6 Reasons Billy Eichner’s ‘Bros’ Was A Box Office Disaster • Forbes' Scott Mendelson

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Diversity is an added value element,

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They keep preaching this bullshite.

Maybe, just maybe, that isn’t the case.

Reason 7: a movie that appeals to 5% of the population ain’t going to make money. When you can’t get that 5% to the theater, you’re doomed.

By the math, less than 1% of the country went to see the movie this weekend. Woman King in its third week and Don’t Worry Darling in its second week both made more.

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People don't like Billy Eichner

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This. It's an Apatow film and I'm a fan of his work and may have given it a chance had another actor been cast.

I'm a huge Parks and Rec's fan and his character was annoying as hell. Billy on the street is annoying, too. The guy hasn't been in anything that anyone has liked.

I don't know many gay male actors but maybe Dan Levy would've been a better choice.

• Theatrical live-action comedies have struggled for years.- True
• Bros lacked bankable movie stars. -True
• Marketing and publicity sold importance over entertainment. -True
• The film should have opened in August. -idk
• It was ‘just’ the first mainstream gay theatrical rom-com. -By definition, a gay rom-com is outside of the mainstream
• Diversity is an added value element, but it can’t be the whole pitch. -Diversity rarely adds value. Diversity as a political and social agenda is a formula for failure.

It failed because it's a movie nobody asked for, starring unlikeable people, preaching a message no one wants to hear.

It's more simple than the Forbes analysis. People publicly are forced to project "tolerance" and "Diversity" but when people can display their true sentiments and not be publicly out the truth comes out.

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Simple fact is, most people enjoy comedies/romantic comedies because either (a) they have experienced some type of similar event and can laugh about it, or (b) they can laugh that there are, albeit fictional characters, people out there who are worse off they are. Common among both of those categories is there will be characters that either (1) we want to bang or (2) we can enjoy hating.

The problem with "Bros" and all of the other "Take our virtue signaling wokeness and like it" movies is that too many of the population/viewer ship (a) can't relate to being gay and (b) can't enjoy hating any of the characters because if we do, we'll be labeled and canceled.

Additionally, the potential women viewers can't fantasize about banging the gay dudes and the straight guys certainly aren't going to fantasize about it. As much as that LGBQ+ community wants us too, straight dudes have no interest in seeing/fantasizing/enjoying the concept of two dudes courting each other. THAT is not homophobic. It simply is, what it is.

Want me to go see your gay movies? 1: make it entertaining. 2: don't make it about "being gay" 3: see number 1.

Billy Eichner said he didnt want republicans to go see his movie. They listened.




Then there is this...

Reasons I didn't and won't watch-


1. Past the point of paying to see rom-coms (gay or straight ) to make my woman happy.

2. As my grandfather said: I don't care what people do in their personal lives, as long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses.

3. Miss me with all that gay shite

They should have cast Cruise and Travolta as the leads. People watch those homos’ movies