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'Mamma Mia' Narrowly Outpaces 'Dark Knight' in Close Race For Gayest New Release
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:20 AM on July 19, 2008
Until today, we didn't really know Mamma Mia! had any competition for the weekend's gay-readiest cinematic treat, with the most recent evidence stretching the film's ABBA creds to recommend tips for building your own home disco. Classy, no? But a few Dark Knight contrarians are out there, subverting the conventional wisdom ("Is Mamma Mia! the gay Batman?") and giving the musical's loyalists a run for their gay money:
Not that "gay Batman'' isn't redundant. We've had our suspicions about the Dark Knight's proclivities since the heyday of Fredric Wertham. The latest iteration keeps Robin locked away in Batman's closet (who do you think is, ahem, redecorating Wayne Manor?) and Katie Holmes isn't around doing beard duty this time. But you'd have be in pretty deep denial not to pick up on the homoerotic hints. "You complete me,'' the Joker coos to the Dark Knight. ...
Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne does a lot of eyelash batting at his gushing new BFF Harvey ("you sure know how to throw a party!'') Dent, even teasing Harvey about his after-hours activities: "ballet?'' (Somewhere, Adam West is smiling). Why is the mayor of Gotham City wearing so much eyeliner? And who are we kidding, aren't Alfred and Lucius clearly a pair of old queens fussing over dressing up their leather-clad protege? Holy Aunt Harriet! Mamma Mia! is no less gay, but at least it's more or less out and proud. What do you think?
We think you're full of shit, actually, but we appreciate the effort! Next up: Space Chimps as homoerotic experimentation fantasy. Discuss! Or... not.
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Kermode
Posted July 20, 2008 10:52 PM
Come now fellas, come out of the closet and admit your gayhood - if as a man you would rather watch some guy strut around in tight gonad hugging latex than women writhe around in bathing suits, you have clearly been drinking your nail varnish!
Joey_Potter
Posted 3:54 AM 19/7/08
How is the Lou Reed/Schnabel extravaganza not in the running?
Joey_Potter
TimGunn
Posted 3:50 AM 19/7/08
Don't even get me started in the homoeroticism in the Wonder Woman mythos.
TimGunn
kookla
Posted 3:46 AM 19/7/08
It's a tossup betwen Rubber Suits and Dancing Queens. Batman boasts Bale, Ledger, Eckhart and Oldman, not to mention those man cougars Freeman and Caine. But then you got the manwich that is Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgaard.
kookla
TurdBlossom
Posted 3:40 AM 19/7/08
Sorry nothing will ever out-camp Joel Schumacher's Bat Nipple and Cod-piece fiascos, Batman and Robin and Batman Forever. And for that we are all very very thankful.
TurdBlossom
gwendolyn
Posted 4:37 AM 19/7/08
@Joey_Potter: Probably because Lou Reed still seems, after all these many decades, as asexual as his first benefactor, Andy Warhol.
gwendolyn
Hubert Cumberdale
Posted 4:29 AM 19/7/08
Well what it really boils down to--for me--is Pierce Brosnan's chest.
Hubert Cumberdale
NoGrumpys
Posted 5:04 AM 19/7/08
Two words:
COD PIECE
NoGrumpys
WGARefugee
Posted 9:09 AM 19/7/08
I think the homorotc (I made a new word!) critique doesn't apply to movies that are transparently about inner conflict as expressed through the old murderous taunting alter ego gizmo. If you ask me, the guy who really sucks bat dick is Lou Lumenick.
WGARefugee
Losin_it
Posted 1:48 PM 19/7/08
Without Aunt Harriet's presence, God knows what would have been going on at Wayne Manor all those years. Even Chief O'Hara would have been over there in his own cape and leotards.
Losin_it
kthnx
Posted 3:24 AM 20/7/08
I have had to say this to a ton of people this weekend: Nestor Carbonell's eyes JUST LOOK LIKE THAT! He has insane eyelashes. Either that or every single makeup artist in everything he has ever been in has decided that he needs a lot of eyeliner.
kthnx
CrankYank
Posted 4:12 AM 20/7/08
There are so many gays committed to Heath Ledger for the rest of their lives, there will be crowds weeping in the back. Guess the clubs will be deserted this weekend.
CrankYank
EvilMeerkat
Posted 5:08 AM 19/7/08
Come on...you forgot to mention all the repressed simian sex heat generated by astro-monkeys Andy Samberg and Patrick Warburton in "Space Chimps" this weekend.
EvilMeerkat
OMG! Pirates!
Posted 8:45 AM 23/7/08
Mamma Mia is not a "gay" movie. Funny Girl is a gay movie. Roman Holiday is a gay movie. Arguably, Sex & The City is a gay movie.
Mamma Mia is for women of a certain age who don't know any better.
OMG! Pirates!