Bros Movie Streaming on Peacock

Watch Spoiler Alert which is also on Peacock. I liked it so much more than Bros.

I fucking loved it.

Just watched Spoiled Alert!! Loved that movie (although that Jim Parsons looms a bit like an alien).

All these gay movies about the blazing hot guy falling for the dorky one seem like a world so far away from my own.

Does this really ever happen?

It must grind Billy's gears to see so many online raves for "Smiley" and "Heartstopper."

People will support a gay rom-com if it's, you know, GOOD.

[Quote] All these gay movies about the blazing hot guy falling for the dorky one seem like a world so far away from my own.

In Spoiler Alert, only in the movie is one blazing hot. Neither was that hot in real life

It's move to Peacock was discussed in November.

R7, so what? This thread is not about its move to Peacock.

I liked Bros! Homophobia definitely contributed to its poor box office. Sooner or later we will be accepted in movies!!!

Gay Men are disappearing, aging out. The future is downlow bi brahs.

it was so cringe worthy when Billy's character went after Marcy Darcy at the dinner table because she felt her students were too young

I liked it more than I thought it would based on what was said on DL but I was not crazy about the end 10 minutes or so.

Why is it that whenever the plot is about the hot guy going after the nerd, the nerd has to be an accomplished blah blah blah (in Bros’ case, the author of books, host of a famous podcast, and board chair of a new museum) and the hot guy is just hot?

Bros did not flop because of homophobia. It flopped because obnoxious Eichner played the lead and was awful. Period. Poor Luke couldn't save it. Spoiler Alert has alot of heart and, even though Parsons has a face for radio, he has alot of chemistry with his co star and having Sally Field in the cast is a huge bonus.

Neither main character was remotely believable in Bros. The movie was cut weirdly too. You’d get to a scene, and it took a few minutes before you realize it’s supposed to be months later from the last scene

They really should have left out the poppers scene with Sally Field.

That part was totally unnecessary.

Bros. was terrible. Just completely phony. So cringe.

Also, note to Billy: Nobody cares about Debra Messing.

I preferred Smiley on Netflix. It had a lot more genuine heart.

I do like that current gay movies works hard to normalize gay. There isn’t much about homophobia—just that gays are a regular part of society

I thought the Messing scene was the only funny one in the movie!

I’m glad this flopped hard so we didn’t have to suffer a sequel centered on Guy Branum‘s obese qween, ‘Bros 2: The Whale finds love’.

r21 I would see that!

Billy Eichner’s character, and like Billy Eichner himself, is so off putting that I can’t imagine ANYONE wanting to get closer to him

I love that M3GAN was the movie that all the gays supported and blew up the box office at 100M with a 17M budget.

The best twitter quote:

[quote] It's like Bros, but for gay people

Yeah, this movie really surprised me when I watched it. SO many talented people clearly wanted to be in it, but it was not well-written or calibrated to be funny and meaningful.

I don't hate Billy the way some on here do, but there was ZERO way that love interest would have cared about his tantrums or him being "different" or "special" or whatever.

Best example: he asks Billy to keep his pro-gay history stuff to himself when they have dinner with his parents...so Billy launches into it anyway. And then, when the boyfriend understandably gets pissed/embarrassed and walks away, Billy is there to catch him kissing someone else and somehow it turns into "Oh no PLEASE Billy! I'm 100% in the wrong! Don't LEAVE me!" and Billy getting to play spurned diva.

Like...really? You can't censor your bullshit for a few hours just to please your boyfriend and make his family comfortable?

I felt the boyfriend was really happy being promiscuous and getting laid and being sexy...and was more likely to dump Billy's ass early on and have fun without him.

The ending with them joking about adopting a kid made me want to scream "NO! NO NO NO!" and warn CPS in advance.

The sex stuff was pretty major, considering we never see anything like that, but I felt it worked best in the opening with the quicky Grindr bate-off with only two sentences uttered between the men. The rest was icky.

Does Billy want to be seen as sexy? I'm confused on that. He purposely keeps to this Queeny High School student council nutcase persona, while wanting us to notice the body and the the beard, etc.

I haven't seen the movie, but got the feeling it would be one of those forced-charm stories about a wound-up, know-all, in-your-face, pudgy, mentally exhausting stereotypical NY Jewish gay guy who is struggling with lurve for a handsome WASP (a sort of reverse sub-Woody Allen saga), so gave it a hard pass. I also think Eichner icky. Is this a grossy misreading?

R9 = Billy

Call me when it’s on Tubi.

Note to Billy: No one ever wanted to see your ass.

Do you think Billy is over not being nominated for a screenplay Oscar?

R29 is it very furry ?

I saw a few clips of it at a bar. "The bottom dance" scene was so uncomfortable and cringe. No thanks.

Very hot people end up with average looking people when the latter are wealthy. I'm sorry but it's almost always true.

I'm very hot, and I'm attracted to normal-looking, average looking kind of guys.

I didn't mind it. It wasn't the ground breaker or the lewd shock-fest some of the media coverage promised. But it was competent entertainment. Very dumb to think large numbers of straights would want to see it though, so financially it was a very stupid decision. Minor complaint... I cringed over the re-education/struggle session dialogue that falsely claimed gay men owe everything to "trans women of color".

R35 = CISTERF

[quote]I thought the Messing scene was the only funny one in the movie!

Yes, her scenes were the only funny ones. Especially her rant about how she beat Sarah Jessica Parker for an Emmy.

i watched it tonight. it is extravagantly awful.

[quote]It wasn't the ground breaker or the lewd shock-fest some of the media coverage promised.

The film is shocking and lewd!

" extravagantly awful" is an awesome comment!

I just saw it on a flight.

It was basically Eating Out 6 without any of the charm or stellar acting performances of the previous five films in that franchise.

I liked Bros. It was fine. If they'd gone with a good, likeable actor as the lead? It could have been really great. Romcoms (gay or straight) live and die by casting choices.

[quote]Romcoms (gay or straight) live and die by casting choices.

Luke is a Hallmark rom com fav as a straight male lead, so it's actually pretty telling that he has more chemistry with women than he did with Billy...

I watched half of it last night. No one likes to be shrilly lectured, how did the production company think that straight audiences, most especially straight men, would see this?

Luke McFarlane was fine, but Billy Eichner had negative charisma. Eventually, I was sick of seeing his ugly face, concave chest and of hearing his shrill voice. I turned the movie off.

r13 wish fulfillment fantasies to justify whatever perceived trauma they went through with being an ugly and unpopular kid... something to balance out the lack of looks, personality and self esteem.

R26, don’t worry about forced-charm, since it was completely charm-free.

Eichner is the embodiment of the exhausting, in-your-face Noo Yawker who considers themselves God's gift, but only sparks distaste or even polite behind-the-hand antisemitism elsewhere. The character required someone with a least a soupcon of charm.

Peacock has already removed it from their services due to viewer complaints.

loves it, but 20 million should not be the budget for this mediocre feel happy movie

In a way, I loved that it was so bad. We deserve shitty romcoms too.

I have nothing against him but he's not someone I want to see in movies. Not a good actor and annoying personality.

Billy has basically disappeared, hasn’t he? Has this thing sunk his career? His career was based on very little to begin with, playing a stereotypical obnoxious New Yorker doesn’t go far in the 21st century.

It moved from Peacock to Amazon Prime.

Lort, that was horrible....Luke is really great and a good actor but Billy Eichner? I don't think so...how annoying...how badly written...

I finally watched it last weekend on Amazon Prime with my (married, straight 30's female) friend. I think we laughed a couple times, but it was, overall, tedious. It was not *awful* but it was not very good.

After it was over, she turned to me and said something like – RomComs are better suited to streaming but they need to have likeable lead characters, right? The thing is, I don't mind Billy Eichner. I don't love him, but don't hate him. It is too bad that he wrapped so much of his ego – his being – into Bros. Doesn't he have a trusted friend who could have told him, honestly, that this script was just not good? Had he ever written a feature film screenplay before?

I agree that theater-released RomComs are a thing of the past – it's all about action, sci-fi, and comic book based movies now. Yeah, it's fine to add another movie to the list of gay-themed films. But Bros is not memorable in any good way.

Too bad the late Leslie Jordan wasn't in it. Could have spiced it up with another gay stereotype.

[quote] I agree that theater-released RomComs are a thing of the past – it's all about action, sci-fi, and comic book based movies now.

Uh, so that’s why Ticket to Paradise was a $100+ million smash hit, right?

[quote] It moved from Peacock to Amazon Prime.

Because ‘Cock kicked it out of its library for embarrassing them so much. It was the least streamed movie on there.

It takes a lot to embarrass Peacock aka home of The Real Housewives of Miami.

R57 *slowclap* You got one! Hurray!!! Yes, Ticket to Paradise (2022) was a box office money-maker right after cinemas opened up after months of closure. With Julia Roberts and George Clooney. That is one. Look at the top grossing movies of the last 10-15 years.

[quote]Because ‘Cock kicked it out of its library for embarrassing them so much. It was the least streamed movie on there.

Next stop: Tubi!

I enjoyed Bros to a point, but never understood why Billy Eichner's character was so off-putting to everyone in his life. And it took a lot of chutzpah for Eichner to cast himself opposite Luke MacFarlane.

MacFarlane, for me, was about as sexy as he's ever been onscreen. And he appeared to have added some muscle to his frame, which was all to the good. IRL, I have a hard time imagining someone as hot as MacFarlane's character ever being the least bit attracted to a scream queen like Eichner's character.

And I think that was the major problem with the film. Eichner wrote himself a part so mind-numbingly awful that it wasn't believable or redeemable. There's no way they should have ended up together.

I started it last night as I have Amazon Prime. It’s not as bad as I thought it would be, I’ve actually chuckled a few times. But I had to take a break watching it. I do more and more now with streaming services tho. Will report back.

The ending made no sense. How did his co-workers all know how to play and sing the song he wrote with no rehearsals. And would you even be doing that for your boss, getting in his petty romantic squabbles, helping him get his man? I would be like this event isn’t all about you. Take your shitty vanity song and shove it!

[quote]Do you think Billy is over not being nominated for a screenplay Oscar?

Had that happened, I'd have laughed and laughed. Something that did not happen when I watched Bros itself.

He’s not over not being nominated for Best Actor. He only submitted himself but not Luke Macfarlane.

Billy isn't Oscar worthy.

We may as well give Billy an Oscar. It's not like that award means anything.