Why I hate Dallas Buyers Club: a poem

[albadger]

One of my OCD things is to see every movie that has received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, Director, or any acting performance. Last 2 years I've been getting pro-active, and (using CostCo passes & senior matinees) going to see the likely candidates in the theater before the nominations are announced. When the noms were released last Thursday, I'd nearly covered the field, with only Dallas Buyers Club and Her left to go. So I saw Dallas Buyers Club on Friday. Here's why I hate it.

This is the story of a heterosexual man who gets HIV, presumably from sex with a skanky ho. All around him, the homosexuals are getting AIDS and withering and dying, or (at best) meekly following the rules set down by the Big Heartless Medical Establishment... and then withering and dying. But since our hero is heterosexual, he takes control of the situation, bucks the system, and SURVIVES! Oh, and he meets an effeminate boy who wants to be a girl, who dies tragically. And is played by an actor who takes every opportunity to boast of his hetero cred.

And I thought, what year is this, anyway?

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This got put into perspective by the next movie I saw, a strange German thing in 3D called Measuring the World, thanks to thornyc, mudcub and bigjohnsf. Movie is about 2 19-century scientists:

1. Gauss, who was heterosexual and is shown naked and coupling with a kitchen wench and his bride (not at the same time!); and


2. Humboldt, who in real life was clearly homosexual, but in the movie is a sexless buffoon, though he does travel with a heterosexual Frenchman who is shown naked & coupling with the native girls.

I kind of liked the movie anyway, and I certainly appreciated that Humboldt didn't die tragically so the heterosexual characters could learn a valuable life lesson.

Comments

[linuxcub.livejournal.com]

Are you now going to be haunted by the ghosts of Gauss & Humboldt ?

But neither one seems to be particularly fat and cigar-smoking :-)

[albadger.livejournal.com]

...and they are both depressingly free of facial hair! In fact, while we were standing in line for the movie, some of the Castro staff shooed us to the side so they could put the movie poster in the display box. "Non-threatening Boys: the Movie," I quipped, not realizing that this was the movie we were about to see...

[benpanced.livejournal.com]

In real life, the guy depicted in Heterosexual Hero Man Gets AIDS And Survives Dallas Buyers Club was actually bi.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Not shocked at all... nor shocked to find (on further research) that the script actually is over 20 years old and has been in development hell since before Straight Man Pretends to be Tragic Dying Gay Philadelphia.

[zipperbear]

Humboldt was such a butch queen, he had the honor of being the first man to get an asteroid named after him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54_Alexandra

I love it!

[albadger]

Esp that the asteroid is named ALEXANDRA. Oooh gurl!