'Brokeback' Crossing Sexual (Preference) Divide

[swimmernsecretsea]

From IMDB.com:

Brokeback Mountain continued to surprise analysts over the weekend as the so-called gay cowboy love story emerged once again as the highest earner on a per-theater basis among films showing on more than 50 screens. Brokeback earned $13,599 per theater, far surpassing the $9,305 for King Kong and $8,225 for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Brokeback is currently showing in only 217 theaters, roughly 7 percent the number that are showing the two box-office leaders. Although some analysts have maintained that the film is unlikely to attract an audience among straight males, Jack Foley, Focus Features' distribution chief, told the Associated Press that the movie "delivered very strong growth in what is truly a highly unforgiving, competitive, cruel market at this Christmas period. ... It showed it has breadth beyond the gay community." Exhibitor Relations chief Paul Dergarabedian said that the studio was wisely limiting its release to major cities and slowly expanding it. "This is a film that builds through word of mouth and critical acclaim," he said. Brokeback is leading the pack among critics groups handing out best-picture awards. Thus far, conservative religious groups have been loath to mount an attack on it, concerned that doing so would further publicize the film. But in a review the Christian Film & Television Commission, which calls itself "a ministry dedicated to redeeming the values of the mass media according to biblical principles," calls the film "twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda."

Link here: http://imdb.com/news/sb/2005-12-29/#2

[autorank]

1. This movie is a mind blower in concept.

I want to be at the opening in Idaho. Oh, you say nobody will play it there. Well, I'll bet it does a great DVD rental business there. I do recal seeing an episode of "Insomniac" in Boise where Dave Atell visited a SM bar, not kidding. That Dave, he'll go anywhere.

Good post. This one will rattle some cages. Have not seen it yet but plan to.

[davidinalameda]

2. there's SM bars in Boise?

wow

[autorank]

5. Hey, I saw it in "Insomniac"...stunned me too. And they went on

camera without masks! Dave Atell was actualy surprised too, which is quite a feat!

[sui generis]

3. frustrating?

I wonder what part was frustrating?

What an odd word to use . . .

Redeeming the mass media market according to biblical values, let's see, didn't mark or one of those biblical values dudes say that jesus said if any man blaspheme, bring him before me and kill him?

now that's a principle I'd like to see on prime time. Public executions for blasphemy. I'll bet they were frustrated. Probably went home and beat their wives afterwards.

Will someone please send them a letter clarifying that the film was NOT about gay sheep.

[NMMNG]

7. What part was frustrating?

Probably the part where they had to watch it and not get hard-ons in front of their fundie friends. :rofl:

[xchrom]

4. ''neo-Marxist homosexual''

now that's a diva i haven't seen.:popcorn:

[kevinbgoode]

6. The only thing laughable about the "Christian Film and Television Comm"

is its utter pretense to have any understanding of real values and morality. One wonders why this "commission" wasn't critical of The Passion of the Christ, a film so full of slow-motion and exaggerated scenes of utter violence that it could (and should) be called the premier S/M movie of the Religious Right.