” with the odd sepia tones. What a disaster.

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Billy, you owe me $19.99!

Will this make Peacock into the premier streaming service instead of third tier? With content like this and The Voice, they should charge more.

The rest of the "premium content" on Peacock is dire. I was on there last night and it's still not worth the $5 a month.

[quote] Nobody doubts the movie is good.

Uh, speak for yourself.

This movie sucked. And that was before he started singing.

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Billy Eichner has Best Friend Face.

Man, this sucks.

Hard pass.

It's a nice rom-com spoofing a lot of rom-com themes.

He's... a little heavy.

I was ready to give this movie a hard pass, but it’s actually pretty good. Like a gay Annie Hall. Billy is ugly and annoying. But he makes some good points.

And the other boy is really quite sexy.

[quote]Like a gay Annie Hall

Like one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time?!

It was a barely passable Hallmark-style movie, certainly not worth the hype. The hot guy wouldn't fuck Billy with a stranger's cock.

Is this a homosexual movie ? The last homosexual movie I saw involved some rather uncouth men that lived by a swamp and a large obese man in this briefs pretending to be a pig ? I think Burt Convey was in it too.

I did a sort of "Bros" movie marathon with Bros, In From The Side and Horseplay (LOS AGITADORES). Bro was the only rom-com which had a happy ending and featured mainly openly gay actors. But overall, all three movies are good.

Luke McFarland makes my mussy moist.

Me too, but a boner killer to see him with Billy.

Billy always looks disgusting and sweaty. (Like those photos of Hunter Biden on a meth binge.)

Christian Bake in American Psycho

I get Peacock free for a year through Spectrum so I watched last night. It was a little long and Billy wasn’t very good but I liked it. Luke was great and there were some funny moments. But I do think casting Billy was a huge mistake.

Having Billy in the movie is what killed it.

The $19.99 people are whining about is the standard VOD price for movies that are also playing in cinemas.

They certainly didn't like it in Lithuania!

It opened in 8 theaters where it made a grand total of $3011 over the first weekend. By the second week, it dropped to just one theatre that brought in another $28.

I'm15 minutes in and I just can't.

Billy is fucking loud (even at the lowest volume setting)

The majority of the men look terrible.

I can see why it flopped.

I just finished watching it on my laptop. I hardly checked anything else out online during the entire two hours, so I must have liked it. It was sitcom-ish, Hallmark-ish, corny as fuck in parts, and it rolled out every last LGBTQ+ cliche, but I liked it.

R42, but when the movie reeks, one is pissed.

I have Peacock, so now it will be very convenient for me to skip over it.

That means a whole NEW cycle of complaint and blame by the "auteur" for its failure.

It would have been a huge box office hit had he cast another hawt guy in his role.

Zachary Levi would have been neurotic and endearing with loads of goofy charm and his sex scenes would have been hot instead of icky. He and Luke would have been believable together.

[quote] See it and judge for yourself.

For $1995? Not bloody likely.

I wouldn't shell out $12 to "judge for myself" even when it was brand-new.

Watched it. Not bad, but not “good”. Cringey in multiple spots but I’ve seen worse.

I agree R50, Zachary Levi would have been better casting.

I don’t dislike Eichner. I like his Billy on The Street bit. I thought he was fine on AHS.

I don’t think this movie would have been a hit no matter what with the script.

In theory, you could sign up for one month, pay the $4.99, then cancel.

I only pay $1.99 a month for Peacock. There were no commercials in this movie. And I liked it.

I wasn't going to pay $19.99 FFS.

Fucking Peacock is edited! Just started watching and the first scene with Billy shaving his ass was deleted.

And him waxing his pubes and balls was deleted too.

Luke McFarland is too pretty for FUGLY Eichner.

It's just not realistic.

Luke’s not that good looking bro. They’re evenly matched.

Luke looked pretty good in Bros. He should keep his hair grown out a bit, as he did here. His usual buzz cut does him no favors.

I thought spoofing the whole bros part was the best and yet cringiest part. Like the wrestling as foreplay bit. That's exactly how I imagine these pretending to be masc gay idiots do it.

r55 and r56 liked Bros enough to watch it a second time.

It's free now if you have Peacock asswipe.

I watched it on Peacock over the weekend and that scene was in it R55 .

I liked it more by the end than while watching it. It was fine, and would've probably been great if it was a Strand release in the late 90's with no budget. It really went for every big budget rom-com trope, down to the score.

I know people think we've progressed as a society, but this was never going to fly with big audiences. Poppers? Two men going down on a third while a 4th is odd man out? Grindr speak? Bottom dance??

I'm glad I saw it so I can participate in the conversation, but I doubt I'll watch it again. Amanda Bearse was good, though, and I've never liked her.

When's it coming to Tubi?

I think it should've gone more absurd, by replacing Eichner with Seth McFarlane's Ted type of character looking for gay romance in the Gay Community (including the gay bear Community).

Paddington / Ted meets ... well, Bros.

The ass shaving scene was there when I watched on Peacock.

If Billy's reading I'd do you bro, but don't shave your ass. Hairier the better.

But the cock and balls shaving scene was deleted. What does Peacock have against showing genitalia? Especially weird for a streamer with Cock in the name. You’d think they’d make it their brand and be all about it.

I really wanted to like this movie. But it's just not very good.

No nudity.

Can someone explain that fucking weird “bottom dance”? The fuck was that about and why is it supposed to be funny that kids are doing it? It just seemed really inappropriate. I simply didn’t understand that entire scene. (It’s also really confusing who Billy is related to - that was his sister with the bottom dance kids, right?)

R71 it was supposed to be an example of how that family normalized male homosexuality so their children wouldn’t learn or feel prejudice, I think.

R72 oh, okay. I guess that makes sense. Still kinda gross though. (I say this as a gay man) Yes, I know, MARY!!!

It wasn't an appropriate song for a child to sing, R72. You don't see straights teaching their young children to sing songs about heterosexual sex. That scene was gross and uncomfortable to watch.

[quote] that was his sister with the bottom dance kids, right?)

Billy is white. That chick is BIPOC. They are in no way related, just like Luke and his Latinx brother are in no way related.

[quote] No nudity.

Thanks to Peacock! Should’ve seen it in theaters.

I saw it VOD and don't remember nudity. The.big sex scene, they were both wearing underwear. I don't even remember seeing Luke's ass.

R74 has obviously never been on TikTok and seen trashy straight mommies teaching toddlers to dance to WAP

R74 I agree. The scene with the kids was not just eye-rolling, but embarrassingly bad.

Peacock is desperate for us to watch this. I have to scroll through so much BROS shit to get to Murder, She Wrote.

R80 Just add "Murder, She Wrote" to your "My Stuff" list and it can be accessed directly by hitting the Peacock icon (when logged in).

So much screen time wasted for endless BTQ+ propaganda. The scenes that involved kids made me VERY uncomfortable: the kids doing the "bottom dance" (why the heck does a toddler need to know what a bottom is in gay sex?), Billy telling how great it was for him to have naked men and cocks before him at 12, the general push for this stuff on kids just very pedo-ish. So very little screen time for the actual relationship. The hot guy goes from shallow himbo to begging enamored insecure teddy bear in like 15 minutes.

Also the overall thing is so unrealistic. Someone as hot as MacFarlene's character would never lose his time for a negative ugly queen like Billy. It's very heteronormative done for straight audience. Billy represents the paranoid passive aggressive girl who is so special that triggers the unexpected love in the hot man who chooses her among other hotties.

OP, you misspelled "steaming"

Kids learn about tops and bottoms when they see animals fucking.

R84 - And from garanimals too. Learning fashion coordination can never start too young!

Here is the 'Bottom Dance' scene people referred to above. Tragic and weird.

There is a section of the film set during Christmas.

Make Bros a Christmas classic.

R33

What’s Billy’s pronouns? When I curse Billy for this movie I want to get it right.

Would you have enjoyed it more with him?

The Bros shill is working so, so hard in this thread. Time to let it go honey, the movie didn't work and neither did you.

[quote]Would you have enjoyed it more with him?

No, stunt casting wouldn't save this movie.

I watched it this afternoon. Wasn’t bad at all…the moments that made me cringe were the ones that reminded me of my own behavior with men. So it’s all good. I’m glad I finally watched it.

It's only $9.99 to buy now which is less than a matinee showing.

I might bite the bullet at that price.

The worst blizzard in x40 years and people still can't make it out to see my masterpiece? The theaters still have power...what's everyone's excuse now?

I think it’s because people were waiting to see this in a premium format and wanted to get the best XD 3D IMAX seats. What Avatar has taught us is that people who are waiting for premium formats would rather not go until they could get the best seats and that could mean low Box Office in the first few weeks as there are limited premium seating screens. It would build as the weeks come. But instead of being patient and waiting, Billy pulled it and sent it to streaming rental for $19.99.

Yes, the entire world was waiting to watch Billy Eichner in 3D.

R96, give me a fucking break. No one was waiting for the premium experience for Bros. You must be his mother, still trying to boost his morale.

Luke has the most beautiful hamstring muscles.

[quote]Luke has the most beautiful hamstring muscles.

Luke is gorgeous. He was cute in the Sally Field show. But, he got buff for Killjoys, and it looks good on him.

Finally saw it. Billy is not SOOO repulsive that I can't imagine, but he was just so damn annoying and needy and fucked up about not being some stupid jock. That is what was really hard to take. I get we have our insecurities and our bullshit, but damn, it just seemed like he'd be Roxanne level exhausting to anybody who tried to date him, and I don't see how anybody who had options would put up with it, at all, for more than a week.

I can't believe Luke didn't show ass in this film.

R7 Elder-Elder Gay. No one under 80 uses the word 'delightful'.

R86, DAMN, that was painful. And what's with Billy's voice. He doesn't exactly have a lisp...more like a lisp with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.

R95 Oh Billy, it hasn't been playing in an actual movie theatre in the U.S. since the week of October 28 - November 3. At that point, it was playing at 101 screens - quite a drop from its opening at 3350.

[quote] There is a section of the film set during Christmas. Make Bros a Christmas classic.

It'll be perfect for high rotation on Hallmark!

Bros will be perfect on the Cock.

Finally watched and not as awful as I expected. I laughed more than I usually do with contemporary comedies. However, there were issues:

Sorry, there is still NO WAY I could ever buy McFarlane falling for Eichner. Was that supposed to be a parody of every rom-com where the unnaturally gorgeous guy falls in love with a plain jane? I don't like it in "straight" rom coms and I certainly didn't like it something supposedly more relatable.

The movie seemed wildly uneven. Is it a silly (funny) comedy? Is it trying to make serious points? Is it a drama? WTF am I watching?

The last half hour or so is a painful slog. Mawkish treacle and pure sap. I think it gave me diabetes. It was a huge departure from the first (and far more entertaining) 40 or so minutes. It's almost like two movies in one.