Fast and the Bi-Curious: Like the Vin Diesel Movie But Slightly Gayer

On Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg and Seth Rogen took on the Vin Diesel/ Paul Walker sequel which brought in $72.5 million over the weekend (and broke an April record).

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Movie News: Fast, Furious, French?

 

NATHANIEL ROGERS

Nathaniel Rogers is older than Penélope Cruz, younger than Nicole Kidman and has neither dated nor signed a contract with Tom Cruise. He blogs daily at The Film Experience. This week, Nathaniel begins a weekly film column here on Towleroad. 

Take One. Opening This Weekend

FAST & FURIOUS is undoubtedly the weekend's biggest curiosity and probably the biggest draw at the box office. You have to admire the great tag line "New Model. Original Parts". Brevity being wit and all. Nevertheless will people really be nostalgic for speed racing, circa 2001? The Los Angeles Times has an interesting take on the odd math behind the high box office expectations for a Vin Diesel / Paul Walker reunion though both careers seem to be on the skids. Meanwhile, gay audiences can be amused with the onscreen romantic reunion of muscle man Vin  "I prefer to date in Europe" Diesel and tough girl Michelle Rodriguez, both of whom have never successfully convinced anyone about which team they're playing for. Offscreen that is. Onscreen they're totally into each other. Team Fast. Team Furious.

ADVENTURELAND is director Greg Mottola's follow up to his comedy hit Superbad. Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) moons over screwed up Kristen Stewart (Twilight) ...but not in a vampiric way! They work their summer at an amusement park in the 80s. The setup / location reminds one happily of the great coming of age gay flick Edge of Seventeen though obviously the movies will be nothing alike.

In limited release, there are always more options. Missing the movie musical? There's a new French film called PARIS 36 (pictured left) which is about the reopening of a music hall in, you guessed it, Paris 1936. There's also the Dominican baseball player drama SUGAR, from the team that brought us the very memorable Half Nelson which won Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination a few years back. If you've been missing Will & Grace, you can catch Will (er, Eric McCormack) in the sci-fi 50s era spoof ALIEN TRESPASS. The filmmakers, who were delightfully giddy about their movie at this year's Comic Con, promised big laughs when the alien is revealed (think penis). GIGANTIC is a romantic indie comedy starring There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano as a young salesman. He falls for Ubiquitous Movie Girlfriend Zooey Deschanel. She's racking up quite a list of man conquests: Jim Carrey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Wahlberg, Casey Affleck and Weeds' Justin Kirk. That's just in the past 27 months. Jealous?

Take Two. Stray Movie Bits

What does Brüno wield (I'll give you one guess) to f*ck the MPAA with in his new red band trailer? How do you say "F*ck Jeff Goldblum" in French? And which filmmaker, who f*cked with Jeff Goldblum (onscreen!) in the 1980s, was just honored in France?

Much more, AFTER THE JUMP...

Flashback: Breakdancing with Vin Diesel

Before he was an actor or a bodybuilding pin-up, Vin Diesel was apparently a breakdancing instructor.

Vin Diesel Shirtless Pin-up Practice

Defamer dug up a 1989 Sisley catalog for sale on eBay which appears to be one of Vin Diesel's early modeling projects. Looks like he's learned the fine art of drama already.

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