Heck, Hollywood doesn’t even have bean-counters anymore, they have activists, or rather, hacktivists posing as bean-counters. Genuine beancounters would realize that trying to force in homosexuality for even a second, or any SJW messages for that matter, will destroy revenue and NOT go that route, period, while Hollywood’s not only going that route, but doubling down on it.
Wowsers! That brought the “seriousness” we saw in the second movie to the first. It brought three dimensionality to the fight, and the characters.
I’ll just throw this out though: We have the “extended version” of That Thing You Do. We like the original better because it just gets too real in the extended version. It’s better “fantasy” in the version that made it to the screen.
I think the same thing can be said of this remake of the scene. It makes it more real/heavy than was appropriate for the original movie.