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The totally not-gay bikers of Wild Hogs (and their, um, family-friendly PG-13 rating) kicked Zodiac's rated R butt this weekend at the box office, though the showing I saw was packed with eager David Fincher devotees. The movie didn't have the same kind of gore or flash as Se7en or Fight Club, but it didn't need them, either -- it was smart and scary and created this lingering creepiness I have yet to fully shake off. I'm pretty sure that was the point.
Despite taking place in the Bay Area in the early '70s, there wasn't a whole lotta homo action going on. I'd award a three-way tie for gayest moment in the movie:
> A newscast shout-out to Armistead Maupin, who at one point implicated Inspector Toschi (played in the movie by Mark Ruffalo). The nearly 3-hour movie's dense detectiving quickly skims over the fact that Maupin wrote a serialized, fictionalized account of a detective hunting down a similar serial killer, and that Toschi wrote little fan notes to Maupin encouraging his own roman a clef appear more often in the story.
> Robert Downey Jr.'s wardrobe, especially his series of neck kerchiefs tied jauntily beneath his chin. The fashion in this movie was stunningly subtle, given the '70s oeuvre, but RDJ's character dressed to impress.
> Jake Gyllenhaal's character, cartoonist Robert Graysmith, twice wore an outfit that screamed Brokeback -- a light blue plaid Western-style button-down -- prompting a "nice shirt" and more than a few titters from the rows around me.
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