Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones play Queer Outsiders in 1950s America in “On Swift Horses”

Please stop with the ridiculous retroactive application of "queer".

They need a new Oscar category: Best Queerbait

I’m sorry this is such blatant Oscar queerbait.

Queer tells me nothing about the characters. Are they trans? Nonbinary? Questioning? 2 Spirit? Pansexual? Or just plain gay & lesbian?

R4 in the 50s? GAY AND LESBIAN OR BI. All those modern words don’t apply to then.

Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva play Julius and Henry, who strike up a romance and develop a steamy sexual chemistry that includes rich and emotional scenes.

Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones play “queer outsiders” Julius & Muriel in ‘ON SWIFT HORSES,’ who feel “a constant pull towards each other that leads to a stirring climax.”

Elordi: “I believe Taylor Swift calls it an invisible string.”

They're both terrible actors.

Weak sauce.

So they both aren’t attracted to each other but have some immediate and lasting pull towards one another. That sounds dumb.

It happens

There was a couple on Oprah who met young, got married, had kids and then discovered they were both gay. Gay men and gay women have always found each other.

I am almost tearing up thinking about when I first met my lesbian best friend. More than 30 years ago, I was kinda closeted and very "straight-presenting" (no, seriously) and I still am in middle age. We were in graduate school, she walked right up to me and smiled broadly and said "what are you doing tomorrow?" The next evening she picked me up at my home. She didn't tell me where we were going and I didn't ask, we were just vibing. She took us straight to the gayest club in the city. She died about 12 years ago and I really miss her.

Show his dick or nothing.

Looks good to me. Can't waitto see it!

[quote] Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva play Julius and Henry, who strike up a romance and develop a steamy sexual chemistry that includes rich and emotional scenes.

Remember, cisgender hetero girls like to see gay men kissing and caressing, and they can tolerate a tasteful, dimly-lit display of body contact...but NOT raw, sweaty butt sex and kink like in "Fellow Travelers." I hope they thread the needle carefully with this one.

R15 SOME. Not all. Not all cisgender hetero girls like watching gay men.

R16 Yes, but who cares about them?

Everyones favorite babygirl is back, making a rare public appearance! He’s at TIFF for the TIFF premiere of “On Swift Horses”. The crowd went wild as he walked by.

I wonder if his management has hit him over the head about not having a moustache during appearances yet.

Leading man and Leading lady together at TIFF

"Bones and All" minus the cannibalism.

Not that romantic movies about the disaffected and the wandering can't be good, but the genre had pretty much run its course when William Holden hopped that train.

How is this like Bones and All? Let’s see this explanation

Jacob and Barry reunited earlier to take some photos together. They are both at TIFF tonight because both their films are premiering there tonight. Earlier the casts of the films debuting tonight did their Variety photoshoots and interviews and they ran into each other.

Sydney Sweeney’s new movie premieres tonight too. I wonder if her and Jacob will run into each other.

Lots of young stars in these indie flicks this year.

The ladies of EDEN tonight

One would think with Elordi and Calva playing lovers there would be more pics of just the two of them.

R25 why would there be more pics of them? The film focuses on Elordi and Edgar-Jones. Calva has a small supporting role.

Elordi and Edgar-Jones are the leads. They get photographed together. Calva, Poulter, Calle are all small supporting roles. The focus is the two leads. Their relationships with others is secondary in the film.

Something happened at the EDEN showing

R22, Just the idea of loners finding each other. Nothing more. I've not seen either movie. Don't let it bug you; I'm not knocking either Timmy or Jacob.

Is Bones and All the first film about outsiders finding one another?

This makes no sense to me??? A homosexual movie with a man and a woman? Neither likes the. " plumbing" of the other. Is this one of those movies from France of a lot of symbolism?

Who said it’s about gay people? They can be bisexual.

This critic found the film dull but not at the fault of the actors, who were great.

Brian Rowe didn’t like it (again, not because of the actors but the execution and writing).

Deadline gives it a very mixed but mostly positive review. They sing the praises of Elordi and especially Calva.

“Edgar-Jones also seems to have a tough time getting a real handle on just who Muriel is, although certainly someone longing for a same-sex relationship while being newly married in the 1950s might not be the easiest character to define. Poulter is the poor lost soul in all this, and he could have been the antagonist standing between his brother and wife but he’s really a good old boy. You feel for him since he thought he was going to live the American dream. Elordi is becoming one of the most interesting actors around, especially after Saltburn and Euphoria have cemented his sex symbol bonafides. If they ever remake Hud, he’s the guy. However it is Calva, the discovery from Damian Chazelle’s Babylon, who is the standout, an intriguing character to be sure. And Calva hits all the right notes in and out of bed with Elordi.“

Hold on, Elordi is playing gay? I thought only gay people were allowed to play gay people in movies and tv shows...

...oh wait.

[Quote]‘ON SWIFT HORSES’ is described as “an erotically charged film” that “features plenty of sex” between Jacob Elordi and Diego Calva’s characters.

Sounds good to me.

[Quote]Just came out of the screnning, the sex scenes are beautifully shot but a lot less explicit than I expected. No full frontal but diego calva did show ass in the movie. Even the scenes of will poulter and daisy edgar jones are more explicit than the ones with jacob and diego

Disappointing.

What a stupid post at r47

Gay men are so mentally lost they think everything is porn. Did they think a sex scene between two actors in an R rated film was gonna be porn? I’m confused. No real film fan yet alone someone who studied film thinks this.

[quote] Just came out of the screnning, the sex scenes are beautifully shot but a lot less explicit than I expected. No full frontal but diego calva did show ass in the movie. Even the scenes of will poulter and daisy edgar jones are more explicit than the ones with jacob and diego.

Whew! Well that's a relief!

Elordi is VERY tall, very vain, but not very hung. People say it's quite underwhelming.

R52 I don't care. I will still watch it. Mediocre movie is still better than awful. Many gay movies are awful. At least this sounds like it's decent. Also, hot men and gay sex scenes. Count me in.

All these critics talking about how beautiful these actor are.. Sheesh, the hyperbole. Mutton dressed as lamb.

I just got out of the theater and I enjoyed it overall. I liked the simplicity of it and that it was such a quiet movie. It was so quiet. It’s a slow movie and I don’t mind them when they don’t feel too long but this one eventually does start to feel long. This would have benefited from being trimmed down 20-30 minutes. It’s 2 hours and should have been 90 minutes.

I will say Jacob Elordi is LOVELY in this film and looks the most beautiful he’s ever looked.

[quote]This would have benefited from being trimmed down 20-30 minutes. I

A woman in my row bailed during the last 30 minutes.

I enjoyed it. It's not ground-breaking but there was enough compelling elements to make it a worthwhile watch.

R56

What was your favorite part?

R56???

R57 he didn’t actually watch it. It was released today. You went to the first showing most likely. That poster has been posting all day. How would he have went to see it while posting on here the whole time?

I've seen it twice, actually. The great thing about L.A is that there are advance screenings, aplenty.

Any scene with Elorid's Julius and Calva's Henry was my favorite, but specifically when Julius essentially tells Henry he doesn't need his old life, that he just wants him.

R60 you didn’t watch it bud. And you don’t live in LA

r1, more people used "queer" back then than "gay"

R63 correct. Or slurs.

Elrodi kind of just looks like a foot to me

Jacob is handsome. You gotta admit.

“You gotta admit” is an annoying term and there is only one person on here who uses it…

It’s an okay movie. Daisy Edgar Jones probably gives the best performance in it, Also I never would’ve imagined I’d walk out of this movie with this cast feeling hottest for Will Poulter but the man has got a big ol dumptruck ass and I wanna smack it.

R68 you didn’t walk out. You can’t walk out of something you didn’t even walk into.

Jacob gave a great performance. Everyone was good.

This happens. I’m a lesbian. But I tried being heterosexual until age 19. Years later, in my early 20s, I saw more than one ex-boyfriend in the gay bars.

The money and PR that have gone into trying to make him happen is stunning.

R70 only this isn’t about choosing to be closeted. It’s about having no choice. It was the 1950s. You comparing yourself in modern day to the 50s is laughable

[quote]only this isn’t about choosing to be closeted. It’s about having no choice. It was the 1950s.

Muriel had a choice - that was the point of Sandra's anger towards Muriel at the end.

The choice was to be out and live in a little bubble or not. You couldn’t be out back then. It wasn’t even legal.

No fucking duh. It's still a choice to make - be alone yet true to yourself (as Sandra did) or stay in an unsatisfying relationship just because it's expected and the perceived norm.

R75 and Muriel chose herself in the end. She didn’t stay in the marriage and didn’t stay with the hideous Mexican.

OF COURSE, they do.

Is anyone around who makes films who still remembers what it was like to be ghay in the '50s?

Bump

R78 being gay in the 50s was not being gay dear. It was Illegal in the majority of the country.