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Filled with homo-erotic imagery

posted 11 years ago by MyOpinionIsFact
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My friends had a movie night showing Road House. I had never seen it but most of them had multiple times. During the middle of the movei, after seeing Swayze's bare torso for like the 100th time, it dawned on me that the movie contains a lot of homo-erotic imagery, so I exclaimed, "This is light, homo-erotic porn disguised as a movie!". There were a couple girls there who instantly agreed with me, "YOU'RE RIGHT! IT IS!". This turned into a big, emotional discussion because half the guys said it's absurd. Some were quiet. Some agreed and even said "maybe" as if that it explained why they liked the movie.

My guess is that many fans of this movie like it because the movie is sub-consciously appealing to repressed homosexual desires. I state that as a serious assertion.

Discuss.

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[–] texascoon2 11 years ago

Women want to see Swayze's shirt off. Guys want to be him. I guess you also think the Bruce Lee movies are aimed at homos?

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[–] panic100 8 years ago

Exactly!

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[–] lnoft97-412-316846 8 years ago

Ho-yay. Look it up.

Women enjoy the ho-yay, as do gay guys. It flies over the heads of the obvlivious straight guys.

I do love me some man-candy , and also ho-yay.

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[–] doctor_dickenstein 11 years ago

brutal. nothing to discuss. guys like it because there's lots of fighting, nudity, etc. straight guys, that is. dudes with homo-erotic desires are usually the ones that bring up that crap.

"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"

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[–] danzig138-668-939218 10 years ago

Discuss? Well, the first thing to discuss would be your utter lack of understanding about what homo-eroticism is. Come back after you finish middle school.

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[–] eelb 10 years ago

So based on your theory, all films with scantily clad young women, are geared towards a repressed lesbian audience.

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[–] antonasmodeus 10 years ago

Besides Jimmy's gay statement, check out the look he gives Dalton when they first make eye-contact at Red's store after he and the well-dressed thug trash the place. Jimmy looks like he has a raging boner and he's ready to rape Dalton right then and there! If that doesn't scream homo-erotic I don't know what does...hehe

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[–] pking-2 10 years ago

One sees what he wants to see.

Of course, your premise demands that to be non-homoerotic...movies about men must conceal their bodies from you lest you have those thoughts. That seems rather prescriptive and taliban-like.

In other words, if you're straight, an athlete is an athlete and a dancer is a dancer and a fighter is a fighter. But if you're gay, its all titillating when their shirts are off and their torsos are sweaty. You get out of it what you put in...and if you have no homo you get no homo.

Anyways, sure they were sexing up the Swayze. This is a movie. He was one in a long line of Hollywood beefcake. Take from it what you want...but to try to project onto the audience that they are as titillated as you...is a bit of wishful thinking. Some were, some weren't.

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[–] Jim_Hopper 9 years ago

One sees what he wants to see.

Of course, your premise demands that to be non-homoerotic...movies about men must conceal their bodies from you lest you have those thoughts. That seems rather prescriptive and taliban-like.

In other words, if you're straight, an athlete is an athlete and a dancer is a dancer and a fighter is a fighter. But if you're gay, its all titillating when their shirts are off and their torsos are sweaty. You get out of it what you put in...and if you have no homo you get no homo.

Anyways, sure they were sexing up the Swayze. This is a movie. He was one in a long line of Hollywood beefcake. Take from it what you want...but to try to project onto the audience that they are as titillated as you...is a bit of wishful thinking. Some were, some weren't.

Exactly right. I've seen this movie countless times and I've never thought about it from the homo-erotic angle. A dude with his shirt off is a dude with his shirt off and nothing more. Unless of course the scene is shot in a suggestive way, but none of the shirtless Dalton scenes were suggestive to me. You get out what you put in.

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[–] MachoManRandySavage 9 years ago

Agree OP, about this movie having some homo-eroticism in it. Not necessarily that it would only appeal to people with sub-conscious homosexual desires.

I'm straight, enjoy this movie, and I think that's why it has mass appeal. It's for everyone. Straight dudes, gay dudes, ladies...everybody. It has fights, hot people, comedy, music and classic 80's action story.

It's like Top Gun. Action, hot people, music, and some comedy. That's the 80's!

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[–] Kowalchuk 9 years ago

It was the 80s, the clothes were gay, the hairstyles were gay, the music was...well not all the music but a lot was gay, even the gays were gay.

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[–] MachoManRandySavage 9 years ago

Again, this movie is just classic...for everybody.

People were less uptight in the 80's. It was regular for dudes of all colours, and sexual preferences, to wear fairly short shorts. Look at basketball and tennis as examples compared to the modern era. Look at Miami Vice as the fashion trend...pastels and loafers, but also relaxed. Don Johnson usually looked like he just woke up, hung over and since he was undercover, having just done a line of coke.

The 80's was a much more simple time.

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[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

Probably explains the line: I screwed guys like you in prison!

Its that man again!!

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[–] Lincbond442 9 years ago

The only two things that screamed out gay were:

1) The line Jimmy says to Dalton about guys in prison, and

2) The look on Emmet's face after watching Dalton doing his tai chi moves. (Sorry Sunshine)

This movie has something for everyone on various levels which is probably why it is still so popular today.

"Don't tell me your little problems son, all I'm interested in is results."

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[–] Dan_Garten 9 years ago

Yeah.

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