Brokeback Mountain on HBO 730pst

[mitchtv]

If you didn't get to see it here's your chance

[davidinalameda]

1. wonderful movie

it's the last movie that I saw in the theatre

[Erika]

2. I recommend it to everyone

Unrequieted love is just that regardless of sexual orientation.

[William769]

3. excellent movie I bought the DVD the day it was released.

[Fonde Ombre]

4. Ang Lee is good, but this movie stinks

I have several gay friends, but I disagree with *everyone* (it seems) on this one. I think this movie is crap.

[cboy4]

5. Why do you say it's crap?

Just wondering why you used such a strong adjective.

I know gay people who say they're really not into love story movies, but they didn't call it "crap."

Do you have issues with cowboys being gay and being in love?

[Puglover]

6. Please if you're

going to call a movie that many people here are fond of "crap"; explain why you think so.

[Kerrytravelers]

8. Why do you need to tell us you have several gay friends?

Do you go to the African-American forum and tell them you have several black friends while saying you didn't like Spike Lee's The Day the Levees Broke?



Ok, GLBT DUers, do I need to list my "gay-friendly" credentials? ;)

[Fonde Ombre]

14. Sorry to those I'm not replying to (I've been too busy)

I didn't intend to write a movie review. So I put my foot in my mouth with an unsuitable shorthand.
The point : I've enjoyed reading the books by the co-authors of _BM_.
The movie was a near complete waste of time. And all the non-gay audience who were calling it A Great Universal Love Story, were merely pandering to the politically correct notions, I felt. I guess I just saw a very different movie then they did.
The gay people I know who *did* like it, I know were only doing so because it's good PR for them. A lot better than the raunchy, callow positive-reinforcement pablum that usually passes for Gay Cinema.

If anyone wants a real glimpse at what the modern Gay Cinema could be, check out:

The Best Way
Happy Together
Hollow Reed
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The Long Day Closes
Flaming Creatures
Longtime Companion
The Children's Hour
Beautiful Thing
Victim
Maedchen in Uniform

And on behalf of several of my cowboy friends (and Gore Vidal) -- I'd like to stress that the handsome fellas in _BM_ were NOT cowboys. As I've always maintained : They are SHEEP MEN.
Get it STRAIGHT!

[donco6]

16. Longtime Companion?

Not even in the same league as BM. Actually kinda cheesy, IMO.

Beautiful Thing is good. It's one of the few where nobody has to die. That's a message I'd like to get across, personally: Just because you're gay and in a relationship, it doesn't mean someone's going to kill you.

[closeupready]

19. LC was groundbreaking at the time.

Few films then dealt so explicitly with gays, let alone AIDS and HIV, and I remember seeing it with a friend of mine who cried his eyes out, esp. at the scene where they are healthy and running on the beach together, in the afterlife. I still get choked up about it now, mostly because he's gone now, but also because I realize that at the time, this was what he was thinking was going to happen to him, and all his friends who'd died. Maybe people will be calling BM sappy at some point. Who knows? :D

[GymDude]

10. I'm somewhere in between...

I found the movie disappointing, given the source material. Maybe I'm just more a book person than a movie person, but the screenplay just watered down the powerful story with so-so extra scenes and dialog, and the thing tried so hard to be epic in scope that it was just tedious. It was beautiful in a Gone-With-the-Wind, sweeping way, but I didn't get any emotion wallop from the film(and the story/novella had me crying like a baby). Still a VERY GOOD movie, mind you.

[mitchtv]

12. You are in a distinct minority here

May I reccomend "Latter day Saints" or "Ethan Mao"?

[Fonde Ombre]

15. You may recommend all you like !

I've actually seen _Ethan Mao_ (hated it).
Don't know what _Latter day Saints_ is.
May I recommend the movies I've already recommended?
In addition, I'd add _Poison_ and _The Hours_.

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. It will be interesting to see what HBO cuts

I would be very surprised if they show the unedited theatrical release.

[dsc]

9. They never cut films

I didn't watch this film on HBO but I guarentee no cuts will be made. Showtime had Queer as Folk and it was much racier.

[closeupready]

18. A friend says he thinks they cut Ennis' butt scene

where his naked butt is shown. Is that true?

[donco6]

17. I don't think they'll cut anything.

They only had one scene of grunting and groaning, and that was with their clothes on.

[Dastard Stepchild]

11. I just watched it for the first time....

I found it extremely powerful... not the movie itself, but because it stirred memories and experiences in me that I had placed aside for a number of years.

The movie was good, but the struggle is timeless.

[adamblast]

13. A compelling portrait of...

...a sweet love, denied and thwarted.

Comes *far* closer than any other Hollywood pic in detailing the ravages of homophobia, both societal and internalized, in a way str8 audiences can "get."

Ennis' internalized homophobia is harrowing to watch, especially for those of us who are too much like him.