thecoppercow:

altonzm:

my favourite thing about big eden is that there are a bunch of critics on the rotten tomatoes page going ‘totally unrealistic and corny, no village in rural Montana is this accepting, thumbs down’ and then a bunch of gay commenters going ‘totally unrealistic and corny, no village in rural Montana is this accepting, I loved it’

like we need nice sweet romantic films so badly even sixteen years later, especially ones that aren’t shoved up their own arse. I just want to watch guys fall in love without having to think about the fucking Berlin wall

Exactly – I have a policy called “no dead lesbians” which is p much as it sounds, and is great, but it does lead to me having to cut out the vast majority of ‘classics’. (seriously – nearly every ‘good’ classic ends up with thwarted love or suicide or just death by angst. Maurice is the only exception I can think of off the top of my head, and that starts v slow.) Instead you end up with some truly awful, cheesy romcoms. Like, bad. Like, I grew up watching corny kollywood and they’d reject them bad. And tbh – I like the crap better. I’d much rather roll my eyes at a cheesy movie than have to sit through another ‘she died of mysterious angstygaycharacteritis fornoreasonosoma’ show.

Anyway, we should make a subsection list of ‘no dead lesbians’ called ‘gay people don’t want to think about the ozone layer’ – where not only do the gay characters not die for no reason, they also don’t spend their time having to worry overly about societal homophobia. While it’s realistic, we don’t need to be told, so I’m thinking a list of media that’s either entirely a gay bubble or like Big Eden, where for some reason it’s a universe where everyone is chill. Add your own:

• Girltrash! All Night Long: this is basically like Superbad but with lesbians. It’s trash. I’m sorry. (I’m not sorry.)
• Imagine Me and You: rom commiest of rom coms. Lena Headey is in it. It’s cute.
• Bar Girls: “finally..a romantic comedy without men”. Bit slice-of-lifey, but I’m including it cos wlw never get romcoms that don’t go on about conversion therapy or how much angst there is out there.
• The Joe Keenan ‘Blue Heaven’ trilogy: these are actually books but I wanted to include them. imagine if Jeeves and Wooster were gay but actually Wooster was two incredibly lazy screenwriters who try and make a quick buck and  pull off some sort of crime caper, but it all goes hilariously wrong and at one point the mafia gets involved, and also there’s an ongoing pisstake of Hollywood going on. Now you see why I wanted to include it.
• Is it just me?: someone got me to watch this movie and I haven’t forgiven them for it. It’s so cheesy, just so, so, so cheesy. I actually can’t remember it because I rolled my eyes a lot but basically a gay cowboy and a liberal writer fall in love online, then they meet up, but oh no! there’s been a case of mistaken identity, clearly the sensible thing to do is not to come clean but continue the hilarious subterfuge.
• The 10 year plan: ‘haha, these good friends who have totally different personalities make a pact that if they aren’t married in ten years, they’ll date, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS I’m so shocked’. But with two dudes.
• eCupid: this is by the same director who did ‘Is it just me’ and ‘the 10 year plan’. It’s about the same level of cheese, but with ~how technology can affect your relationship~, this time. How topical.
• I guess Please Like Me is a good example of a sitcom that doesn’t go “woe is me, I have realised I am gay, my life must be angsting about homophobia”, but there is some heavy subject matter cos it’s more slice-of-life.

(will probably make this into a proper post that can be added to later but rn I’m piggybacking on this one soz)