Here’s the trailer for Hercules: The Legend Begins, which stars Kellan Lutz, whose chest and arms you may remember from the Twilight films. Basically, these ancient Greek/Roman epic blockbuster films are, at this point, a mixture of the Gladiator/Spartacus “hero’s journey” mixed with the love affair from Troy, and then you also get the homo-eroticism of 300, and depending on the budget, the special effects are either impressive or comically dreadful. To be fair, that could be any film when you think about it, but with these, we’re usually somewhere in the Middle East or Greece or Italy, and there are usually ten thousand uniformed extras which is something you don’t get in a Katherine Heigl film.
Anyway, lame and obvious as it may be (full disclosure: I will, without question, see this movie), the upside is that we’ll get a whole lot of shirtless, almost pantless Kellan Lutz and, no doubt, countless other guys who aren’t in the preview. And you know they’re going to have some scene where he’s laying in bed with his wife and something disturbs them awake, so he jumps out of bed and grabs his sword to go see what it is, and he’s naked, standing there in the moon lit window, the warm Greek summer air brushing his uncovered frame, his pert ass shining there for all to see, holding his sword…
The funny thing about all these myth-based films is that, just like professional football, despite all the male flesh, they’re all aimed at your average Family Guy-watching straight man. If they were aimed at the gays, there would be twice the nudity and more boys kissing, and it would be the same deal with if the audience were meant to be women; there may be far more nudity, but there would certainly be more relationship-centric plot lines and less insistent blood.
As the audience is clearly anticipated to be mostly straight men, there’s just the basic level of male nudity and a whole lot of fighting. Nude fighting men. Because, if history is anything to go by, that’s what straight men really want, and I’m not even kidding. I mean: 300 for Christ’s sake.
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No offense to Mr. Hotty Kellan but I think the Second part of the Hobbit will get my money before he does.
Seems you don’t do much Movie watching Mr. Flynn. Magic Mike was aimed at women and gay men. Not much male nudity beyond butt shots & the one part where you see the tip of a body less penis. Tge level of male nudity has nothing to do with the audience it’s aimed towards. It has only two things to blame. The willingness of male actors to go nude, which not many are. Yet are fine expecting the top actresses like Haley Berry, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, etc. to go nude. And the other reason is the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). They are twice as likely to give a movie with a lot of male nudity a NC-17 rating which will doom it and insure that almost no theater will show it and that no studio will promote it. It’s sad, and a messed up rating system.
hmm i do lovekellen lutz n i do love history type movies so i will see this but yeah totally will see the 2nd hobbit movie first n more times at the movies then this hehe
what is that picture from? (the bottom one?)
I was going to ask the same thing… is it faked?
WOW… Do basic spelling and syntax principals still apply anymore?
Where is Iolaus? I’m not talking about the 90″s TV show ( I’m a geek, so it does have some merit.) The history is kind of incestuous. He was both lover and nephew of Hercules…. But, hey it’s Greek. There was/still a shrine in Thebes where gay men would proclaim their love to one another. Sad that Hollywood for all it’s supposed progression still feels the need to gloss over the male to male love that was so permeated ancient cultures. Anyone remember Tory or Alexander? To quote Lady G…. “some of us like to read.”
I’ll take the porn version, please.
I was thinking this would be a live action version of the disney movie… I’m not here for this.