Is Will Smith’s Hancock Homophobic?

I saw this movie and I felt insulted and robbed by Will Smith because I paid $19 for two people to watch it. But my friend dismissed it as a joke. I am an African; I know what it means to be persecuted for being gay. In Africa, Presidents and government officials do make worst comments and both government and people do harm gays and lesbians to the applause of each other. Recent Example was Gambian president Yahya Jammeh who threatened to behead homosexuals in his country. I never heard the UN speak against him or may be I missed-out on that; nor have I heard any other African country caution him. But it just feels good to be in a society where homophobic statements are challenged and can be challenged. God bless America!!!!!!!!!!!

We've become accustomed to being insulted. Since school days when we wouldn't speak up for ourselves, we learned to laugh along with our tormentors for fear of revealing who we really were. It was safe, even understandable back then. I'm glad GLAAD is doing what its doing, and for that reason didn't add my 8 dollars to the tsunami of cash this film brought in. One more thing, if Hancock had said--"Jew. Jew in red. Scandinavian Jew."--there wouldn't be a Hancock. They would've come down on this movie like a 30-ton falling crane. But, like I said, we've become accustomed to being insulted.

Like we need Will Smith to make fun of the homosexual, it has always been fun just like making fun of latinos, blacks, russians, and crackers. Please if you wanna be treated as equals, stop looking for stuff everywhere and accept that there will always be jokes, just like there are jokes about Irish, there will always be jokes about Gays. deal with it. And I am Latino, by the way.

Hey, just keep saying "It's only a movie. It's only a movie.

Hehe, lol. This is very amusing, how come a movie cand be considered homophobic while movies in which the good guys are criminals do not arrouse any offend to people? First of all a movie is an artistic creation or let's say a product. If you like it you buy it. If you buy it and don't like it, you won't buy it again. Simple as that. Not everybody can enjoy that very same product in the same way.

Let's just move on confident in the knowledge that Will Smith has turned from a likable bankable character actor into an egomaniac douchebag Scientologist (bigger ones are of course "Tommy Girl" Cruise and "Helter Skelter" Charles Manson) and a HUGE chunk of his take from his films goes right into L. Ron Hubbard's "Let's Get the Celebrities to Get Us Enough Money to Build Schools to Brainwash The Children" little Swiss bank account. At the top (or very near the top nowadays is Tommy Girl and his robot "we can rebuild her" beard wife Katie Holmes who is never out of his sight. Free Katie, no on second thought, let's not, just let her keep Tommy amused.

Hancock is an anti-hero by design. He's deliberately supposed to be crude and insensitive. Since the message is "don't do as I do", the movie is taking your side.

Everyone knows most superheroes are gay (and homo's) what is the big deal???

There is absolutely no question that this film is homophobic. The "Homo in red" scene is not the worst offender either. The worst offender is the one in which Hancock, in prison, imposes what is considered to be by his inmates (and therefore viewers too) the worst punishment upon inmates -- ramming one inmate's head into the other's ass. This gross exaggeration of anal sex, which as we all know, is primarly associated with gays, and gays in prison, is meant to be truly disgusting -- as the expressions of all who witness it in the film and all who utter their reactions to it in the audience reveal. We have to speak out when we see this kind of bullshit and not mince words about it either. We have to call filmmakers and actors to task for perpetrating myths about homosexuality and serving negative stereotypes, and furthermore, call them to task when in the effort of creating positive role models for one minority, they downgrade and spit upon another.

Will Smith is reputed to be a Scientologist, and they are heavily anti-gay, so do the math. I am nearly 70 years old and never a day goes by that someone doesn't remind me I am nothing but a joke -- i.e. make some supposedly funny anti-gay crack that I hear or read. It still hurts. When does it get to be enough? I am grateful to GLAAD for paying attention and pointing these things out to others.