2019 Oscar winner "Love, Simon" draws huge numbers during one-night preview.

'Love, Simon' is tracking a big opening as well for it's March 16 premiere.
I don't see that at the source.

The unjustified animosity for this film is wild.

interestingly, most of the backlash seems to be towards the casting of a (presumed) straight actor chosen to play a gay character, when CMBYN seems to have mostly avoided criticism for that particular issue for some reason

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LoL, pretty much. P.S. I am DECEASED at your icon 😂

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I think pedophilia pulls rank over casting straight on the list of problems a movie can have

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when the director/producter is out and gay you'd think he would want more lgbt representation in a film he is making about being gay....

There's the whole attacking of the main actor and then there's the lot claiming why gay people need these films as homophobia is over. Both complaints are ridiculous. This film is gonna help so many kids and I can't wait for it to kill at the box office.

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same, it's pretty transparent on a variety of levels

And it seems to come from every direction. I expect the general world to be awful and claim that movies like this aren't needed. But, I am even seeing hate from the LGBT+ community because the lead character is white and/or because it isn't about lesbians or trans individuals.

Which like, yes, 100%, absolutely we need more stories about everyone-I want it all lol. I am greedy and will watch/support all of it and want all of it. But like, I never got this type of movie when I was growing up. Anything "Gay" was bad. I can't help but think that things like this or that Heartbeat film (which was criticized because one of the main characters was latino but not latino or POC enough?) will help people. It would have meant so, so much for me as a teenager and I think we can ask for more diversity and more stories without sneering and tearing apart every gay scrap we get.

I don't know if I am wording this correctly. There is just so much animosity from every corner it is kind of overwhelming for me particularly because I guess I am still in the mode of remembering how lonely and horrible I felt as a kid without any of these types of stories being told.

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People want to disguise their homophobia as “wokeness.”

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Because the characters are straight so I'm not here for this straight nonsense, also the fact that the main actor is from lily-white Seattle adds more to the basicness that irritates me.

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i’m gay and i don’t see why we need straight people to continue to occupy our spaces and why the gay white male experience is what always comes first when trying to mainstream the gay experience. all of this is valid in my eyes also I saw an interview with the lead actor on a late night show and didn’t like the way he talked about “the gays” at all.

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Gay people can’t be critical of gay films?

It’s ok, we’re used to our straight allies talking over us.

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Wait, do you mean certain reviews or comments here on Ontd? I’m guessing the latter because it looks like the movie has had good reception so far—and if that’s the case, I’m getting flashbacks to Carol. As much as it was critically praised, there were quite a lot of dismissive online comments smh.

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