We’re living through a new boomlet of muscle boys in our biggest movies and TV shows. This scene strikes me as a useful synecdoche for a larger cultural moment.
Peacemaker is thornier than even that, however, because it’s balancing that tonal mishmash across eight full episodes of television, with more to come, and in every episode, John Cena invites you to be baffled by his try-hard dad energy. He’s fond of complicated tonal mishmashes that sometimes involve asking the audience to take seriously a sentient raccoon tearing up. Still, this is a superhero show, and the question of “How seriously am I meant to take this?” is endemic to everything James Gunn makes. When Peacemaker slaps himself and says that nobody likes him, there’s something more raw there than you might expect. Yes, the emotions are so heightened that the scene is a little ridiculous, but both Cena and director James Gunn play this moment as sincere. The ironic gloss falls away the more you look at it. This is … supposed to be funny, right? Like the scene from the 2018 comedy Blockers in which the same actor sobs as he butt chugs? Because of pop culture’s longstanding ambivalence toward the idea of a man of Cena’s size and stature openly weeping, it’s hard to watch this Peacemaker scene and not think there’s meant to be an ironic gloss on it. Maybe he and Rick could have been friends? But he didn’t even give them a shot.Ĭena, who plays the complicated hero, is a former wrestler built like an extremely buff, smooth version of Gossamer, the big monster covered in red hair who was always threatening Bugs Bunny. In that film, he killed government agent and nominally good guy Rick Flag. He’s finally processing the events of the 2021 film The Suicide Squad, which introduced John Cena as Peacemaker.
If I ever see that lion’s head tattoo in person, let me tell you I will be asking to lick that up while he flexes his pecs for me.Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.Įarly in the first season of HBO Max’s 2022 series Peacemaker, the titular antihero collapses on the bed in his tiny trailer and breaks down sobbing. But I am surprised in today’s world he hasn't started an Only Fans. We may never know what is going on with his life currently. He just has an aura about him that shows he wants to be pleased while making sure his partner enjoys the process of pleasing him as well. Final thoughts, Gauge just oozed sex appeal. If Gauge ever wanted to come back to porn, he would be welcomed with open arms and open holes. Luckily, you can read more on the backstory of this here.
I really enjoyed the artistic direction in this, making it seem like a true amateur, unedited film before the creation of Only Fans. Ok, so you might think that this was a biased post to include this as number 1 but it actually wasn’t. #1 BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS (ACE BANNON’S XCO MEDIA)
They fully developed the fantasy from seeing these hot bodybuilders work out in the gym to pleasing each other, themselves, and engaging in old fashioned muscle worship. In a few words too, the BG films were just great. I LOVE that with most of his scenes, Gauge always seemed like he was in full control as an alpha male taking charge but very much loving whatever scene he filmed. Jeremy really jumped into being a muscle worshipper, licking every inch and muscle on Gauge’s perfectly proportioned body. To the day, I envy Jeremy Jordan who got to live out a fantasy of mine. Love that Gauge played a senior fraternity member with a paddle in hand, and yes…he could punish me with it any day. Two things on my list of favorite porn scenarios: Fraternities and Gangbangs. There is a simple reason why this falls as number 5.
Gauge, if you're out there, please let us know! Anyways, just for fun, here are 5 of my favorite Gauge gay porn movies: #5 JET SET FRATERNITY GANGBANG (JET SET MEN) I know if I had been around, I would've done all I could to make sure this muscle god was a success. But it seemed that whoever was trying to help him run things wasn't pulling their weight.
He even opened a number of social media accounts around the time we were promised the site. I was actually a member before the launch of the site but unfortunately, it never took off. Gauge was an MMA fighter, and once tried opening a website called. I learned the Canadian-native played football and baseball in high school. Some of these facts about Gauge could be incorrect so please comment with corrections.