It’s important for there to be bad queer rom-coms, because there are plenty of bad straight rom-coms. Every quote-unquote “gay movie” does not have to be “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” or “Call Me By Your Name.” In this sense, “Fire Island,” a new movie written by comedian Joel Kim Booster and starring Booster and “Saturday Night Live’s” Bowen Yang, is important. Based on a script originally written for the doomed TV streaming app Quibi, and a plot that feels more like a gimmick (“What if ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ but gay and modern-day?”) than a passion project, “Fire Island” is a mess with a few …
