This article analyzes the discussion thread about the film Drive on the French website AlloCiné in order to highlight the strategies of distinction used by self-proclaimed “cinephile” internet users. We thus show how their discourses, which defend an elitist notion of cinephilia, reinforce gender norms by reaffirming the superiority of hegemonic masculinity through the stigmatization of “repoussoir” figures conceived as feminine and/or as incarnations of marginalized or subordinate masculinities. Our analysis of the way these repoussoir figures are characterized (the “beauf”, the “fanboy”, and the “screen-struck girl”) enables us to highlight how the articulation between representations of gender, class, age and sexuality, is crystalized in these discourses.