Posted on 12/28/2005 8:48:09 AM PST by presidio9
Correction to the article: they are not (I repeated "not") cowboys - they are two shepherds.
Hi, nmh:
I just checked the grosses of "Bareback Mountain" at RottenTomatoes.com.
As of today (12/28/05) the film has grossed $7,888,312.
About doubling its gross with it being played in 216 additional theaters Coast to Coast just before the Christmas Weekend.
By straight Financial Standards, a FLOP! Perhaps NOT by Simple Hollywood Standards. Which are : If the film takes in more than it cost, it's a good film. A winner.
I'll have to do some more digging to find the film's total budget. I'm guessing, around $12,000,000. Especially considering how badly Ang Lee's last project, "The Hulk" bombed.
Even if Hollywood claims victory (And they will!) with this piece of dreck. It will just deepen the rift between it and Red and Fly-Over States. Making them and the Oscars even more irrelevant.
Jack.
Yeah, but the vast majority of lesbians do not look like Portia Di Rossi, they look more like Helen Thomas.
I think it is pretty silly as well, but it is doing a fine job of showing up how little the libs really understand about our culture.
What is the connection with Ty and Jewel?
That's interesting, every gay person I know personally--including two male couples and two female couples--do everything they can to avoid being "in your face" and they are highly embarassed by the flamboyance and militancy of the gay activism community.
Perhaps it's a difference of the communities in which we live.
This paper is referred to as the "Baghdad Herald" by many native Vermonters. Make the NY Times look ultra-conservative. I've been in their offices...mostly staffed by womyn who closely resemble Eleanor Clift or Helen Thomas.
Any port in a storm...
Get back in the closet
Buggery is not kewl.
Previews were enough for me.
Now it's fixed!
Here's the subtle difference: "shepherds," aka sheepherders, herd sheep. They mainly use dogs to keep the sheep bunched-up.
Cowboys herd cows. They ride some of the smartest and best-trained horses in existence that are adept at keeping the cows where the wranglers want them to be.
Cowboys and sheepherders don't think much of each other because sheep leave the range in very poor condition for cattle. There were range wars back in the 19th century when sheepmen encroached on cattle country. Those antagonistic feelings persist today.
The fact the Hollywood people don't understand that distinction illustrates their ignorance, arrogance and propaganda motives.
YUCK
It's not showing in a lot of cinemas though. That's something you have to take into account. Box Office Mojo has it listed as the fourth most popular film out right now- I guess adjusting for the number of cinemas the film is showing in at the moment.
It doesn't come out in the UK until January. I always hate that. By the time I'm ready to discuss a film Freepers in the States have already moved on to other subjects.
Thanks for the trouble.
Good news for normal people!
I'm with you!
They're an item, or were. Try a search for "Jewel and Ty". (Our daughter thinks this is so not cool. For Ty, that is.)
You have homos in Georgia? We don't have homos here in Texas.
(Recalling the greeting of Billy Crystal's mother in law when he went down to Texas many moons ago in Soap. For the longest time I couldn't look at Billy Crystal without thinking he must be a homo. I don't think it was until City Slickers that I finally got over that particular bit of typecasting.)
Because they have pushed the in your face promotion of faggotry further just when we didn't think there was any further to go.
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