Not sure when this will hit theaters but it looks like it might be a good movie to see and maybe even bring more people into the sport.
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Originally posted by tjrpatt
Yeah, I saw a segment on MTV about this movie. The dude's backstroke wasn't that great. They really need to hire stunt swimmers. But hey, at least there is a movie that is about swimming. I am just annoyed tha Hollywood portraying swimmers as being gay. Swimmers almost always seem to be gay for some reason in movies and TV.
I read about a dozen reviews of the movie and none of them mentioned anything about any of the characters being gay. Did your comment related to this particular movie in any way or just movies in general?
One of the characters from Desperate Housewives will come out and his character is a swimmer.
Although I haven't noticed a plethora of characters who are gay and swimmers, I wonder whether it is a case of portraying swimmers as gay or gay men as swimmers? I've never seen this show but I would guess that they decided to have a gay character and then decided he would be a swimmer rather than deciding to have a swimmer and then deciding to make the character gay. I believe that swimming is one of the more popular sports among gay men.
Originally posted by tjrpatt
Yeah, I saw a segment on MTV about this movie. The dude's backstroke wasn't that great. They really need to hire stunt swimmers. But hey, at least there is a movie that is about swimming. I am just annoyed tha Hollywood portraying swimmers as being gay. Swimmers almost always seem to be gay for some reason in movies and TV.
I read about a dozen reviews of the movie and none of them mentioned anything about any of the characters being gay. Did your comment related to this particular movie in any way or just movies in general?
One of the characters from Desperate Housewives will come out and his character is a swimmer.
Although I haven't noticed a plethora of characters who are gay and swimmers, I wonder whether it is a case of portraying swimmers as gay or gay men as swimmers? I've never seen this show but I would guess that they decided to have a gay character and then decided he would be a swimmer rather than deciding to have a swimmer and then deciding to make the character gay. I believe that swimming is one of the more popular sports among gay men.
