Thank you for sharing that. I wish I enjoyed it more, but it wasn’t as dire as I was expecting. A lot of times we hold films that represent “us” (whatever that may be) to a higher standard. It was never gonna be some revelatory work like, say, Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together, which was such a milestone for Asian gay men on film (and one of my favorite movies). But I wish Fire Island were about 50-60 percent funnier. (Plus the treatment of the black characters worked my nerves.)
I liked Conrad a lot, and his performance here hints at potential (and sex appeal) I hadn’t really seen from him before. An actor like him may not have had many opportunities to show his stuff in years past. He’d almost certainly been relegated to roles as a glorified extra or two lines as a computer hacker in some CBS procedural.