Gay viewers' take on "Brokeback": It's really just a simple love story

Seattle Times ^ | Friday, December 23, 2005 | Jose Antonio Vargas

[al baby]

Rump Rangers pure and simple

[Charles Henrickson]

HEATH LECHER . . . . JAKE WILLINGHOLE

BACKDOOR MOUNTIN' II:
HOMO ON THE RANGE
A COUPLE OF COWPOKES

[Dog Gone]

I've never quite seen the hype for a gay movie in my life. Man alive, they want to cram this movie down our throat.

[nmh]

"They can call it whatever they want to call it; just don't call it a 'gay cowboy love story.' That's upsetting to me," says Paul Pecoriano, 35, an actor and waiter in Manhattan.

It's a love story starring two faggots.

Get upset.

[thoughtomator]

"They can call it whatever they want to call it; just don't call it a 'gay cowboy love story.' That's upsetting to me," says Paul Pecoriano, 35, an actor and waiter in Manhattan.

Thorry, grrlfriend. It's a 'pervert shepherd story'. Happy?

[appleharvey]

"It's a love story, period," says Pecoriano.

So could a story about a man who loves his Black Lab so much, that he has sex with it. I wouldn't want to see that movie either.

[keithtoo]

Well tie me down and call me Sally, that is one humdinger, I mean hummerwanger, I mean rimreamer of a danglin'wrangler movie.

[Gordongekko909]

The Birdcage was hillarious. One oft-overlooked scene involved Senator Kealy and his wife talking about the whole "cultural attache" thing, wherein Mrs. Kealy disgustedly asks something like

"I mean, 'cultural attache'? Sounds like old money to me."

I thought it was pretty cool how the filmmakers picked up on conservatives' distaste for old-money blue blood (KENNEDY! ROCKEFELLER!) types.

[presidio9]

ping

[Gordongekko909]

"Man alive, they want to cram this movie down our throat."

I'm going to drown myself in vodka now to get the image that you just put in my head out of there.

[ncountylee]

Perfect venue for the late Hunter boys - Rock and Tab.

[escapefromboston]

So how is this movie doing?? (in terms of making money)

[swmobuffalo]

I swear if I see anything else about this perverted movie I'm gonna hurl.

[MotleyGirl70]

I'm going to drown myself in vodka now to get the image that you just put in my head out of there.

How about a picture of republican beauty Kathy Ireland.

Feel better now? :)

[Gordongekko909]

It's a start...

*Image Googles "Michelle Malkin"*

Ahh, much better. But I'm still getting drunk.

[presidio9]

Of course the press is playing it up like this movie is a blockbuster, because it has done well in limited release. It is open in 69 strategic theaters nationwide (including 4 in heavily gay Greenwich Village) near me. The movie will make money because it is low budget, and it will, of course, win tons of awards, but it is not the cultural phnomenon that the propagandists would have you believe. The re-release in IMAX of Polar Express is in a similiar number of theatres and doing better.

[MotleyGirl70]

Cheers!

[Gordongekko909]

It is open in 69 strategic theaters nationwide (including 4 in heavily gay Greenwich Village) near me.

You've got to be kidding.

The re-release in IMAX of Polar Express is in a similiar number of theatres and doing better.

I hope this movie is never shown in an IMAX theater. I really hope it isn't shown in 3D in an IMAX theater.

[Gordongekko909]

Yay drunkenness!