Bret Easton Ellis will not be writing the screenplay for "The Hangover 2: Less Than Hangover"

Bret Easton Ellis and the cast of The Hangover

You know, I have very little in common with bisexual Brat Pack author Bret Easton Ellis. He's monied, slick and connected, and I'm ... well, you're lookin' at it.

But despite the gaping socioeconomic chasm that exists between us, I have enjoyed several of his books that weren't Glamorama and I actually totally identify with this tweet that he sent after (perhaps even while) seeing hit comedy The Hangover:

"The most alienating movie experience of 09: sitting stone-faced in a packed Westwood theater that's roaring with laughter at The Hangover..."

Here's why I can pick up what BEE is droppin' ...

I hated The Hangover. And while I would like to think it's because the movie was kind of pedestrian and derivative in its self-conscious wackiness and not because the straight guy characters use the word "gay" as a pejorative and the word "fag" three times (in reference to another straight guy) in the first eight or so minutes of the movie ... that might have something to do with it, too.

Funny thing is, I saw the movie (at a press screening last week) with a very good guy friend who happens to be straight, happens to be the only person with whom I've actually been on a bender in Las Vegas (which is what the movie is about) and happens to be the guy with whom I saw the film adaptation of Ellis's brilliant American Psycho on opening night. (We even dressed up in suits.) This is the guy with whom I've watched Overboard, Clue, and The Big Lebowski about 200 times apiece, and who famously urinated in the shoes of a bunch of Scientology interns who were living next door to us in Hell's Kitchen when they wouldn't turn off their alarm clock for 30 minutes.

And he hated The Hangover, too.

As for myself, I happen to adore stupid gross-out humor, and have more than passing crushes on both Justin Bartha and Bradley Cooper, so I was pretty well primed to enjoy this thing. I'd really like to think that it was the shortcomings of the script (it's not as clever as it thinks it is) and the director (who fails to present a single likable character in the central cast) that placed me in the severe minority of people who didn't cotton to the comedy, but who knows ... maybe it was all the "fags".

At any rate, nice to know that I'm in company I can appreciate. (Side note to Ellis: You, me, Imagine That, this weekend? Call me!) And if you haven't seen The Hangover yet, don't bother — rent Go instead.