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To: dangus
"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys grappling with their love for each other, was the top Golden Globe contender Tuesday, picking up seven nominations, including best dramatic picture. CNN.com

If this movie is such a flop at the box office how could it possibly pick up seven nominations for a Golden Globe?

323 posted on 12/18/2005 6:34:41 AM PST by bulldozer
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To: bulldozer
If this movie is such a flop at the box office how could it possibly pick up seven nominations for a Golden Globe?

Ordinary moviegoers find its theme repulsive. The Hollywood congniscenti are not ordinary moviergoers.

It is the "best" movie only if you have a warped view of what qualifies as quality entertainment. Brokeback Mountain is a movie Hollywood made for itself. The storyline perfectly reflects Hollywood's liberal conceit and morally dissolute values. That's why the Hollywood congniscenti rave over it.

Brokeback Mountain might even win the Oscar for best picture. It is analogous to nominating multiple murderer Tookie Williams for the Nobel Peace Prize, or awarding it to the dictator-appeasing Jimmy Carter or master terrorist Yassir Arafat--two men who have done more to undermine world peace than any other two men in the past 35 years. But they satisfy the warped Nobel Committee's liberal sensibilities, so there you have it.

326 posted on 12/18/2005 9:17:01 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: bulldozer
I believe that sick birds of a feather will all ways flock together.

Therefore, Brokeyourback aMountinyou will absolutely receive all kinds of rewards from it's fellow sick perverted supporters.

This is nothing more than an all out attack on American traditions by people who are only want sudden gratification.
327 posted on 12/18/2005 9:17:03 AM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: bulldozer

Because the Golden Globes represent how much critics WANT a movie to succeed, not necessarily how good it is. True, there occasionally is some correlation between those two factors: it's normal to want a movie you've liked to succeed. But they are not the same thing.


348 posted on 12/19/2005 9:04:37 AM PST by dangus
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