Have You Seen ‘The Skinny’?
It’s a 2012 gay movie, but I only just saw it. And it is a very real movie, touching on most of the insecurities of the gay man. As I watched, it didn’t matter that the movie was set in New York and the lives of the characters largely different from mine; I could totally relate. The divides were blurred, and I realized that behind the diverse ethnicities and races, all gay men are essentially the same, with the same questions about life and love.
If you haven’t seen it, you totally should. There were scenes that are hilarious, and others that are thought-provoking. Like this one I’m about to outline. So ok, five college friends – Magnus, Kyle, Joey, Sebastian and Langston (a lesbian) – came together in New York to hang out for a weekend. And during that time, they made discoveries about themselves that only such a time together could have enabled. Magnus had just revealed to his friends that the guy he was currently seeing was someone he met online. And the following dialogue was part of what ensued.
Joey: How do you know you can trust Ryan when you met him just four months ago on some hookup site?
Magnus: The same guys online are the same guys we see at clubs, the same guys we see at prides… How do you know you can trust anybody until you can trust them? Whether you meet them online, the club, the gym, church –
Joey: Uh-uh, if you meet them at church, then you know you cannot trust them.
LOL. Okay, that line killed me. Really? The church gays are not to be trusted?
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58 Comments
Deola
January 08, 07:27A hard drive raid is needed. Thats is all. Enough said.
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 08:24Lol. Of course Dee… 🙂
Khristopher B!
January 08, 13:36OMG! OMG! OMG! Is this post about me? I’m watching it right now on my laptop as I bumped into KD to read some fresh updates! I’m at the place where magnus discovered his ex was shooting porn in his condo! The film is kinda not to real for my liking (the British accents can be quite irritating). In addition you guys need to watch “PARIS IS BURNING” that one shows the side of the gay life that is rarely seen. Watch it then go online to read the article “PARIS HAS BURNED”. I have nothing doing these days so I spend my spare time watching LGBT movies & series. If you are in Calabar beep me I can share them with you.
Khristopher B!
January 08, 13:44I got it off youtube last night. The trick is if a the video url is lets say http://www.Youtube.com/sjhdhdbdbd, remove the www. and replace with ss. So the url becomes ssyoutube.com/sjh…. when the page opens you will get different formats to download it from ³gp, mp4 etc. Thank me l8a
McGray
January 08, 07:32Is it just me or does anyone else find it almost impossible to trust anyone??
Paul
January 08, 08:00I am dat scattered.
I dnt trust even my breath.
I’m jst too cynical.
trystham
January 08, 09:47LWTMB. Trust is dead tho
gad
January 08, 18:43No wonder
Absalom
January 08, 08:36Depends on what you think “trust” should be – i.e. what is it you wish to trust another person with? Depends on how you go about establishing who you can trust with these things you feel need entrusting.
And, after all said and done, keep in mind, McGray, that no one knows that they can actually trust YOU until they can. Two-way street here.
Colossus
January 08, 14:22I strongly agree, trust is a two way street. If you don’t trust people then no one would trust you back.
#TeamKizito
January 08, 07:36It’s a lie (oh). Hmm.
JArch
January 08, 07:39Hahaha bia pinky why are you such a lastma mbok… But Jesus the hilariousness of that film is too much…. Joey the bitch with tramp stamps, Langston the naive Ivy league lez girl who’s obsessed with gay porn – weird, Sebastian’s obsession with Kyle and his planned offering of his virginity to the said Kyle (seriously that guy needs to be stamped with L for learner on his forehead). The date rape. Kyle’s playboy and I don’t care attitude is just Urrgghhh, but really he’s a good guy when you take sex of out the equation
And Magnus who’s supposed to be the smart one ends up falling for a guy who enjoy’s bareback orgies but be fronting safe sex with him until after they’ve tested twice in 6months. Such bull piss
Love love love…. 10/10 for me with that film. Picture quality, story line, casting. all excellent.
Btw did you know Kyle is a dancer in real life
Khaleesi's King
January 08, 07:40Next time put “spoiler alert”.. leave small for the people who haven’t watched it.
JArch
January 08, 07:51Hahaha sorry James, got carried away no vex
Don’t worry there’s alot more I haven’t mentioned. So you’ll definitely enjoy it even with my spoilers alert
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 08:27Yes, i know that about Kyle, Jarch. Finally that dude oozes sex appeal
Max
January 08, 09:12His name is Anthony Burrell. Dances like an angel… I love him… He was in a season of SYTYCD but left because of an injury.. Can do full 180,degree splits… He’s just amazing.. His character in “The skinny” is annoying.. But he’s a lovely guy in real life.. He’s also one of Queen b’s top dancers.. If you’ve ever watched “bow down, I been on”, you’ll see him in front…
JArch
January 08, 14:17Ah yes… he just ooze of delicious sex appeal. I could see myself totally doing him lol
Khaleesi's King
January 08, 07:43Haba.. Pinky.. its too early in the year to start this old controversy na. And isn’t that stereotyping? Something we claim to hate so much on this blog?
Pete
January 08, 07:45Different strokes for different folks.
Absalom
January 08, 07:52I have “The Skinny”. I’ll see it after “The Other Woman” – which I’m finding quite boring. *sigh*
Chizzie
January 08, 07:57Yup…some of us go to church and still indulge in bareback orgies while the wife is at home. So church is a no-no..
Meanwhile it’s mighty cold this morning.
Pete
January 08, 08:01Chizzie, it’s 2015. Heard he had cleaned up his act. Time to give that line a rest
Paul
January 08, 08:12Haba Pete dat line is chizzie’s Pukinje fibre,his heart would skip beats if he doesn’t mention it. So jst let him continue.
Evry1 has ignored him on dat and its no more funny bt my guy won’t jst let it go.
Kel
January 08, 08:30You have something against the church/people of faith,we get.You own this blog too,but really,you shouldn’t keep trying to impose your view or get in a lick at them each opportunity you get Pinky.That makes you no better than those you accuse of intolerance.
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 08:39Shut up, please, Kel! And borrow a sense of humour, if you don’t have one. Look at me having fun with what I just watched and some self righteous prick is coming to make it about some non existent bias.
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 08:46I was genuinely amused by a line from a movie and decided to share it. And you’re here mouthing off about a bias i don’t even have. Dude, you should perhaps check yourself for any insecurity, if you see every innocuous statement as an attack on Christian gays.
Max
January 08, 09:15So much vitriol this beautiful morning…**sips hot coffee…
Colossus
January 08, 14:25Down boy, calm down. You’re beginning to lose your temper easily as of late, you need a break?
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 14:51Oh i’m fine now, Colossus. 🙂 I was in a grouchy mood this morning. 😀
Deola
January 08, 10:24‘Shut up, please, Kel! And borrow a sense of humour, if you don’t have one’
I died!! ROTFL!!!!!
Lemuel
January 08, 08:31You certainly cannot trust him if you met him from the just. Reason being that he is in denial. He is off today and on tomorrow. ….He has faith that one day he will delivered.
Lord II
January 08, 08:33Now let’s not get ahead if ourselves and hit at the story where is required or rather answer the question..which is can the gay you meet in church be trusted?
Why can’t he be trusted especially here in our clime. You got that right about the fact that the setting of the film was in NY and ofcoz very different from our typical environment. So I think it’s safe that you meet the guy and KNOW the church he goes coz this will even reduce the propensity for him to KITO on you if he wanted to in the first place….and that’s just one advantage of which there are many.
Mercury
January 08, 08:44Oh yeah, that was one nice movie, looooooove Joey and Kyle is so hot, but a total idiot/whore.. And yes you can’t trust any guy u met in church……Never…..those guys are another level of freaky.
My Chemical Romance
January 08, 08:45I don’t see anything wrong with being gay and Christian. I wonder how the world would be without God. Yes, the Bible frowns at it and many other things…I am a Christian and gay. I pray daily and go to church regularly. It is actually between me and God. Just because you became an atheist because of your sexuality, that doesn’t mean everyone must do same.
Ace
January 08, 12:58Totally agree Mr. Chemical romance.
Lord II
January 08, 15:13me too!!!!! i agree WHOLLY!
Max
January 08, 09:07I have the movie… Funny as hell and also carries a message. And tips for cleaning your asshole…
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 09:21I sooooooooo knew you’d land on that point. Lol
kritzmoritz
January 08, 10:00Yup. That was some lesson
kritzmoritz
January 08, 09:25Sadly, i’ve watched it and it wasnt a great movie to me. I said sadly because there was alot of buzz around it especially when it was coming on the heels of Noah’s Arc, Children of God and Boy Culture. Compared with its contemporaries, there’s no difference between the skinny and any Nollywood movie. Poor acting, poor dialogue, low budget. It ranks so-so in my private library of black gay themed movies. I thought Patrik Ian Polk could have done better based on his experience with Noah’s arc. Meanwhile, you can watch the movie on http://www.putlocker.com
Tony Odekunle - Brown
January 08, 10:43I love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus Jussie Smollett gives me life.
Dennis Macauley
January 08, 10:57Trust?
Well that’s earned, not given!
Sometimes you trust with all your heart, and they turn out not to be what you thought they were!
“Wonders are many on earth and the greatest of this is man”
This line from that sophocles poem says it all
Handsomely Inclined
January 08, 11:32I feel before you get someone to trust you….you have to trust them first……
Nate
January 08, 12:04I have huge trust issue now becos the only time I trusted someone in my entire life I ended up being blackmailed and my pictures scattered all over the internet.
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 13:05Whoa! Seriously?! :O
Max
January 08, 13:24WE need a story on that dear…
Dom
January 08, 12:32It wasn’t too good a movie. It is a little interesting because of the gay aspect, otherwise it was a big flop.
Ace
January 08, 13:24Saw a sneak preview of the movie. Looked low budget and meh. I might watch it thus weekend.
Constant
January 08, 17:57hmmmm…..lemme watch the movie before I comment
Kel
January 08, 19:03It exist quite alright,your bias.It’s all over this board.As to lacking a sense of humour,being self-righteous?.You don’t know anything about me as to bandy such about.Touched a nerve,didn’t I?.
pinkpanthertb
January 08, 21:02No you didn’t, my dear. Don’t flatter yourself so. I simplyy transferred a workplace aggravation to you. As for me not knowing you, its a two-way street.
michael
January 08, 19:49hahahaahahHahahHahhaahhah… I almost got choked.
Mr Kassy
January 08, 23:25TRUST!!! That word scares me like hell.*fanning myself to try and forget certain experiences*
Lothario
January 09, 07:00Don’t talk like this….. everyone knows the church boys are NOT to be trusted. Have you dated someone who’s very active in church?
Biggest cheats
Biggest liars
Best head
Legs in the air half the time
Biko……I can’t deal!
pinkpanthertb
January 09, 07:29Hahahahahaha. Lothario testifies!
IVANKO
January 09, 08:04Seen
harry michel
January 10, 10:08Great movie.. can someone please help with names of such movies so i can download them, thanks guys
alexanda
January 10, 12:11never trust anyone…you’ll only push ur lucks too far,pardon me i myt b sayin dis outta experience…no one z capable of trust me included…especially my opinion i fink gay relationship z pointless…u end up gettin hurt its just like normal relationships wif straight pple. wen i finally decided to embrace wat i am,i was only fooled by some stupid top who took advantage of me,nd left me in no tym…recoverin tho,bt never in dis lyf will i engage in dis lifestyle again. d hrtbreak almost killed me.