"I Love You, Man" trailer officially ends my one-way bromance with Paul Rudd

It's not just the increasingly hostile edge to the gay humor (although yeah, that too), but Paul Rudd seems to have become more and more sour in general over the past couple of years - over the same period that he's had a career resurgence.

Even when he's not being queasily phobic, watching him has been less and less fun, and more and more depressing. It's as if the tired, bored-with-himself character from Knocked Up has taken him over.

No, not "distant gay traces" -- it's distingué traces!

I had such a crush on him, especially when he played Ashley Judd's long-haired boyfriend on "Sisters". Anyone else remember that?

Can you handle THE 80'S ACCORDING TO SNICKS?

From the looks of the trailer, this could go either way. While there's probably guaranteed to be some old and tired gay jokes, it kind of looks like we might get a positive portrayal out of this.

A movie of this caliber is fairly predictable nowadays, so here's a guess at the plot: It looks a bit like Rudd finds a true friend in a gay man, is bothered by this, but after going through a series of psychotic straight men, gets over his issues and sees the gay man for the friend he is.

Yeah, that's being optimistic, but it's just what I gleaned from the trailer. So we'll probably end up with something not terribly funny, but possibly otherwise suprising.

I'll go see any movie with Paul Rudd in it! He is so attractive and very funny, I can't get enough of him!

Do people know that this drivel goes back to Bob Hope's Road movies? Bob Hope?! Do people still base movies on "Take my wife... please?"  When will this end? How stupid are straight people to laugh at this BS? It's antique.

 Paul Rudd does this in every movie too. The man needs a psychiatric intervention.

 

I don't understand what the problem is. There is no 'ewww, GAY!' freak out from Paul Rudd's character when he gets kissed. The fact that there is a man on man kiss in the film is something we should be happy about. As per usual, you guys are complaining too much before we even get a bigger picture about what's contained in this film. 

But I saw both the SNL episode and Role Models, and I'm really racking my brain to come up with anything that anyone would consider "homophobic". 

I will say that that "trailer" looked pretty lame (not a trailer, really), although I don't think we saw enough of the movie to judge for sure.

herald, in the first 10 minutes of Role Models, the security guard refers to Rudd and Seann William Scott as "faggots." It was totally unnecessary, but I don't recall any further slurs in the film and, in fact, I kind of interpreted the "King" character as being gay.

Rudd's new movie just looks stupid, but I don't see anything offensive--in fact, Paul's reaction to the kiss is rather muted, instead of going ballistic or freaking out. Which is progress, I suppose.

afhickman

"The mountain has wings."

The only thing I found offensive about "Role Models" was how unfunny it was.  Both Paul and Seann William Scott (is that right?) appeared to be sleepwalking.