MovieChat Forums > BearCity (2010) Discussion > Where are the Bears?

Where are the Bears?

posted 15 years ago by amberbaer
4 replies | jump to latest

I see from the listing and the facebook pages that there will be bears in this movie...

Not from the credits shown...loads of d-list gay actors, and a few cute men...but apart from 2 guys listed in the credits here...not another person I would call a bear...

It's another case of the gay media trying to tell big hairy men that you are not acceptable or believable characters....guess the movie BEAR CUB was just a fluke.

I applaud them for the effort - but casting should have been done in the real world....the name should be changed to muscle bear city....since that seems to be the theme of the movie

How about a movie that shows the struggle of an overweight hairy young man coming to terms with who he is and finding the "daddy" bear that will accept him for who he is...

Even the "daddy bear" in the credits doesn't fit the bill...unless there is some serious facial/body hair added...

[–] stevenackerman69 14 years ago

As an extra in the film, I think the reference of the title has to do with a guy who loves bears. When the film comes out, you'll get it.

[–] funnyguyla 14 years ago

Saw it at Outfest here in LA today. There are plenty of bears in it, and even some gratuitous soft-core bear sex scenes, but the real bears are all supporting characters. The lead is a twink and the co-romantic lead is a totally in shape, hot daddy type, not a bear at all. So the title of this film is definitely a misnomer.

[–] eagle79-1 13 years ago

I see where you're coming from. I'm holding in front of me the latest issue of NYC gay culture mag NEXT with the three leads from BEARCITY on the cover, naked & splattered in honey. I noticed immediately that they're all nicely fit & with the exception of the more mature one (who has very little body hair) they are all white, smooth & no older-looking than 50. The mature one looks more like a daddy type (he would pass more as an older cub if he were at a bear bar). You can even see a bigger cast pic on this site & notice that the one guy who really looks like the prototype of a classic bear (burlier, quite hairy, facial hair) is stuck on the far side corner of the pic (the way that Vanity Fair sticks black starlets on their "Up & Coming young stars" front covers, the ones where you have to fold the cover open all the way to notice them).
I understand that a movie has to sell & i know the kind of world we're living in & the way things are packaged (specially nowadays). This is nothing new. Gay media is loaded with this outlook. I don't mean to slam a film i haven't seen, so i'll still wish the best of success to the filmmakers & cast (better to have gay-themed films out there than none at all) but i just want to point out too that the media will whitewash & repackage (in this case a so-called "subculture" of the gay world) everything & you wonder what gets compromised & the ultimate effect it has over time.

[–] artguylarry 13 years ago

Well speaking as a burly bear who likes burly bears, I am confident enough that this movie will be filled with enough eye candy, even though they won't be top billed or even credited at all. So we've got a couple of twinks, some cubs, some otters and a muscle daddy. SO what? They will still be surrounded by an endless parade of everything we're hoping to find, just for us. They'll be there. Incidentally, I watched the trailer, and before the trailer even finished playing, I had already purchased this movie.