Posted on 12/14/2005 9:03:24 AM PST by gopwinsin04
It's certainly one of the most favorably reviewed movies of the year, and a major player in the best picture race at the Oscars.
But 'Brokeback Mountain' isn't the easiest sell to audiences unaccustomed to films that deal frankly with same sex relationships: even at a recent screening in Los Angeles' liberal Westside, some moviegoers broke into inappropriate (but no doubt tension relieving) laughter at a scene in which the wife of taciturn cowboy (Heath Ledger) catches her husband in a passionate embrace with Jack Twist. (Jake Gyllenhall)
Perhaps to remind viewers (and voters) that there is more to director Ang Lee's film than it's wretching portrait of a gay relationship, a new 'for your consideration' ad appeared in today's Hollywood trade papers.
Where most of the ads to date have pictured Ledger and Gyllenhall, this one covers all the bases by going for a distinctly familiar and thoroughly heterosexual image: Jack Twist and his wife Lauren (Anne Hathaway) holding their newborn baby.
In other words, Brokeback Mountain may be the gay cowboy movie, but it's not just the gay cowboy movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at oscarbeat.latimes.com ...
I agree with you. They've got the funding for these "films" so they are covered. They're just about promoting their agenda. But hey, the Hollywood foreign press gave them 7 Golden Globe nods...
The only ad I've seen showed one of the joyboys and his wife. No homo stuff at all.
LMAO
This is like the grandfather in "Boondocks" wanting to see this movie because he thought it was a manly cowboy pic.
I'd love to see this thing tank.
Whatever you can say about the movie, it's certainly not "entertainment" for the vast majority of moviegoers.
You have to run around too far to kiss em.
You are probably right on on that.
The leftist homosexual agenda is the ONLY agenda the ACLU, Dems and atheists want presented to kids.
It does not matter if it makes money.
The objective is going to be to make it mandatory for children to watch this homo porn film.
See post 95. This is a movie with an agenda, not a movie being made for artistic, let alone money-making purposes.
wasn't there a movie in the 1970's that was about a married woman who found out her husband was cheating on her with another man?
"loving" or something like that? Kate Jackson?
I'd be retching, though.
Uh, cuz its hilarious!
Ironic that you find this embarrassing with the bare asses alluded in the movie, and with the lame dialogue "I wish I knew how to quit you" and "It could be like this - just like this - always."
With this intellectually dishonest poster advertising this insipid dreck I feel embarrassed for the actors having to fool people into watching it.
There ya go! Idiots.
For another review, go here:
This reviewer says that the movie is "boring, laughable, Plotless and twisted"....
BTW, here is the spoiler: one of the "sheepherders" -is of course, murdered! This is Wyoming, after all. Don't they always kill queers there? Ennis was traumatized as a lad, by seeing the homosexual his father had helped kill.
I don't know about people in the city, but I get tired of all the propaganda (excrement) SHOVED in my face, and will never see this film.
Well, there I go again, proving that I, am in fact one of the IDIOTS! I forgot to add the link, here it is:
http://www.movieguide.org/index.php?s=reviews&id=7031&PHPSESSID=455ef02d1568fbe682d9e9c8f3cdf070
It's the poster for 'Bareback Mountain!' lol...
I thought it sort of worked ok, the wretching thing. Obviously unintentional.
Not a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan I take it.
Actually, I am. Mystery Science Theater spoofed really bad, schlocky movies. And I assume, movies they had actually seen.
BFD! You think we're supposed to fall all over ourselves, approving and lionizing sodomites just because Dick Cheney's daughter is a rug-muncher? Don't be absurd!
It's evil.
The very least we can do is subject it to derision, lest unwary folks be tempted to take it seriously.
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