[Antioch]

While giving a lukewarm nod to Church teaching, the reviewer at the USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting seems to be more than a little turned on by this "superb..." "well-crafted..." film which portrays the "need for love which everyone feels but few people can articulate...."

Strangely, this reviewer gives Brokeback an L rating (limited adult audience) rather than the toughest rating that can be given which would be “O” for “morally offensive.” Yet how can it not be morally offensive with this description?

"This film contains: tacit approval of same-sex relationships, adultery, two brief sex scenes without nudity, partial and shadowy brief nudity elsewhere, other implied sexual situations, profanity, rough and crude expressions, alcohol and brief drug use, brief violent images, a gruesome description of a murder, and some domestic violence.

which is all the more puzzling, when the USCCB gave:

“The Matrix” an O rating (Excessive violence and recurring profanity)

“Bad Boys II” an O rating ( stylized graphic violence, and a sexual encounter)

“Caddyshack” an O rating (obnoxious characters, lewd jokes)

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[Mr. K]

Any guy who sees this is gay.

You can't even claim your girlfriend dragged you to see it- if she is able to, then you are too gay for a girlfriend.

I predict the biggest box office flop of the year

[nonsumdignus]

The USCCB: An entirely morally bankrupt leftist institution that is entirely in communion with the Church. Or is it "subsisting in the Church"?

[Darkwolf377]

The Matix should have gotten a PDB rating for Pretentious Derivative Bore.

[onedoug]

"Gay cowboys eatin' pudding...."

[highlander_UW]

Why do they keep calling them cowboys? They are gay shepards.

[Bigg Red]

While the actions taken by Ennis and Jack cannot be endorsed, the universal themes of love and loss ring true.

***
No they cannot be endorsed, but this film review seems to endorse the whole concept big time.

I certainly do not pretend to have any knowledge regarding the film reviews, but isn't it rather odd that there is no byline for this review. Guess he didn't want to be "outed".

[Bigg Red]

Look at this disgusting, slobbering kiss for a pro-homo movie.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping
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[old and tired]

Except for the initial sex scene, and brief bedroom encounters between the men and their (bare breasted) wives, there's no sexually related nudity.

Except for the sexually related nudity, there's no sexually related nudity...

Who can take this crap seriously?

[Varda]

The USCCB gave a bad review to The Passion of the Christ. That along with this is all you need to know about the USCCB.

[backhoe]

 Michael Medved on Now Discussing "Brokeback Mountain" and the Gay War on Marriage

 

Look at this ad they are going to try to run in the "red states" to trick people into seeing the movie.

 Michael Medved on Now Discussing "Brokeback Mountain" and the Gay War on Marriage

 

Look at this ad they are going to try to run in the "red states" to trick people into seeing the movie.

[Dominick]

Gerri Pare, David DiCerto and Anne Navarro are on the staff in NYC for the office of Film.


The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys an anti-Catholic movie that included incest, got the same rating, "L". Go figure...

[Mrs. Don-o]

I guess "hot button issue" is the new term for "mortal sin"?

And all the sexually-related nudity isn't too much sexually-related nudity?

And according to the gay publication that reviewed it, the guy who wants to break up his marriage comes off as "courageous," whereas the one who refuses to abandon his wife and children comes off as "cowardly"?

Lovely. Just...lovely.

[Rutles4Ever]

Insane. Caddyshack got the big "O", but this tribute to gay-love didn't???

I give up.

[trisham]

On the trip, Jack proposes that they chuck their families and buy a ranch, but Ennis -- who as a child witnessed the aftermath of a hate-crime murder of two rancher neighbors who had lived together -- can't bring himself to do it.

*************

I'm shocked at the tone of this review. Shocked, and disappointed.

[Thorin]

An appalling review. The reviewer should be fired.

[murphE]

Nothing surprises me anymore. I wish I could be shocked by something like this.

[Salvation]

**film which portrays the "need for love which everyone feels but few people can articulate...." **

What about the love for their married wives? (I haven't seen this, but heard the comment {or read it} on a Christian review.

I think we need to send our judgments to the USCCB.

[Salvation]

We could always contact our individual Bishops and let them know that we think this movie should have received a 0-morally objectionable rating.

http://www.usccb.org/bishops.shtml