I see you aren't letting the facts get in the way of your spin.
If you've seen that, which I doubt, you've probably seen it from people who are as clueless as you are.
You obviously don't understand the industry, and you would have to be a brain-dead moron to define success by box-office-take alone. What, are you seriously going to argue that if you spend $150 Million on a movie, and make $100 Million on it, (you lose $50 Million) that it's a 'success' and that if you spend $10 Million and make $50 Million, that it's a 'failure' (you gain $40 Million)?
I'll tell you one thing: No accountant with all his marbles would ever say that. Nobody who's ever invested money in anything would say that.
Here's a fact: Brokeback Mountain grossed more then FIVE TIMES it's production cost in domestic box office recipts alone. That's a 500% profit margin.
This is mind-bogglingly stupid. Beat on the films social message all you want, but you have to be brain dead to say something is a 'failure' when it has a 500% profit margin.
Throughout this thread, both to me and other people, you just keep repeating this same basic line. Clearly you are more interested in insulting people than having a reasonable conversation. Otherwise, you would have noted that NOT ONE TIME have I EVER said that Brokeback Mountain was a financial failure. In fact, I explicitly stated that it was NOT a failure.