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by Matt Goldberg Posted:October 14th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
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Pop culture, you ruin everything. Two guys can’t be friends any more. Oh, no. We have “bromances”. And then cue the “Brokeback Mountain” song and boy, ain’t that just comedy. What’s worse, “bromance” is a socially-acceptable form of homophobia because two guys being close friends seems gay so let’s dub it with an ironic term and then we can all breathe easy. But since “We Love You, Man” was successful (although I imagine that Paul Rudd and Jason Segel contributed more to that success than the premise), then we must take that movie, bring it to the Hollywood Xerox Machine,make a sloppy facsimile, and notify the secretary that we’re low on toner. Summit just hit the green button for “We Love You” so the jump to wonder if this kind of movie-making can be considered a form of copyright infringement.
I think you can understand my cynicism when I read in The Hollywood Reporter that Summit Entertainment has bought a pitch from writer Alan Yang called “We Love You” which is about “two close friends who discover they’re dating the same woman and the comedic and relationship consequences that ensue when they try to disentangle the situation.” This is what happens when you put bros before hos: insipid, uninspired comedy. And if you think I’m being hard on Yang, his other credits include the interracial-adoption comedy “White Dad” and a rewrite of the David Dobkin project “Boss Go Home”. Why not add laugh tracks to these movies and call it day? [the image above comes from the great web comic "VG Cats" which is actually funny and creative and therefore not really appropriate for this story]
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I disagree with your bromance beef. Yes, Hollywood is making some comedy cash off the concept, but often uncomfortable things are dealt with in comedy as they make there way into the main stream. The love two straight men can have for each other still makes a lot of men nervous. I feel it is important for this to change and for the ongoing movement which seeks to help men feel comfortable with their full range of emotions to continue. And yes, there will be gay jokes. Because hugging men, and platonicly loving men makes us fear that someone is going to jump out and brand us as homosexual and that we will then magically BE gay. So show feel makers are using the comedy of that ridiculous fear by showing us that it won’t happen.
Now this movie may suck. But don’t hate bromance.
I disagree with your bromance beef. Yes, Hollywood is making some comedy cash off the concept, but often uncomfortable things are dealt with in comedy as they make there way into the main stream. The love two straight men can have for each other still makes a lot of men nervous. I feel it is important for this to change and for the ongoing movement which seeks to help men feel comfortable with their full range of emotions to continue. And yes, there will be gay jokes. Because hugging men, and platonicly loving men makes us fear that someone is going to jump out and brand us as homosexual and that we will then magically BE gay. So show feel makers are using the comedy of that ridiculous fear by showing us that it won’t happen.
Now this movie may suck. But don’t hate bromance.
I disagree with your bromance beef. Yes, Hollywood is making some comedy cash off the concept, but often uncomfortable things are dealt with in comedy as they make there way into the main stream. The love two straight men can have for each other still makes a lot of men nervous. I feel it is important for this to change and for the ongoing movement which seeks to help men feel comfortable with their full range of emotions to continue. And yes, there will be gay jokes. Because hugging men, and platonicly loving men makes us fear that someone is going to jump out and brand us as homosexual and that we will then magically BE gay. So show feel makers are using the comedy of that ridiculous fear by showing us that it won’t happen.
Now this movie may suck. But don’t hate bromance.
While I have a deep hatred for Hollywood and suspect that this movie will suck the premise is less similar to I Love You man than the beginning of the article suggests. When I read it I was expecting the plot to more reminiscent. That being sad this movie will likely be terrible.
While I have a deep hatred for Hollywood and suspect that this movie will suck the premise is less similar to I Love You man than the beginning of the article suggests. When I read it I was expecting the plot to more reminiscent. That being sad this movie will likely be terrible.
While I have a deep hatred for Hollywood and suspect that this movie will suck the premise is less similar to I Love You man than the beginning of the article suggests. When I read it I was expecting the plot to more reminiscent. That being sad this movie will likely be terrible.
You just listed the credits you deemed bad by Yang. He’s a former South Park and current Parks and Recreation writer. He’s also co-creator and writer of the greatest sports snark blog of all time, firejoemorgan.com. This man gets a lifetime pass from me for creating that work of art.
I don’t know about firejoemorgan.com but look at which episodes of South Park he has in his credits and you’ll see he was responsible for some of their weakest episodes.
You just listed the credits you deemed bad by Yang. He’s a former South Park and current Parks and Recreation writer. He’s also co-creator and writer of the greatest sports snark blog of all time, firejoemorgan.com. This man gets a lifetime pass from me for creating that work of art.
I don’t know about firejoemorgan.com but look at which episodes of South Park he has in his credits and you’ll see he was responsible for some of their weakest episodes.