It’s not exactly a long, languid, love-you-muchly liplock.
It’s not even a myah-myah-now-ged-outta-my-face type kiss.
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It’s more a gay-panicky punchline smooch, aiming for yuk-yuks but barely worth the effort it would take to shrug.
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The latest Baywatch red-band trailer — which is trying so hard to drum up interest — opens with a dream sequence featuring Zac Efron’s character Matt Brody dreaming of a kiss with Mitch Buchannon (The Rock).
Your choices are to either blink and you’ll miss it, or you can simply not click on the below link and miss it altogether.
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cdinsf
This looks seriously awful.
WillParkinson
I think you’re being overly kind.
OzJosh
So, Queerty, since you do actually recognise this as a “gay-panicky punchline” – which therefore operates off inherent homophobia – why choose to publicise the movie anyway?
Captain Obvious
That’s what I was wondering.
mikeTigg
I just threw up in my throat. What a vile looking film.
Rob91316
It does look painfully bad… but I will still go see it to ogle Zac E., and also take my father-in-law, who will enjoy all the busty bathing beauties with big bazoomers.
Dawson
Oh yes getting kissed by another male is awful. This is when you out people who hurt people in their own community. If you want to be in the closet that is your choice but when you do harm to your own community then you desire to be outed.
What this shows to others is that two male kissing is a terrible thing. Yet we let movies continue to marginalize us. I am NOT YOUR PUNCHLINE! Go after TRUMP. He is the punchline!
stevetalbert
Zac wasnt mad because it was a guy. Its clearly meant to be against your boss. And they didnt even kiss. The kissing was with a woman. Just a lame film but not phobic from the stuff i saw. It would have bern the same with a male or female ..even the morgue scene would have been embarrassing lifting a dead womans breast or something. Maybe its a generational thing. Im 60. Years ago they would have never put something like that for laughs. They would have just beaten up the gay gay matter of fact. Now people acknowledge the uncomfortableness of being close enough to be funny. Humor is from being close to real. Years ago they had gay characters to laugh at. Now the hero is in a maybe gay situation and we laugh with them or it’s shrugged off as noninterest. That is such a good change.
John
Why is it every movie based on a tv show is cheesy? tongue in cheek?
I would play tongue hockey with either or Zac and/or The Rock.