I had the misfortune of watching this piece of drivel with a couple of gay friends. While they absolutely loved it for it's "positive message of acceptance" that we see at it's end, I for one wanted to throw up.
They took a great concept for a movie and destroyed it. I believe that the movie would have been far funnier if KK's character was NOT gay. What do you people think?
If he hadn't been gay there couldn't have had the final scene. Where they destroy the whole concept that associating with gay men will make you gay. I would think that you, considering your gay friends, would appreciate that.
Or would you rather keep people thinking that your friends will some day make you turn gay also.
I honestly don't see why, with some minor tweaking, that positive message could not still be made but with a character who was NOT gay.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I got the impression that the character was straight. I thought it would be hilarious with a straight guy who everyone else believes is gay. He would spend the entire film trying to prove that he is gay but then realizes (and shows everyone else) that it doesn't really make a difference if he is or not.
I believe that would have been a much better movie in my view.
i watched this movie again today, cant remember how many times i have seen it, its just a nice film that is really easy to watch, Kevin Kline is great, but I get what you are saying re the altered story line... i don’t know if your version would have made it a much better movie exactly - just different, and yours would have been for a different audience.
I like the pay off when Miss Montgomery gets together with Cameron Drake, and his parents retake their vowels and he and tom sorta get together - i know its all cheesy and borderline 'pap' but its a 'nice' movie. I don’t see the harm in that!
oh... and i think that it helped the positive message, with a character who was living quite happily and not facing up to his sexuality... with a little push it altered things - at first it seemed for the worse but then for the better - in everybody’s lives. If he was straight, i am not sure how the message would have been delivered effectively... again i think this movie was geared to an older audience ... possible parents who just don’t get 'gay' or the people of the world that only get fed the stereo type and not reality on this issue.
This movie is really fun and funny just the way it is.
The whole movie is built around Howard Brackett’s being gay and his coming to terms with that.
If you remove his gayness, you have no movie, and few laughs. For example, the scene where he tries not to dance, or the scene at his batchelor party, or the kissing scene, or the scene at the wedding, and the scene just outside after the wedding, etc.
It seems some viewers just don’t want even fictional people to be gay.
They took a great concept for a movie and destroyed it. I believe that the movie would have been far funnier if KK's character was NOT gay. What do you people think?