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4 comments:
I'll grant you that Wild Hogs is no Ghost Rider, but as gay movies go, it was much better than Brokeback Mountain.
The public is an ass... but I can't tell them to shut the hell up in a movie.
I'd never thought of WH as a sublimated and therefore safer version of Brokeback.
And you can tell the public to shut the hell up, Eric. I think the earlier thread agreed that, socio-economic implications to the side, people need to schooled sometimes.
Is it really a surprise that Wild Hogs is number one? The genre of old-timers proving that they are not that old, yet ultimately accepting their mortality is a proven money maker. I'm thinking Space Cowboys, Going in Style and Return of the Rebels (Jaime Farr's finest moment), among others that don't jump to mind. I have no idea what the actual demographics are for the movie, but I wonder if the audience for it was not the same audience as for Ghost Rider, the movie it bumped. I wonder if the elder generation came out to see this one. And not because it was good, but because it wasn't directly marketed to teens. The movie, perhaps, filled a niche in the market. None of this, of course, says that the public is not an ass.
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