I dont think that is really important, the fact the boy was gay is just an excuse for the other boy to have a chance with the girl.
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Very good point, neverbeforgiven, but you're (I think) gay and you have doubtless read much of the valuable criticism of, and essays on, such psychosexually subversive elements of horror as cross-gender-identification -for example, Carol Clover's definitive book "Men, Women and Chainsaws: gender in the modern horror film" or, more accessibly, this little sampling for Halloween:
http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2007/10/skeletons_in_the_closet
Consequently, you will be aware that there's more to this issue than killing off the (token) gay character. These elements of horror - implicit or explicit homoeroticism, sexual anxiety, castration fears et al - strike deeply unnerving chords within the (16-25 year old, nominally heterosexual) fanboy demographic. And the heterosexual hierarchy has to be reassured as they chomp their popcorn, so the subversively ordinary gay element must be eliminated (you would have thought that straights are made of emotionally stronger stuff than that, but look at how the simple act of ordaining a gay man as Bishop of an Episcopalian church has split in two a worldwide, centuries-old, Church Establishment, and look at what had legislatively to be given to the straights to calm their neuroses - a "Defense of Marriage Act" because the prospect of a few thousand loving gay and Lesbian couples getting married is SUCH a threat to their homes and families ! Goodness me, did you ever think we had that much power ? Or that heterosociety was so scared of us ?) A fact attested to by the number of deleted, doubtless deeply homophobic, posts in response to your comment. It's interesting to read Carol Clover's brilliant analysis of the central male-male relationship in "Witchboard", then read, on imdb, amazon, and elsewhere, what (chiefly young, male) viewers have to say. The rich psychosexual subtleties that Ms Clover nails - so to speak - are COMPLETELY lost on the fanboys. But, cheeringly, it's good to note that those boys have nonetheless absorbed the imagery and the subtext even if they don't realise it. Thanks for your posting over a year ago - I hope sometime you'll read my response. An intelligent or provoking statement is becoming a rarity on the boards - so many thoughtful viewers have given up posting their ideas because of the inevitable response; a barrage of incoherent, misspelled and intellectually-challenged insults that spew forth from god knows where in the heartland.
The gay kid got himself killed in this movie.
shareWhy would you want him to make it through the end of this awful movie? If anything, I think you should be proud he didn't make it to the end. Seriously.
Erm, I have a feeling I shouldn't care...
Can't have us making it to the end of the movie huh?
Not really. In the blob not everyone under the age of thirteen was safe as well as in The Return Of The Living Dead Part 2.
shareThank you. I'm sorry, anything after 2000, whining cause the "gay" or the "african-american" or whatever gets killed off is just reaching for an excuse to whine. That kind of crap ended in the 80s. It is more likely, as pointed out, that they are still targetting the dope smokers.
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Come on, I thought this movie deserved kudos for the gay character. Now, I walked out of it a few times, but when I was paying attention I didn't hear any lame gay jokes or see him making the obligatory misguided passes at the hero. I thought the movie was shockingly mature about it...and hey, he even made it to the finale, after which everyone died anyway!
shareIt seemed to me that NO ONE made it to the end of the film! At least the poor kid died with his friends and not eaten by 'the blob'.
Best line is still "SHUT UP, PUNK!", ad infinitum, by Bug's character, Cal, before he has his... 'accident'.
"No fate but what we make." -Terminator II