Has anyone on this forum actually SEEN the movie? I've been reading a lot of sniggering gay jokes worthy of the average eighth grader, and people talking about how the movie's box office performance doesn't match up to bigger movies.
Personally, I liked the movie. And the theater I saw at in (in the middle of a pretty conservative suburban area) was packed. I don't know what the sexual preferences of every single member of the audience was; my wife and I are both straight and we both thought BBM was a thoughtful, beautifully written, acted and directed film about two people caught up by something they can't understand.
Well, this movie now has made about ten times its then-current gross at the time when Mr. Usher penned this article, so I'd say this thread is a bit out of date.;)Obviously, people on the Right have "misunderestimated" its box office appeal. I admit that, while I thought it would do better than people were saying, I thought fifty million would be tops. Now it's about to pass fifty million. Clearly, America is more receptive to homosexuality then it used to be, but then look how the country has changed in twenty years.
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Yeah! I did, twice. FINALLY someone who has actually SEEN the movie.
My husband and i felt much the way you and your wife did.
Here is a link to a fabulous commentary:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11102003/