The Boys In The Band (Netflix 2020)

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New version of the infamous 60s stage play is out now on Netflix starring an all gay cast of sort of faves: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Robin de Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington, and Tuc Watkins

I thought it was rather excellent. It's a gay party amped up to 11 making it a bitchy, funny, vicious, cruel and downright nasty affair and some of it plays very close to home. I can see why the play is loathed in some parts but I think it has a lot to say.

It's part of Ryan Murphy's production deal but I don't think he had much to do with it other than the money. It does have the Murphy golden glow look though which I'm definitely getting a little tired of.

Worth a spin though. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hate them, you might hate yourself.
 
this looks essential. I'll watch at the weekend.
 
I watched this last night, and I enjoyed it. Jim Parson's character became a TOTAL MONSTER, it was such a car crash at times! Obviously very stagey, which kind of worked because I am the target audience for the subject matter but I can imagine anyone else being bored as shit by all the monologues and the long, fixed scenes in one setting.

Charlie Carver was absolutely ADORABLE as the cowboy hooker. I want him very badly. I thought Robin de Jesus was really good too and some of the flashback scenes were shot beautifully. Brian Hutchison as The Straight felt miscast, you never got a sense of what was going on with his character. not sure if I enjoyed Zachary Quinto much either.
 
This was good, a solid adaptation. It is better than the usual Murphy fair because it was already written.

It’s one of these things that I’m glad is done. Nice bit of gay history that is preserved with an all gay cast.
 
I enjoyed this.

Parsons was absolutely hateful, but I imagine that's the point, and Quinto was... well, he was playing Drew Droege as Chloe Sevigny which was funny but felt a bit out of place with the other actors' more straight-forward performances.
 
I enjoyed it for what it was and the performances were very good. Saying that, though we saw a lot of him, I didn't think Matt Bomer's character completely came off - probably partly that he was a bit too perfect and didn't seem to quite fit.
 
poor Matt Bomer just didn't have anything to DO except stand against walls watching the others have breakdowns - especially strange given that his intro was a WHIRLWIND of "oh I'm in trouble AGAIN, can I crash with you?" and then he was... the most drama-free and well-adjusted of the whole group...

at least we got that shower scene and the hot flashback :emoji_smiling_imp:
 
I believe I once watched half of the 1970 adaption on YouTube. vv gay

I'll pick this up now that everything is getting delayed in the cinemas :evil:
 
Jark said:
poor Matt Bomer just didn't have anything to DO except stand against walls watching the others have breakdowns - especially strange given that his intro was a WHIRLWIND of "oh I'm in trouble AGAIN, can I crash with you?" and then he was... the most drama-free and well-adjusted of the whole group...

at least we got that shower scene and the hot flashback :emoji_smiling_imp:
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Once everyone arrived he became the spare part who REALLY likes reading books.
 
Like Ag I also watched about 15 minutes of it with a friend on Saturday night and we gave it up. I didn't think it was BAD, it just wasn't the mood we were after. We watched some Joe Lycett stand up instead.
 
Bomer felt miscast. I'll be honest and say I don't think he's much of an actor anyway, but his character is meant to be a depressed, deadbeat underachiever, and I'm sorry but I don't believe that any depressed, deadbeat, underachieving gay in the year 1970 looked like THAT.
 
He worked for me and not just because he flashed his peen. He’s that very good looking gay who’s nothing more than that, he’s a deadbeat living with his parents but everyone wants to sleep with him.
 
Quinto's character killed what was a good vibe for me. but overall I enjoyed it. the bitterness of it all!

and I echo Phoenix that either way it's nice to have something like this preserved in the mainstream. imagine the reception of this in the 70s...
 
Still to watch this, but it makes me think of another I haven't seen called Some of My Best Friends Are.. with Rue Mcclanahan playing one or her most notable "fag hag" roles as the internet has gasped.
 
I liked it a lot. I thought it was a great study of the damage that a homophobic society can do to a group of gay men. My bf hated it, because he felt it reminded him too much of gay soirées that he used to attend in his provincial Russian city, where gays with societal PTSD would gather and throw withering insults at one another as they got progressively hammered.
 
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