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OK, who here has seen "Brokeback Mountain"?
1/16/2006 | Blake Elliott

Posted on 01/16/2006 12:23:57 PM PST by carolinacrazy

I see Hollywood is cramming this down my throat and claiming a huge success, but who in the hell is watching this thing?


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: back; broke; gay; homos; kneepadbrigade; mountain; moviereview; nothankshollyweird; sheepherders
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To: carolinacrazy

True again.


61 posted on 01/17/2006 2:53:43 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

"$500k the opening weekend,nice try Hollywood."Good point,not exactly a big "take".The left is bound and determined to shove homosexuality down our throats ie "mainstream" homosexuality.They don't seem to understand that heterosexuals are not interested in a film about 2 gay sheep herders.


62 posted on 01/17/2006 5:29:35 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: Prodigal Son

Any good?


63 posted on 01/17/2006 6:21:08 AM PST by carolinacrazy (Bow to your sensei.... BOW TO YOUR SENSEI...... www.jackassdemocrats.com)
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To: carolinacrazy

No; I can't stand westerns, no matter who's doing what to whom in them.


64 posted on 01/17/2006 6:23:23 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: John Lenin
The only way I would watch it ....

You would smile? ;)

65 posted on 01/17/2006 6:29:51 AM PST by smith288 (The older I get, the dumber I become as im wise enough to acknowledge how much more there is to know)
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To: carolinacrazy

I thought it was ok. A little bit long for a spell but the story was all right. Heath Ledger's acting was really good I thought.


66 posted on 01/18/2006 12:35:50 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: carolinacrazy

I can only imagine the kind of clientele this film will draw. No way I'm going near a theater that shows it.


67 posted on 01/18/2006 12:49:11 AM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: carolinacrazy

Brokeback Mountain is IMO a really good picture, but not a great one.

Heath Ledger's performance as Ennis DelMar is Oscar-caliber, as is Michelle Williams' as his wife Alma. But it's very much his picture, and he paints a sympathetic and very human picture of a man with an unresolvable conflict. I liked and believed the other performances, but it's Ennis's story and it's Heath's picture.

The sex scenes, of which there is one from each of the three couples, are brief, modestly presented and once established, the film does not linger upon them. Later the guys also trade a passionate kiss or two, which might upset some folks. It's hard to tell from all the fuss you read just how secondary (although important) these scenes are to the story.

The majestic mountain scenery (shot in Alberta, Canada) has been called a additional character in the story. It provides a stunning contrast to the bleak settings of the rest of their lives. You can get an idea from the trailer (online) how beautiful the cinematography and art direction is.

Like any other doomed romance, it's sad, of course. It doesn't, and can't, end happily. But it's more of a love story than a 'message picture'.


68 posted on 01/22/2006 1:51:51 PM PST by Syberyenta
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