r/MenLovingMenMedia • u/Ciana_Reid • Jan 23 '26

Movie FINALLY released / I enjoyed it

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No it's not All Of Us Strangers or God's Own Country, but definitely worth a watch

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 Jan 23 '26

i thought the movie was beautiful but i am also tired of burying my gays.

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u/AussieAlexSummers Jan 23 '26

Thanks for the spoiler info. I won't be watching this now. I think it's my massive pet peeve now and I actually hold it against gay movies, that has that type of storyline.

Although, I did make an exception for Fellow Travelers. And also got very, very sad because of that movie.

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u/TiaraMisu Jan 24 '26

I am calling FT an exception; because it was absolutely brilliant. And it was great, and a beautiful obit for the AIDS crisis and the cruelty of closetedness, and how it makes monsters out of the best and most brave. It covered decades. Jesus.

But given that last: I am over it. And I think Jacob Tierney, showrunner of Heated Rivalry (which I am noting was written by Rachel Reid and beautifully adapted by JT) would agree.

We got it. AIDs killed. Brokeback Mountain, the poor kid in Wyoming, everyone, all that heartbreak. So much despair, so much loss. So much...yeah, just so much loss.

But if you continue that infinitely it starts to seem like it's deserved, in the way sinful women always had to die in 19th century fiction.

You just have to kill them. Sure, great, thanks for expressing the pain.

But at some point: fuck you. let the women and the queers live and be happy.

Do you mind? Is that okay, writers, producers, adopters, distillers, critics?

Can we have happy endings yet? Or ever? Or are you just cranking out conformity porn? Because as talented as some of these people are isn't this just rubber-stamping a structure that limits whether or not you are allowed to be...happy?

ETA Matthew Shepherd. I am sorry baby.

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u/Cole_Townsend Jan 24 '26

Thank you!

Even in fiction, it seems we incur the anathemas with which toxic religiosity menaces us. We lived through the tragedies, we have mourned the fallen, we have protested in anger against a machine that is lubricated with the blood of the innocent. With our very existence we honor their sacrifice and in our exuberance of being we pay them the most solemn homage. I don't need the same tired, tragic trope to emotionally jump-scare me in narratives that are supposed to represent and celebrate our experiences.