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
I agree with Top Gun. The volleyball scene alone makes it number 1
Personally if you want to talk about gay I think you should watch “Starsky and Hutch”.
Touche, Dusen.
Did I just read shirtless Ryan Reynolds AND Hugh Jackman? Yep, I think I just made plans for the weekend…
the most homoerotic movie is “toy soldiers” the boys in that school are always in their underwear…
Actually, that was not Ryan Reynolds in the last fight with Wolverine. “Weapon XI” was played by Scott Adkins, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012078/
When Wolverine asks, “Is that you, Wade?”, the guy tilts his head a little in a way that’s more like, “Who’s Wade?”. That, and if you stayed after the credits, you might have seen the clip of Wade Wilson walking through the rubble and seeing the decapitated “Weapon XI” and asking, “Who the hell are you supposed to be?”
I didn’t see this added scene with “Wade” Deadpool. All I saw was a scene with Wolverine in Asian (setting it up for his Patch identity.
uh, i didn’t get that vibe at all. maybe it’s because you’re a guy. i enjoyed the lack of shirts, but i’m a girl, so…
are you gay?
Andy, IMDB.com also credits Ryan Reynolds is Wade Wilson/Deadpool. But it credits Scott Adkins as Weapon XI. We didn’t stay through the credits to see Wade on the island, but I thought Weapon XI did look like Ryan Raynolds and with the swords I assumed it was, but guess I was wrong.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
Ok wait, I stayed after the credits, and what I saw was the decapitated head saying “shhh”. How many different endings do they have after the credits?
I think a lot of people make this mistake, but… Schumacher’s Batman sequels were campy, yes, but not really homoerotic. 300, Wolverine, etc. Those are homoerotic films..
You’re a fag and you pervert a children’s comic with your degenerate obsession and agenda.
There are only 2 post-credit scenes. What Andy described below is not at all what happens in the Deadpool scene. I guess he just made that up.
Thanks Crispy, I saw the one right near the beginning with Stryker getting stopped and told he needs to come in, and then that one. I know the bootleg has Wolverine sitting in a bar. But I was like, there’s no way I missed this other Deadpool one because I stayed the whole time
LOL Tim! Glad you brought up the jeans-they were seriously distracting (and not in a good way). I swear, they were so tight, dude couldn’t even WALK!