Golden Globes may make a star of 'Brokeback' (Reuters Barf Alert!)

Reuters ^ | 1/13/06 | Arthur Spiegelman

[Cementjungle]

be interesting to see if Hollywood will make some kind of gay president movie for 2006

It'll be a gay, undocumented worker, terrorist transsexual president probably.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

The more I read about modern Hollywood, the more I am thankful for Fox Movie Channel and Turner Classic Movies. I watched "Sunset Boulevard" this week - that film is worth a thousand "Brokeback Mountains" IMHO. I wonder when the gay remake of SB is coming out? /sarc

BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN!

[mlc9852]

"I don't watch much tv, as you might guess."

And your brain is much better off.

[garylmoore]

Disgusting theme for a movie, perverted, evil, unnatural, sick, yucky, and sinful.

[SkyPilot]

This movie, a lame sequel at that...

has earned more money at the box office than these two movies combined...

That is pathetic, and it speaks volumes that the MSM and Hollywood treat these two horrible films as "must see" propaganda.

Message to Hollywood, you stink.

[SkyPilot]

Here is the box office evidence.

Also, look at the receipts for Bareback Mountain and compare them to other film flops - the flops do even better.

Notice the budget for Munich. They won't even come close to breaking even.

[Lindykim]

GV: All together now...
They're not gay cowboys. They're SHEEPHERDERS!


Sheepherding 'rump rangers"

[spectre]

I'll most likely tune in, just to confirm my suspicions that the "fix is in" and the mere mention of the movie "Brokeback" will be received with a thunderous applause or a standing ovation.

sw

[devane617]

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the fix is in for BM? BM will take top honors ar GG and the Oscars. What a puking shame we have become.

[Trajan88]

Damn... they still tryin' to put lipstick on that pig?

Fools.

[swampfox98]

You can spray deodorant on a pile of poop, but it still stinks. Brookback is still a pile of poop. Most people are smart enough to know this.

[sobieski]

Yep, that's what Hollywood considers a huge success; if it's politically correct and doesn't lose money, they can crow about it. The media has hyped it, so the smallish liberal audience of course would make a fetish to go to see it. "Brokeback, of course I went..."

Now the Passion, that was just a fringe movie.

[MoochPooch]

"only queers are going to see this movie in my state. and people desperately wanting to look like loony liberals."


Probably any state. I think those are the only kind of people, period, who will see this film.

[red irish]

The very same thing happened to me! I just get so sick and tired of it. I am spending more time on the computer than watching tv now.

[Milhous]

LOL.

[willyboyishere]

I think Ang Lee may be right. Hollywood may or may not be pushing the film to make it feasible for Academy Awards, but Hollywood can only hope that by pushing the movie they're doing something positive for the gay agenda, or acting as handmaidens or agents for it.
Everything I have read and heard about the film (and from unlikely sources, like Michael Medved) indicates it would be wrong to see the film as a political battering ram---it is not what the film is about, and attempts to reduce its message to that kind of simplicity make the reducers look like simpletons. There is an aura of sadness and tragedy that hangs over the film, and it is NOT because the movie is promoting the message that an intolerant society is keeping these star-crossed lovers away from each other. The tragedy may be that in allowing their unrequited obsession to continue, they wind up wrecking their own marriages, both to straight women. So the tragedy may be as much about the emotional immaturity of the men (who have already committed to traditional families) as it is about a societal structure that may never be ready for them and their ultimate "infidelity".

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AND to addresss another remark (it may or may not be yours, I couldn't tell who wrote it within your post---)
more than in "the Old Hollywood, the gays stayed in the closet or didn't get hired" (true enough just to pull rugged cowboy Randolph Scott and Big Guy ladie's man Rock Hudson out of a hat)---in the Old Hollywood, there may have been even more gay actors than there are now, but they had to PLAY straight men. In today's Hollywood , it seems a badge of honor for straight actors to play gay characters. The only time obviously gay actors play gay characters (Nathan Lane, Harvey Fierstein) is when the source itself is about nothing but gays (like La Cage aux Folles.)Of course, both actors mentioned in your post (Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffmann) are straight_.

BTT

[MadIvan]

I'm more than a little irritated by this. Over the holidays I've just seem two very good films, King Kong and Narnia - and neither appears to be getting much recognition, just because of this idiot Brokeback film.

Of course the joke is on the leftists. They turned Eric Cartman into a prescient genius (apart from the absence of pudding).

Regards, Ivan

[willyboyishere]

"When will we see a movie about straight male hairdressers?"---

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You must have missed Hal Ashby's very good
movie "Shampoo" from the 70s---starring anything but gay
sex addict Warren Beatty as hairdresser George Roundy.
(great name, huh?)

[Ready2go]

2 Peter 2:7
But at the same time, God rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a good man who was sick of all the immorality and wickedness around him.

Jude 1:7
And don't forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with sexual immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and are a warning of the eternal fire that will punish all who are evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The gay cowboy director just one best director.

Funny thing was: the presenter, Clint Eastwood, seemed genuinely disgusted it won. If so, good for Dirty Harry.