<p>An openly gay journalist is challenging the narrative that LGBT rom-com &#8220;Bros&#8221; was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billy-eichner-still-defending-his-lgbtq-rom-com-bros-threatened-to-tweet-about-it-every-day-just-to-spite-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener">box-office flop</a> because of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lbgbt-rom-com-flops-at-box-office-writer-blames-homophobic-weirdos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bigotry</a>,&#8221; describing the film as a &#8220;preachy, self-indulgent dumpster fire&#8221; that was viewed by the &#8220;exact right number of people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Billy Eichner, who wrote and starred in the movie, has defended the flick, suggesting the dismal box-office numbers were fueled by homophobia.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are moments when <em>Bros</em> is funny—a self-deprecating lampoon of gay life,&#8221; journalist Isaac Grafstein <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/why-bros-bombed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> at Common Sense, a publication on Substack. &#8220;But mostly it’s a preachy, self-indulgent dumpster fire.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The two long hours are replete with partisan finger-wagging, lamentations about erasure, and performative apologies&#8221; from a character &#8220;for being a &#8216;cis white guy,'&#8221; Grafstein criticized.</p>
<p>Citing the film&#8217;s poor financial performance, the journalist dissed Eichner for blaming the failure on &#8220;&#8216;homophobic weirdo&#8217; audiences &#8216;in certain parts of the country'&#8221; in a &#8220;Twitter tirade.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros,” Eichner posted online earlier this month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lbgbt-rom-com-flops-at-box-office-writer-blames-homophobic-weirdos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported. “And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”</p>
<p>“Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight [as] it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, especially for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often,” the &#8220;Parks and Recreation&#8221; alum continued. “I love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!”</p>
<p>Two days after the now-deleted thread, the actor doubled-down: &#8220;Box office, as we all know, has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of a movie,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;And tweeting about a movie you haven’t actually seen is meaningless. That’s just twitter bulls***. The majority of people who see Bros really love it! Go check it out and see for yourself!&#8221;</p>
<p>Grafstein emphasized his disagreement with the actor on why the movie had such a poor showing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s the truth: bigotry is not to blame for the failure of Bros,&#8221; the journalist wrote. &#8220;In fact, most Americans don&#8217;t care whom you sleep with (or marry!) and have seen complex, three-dimensional gay characters on their screens for years, from Milk to Moonlight. So what explains Eichner’s meltdown?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The exact right number of people saw the gay romcom,&#8221; he further mocked.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billy-eichner-still-defending-his-lgbtq-rom-com-bros-threatened-to-tweet-about-it-every-day-just-to-spite-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billy Eichner Still Defending His LGBTQ Rom-Com ‘Bros,’ Threatened To Tweet About It Every Day ‘Just To Spite You’</a></strong></p>

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