Gay culture has gone from being avant-garde, creative , groundbreaking and just inspiring to...this.
Fire Island is a vague retelling of a story we know by heart but set in a world of vacuous unlikable characters. I'm all for satire and comedy but this movie doesn't embrace its potential at all. Every single gay cliché is presented in the most tired way: the Abercrombie gays, the druggy hysterical party gays only good at prep jokes and embarrassing themselves by vomiting, the archaic trope of poor gay= fun and loving / rich gay= boring and obnoxious. The Onlyfans reference was of course associated with a negative character. Ironically this movie is full of judgmental preconceived ideas about gays standards : shy nerd / alpha male, New York / rest of the US, and the cast is still a bunch of fairly fit short hair male meeting other fit short hair men, one may have a moustache. There are deers but there are also Bears on Fire Island just saying
The first half is basically a (bad) straight comedy with gay people in it, the second half is practically a Lifetime movie. Nothing is original or feels sincere. I mean any episode of Modern Family was edgier and funnier in its gay representation than this and that was a prime time TV sitcom. Caricature can be very funny it just has to feel fresh.
On the positive, the actors do their best with the script and give gravitas to the predictable sentimental talks. I really hope to see Bowen Yang is something better.
Fire Island is a vague retelling of a story we know by heart but set in a world of vacuous unlikable characters. I'm all for satire and comedy but this movie doesn't embrace its potential at all. Every single gay cliché is presented in the most tired way: the Abercrombie gays, the druggy hysterical party gays only good at prep jokes and embarrassing themselves by vomiting, the archaic trope of poor gay= fun and loving / rich gay= boring and obnoxious. The Onlyfans reference was of course associated with a negative character. Ironically this movie is full of judgmental preconceived ideas about gays standards : shy nerd / alpha male, New York / rest of the US, and the cast is still a bunch of fairly fit short hair male meeting other fit short hair men, one may have a moustache. There are deers but there are also Bears on Fire Island just saying
The first half is basically a (bad) straight comedy with gay people in it, the second half is practically a Lifetime movie. Nothing is original or feels sincere. I mean any episode of Modern Family was edgier and funnier in its gay representation than this and that was a prime time TV sitcom. Caricature can be very funny it just has to feel fresh.
On the positive, the actors do their best with the script and give gravitas to the predictable sentimental talks. I really hope to see Bowen Yang is something better.