"No dude, independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding."
Try as they might, the lavender mafia will have an enormously difficult time overcoming the 'ick' factor.
"Critics have raved. Roger Ebert told Reuters: "Brokeback will become the kind of movie that you hear about at dinner parties that you feel you have to go see.."
Not in polite company....
I understand they're considering a "bronc busting" demonstration at the next bullriding championships to promote this garbage. (/sarcasm)
Media doing their absolute best to promote it.
NY Times and Newsday (predictably) gave it rave reviews today.
Wouldn't sheep wranglers be sheepboys?
Is this a Dismey film?
Their involvement with gay-themed cowboy films goes all the way back to The Three Caballeros (1945) and its theme song.
We're three caballeros
Three gay caballeros
Yawn, Cowboys...pudding...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Hmm. Two foriegn actors riding a dead horse into gay obscurity.
"(But) we should probably recognize there are some areas and some groups that will oppose this film."
This will play big in such garbage dumps as SF, but it's going straight to the crapper everywhere else.
My Beautiful Launderette had the same issues. Worse yet, it was a terrible movie about racism in London. Reviewers loved it of course.
"No dude, independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding."
Lets see what happens, and if I remember correctly the gay depiction of Alexander the Great that Oliver Stone did didnt go down with the public and the film flopped. When it was released in Europe the homo-erotic scenes were omitted.
To even entertain, fleetingly, the idea that this film will survive its encounter with reality, much less make money, is a manifestation of serious mental illness.
Two cowboys riding in to starfish canyon. Watch out for the mudslides!
I figured out a tagline for the movie;
"See a cowboy mount his buddy and not his horse."
Of course the great social commentator Eric Cartman observed this phenomenon of gay cowboy movies years ago.
I think you're absolutely right in your analysis.
BTW, is Ang Lee gay? Why did he do this?
Ain't gonna happen. Most of "middle America" does not want to see two gay cowboys pulling each other's ropes.
I don't even watch dogs do it, so why watch "cowboys"?
Have these people no shame?
The sequel will be called
'"Stump Broke Back"
Cowboy leaves gay lover for his horse.
Plummet? I didn't know their stars had already risen enough to 'plummet' an inch.
"(But) we should probably recognize there are some areas and some groups that will oppose this film." "
They wish! Who would bother with it? It's not worth the trouble, and it will be interesting to see how many theaters even bother to show it in the majority of the country.
While most of us have learned over the years not to be offended by ick in movies, the real problem is the soporific nature of the theme. Those of us who don't have these "tendencies" just cannot relate to the emmotional and social problems of a couple of queens. It doesn't touch us. Unless they make it uproariously funny - at the expense of the subjects for whom they are attempting to create empathy - I am just not interested. I would rather watch re-runs of Rin Tin Tin. I have some empathy for the problems of dogs. Even hollywood ones.