True confession: I see the gay in everything. It’s a gift and a curse, much like Haley Joel Osment’s ability to chat with the dead in The Sixth Sense. After sitting through Wolverine this past weekend, I believe this flick to be the gayest comic book movie ever. It felt like an issue of Men’s Health come to life, albeit with more adamantium. First, the gorgeous Hugh Jackman is shirtless for a good portion of the film — he even has a naked fight scene! And he squares off against a shirtless (and similarly ripped) Ryan Reynolds at one point. Secondly, Wolverine’s job as a lumberjack allows him to wear some very 1970s gay-friendly tight jeans, leather jackets, and flannel shirts, unbuttoned to reveal more than a hint of chest hair. Thirdly, the big sparring between Wolverine and Sabretooth really comes down to two hot guys basically clawing each other with their fingernails. Catfight!
To me, this felt waaay gayer than Joel Schumacher’s codpiece- and nipple-enhanced Batman and Robin. What do you think PopWatchers? Anyone else catch a whiff of homoeroticism from all the male eye candy, or am I blowing things out of proportion?
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Ohhh man, the raving fanboys aren’t gonna like this post one bit.
As to your opinion, nah, I see where you’re coming from but it didn’t cross my mind once while watching the flick. Let’s face it, almost anything can be made homoerotic if you overanalyze it enough.
I hadn’t planned on seeing Wolverine, but now I certainly will!
Please. Like ANYTHING could be gayer than Schumacher’s “Batman and Robin.”
I didn’t think so. I thought it was more to appeal to Jackman’s female fans, sure. But it didn’t strike me as homoerotic (unlike Batman and Robin). In that film, Batman had a cover relationship with a woman that he really didn’t want to pursue, and he had Robin. In this, Hugh Jackman is obviously in love with a woman and his actions are motivated by losing her. so yeah, I think the bare chest was there for the ladies.
I don’t think the shirtless crap called Deadpool at the end of the film was actually Ryan Reynolds.
is it GAYer than 300?
I think you’re overblowing it a little bit. I really didn’t get a gay vibe although I see what you’re saying in hind sight. But it could never hold a candle to the gaytastic festival that is the LOTR trilogy.
And I know it’s not a superhero movie, but it should be mentioned that Top Gun is the most homeoerotic movive ever.
300… enough said!
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/05/04/tv-tonight-monday-may-4th-2009/
I saw Wolverine in a theater full of queens. And every time Jackman appeared with his shirt off, they were giggling like Japanese school girls. So yeh, pretty homoerotic. X2, though, had the far better mutants-as-gays metaphor.
I saw Kevin Smith speak once when I was in college and he talked about how if you replace the word “mutant” with “gay” in X-Men 1 and 2 (the ones Singer directed), they totally work.
He was completely right.
I agree with Conor, nothing can be gayer than 300. Up to this day, I cannot watch a movie or a show with michael fassbender and not think wow gay spartan alert :p 300 totally ruined fassbender for me.
RE: Logan’s comment above, “I don’t think the shirtless crap called Deadpool at the end of the film was actually Ryan Reynolds.”
It was supposed to be Ryan Reynolds, as Logan (in the film) calls him Wade. And judging by Reynolds’ arms at the beginning of the film, I have no doubt that was his body too!
Ummm, I think you just have issues.
nothing was gayer than 300