It was always good for that.
Mark Steyn is an entertaining writer.
Another brilliant essay from Steyn, perhaps the World’s Greatest Punster.
He clears the air, hits the mark and makes me laugh.
I ain’t woke enough for Wokeback Mountain. Just ain’t.
The Last Picture Show is one of my favorite films. I wouldn’t even consider sitting through Cornhole Mountain.
The Spindletop oil rush must have been quite a time.
I realize Beaumont is a long way from Archer City.
Sums it up.
Lots of funny lines, indeed. Steyn is a gifted writer.
And Brokeback Mountain. Written by a Canadian woman. Filmed by a Chinaman. You know it can only be ridiculous.
And I always wondered if Heath Ledger killed Homeland out of shame got kissing a man. John Wayne would have never done that.
That’s killed himself out of shame.
Steyn has it correct: this worthless movie was made to outrage moral America...it imploded because we just made fun of it.
I find it sad and wasteful.....
....McMurtry wrote well, initially......
....he wrote westerns....
I think the seduction of Hollywood possessed him to mess it up with the gay movie....and this is highlighted in his obituary
Also noticed it didn’t do a lot forGyllenhaal’s career, imo......( he was so good in the earlier October Sky.)......but after this BM I considered him gay and lost interest
Ledger killed himself
Maybe both gay
And it was a long time before I would watch Hathaway in any thing...
It felt like that movie took her innocence after doing Princess Bride
I know I’m distilling it down rather naively
I didn’t see BM......but I watched the lives of those who played in it
That last paragraph sums things up nicely.
And for a lot more than just this movie.
They weren’t even cowboys
“Ang Lee’s opening is very good: two young men who don’t know each other wait outside a shabby trailer to be called in and offered a sheep-herding job, in the summer of ‘63.”
Uh, that's funny, Mark, but I just as soon have that stay behind closed doors.
“I like Ms Proulx’s books not because of the characters or the plots but because she’s spent much of her life roaming the same turf I have — Vermont, Quebec, Newfoundland — and she’s got a tremendous ability to capture the essence of the land, and in particular the way a harsh terrain shapes the character of its people.”
‘The Shipping News’ by E. Annie Proulx is my favorite novel of all time. I read it in 1993 and to this DAY, I still wonder what her characters are up to these days. The movie was horrible. Kevin Spacey is NOT Quoyle. Not by a long shot.
Another Pulitzer winner that I thought was amazingly good was ‘The Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt. Again, the movie was awful. Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ is another great read.
It was always good for that.
Thankfully i never saw the movie, and never want to.
But one thing I’ve always wondered about...why aren’t there jokes about ‘breaking someone’s back’ regarding ‘that movie’?
Seems kind of a natural. For an unnatural.
Steyn is a master of the English language.
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I thought I liked the article, but then I was left thinking he had quit writing before he was finished.