They might sucker some people in with this ad.
"Hey this looks like a nice family film, it's even got that girl from 'The Princess Diaries' in it."
The movie got outstanding reviews. My wild guess is that it will pull in 50 million.
They might sucker some people in with this ad.
"Hey this looks like a nice family film, it's even got that girl from 'The Princess Diaries' in it."
Here's an excerpt from an honest review (pluggedinonline.com):
The sexual interaction shared by Jack and Ennis is usually rough-and-tumble. Newsweek calls it "fierce and full-blooded." There's lots of pushing, shoving, grappling and holding. In fact, one bit of foreplay/horseplay gets so physical that it ends up in a short-lived fistfight. Several scenes show the two men groping each other and kissing. (Half the time it looks more like forceful mashing than kissing.) Once, the camera keeps staring as kisses give way to anal sex. (There's no nudity shown, but the sequence is explicit; it includes sexual motions and sounds.)
Ennis and Jack both have heterosexual sex, too. Ennis and Alma get physical twice. Both scenes are graphic; one includes breast nudity. The day they meet, Jack and Lureen make out and prepare to go further. Lureen is so eager to make it happen that she strips off her shirt and bra to show Jack (and moviegoers) her breasts.
But those straight relationships are shown to ultimately matter little to Jack and Ennis. They just can't wait to cheat on their wives when the opportunities present themselves.
Dr. Ted Baehr of MovieGuide said the film has generated a tremendous amount of public awareness, including positive reviews from ABC and other mainstream media outlets — which have, in turn, invited him to comment on the movie.
His assessment?
"If you're not looking at this through the eyes of someone caught up in the 'love affair' between these two men," Baehr said, "then the movie appears to be twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda."
In other words, he didn't like it.
Whether it can draw large audiences may well be the real test — a sign of how successful gay activists have been.
Price said the movie will probably have trouble drawing an audience — because it has what he called a high "ick" factor.
That includes, Baehr explained, a "San Quentin-type rape scene" of sex between the two cowboys.
"If they're not vomiting their way out of the theater when they see that scene, they are certainly going to be uncomfortable, and even in the uncomfortable aspects, they are going to be bored silly," he said.
He does not expect people to recommend the film to friends.
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