• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
Star of 'Historic' Gay Movie Gets Backlash After Blaming 'Straight People' for Box Office Flop

Star of 'Historic' Gay Movie Gets Backlash After Blaming 'Straight People' for Box Office Flop

October 4, 2022
Suspect In Assassination Of Minnesota Lawmaker Captured

Suspect In Assassination Of Minnesota Lawmaker Captured

June 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Small Biz Czar Slams Newsom For Siding With Illegals Over Local Businesses

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Small Biz Czar Slams Newsom For Siding With Illegals Over Local Businesses

June 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Trump VA Sec Urges Vets To Give Maligned Agency Second Chance

EXCLUSIVE: Trump VA Sec Urges Vets To Give Maligned Agency Second Chance

June 15, 2025
Rand Paul Says What Could Make Him A ‘Yes’ On Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Rand Paul Says What Could Make Him A ‘Yes’ On Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

June 15, 2025
Numerous Anti-ICE Protesters Arrested In NYC

Numerous Anti-ICE Protesters Arrested In NYC

June 15, 2025
‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful’: Karen Bass Describes Protest From Comfort Of A Helicopter

‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful’: Karen Bass Describes Protest From Comfort Of A Helicopter

June 15, 2025
Rioters Storm Oregon ICE Building, Injure Officers

Rioters Storm Oregon ICE Building, Injure Officers

June 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE PICS: Democrat Bigwigs Hobnob At Ritzy Soros Wedding On ‘No Kings’ Day

EXCLUSIVE PICS: Democrat Bigwigs Hobnob At Ritzy Soros Wedding On ‘No Kings’ Day

June 15, 2025
STEVE MILLOY: President Trump Moves To End The War On Coal

STEVE MILLOY: President Trump Moves To End The War On Coal

June 15, 2025
LYNN WESTMORELAND: Trump Saved Your Venmo And Cash App From Biden’s IRS Spies

LYNN WESTMORELAND: Trump Saved Your Venmo And Cash App From Biden’s IRS Spies

June 15, 2025
NED RYUN: GOP & America Will Be Better for Passing Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

NED RYUN: GOP & America Will Be Better for Passing Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

June 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Small Biz Chief Pledges Zero Tolerance For Fraud After Biden Mission Drift

EXCLUSIVE: Small Biz Chief Pledges Zero Tolerance For Fraud After Biden Mission Drift

June 14, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Monday, June 16, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home Commentary

Star of 'Historic' Gay Movie Gets Backlash After Blaming 'Straight People' for Box Office Flop

by Western Journal
October 4, 2022
in Commentary
235 17
0
Star of 'Historic' Gay Movie Gets Backlash After Blaming 'Straight People' for Box Office Flop
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Next time he should shoot for parody.

In an unholy mix of entitlement and entertainment, the maker of a “historic” (according to The Hollywood Reporter) romantic comedy about gay love has pinpointed the real problem that made the movie an expensive box office bomb.

And it’s not the people behind the camera.

Billy Eichner, the writer and star of the soon-to-be footnote in cinema history going by the title of “Bros,” took to Twitter on Sunday to point the finger where it belongs for the fact that the movie took in a dismal $4 million on its opening weekend:

Squarely at the moviegoing audience.

“That’s just the world we live in, unfortunately. Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is,” wrote Billy Eichner, the actor-comedian probably best known for his “Billy on the Street” character on Funny or Die and a role on the NBC series “Parks and Recreation.”

That’s just the world we live in, unfortunately. Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) October 2, 2022

He followed that up with this bit of irresistible promotion:

“Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight! You will have a blast! And it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, esp for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often. I love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!”

That tweet was adorned with a big heart and a rainbow, naturally.

Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight! You will have a blast! And it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, esp for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often. I love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) October 2, 2022

Sure, things have changed a lot in motion pictures since old C.B. DeMille set up shop in a horse barn in Southern California in the first quarter of the 20th century, but the bottom line has always been about separating customers from their hard-earned money — a project that’s most successful when giving audiences what they want.

As the mega-success of the shoot-’em-up, all-American action film “Top Gun: Maverick” proved, that’s still the key to success — even in the first quarter of the 21st century.

But for Eichner and his ilk, marinated in the Hollywood atmosphere of liberal polemics, apparently, the idea now is to give audiences what filmmakers want, get some in-the-bubble movie reviewers to write up slathering, politically approved praise — and expect John and Jane Q. Public to pay up handsomely just for participating.

“Bros” is an openly gay romantic comedy, see, and it stars an openly gay man who wrote an openly gay script. And if that isn’t openly gay historic, what is?

“Go see my movie or you’re a bigot” isn’t the sales pitch you think it is.

— Sam Rosenthal (@SirSardonic) October 3, 2022

But the world doesn’t work that way — not in a free country, anyway, where men and women outside the nation’s liberal bastions stayed away from Eichner’s film in droves.

Not even charming bits of advertising like this, with Eichner using his “Billy on the Street” character and dragging along actor Jack Black, managed to pull in the crowds.

WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.

[firefly_embed]

[/firefly_embed]

“Bros’ top 10 markets were all in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, while it is underperforming in much of the middle of the country and the south,” The Hollywood Reporter noted, making a considerable understatement of “underperforming.”

Previously that outlet had called the film “historic”

Eichner’s self-pitying, accusatory tweets had their sympathizers, of course, Twitter being the bed-wetter haven it generally is. But there were more than a few responses that explained things a little better.

HT @RonColeman

Not a homophobic weirdo, but I am not interested in that movie..

Tired this type of calumny because of my personal choices. pic.twitter.com/Ikl5JjEdaS

— Random XTreeMi Tuesday Schlub (@amwick2) October 3, 2022

Yeah, straight white southern males are the problem. Perhaps calling us homophonic weirdos isn’t great marketing.

Especially in football season (3/8/96 for birdcage)

Had this flashed across my Netflix menu before this, I might have given it a shot. Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/UMSKSoFQtg

— Rap feynman (@0596Simon) October 3, 2022

My plans for tonight are based on my availability and interests. Not your career. OKaaay?

— a classy occurrence • miles of smiles (@SomeClass) October 2, 2022

And as for Eichner’s pretensions that the movie must have merit because of its reviews?

Maybe all the critics were afraid to give you an honest review because you might call them homophobic weirdos.

— Just looking for the facts (@KaeppelDave) October 3, 2022

Judging by the marketplace of entertainment, “Bros” is a bust, but Eichner’s reaction to the failure is a perfect example of the liberal mindset at work — whether it’s in politics, “social justice” issues or entertainment.

The American people are not to be treated like adults capable of making their own choices and an audience that must be catered to by anyone who wants their money, their support or their votes.

In the progressive world, Americans are to be lectured, harangued and ultimately extorted — because their support is obligatory, whether it’s financial or political, when it’s demanded by their betters.

So when Americans are appalled by President Joe Biden’s giveaway of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in student loan “forgiveness,” it’s simply because they’re the kinds of cruel human beings who are opposed to “much-needed relief for working families,” as White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre put it.

With polls showing Americans tired of watching Biden and congressional Democrats destroy the country with illegal immigration, inflation and a tanking economy are likely to vote Republican in the November midterm elections, it’s because they’re “ultra-MAGA,” “semi-fascist” black shirts in waiting.

Because Democrats believe Americans owe Democrats their support, and if they don’t get it, there’s something wrong with Americans, not with the Democratic product. It’s a mindset Eichner obviously understands well.

As a movie, it’s a good bet “Bros” is a bomb. But as an object lesson in the American entitlement-entertainment complex of the world of the 21st century, and the perspective of political progressives, Eichner’s response is beyond parody.

In fact, it’s picture perfect.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Tags: American leftcelebrityCultureentertainmentHollywoodHomosexualityLGBTpoliticsTweet
Share196Tweet123
Western Journal

Western Journal

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th