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Brokeback Mountin Bombs at Box Office; Holiday BO smells
data from Box Office Mojo ^ | 12/17/05 | Dangus

Posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by dangus

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To: dangus

Another blow for Blue-State America.


121 posted on 12/17/2005 12:17:04 PM PST by desherwood7
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To: stripes1776

We're in a agreement then. I understand the difference between allegory and metaphor, but some people understand those terms are being interchangeable, even though they aren't. You are 100% correct.


122 posted on 12/17/2005 12:18:35 PM PST by Siegfried The Red (Subgeniuses are the last TRUE Americans!)
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To: dangus

I knew this was going to happen, but it makes me feel really good to see it in print.


123 posted on 12/17/2005 12:19:43 PM PST by I still care (You don't demonstrate tolerance for minorities by apologising for your own heritage,- John Howard)
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To: bnelson44
"They aren't cowboys eithers. They herd sheep. They are shepards."

Actually, they are two actors who have probably ruined their careers.

124 posted on 12/17/2005 12:19:45 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Heath Ledger already has another movie -- Casanova -- coming out.


125 posted on 12/17/2005 12:22:58 PM PST by durasell
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To: dangus

bump


126 posted on 12/17/2005 12:24:51 PM PST by VOA
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To: zbigreddogz
The opposition to this film on FR really surprises me. I thought we took a 'live and let live' position. Who cares if it's about gay cowboys?

The elitists have embraced this movie as a kind of Passion of the Christ of their own, and it's being (so to speak) forced down our throats in a number of ways; in spite of being (from most accounts) an overlong, boring, unpleasant film, it's going to win all the awards just to show the "fundies" who's in charge of the culture.

That's why it's not going to be popular here.

127 posted on 12/17/2005 12:24:57 PM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: durasell

He better hope it comes out soon and that he looks very very believable in it.


128 posted on 12/17/2005 12:25:55 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: dangus

I want to see Narnia but I was waiting until after the Christmas rush to go. Maybe I'll go sometime this week if it's not that crowded.


129 posted on 12/17/2005 12:26:12 PM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: Pete'sWife

130 posted on 12/17/2005 12:29:53 PM PST by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: FastCoyote

-Snip- Personally, I think millions of men are just itching to see Bareback Mountain -snip-

Personally, I think the ones who want to see this movie are just dripping... and burning too. They really should see a doctor, and a counselor, and a priest, or a rabbi, etc...


131 posted on 12/17/2005 12:30:35 PM PST by 43north (Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
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To: Siegfried The Red

"I suggest another crappy remake of a TV show that no one watched."

I'm telling you, the last truly original movie that was made was "The Sixth Sense", I loved that movie. Completely clean, good story, a wee bit scary, but I stood it so most wouldn't find it scary at all. No bad language, romance but clean, good story, good acting. An excellent flick, like the old days.


132 posted on 12/17/2005 12:35:37 PM PST by jocon307
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To: SamAdams76

There certainly aren't many good movies.

I think maybe the best American movie I've seen in the past few years is "The Incredibles."

I also recommend just about any anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which are fun for the whole family. Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, The Cat Returns, and especially Porco Rosso, which reminds me of Casablanca (except that the Bogart role is played by a World War I biplane pilot who has been turned into a pig because he flew too high). It even has a woman singing chansons in an Aegean nightclub.

Miyazaki has what some might consider too strong a concern for "the environment," but he's much too good for it to bother me, and I don't think the left should have a monopoly on nature. The films are made by a company which seems to be half Japanese and half Italian, although Disney has picked up and distributed the last few of them.


134 posted on 12/17/2005 12:39:45 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

no....Buttpoke mountain....nooo....Humpback mountain....I fergit....Fudgepack mountain...nope...Brokebutt mountain...dang it...


135 posted on 12/17/2005 12:39:53 PM PST by fahraint (git thar fuhstest with the mostest)
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To: Siegfried The Red

"Did they really think a movie that appeals to such a small proportion of the population would do well?"

That's their whole problem, in a nutshell. Liberals are completely koolaid convinced that they are the majority and we are the minority.

The only reason Bush won FL in 2000 was he disenfranchised voters; the only reason he won OH in 2004 was Diebold stole the election.

The are convinced that most of America is more "tolerant" and liberal, and it is the evil uberconservative capitalists corporations that keep this from coming out. It's a giant conspiracy, that VRW one.

Most of America has gay tendencies and will view this as a tender love story. Listen to anyone from DU and they are firmly convinced of this garbage.


136 posted on 12/17/2005 12:40:07 PM PST by I still care (You don't demonstrate tolerance for minorities by apologising for your own heritage,- John Howard)
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To: bnelson44
They aren't cowboys either. They herd sheep. They are shepherds.

That might explain the famous Sheep-Cattle Wars. The Cattlemen didn't want the shepherds fowling their water holes, and spreading their scabies (no joke, I think that's pretty much what the shooting was about).

One problem with the movie may be that they weren't entirely honest about what sort of a relationship this could have been forty years ago. If that sort of thing happened it all it would have been more casual or more pathological. But they had to make the relationship look at once "normal" and monumental. Romanticizing it introduces a false note. Another problem is that once you get the "gay cowboy" concept something of significance has to happen in the film. Apparently, not much does.

137 posted on 12/17/2005 12:40:56 PM PST by x
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To: af_vet_rr
Remember the ones giving these high frigging awards are pretty much the same egotistical scumbags that made the movie.
138 posted on 12/17/2005 12:41:18 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: toddlintown

When it's your turn in the barrel.


139 posted on 12/17/2005 12:42:32 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: Siegfried The Red
And I'm going to see Lion, Witch and Wardrobe tomorrow. What a great story!

I took the whole family to see it yesterday. It's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I enjoyed it as much as LOTR. Just be sure to go in as a little kid, ready to be enchanted. The lady who plays the White Witch is marvelous, as are all four of the children.

140 posted on 12/17/2005 12:43:11 PM PST by Timmy
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