Brokeback Mountin Bombs at Box Office; Holiday BO smells

data from Box Office Mojo ^ | 12/17/05 | Dangus

[kcvl]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

by Phil Hall
(2005-11-27)

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“Brokeback Mountain” takes great pains to avoid gay stereotypes, but it has no problems plugging in regional stereotypes that are equally offensive. In this film, all Texans are vulgar and wear tacky clothing, all Wyoming natives stand around like zombies and wear cheap clothing, and Mexicans are sleazy and oversexed (Jack crosses over to Juarez and strolls down a street overpopulated with male prostitutes). Yee-hah, indeed.

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Truth in Entertainment

[apackof2]

"Don't matter none", came the reply. "I'ts jez gonna be you an me!"

Hmmm I don't think Shania Twain had that in mind!

I'm having me a party
(I don't think I can come)
Uh,uh, this ain't just any kind of party
(Nah, I think I'll stay at home)
Uh, oh, no It's gonna be really, really hot
(Startin' to sound good)
I'm gonna put you on the spot
(Baby, maybe I should)
Yeah, there'll be lots of one on one
(Guess I could be there)
Come on and join the fun
(What should I wear?)
I'll tell you that it..

[BRIDGE:]
It doesn't matter what you wear
'Cause it's only gonna be
you and me there (Whoa!)

[CHORUS:]
I'm having a party
A party for two
Invitin' nobody
Nobody but you.........

[537cant be wrong]

can you make a U-turn?
no but i can make her mother bat an eye!

[weeder]

Here's a little ballad from my imaginary soundtrack:
Homo...........homo on the range,
Where the sheep and the shepherds do play,
Where never you'll see,
A man standing to pee,
And everything's merry and gay.

[537cant be wrong]

lined up back to back?
nuts to butts i think!

[alloysteel]

Just idle speculation on my part, but what if there were movies made that have some basis in reality? What started out as a bad joke, two queer cowboys, doesn't that send off some kind of discordance with most people's idea of the West?

The entire tale was meant to be a mean-spirited spit-in-your-face parody of the rather isolated life of most range riders, as if the very isolation were the inspiration for deviant desire. After all, who's going catch you out there? Sheer fantasy on the part of the script writers.

[359Henrie]

I forgot about that, But its Hollywood, this will be back in one form or another. Crime fighting gay singing cowboys.

[MaineVoter2002]

I think you'll see that Karl Rove had a lot to do with this. Many Americans have been glued to their TV's on a incidents that Rove him manipulated to happen during the opening of this movie. The Iraqi Elections for one. Then, even though Bush had taken responsibility before for freeing the Iraqi people, he did so again just before the weekend. Many other stories unfolding as well. Surely Backdoor Mountain would have done much better if Karl Rove wasn't behind the scenes manipulating the news during its debut. Heck, it would have surpassed Titanic's total income by now under normal circumstances!

http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html

[martin_fierro]

At this rate, they might as well release "Gigli II".

[cgbg]

It is "ground breaking".

Never before has Hollywood been so blatant in pushing the NAMBLA agenda.

[oldreporter]

When I lived in New Mexico I learned the three biggest lies in the state, or any other western state. The wind doesn't blow in New Mexico. My 4x4 is paid for. I was just helping that ole ewe over the fence.

[durasell]

Hollywood is trying to figure out how to make low budget movies with "name brand stars." Personally, I don't think they can do it.

[zbigreddogz]

A gross of $11,000 per screen is quite good. If you're an autumn Wide Release, opening on 3500 screens across the country. When a movie opens on only 69 of the nation's largest theaters in a few dozen of the largest cities, with almost all of your target audience within range of those theaters, it's pretty bad.

Umm, no, actually, it's not, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

$11,000 per theater, especially the arthouse theaters where a movie like that is likely to play, is probably a sellout audience at most theaters.

The opposition to this film on FR really surprises me. I thought we took a 'live and let live' position. Who cares if it's about gay cowboys? I'm sure there are gay cowboys somewhere out there. If they want a movie, good for them. Might actually be good. I'm not gonna take kids to see it, but its stupid to say that there shouldn't be a movie on that topic.

[murdoog]

They aren't cowboys eithers. They herd sheep. They are shepards.

Points to consider:

1. They live in Wyoming
2. They were cowboy hats
3. They work on a ranch.

That is close enough to a cowboy. If you can call it boston cream pie when it is really cake, you can call these guys cowboys. Gay cowboys. I will leave the rest as an exercise.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I think Kong was better-suited to a summer release than a Christmas release.

[ApplegateRanch]

They aren't cowboys eithers. They herd sheep. They are shepards.

Ewe; how...tripe. I mean, TRITE. Bwaaaaahahahaaaaaa!

[359Henrie]

They just need to make movies we want to see.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Narnia was wonderful! I really enjoyed it.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Interesting, I thought it was a bit dark, but in many ways better than the last two.

[dropzone]

They aren't cowboys either. They herd sheep. They are shepards.

Gay shepards! Now there's a box office draw!