Gyllenhaal: More Cash for the Wimp! (Writer Admits That "Bareback Mountain" STINKS)

Slate ^ | January 14, 2006 | Mickey Kaus

[eleni121]

He doesn't seem to have any particular appealing quality that would cause Heath Ledger to carry a torch for him for decades.
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Of course. Homo relationships have nothing to do with personality or character or even looks...it's about sex...angry, aggressive or passive...sex. It's about behavior that is caused by anger and resentment at others and society.

[Phsstpok]

When Brokeback was announced I heard rumors from inside the industry that Ang Lee had been really pissed off by the negative reaction to his Hulk movie. He got dissed by all the critics and was almost totally written off. He supposedly declared to friends that he was going to get even with Hollywood. He would make a movie about gay cowboys and be guaranteed of winning all of the awards, including the Oscars. Then, during his acceptance speech for the Oscars he would tell them all the truth and walk off stage, flipping the audience the bird.

I really really really hope this is true, though I'm not counting on it.

[PJ-Comix]

You're actually thinking of walking into a theater to see this movie?????

What will happen is that you will assume you will be anonymous. However, as soon as you get to the snack bar to buy popcorn and soda, the kid behind the counter will say loudly, "Hey mister! How about a weiner?"

Then everybody will turn to look at you as you shake your head no. The kid will reply:

"How about a NICE BIG JUICY WEINER while watching 'Bareback Mountain?"

As the lobby people continue to glare at you, you make a hasty retreat out of the lobby with your popcorn and soda. Behind you the counter kid yells:

"COME ON MISTER! WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A BITE OF THE WEINER WHILE WATCHING 'BAREBACK MOUNTAIN?'

Then you will be sitting in the dark of the theater wishing to hell you never decided to check out this flick. Just as you figure the worst is over, a soft male voice in the darkness right behind you says:

"You only have popcorn and soda? How about a bite of my weiner?"

Meanwhile you are muttering to yourself: "Why, WHY, WHY did I ever show up here?"

[outofhere2]

This movie was made for the homosexual population so people who want to go should go and satisfy their purient cravings.

[packrat35]

No it means that Brokeback is getting millions of dollars of free publicity, is being toted by every media outlet. Is it a money winner? Yes it is, I figure $50-$60 million box office but never discount all the free never-ending publicity.

[packrat35]

Ang Lee has made several gay movies.

[AntiGuv]

That's quite some fantasy life you've got going there. LOL!

[BunnySlippers]

It will win Best Picture. Hollywood is determined to give a big rectal push for gayism.

It'll be their primal scream: We hate Bush!

[The Foolkiller]

I'll go one better. I stopped watching them in the late sixties , when The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly was totally ignored on any nominations.

[The Foolkiller]

LOL You're 100% right, too!! I like your devious way of thinking.

[dennisw]

In related news, Spielberg was whining yesterday about his "Munich" bombing at the box office. The $70M movie has taken-in just $33M. There is justice in the world.

Spiel and Tony Kushner (his gay screenwriter) ripped off a previous movie "Sword of Gideon"

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113710989934945413-lMyQjAxMDE2MzE3MzExMDM5Wj.html

Robert Lantos, producer of "Sword of Gideon," says some parts of the current film are "almost re-enactments" of his 1986 work. "It's a testament to the cunning and foresight of Spielberg's publicity machine that 'Sword of Gideon' has not made it onto anyone's radar," he says.

Mr. Lantos may be miffed, but he has no legal claim. Universal, which is distributing "Munich" with DreamWorks, owns the film rights to "Vengeance" as well as remake rights to "Sword of Gideon." The studio acquired the rights from Mr. Lantos's former company, Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis Communications. In the mid-1980s, Mr. Lantos had outbid several other studios for the rights to the book by Mr. Jonas, his good friend and a fellow Hungarian émigré.

Steven Bauer in 'Sword of Gideon'

Marvin Levy, a spokesman for Mr. Spielberg, dismisses any suggestion that "Munich" relied at all on "Sword of Gideon." Indeed, he says, neither Mr. Spielberg, nor Tony Kushner, the final screenwriter of "Munich," even saw the earlier movie. Mr. Levy says any perceived similarities are purely coincidental: "Sometimes two directors can go in the same direction," he says.

Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Kushner have said in interviews that their film isn't based solely on "Vengeance," and that several accounts -- including other books and "One Day in September," the Oscar-winning documentary about the hostage crisis -- were consulted in putting together "Munich."

"Sword of Gideon" starred Steven Bauer as Avner, Michael York as a bomb maker, Rod Steiger as the team's tough Mossad boss

 

[Connington]

Oh, it's going to make more than sixty million now, with all this publicity. It probably passes forty million this weekend, and it's still over two months to the Oscars. People kind of have been denial about this one from day one. One guy--Ted Baehr?--said it might do "a little better" than Kinsey (11 million in the US). Even now, Brent Bozell just did a piece suggesting the film's box office success is due solely to gay men seeing it over and over (the gay Titanic). But gays make up only a tiny percentage of the overall population, so there has to be some level of crossover appeal for this film to be doing so well. Contrary to what people were saying, I think there is some intetrest in this film among straight women, and some are making their boyfriends/husbands see it. I've been in an academic environment my whole life, and this doesn't surprise me at all. People's attitudes about gays have changed in a lot of places. There was a gay movie that came out about twenty-five years ago with that guy from LA Law and Kate Jackson, and I didn't know anyone who would admit to see that. But now everybody is talking about this movie, and some are seeing it. It may end up doing about as well as The Notebook, another "chick flick" tearjerker, except with a man and a woman instead of two men--you know the romance the old-fashioned way.

[sweet_diane]

Thanks for the info re: Capote. I look forward to seeing it, tho I doubt I'll make it to the theaters while it's there. I discovered "The Aviator" when it came on Starz. As much as I dislike Leonardo DiCaprio's politics (shut up and act), I must say the movie was excellant, IMHO. I've asked my mom to watch and give her opinion on how well the movie portrayed Hepburn and Gardner, two of her favs.

[sweet_diane]

"albeit a very strange one."

I must say, here in the south we love our 'unique' characters! The fact that he and Harper Lee were childhood friends only makes more interesting.

The more I see of Philip Seymour Hoffman the more I like him. Loved his character in Cold Mountain (another movie I found and liked on Starz). I'm more a Hoffman gal than Clooney for sure.

[CaptainK]

I don't know why I still haven't seen the "The Aviator". I'll start looking for it on cable. Thanks.

[sweet_diane]

I hope you like 'The Aviator'. You get the sense that these folks are really acting...professionally!! not something you see in alot of in movies these days. The story and acting grabbed me enough to cause me to get beyond my dislike for DiCaprio, which is saying alot.

[murdoog]

You should definitely see this movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance is excellent, even by the unusually high standards he sets for himself.