They kinda look like they have more chemistry than the Noah Reid pairing. Though apparently the love interest is not long for this world and it's mostly about friendship
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 5, 2023 10:55 PM |
You do know Luke is on the West End right now starring in a play about Backstairs Billy, the Gay coutier who was a pal of the old Queen Mother Elizabeth.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 5, 2023 10:58 PM |
Luke Evans in real life only fucks these model esque himbos. But for work he has to pretend like he would date Billy Porter and Dan Levy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 5, 2023 11:02 PM |
R1 good lord - friendship? So we don’t even get to see sex scenes with Luke?
What a waste.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 5, 2023 11:05 PM |
At least Bradley Cooper gets Matt Bomer in Maestro.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 5, 2023 11:06 PM |
R4 Movie description says he dies
[quote] Marc chose to distract himself from the pain of his mother's death by diving headfirst into a comfortable marriage with a charming, wealthy, older man. But when his husband also dies, unexpectedly, Marc's world is cracked wide open, forcing him and his two best friends to embark on a cathartic, life-affirming adventure to make peace with all the grief he'd been evading.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 5, 2023 11:08 PM |
Luke Evans looks like the kinds of guys who pinch my ass hard enough to bruise me when I'd walk by the bar at a gay club with my fake ID in my shirt pocket.
Ugh.
As for Dan, well, he'd have to lose that middle.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 5, 2023 11:09 PM |
Thanks r7. Is Luke Evans that much of an “older man?” They look the same age in that photo.
🤨
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 5, 2023 11:15 PM |
He's like 4 years older. Not really an older man
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 5, 2023 11:17 PM |
Dan Levy is quite unattractive and unappealing. Zero sexual charisma. I liked him in Schitt’s Creek, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 5, 2023 11:22 PM |
One is highly fuckable and the other not.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 5, 2023 11:34 PM |
Dan has always gone wild at the smell of bacon.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 5, 2023 11:39 PM |
I don’t think Luke Evans is the older man. He’s the friend Dan gets with after the older man dies.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 5, 2023 11:40 PM |
Yes and there’s surprise anal.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 6, 2023 4:08 PM |
R17 I think the trailer looks great
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 6, 2023 5:31 PM |
R20 I agree - great and also grim.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 6, 2023 8:14 PM |
Did anyone see this in the theater?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 1, 2024 9:07 PM |
Dan Levy has a viciously slappable face. His acting is painful too.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 1, 2024 9:11 PM |
[quote] Luke Evans looks like the kinds of guys who pinch my ass hard enough to bruise me when I'd walk by the bar at a gay club with my fake ID in my shirt pocket.
I hated that.
You're supposed to give an ass a soft squeeze, not actually pinch it hard.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 1, 2024 9:19 PM |
Like any queen on datalounge wouldn't cast the hottest guy they could if they had the chance
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 1, 2024 10:17 PM |
I think it looks promising. I’m going to make my partner watch it so he knows how sad it’ll be when I’m gone.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 1, 2024 10:21 PM |
The r7 scenario sounds utterly unappealing.
[quote]Marc's world is cracked wide open, forcing him and his two best friends to embark on a cathartic, life-affirming adventure to make peace with all the grief he'd been evading.
Is there weeping around a campfire?
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 1, 2024 10:25 PM |
Didn't this already flop last year when the other sexless 'mo, Jim Parsons, made it?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 1, 2024 10:52 PM |
Take Dan fucking Levy out the the equation and there's a slim chance people will watch.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 1, 2024 11:29 PM |
Unfortunately no surprise anal in the film.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 2, 2024 9:48 PM |
Gawd, another gay cringe fest.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 5, 2024 9:28 PM |
This is like if Richard Curtis made a charmless downer.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 5, 2024 9:33 PM |
No, R16, it is Luke who dies.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 5, 2024 9:33 PM |
I would watch to see what sweaters Dan is wearing!
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 5, 2024 9:35 PM |
I have about 30 min left of the movie.
I find Dan very attractive - love that he’s hairy and husky. Love him in interviews. Find it odd that no one on here has any actual gossip about him, but I guess he’s extremely careful. Good for him.
That said, this movie is painful. The writing is cringey, the 3 main characters are completely unlikable, the pacing is bizarre.
And he doesn’t even have a love scene with Luke Evans or the hot French actor - they just close mouthed kiss.
I’m sure others will enjoy it. I’ll keep supporting him regardless, but damn, this isn’t great.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 5, 2024 9:49 PM |
I think Dan Levy thinks he’s made a Sofia Coppola film.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 5, 2024 10:10 PM |
The New York Times loved it and made it sound very unappealing (rich people's problems, basically).
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 5, 2024 10:20 PM |
Yes I was surprised by the NYTimes review raving about it. A frau wrote it. This gay wrote the nastiest review that is pretty accurate…
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 5, 2024 10:30 PM |
This is a trio of people talking about things that happened in the past with nothing immediate happening in the present. It’s kind of inert.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 5, 2024 10:31 PM |
R41, “SKIP THIS,” that’s so cruel.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 5, 2024 10:33 PM |
The best thing about this movie was the popcorn I made to go with it.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 5, 2024 10:34 PM |
Right r43? It seemed a bit personal. Like the movie is shallow and a self absorbed, but damn.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 5, 2024 10:35 PM |
Evans is waaaayyy out of Levy's league. This isn't believable in any way.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 5, 2024 10:47 PM |
I was surprised the Luke Evans character didn’t die of a complex combination of STDs.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 5, 2024 10:51 PM |
Dan Levy does seem full of himself in this film. Like he thinks he’s Oprah or something.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 5, 2024 10:53 PM |
I don’t believe the 3 of them are friends.
This French guy is very handsome. He’s in much more of the movie than I expected.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 5, 2024 11:15 PM |
Why don't Billy Eichner and Dan Levy play opposite each other? They'd be much more believable as a couple together than they were with the superhunks they unbelievably paired themselves with in this movie and BROS.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 6, 2024 2:18 AM |
Probably because they both genuinely believe that they should be with adoring hunky tops and would never give each other a second glance.
Also, I assume all their communication would consist of hissing at one another, so the film would probably be unbearable.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 6, 2024 2:34 AM |
[quote] Also, I assume all their communication would consist of hissing at one another, so the film would probably be unbearable.
Actually, I'd watch the hell out of that.
That sounds much more entertaining than "Good Grief" or "Bros."
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 6, 2024 3:17 AM |
I had Luke first and was VERY underwhelmed.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 6, 2024 3:28 AM |
I see it's not a popular opinion, but I liked it. Considering how cynical and critical I am generally...
I didn't know beforehand that he had written and directed it. And before the credits rolled, I was admiring both the writing and directing. What do I know? For a person that comes across as insecure as he does, I thought he deserved some props.
I had wished they were less fabulous and trendy throughout, That was what I thought rang false.
And it had Celia Imrie in it! Who, in my opinion, is never less than brilliant.
Have at me if you must. I'll probably learn a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 7, 2024 12:47 AM |
Horrible film Levy smirked through the entire thing
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 7, 2024 12:55 AM |
Yes, Dan's perpetual smirking is off-putting.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 7, 2024 1:01 AM |
Dan Levy is Woody Allen punching above his weight. He could never get any of these guys irl.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 7, 2024 1:05 AM |
I was going to watch it but the trailer was so depressing I couldn’t.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 7, 2024 2:26 AM |
R54 what did you like about it?
I agreed with these two.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 7, 2024 2:26 AM |
R54, if you admired the writing in this, you should find a greeting card shop and spend some time there. You’d be in heaven.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 7, 2024 7:35 AM |
I’m convinced these movies are made for lonely straight women who, for some bizarre reason, get off on gay men’s’ sex and romance. I.e., the ’Supernatural’ demographic.
As for Dan Levy, I had prayed his 15 minutes were up long ago. He’s as insufferable as his father.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 7, 2024 10:24 AM |
Paris looked nice. Story was.... un, well. Paris looked nice.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 7, 2024 4:23 PM |
Like R62, it made me want to go to Paris. Haven't been in ages.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 7, 2024 4:48 PM |
I felt as tho it had been written by someone who has never been in love.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 7, 2024 5:18 PM |
R64 agree.
And the friendship dynamic seemed like people in their 20s.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 7, 2024 6:05 PM |
The Guardian review.
In what universe does Miss Levy land Luke Evans?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 7, 2024 6:34 PM |
Are people afraid to criticize Dab Levy in the press? This thing is a stinker.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 7, 2024 7:37 PM |
Whoops. Looks like I just Chee'd Dan Levy. Oh well.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 7, 2024 7:38 PM |
Watched it last night. Good lord. It was so pathetic with the best friend going on about how he’s in love with Levy’s character, but we’re supposed to think Levy is out of his league or something? I’m not sure there wasn’t a scene where Levy wasn’t wearing a mountainous sweater or coat, either. If you’re so worried about covering up, go on Ozempic before you make a movie. Maybe at least then I’d believe the pairing with Evans.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 7, 2024 7:46 PM |
I actually felt it could have been so much more. I like the premise a ton: Perfect husband dies and the spouse founds out he wasn't so perfect after all.
But it just went nowhere. My biggest gripe was that the big fight between the three friends felt so small and easy to get over:
The lovable but unstable drunk got drunk and did unstable things? WOW!
Dan Levy's character met a guy and went on an impromptu date, but forgot to tell his friends? How HORRIBLE.
Dan Levy didn't tell his friends that his dead husband had a secret Paris apartment? The HORROR.
Why would anyone get too upset over any of those things? They all seemed pretty small reasons to nearly break up deep, long standing friendships over. I know, they all came back together. But it felt too twee or something.
I also felt the blonde dancer was totally underused. Felt like there was more gold to mine there.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 7, 2024 7:51 PM |
Maybe Luke Evans' character wanted to fuck someone attractive and less nelly than the Dan Levy character....?
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 7, 2024 7:56 PM |
[quote] Maybe Luke Evans' character wanted to fuck someone attractive and less nelly than the Dan Levy character....?
Like Billy Porter?
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 7, 2024 7:58 PM |
You bitter queens hate every gay movie - so expected
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 7, 2024 8:40 PM |
R73 it's called being a discerning, intelligent human being, and not just YAAASSSS QWEENing everything simply because it exists.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 7, 2024 8:47 PM |
R73 I didn't hate the movie. I did hate the huge mole on Levy's chin. And with the scruff of the beard it stands out more.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 7, 2024 8:50 PM |
Levy has said based the film on the grief he felt when he lost his grandmother a few years ago. That type of grief did not translate into the grief one would exhibit if they lost their husband of 15 years.
And I loved my grandmother dearly. But like Levy, I’ve never been married. I can’t even imagine what losing a spouse would be like. He needed to really sit and talk to widowers or do some sort of research, because the film felt shallow. It was him crying a bit and snapping at people that he watched his dead husband get pulled out of a car.
I’ve read posts from DLers who have lost their spouses that were more compelling than this (granted many of you bitches are great writers, but still).
And r73, I really wanted to love it. I like Levy. But this was barely a gay movie. You could have swapped in a straight women for his character and just made the Patel character a straight guy. Nothing about it felt gay, except how stylish the apartments were and the open relationship, which Levy ended up reacting to like a frau would. Telling a hot French guy that he didn’t want it in the first place and he was betrayed etc etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 7, 2024 8:53 PM |
Schitt's Creek was excellent until the last half-season when it descended into mostly bathos because Dan Levy is such an emotional exhibitionist. He should never have been greenlit to make a film about grieving.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 7, 2024 8:55 PM |
R76 "can you fall in love with a sofa?" line from entering the Paris apartment. Yes, it was a gay movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 7, 2024 9:50 PM |
Not all gay movies are good gay movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 7, 2024 9:52 PM |
I'm a writer (I know, so what?) and there are just some fundamental flaws in this movie. We are never given a reason to care that Luke Evans dies. He tells his husband of 15 years that he wants to be with someone else IN A CHRISTMAS CARD. That's a dick move, that undermines Dan Levy's character's grief. The blonde Twink from Berlin undermines his relationship with the dead character, making Luke Evans even less sympathetic. And in what world is that threesome each other's best friends? There were so many nice moments. Beautifully shot in many ways. It just could've been so much more.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 7, 2024 9:55 PM |
I wouldn't see a movie with Dan Levy without being paid to do so.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 7, 2024 9:55 PM |
Dan Levy is a major dick wilter. He's in Bowen Yang/Frankie Grande territory.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 7, 2024 9:58 PM |
I hated this supreme exercise in self-indulgence where the trio of broken-hearted BFFS are each instantaneously rewarded with gorgeous new lovers in unimaginably luxurious surroundings and hip designer clothes. Couldn't empathize with any of it.
Ruth Negga was particularly annoying though I blame it more on a lack of coherent character to play. Wait, Dan Levy was even more annoying in his constant parade of maxi-coats.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 7, 2024 11:10 PM |
Were we really to believe that the Paris flat had been furnished in a month or 2?
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | January 7, 2024 11:51 PM |
This certainly makes a case that Ruth Negga’s Oscar nomination was a fluke. She was terribly annoying.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 8, 2024 12:38 AM |
I don’t think what she was given to play really counts as a character, benign alcoholic, etc. The character was annoying but Ruth Negga tried to make something cohesive out of it. Truth is, for someone who wasn’t in recovery, I think she would’ve been offended and defensive about all the cracks about her drinking, instead of considering it fair game. The character didn’t make any sense on the page, she never had any wear or tear on her. I don’t know who she was supposed to be.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | January 9, 2024 5:09 AM |
The only thing I liked about it was when he opened the Christmas card and it said that his husband was breaking up with him. BUT then the entire opening sequence about how great and how loved the husband was didn’t make any sense. At all. The guy we saw and the guy who wrote the card were too entirely different people. That’s not good writing. Would’ve been better if they’d had a fight or if he’d been creeping on some young guys and they fought about it and left with unresolved anger, then he died, rather than “I had no idea my husband,” etc. I mean, you’d hardly expect an alley cat like Luke Evans to be faithful. And, you’d know. There’s no such thing as “oh, my perfect husband who has a side piece or is quietly planning on leaving me and has an entirely furnished flat in Paris,” etc. You know. Unless you’re like raising two or three kids and are completely distracted, you’d know. You’d know because he never looked under your sweater. You’d know because none of the joy they experienced had anything to do with you. You’d know because they’re probably not fucking you. There’s a difference.
The German dancer wasn’t very compelling or even attractive. And you’d NEVER stand for your dead husband’s lover telling you he really loved you, defining your relationship for you. That would be absolutely the last thing you’d be able to stomach. That should’ve lead to the German dancer being thrown out of a window.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 9, 2024 5:27 AM |
This film really needed Alexis Rose. (Maybe that’s who the Ruth Negga character was supposed to be.)
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 9, 2024 5:29 AM |
The math was strange. He said he was with the husband for 15 years - so that would mean they got together when he was only 23. It didn’t seem like a relationship that went on from when he was that young until when he was pushing 40. Maybe a woman would be that naive about the husband, but for two “artsy” gays living in London - it seemed off.
Fraus seem to love the movie though. And if it is helping anyone with grief, that’s nice.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 9, 2024 11:57 AM |
r87, I get what you're saying about the Christmas card but the surprise of it was the only compelling thing in the film.
That Paris flat had art, furniture and tchotchkes that would have taken a collector of that kind of aesthetic at least 10 years to collect, not a month. It would have been so much more poignant and devastating if the Paris getaway was a cozy intimate love nest devoted to a sex-obsessed couple, not a spread for Architectural Digest.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 9, 2024 1:13 PM |
Dan, the over-sized sweaters and coats only make you look stubby and short. They're not slimming.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | January 9, 2024 1:14 PM |
Okay. I learned a lot.
In retrospect, the movie has a lot of problems and I really don't know why they weren't as apparent to me. They are now. I had not been drinking. I may have had a gummie but I don't remember being buzzed.
I'm usually more discerning. Thanks for the many viewpoints.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | January 9, 2024 1:28 PM |
What would I know Celia Imrie from? She looked so familiar but I just can't quite place her.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | January 9, 2024 1:50 PM |
She’s been in so much r93. She’s truly brilliant. As you could see by the way she completely elevated his writing.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 9, 2024 2:49 PM |
She played Saffy's stepmother on AbFab.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 9, 2024 3:58 PM |
[quote] She played Saffy's stepmother on AbFab.
I thought she played Claudia Bing, Edina's archenemy in PR.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 10, 2024 2:25 AM |
OMG, she was CLAUDIA BUGGERY BING!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 10, 2024 2:28 AM |
You're right. My apologies. I get her and Mo Gaffney mixed up all the time.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | January 10, 2024 2:28 AM |
Was that Gus Kenworthty as one of the mourners in the church?
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | January 10, 2024 3:00 AM |
Luke Evans was a hot Dracula.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | January 10, 2024 3:08 AM |
And in a couple years, Dan Levy will make a hot Totie Fields.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | January 10, 2024 3:09 AM |
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Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 103 | January 10, 2024 12:02 PM |
Except they’re in some dumb cell phone commercial together. Poor Eugene Levy. This is his legacy after a near flawless and respected career.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | January 11, 2024 4:39 AM |
And yet no one ever heard of Dan Levy until he paired up with his father to make this sitcom, so I guess he failed.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | January 11, 2024 5:15 AM |
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, it was entertaining, which is all that was required.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | January 11, 2024 6:52 AM |
You, r106, are a pushover!
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | January 11, 2024 1:00 PM |
He’s apparently on Raya
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | January 11, 2024 1:18 PM |
