Homosexual Cowboys ( A Christian Film review of Brokeback Mountain)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 12/15/2005 | Ted Baehr

[Poodlebrain]

They could have made it even more politically correct if they had only used the song "Interracial Cowboy Homo Kind Of Love" by Reverend Horton Heat as inspiration and cast an African American in one of the lead roles. And just think of the increased audience potential if they would have cast some popular rap star as one of the lovers?

It's no wonder sales of movie tickets have been declining since Hollywood can't seem to recognize obvious ways to appeal to larger potential audiences. How difficult would it be to modify the script to make one of the roles that of the troubled urban youth sent to work on a ranch to escape problems in the city?

With only minor tweaking the producers could have hit box office gold, but I'm afraid their short-sightedness will leave them with a critically successful, box office failure.

[kentj]

What do you expect from fags - don't know a cow from a range maggot.

Why did I read this thread? - I want my money back

[Hegemony Cricket]

I have noticed that if a move is described as "critically acclaimed", you can pretty well figure that it sucks...

[stylecouncilor]

[JoJo Gunn]

"Poor" judgment????

[Borges]

Terrible Judgement. Better?

[Always Right]

Who calls up all their friends and says 'hey, let's go to that gay cowboy movie'?

[Blind Eye Jones]

Man, I waiting for the two lesbian cowboy sex change midgets... midgets who are heating up the west by doing it to barnyard animals! Come on people! These people are out there and Hollywood knows it and some self hating drugged out neo Nazi Jew will get financing from his dying dad or Steve Spielbuger (the hold the non-fattening-mosletoff relish -- I'm still a Jewish film maker) to make the picture. Yes, it will have Alan Alda and Robert Di Niro as cowboys lesbians midgets with Barbra Streisand as the cow and with Alex Baldwin as the shrink with a problem with his pet chicken. And the political message to America will be "listen to Micheal Moore and Cindy Sheehan because you can see how uptight America has become!" Yes, it is a family saga about cowboy barnyard rape... where the cops had been called in because a pig squealed on the two lesbian cowboy sex change midgets. Seriously, this is art!!!!! There is more money in this that will ever be needed in New Orleans... folks.

[SirLinksalot]

Brokeback morality

By Gary DeMar

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Can we ever sing "Home on the Range" again without the lyrics being spoiled by images of the latest in homosexual propaganda, "Brokeback Mountain," a story about two cowboys in love – with each another? As expected, Hollywood is gushing over the latest finger in the eye of the movie-going public.

There have been homosexual-themed movies before ("Philadelphia" and "Boys Don't Cry"). Tom Hanks and Hillary Swank each won an Academy Award for their performances, but neither movie won Best Picture. The buzz around "Brokeback Mountain" almost assures that it will be in Oscar contention. The folks in Hollywood are desperate for homosexual characters and movies to be featured prominently across the Silver Screen. Why?

It's not that most of Hollywood is made up of homosexuals, although there is a disproportionate number in the entertainment field. Divorce, multiple remarriages, children out of wedlock, drugs, alcohol addiction, sexual exploitation, and just plain bad behavior are common features of the Hollywood in-crowd. If the worst of sexual behavior – homosexuality – can be tolerated and even accepted by the general public, then these other behaviors won't seem bad any more.

Today's entertainment and political propagandists have, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "defined deviancy down" so that what was morally shocking 20 years ago is acceptable, or at least tolerated, behavior today. Robert Bork, no stranger to moral degradation, having been "Borked" on national television, explains the phenomenon:


Emile Durkheim, a founder of sociology, posited that there is a limit to the amount of deviant behavior any community can "afford to recognize." As behavior worsens, the community adjusts its standards so that conduct once thought reprehensible is no longer deemed so.

– Robert H. Bork, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline," Regan Books, 1996


At the same time, these same moral misfits are defining their own brand of moral deviancy up. What was considered morally normal 30 years ago – two-parents of the opposite sex married and living together, participation in the Boy Scouts and being protected from homosexual predators, rejecting a pro-death culture, and stay-at-home moms – is now "portrayed as oppressive and shot through with pathologies.

As part of the vast social project of moral leveling," [Charles] Krauthammer wrote, "it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized. The normal must be found to be deviant." This situation is thoroughly perverse. Underclass values become increasingly acceptable to the middle class, especially their young, and middle-class values become increasingly contemptible to the cultural elites." (Bork, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah")

Americans have become desensitized to moral degeneracy. Immoral acts that were once only spoken of in hushed tones 30 years ago are now included in the curriculum of our nation's government schools in order to break the back of values that create and sustain civilizations.

[Rastus]

Who calls up all their friends and says 'hey, let's go to that gay cowboy movie'?

In the review in the Dallas Morning News today, Philip Wuntch says, "What isn't traditional is that the lovers are both male. What's more, they're cowboys. It's a reasonable assumption that most 21st-century moviegoers will not shy away from the film on that account." Ha ha. Yeah, right, Wuntch.

[bulldozer]

What makes me upset is when you go to Yahoo! Movies to check out this movie it doesn't list it a homosexual or gay. You have to lots of digging on the Yahoo website to find out it is gay. Many people who rely on Yahoo for movie info are going to be in for a suprise.

Yahoo rates it as A-.

Yahoo! Movies Brokeback Mountain

[Sue Mundy]

Hated It!!!

(Actually I never saw it--the concept is too comical. Two gay cowboy--right!! Next we'll see a movie about sensitive Nazis.

This is Gay America's "Springtime for Hitler"--they just can't see how bad it is--or how laughable it is)

[Salamander]

"Who calls up all their friends and says 'hey, let's go to that gay cowboy movie'?"

Maybe some gutsy, outgoing conservatives could turn it into a Midnight Movie/cult classic a la Rocky Horror....:)

[Rebelbase]

"The movie opens in Wyoming in 1963 where two young cowboys,
Ennis and Jack, are hired to tend some sheep"

Unintentional humor.

[Chewie84]

"Thus, in the end, the ultimate goal of the filmmakers behind "Brokeback Mountain" is to send a politically correct message about how awful American society is in its treatment of homosexuals. To complement this evil message is a scene where Jack mocks people who go to church and who sing hymns about Jesus Christ."

I figured they'd probably throw in something like that into the movie. "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Ringer" are the only two films that I definitely WON'T be seeing during the Christmas season.

[linda_22003]

"Tom Hanks' movie career really took off after he played a sodomite in Philadelphia."

Before Tom Hanks made "Philadelphia", he'd starred in a sitcom and had major roles in nineteen movies, including "The Money Pit", "Splash", "Bachelor Party", "Joe vs. the Volcano", "Dragnet", "A League of Their Own", and the MONSTER hit "Sleepless in Seattle." To say that "Philadelphia" jumpstarted his career is rewriting cinema history, and it's just plain wrong.

[linda_22003]

"Dragnet" was not a landmark in cinematic history, but it made good money at the time, and he had box office monsters with "Big" and "Sleepless in Seattle": http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=tomhanks.htm

My point was that the poster could have made his point without making things up. :)