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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.

[–] Drooch 9 years ago

Girl-flesh for the men, man-flesh for the girls. That was the thinking in the 80's, and also explains the gratuitous toplessness in Top Less (I mean Top Gun). Women were going crazy for Swayze after Dirty Dancing and the producers of Road House will have factored that in.

[–] antonasmodeus 9 years ago

So if Dalton and Jimmy were in prison together, who would have been pitching and who would have been catching?

[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 9 years ago

What about The Shawshank Redemption? would you consider it homo-erotic since it is kind of a sausage feast? Lol

"If this is torture, chain me to the wall"-Oliver and Company

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