I'll bet they'd like the "Book of Daniel" though.
Yay for cheating on your wives and breaking up families! The liberal dream come true!
Shalit must not have received the memo.
imo
I think you mean DEFCON 1.
Threat level elevated.
These Fago-Nazis are beginning to irk me.
The queers (2% of the population at best) won't be sharing their fudgcicles with Shalit. But I get the feeling that's OK with him.
Well, my problem with the movie is the fact it's called a 'cowboy' movie. I haven't seen it, but in all the ads I've seen for it I have yet to see a cow. Lots of sheep, but not a single cow. I was a kid in the days when ALL the cowboy movies featured the ongoing and never ending feud between the guys who ran cattle and those who ran sheep. I find it curious that they make a movie about cowboys, gay or otherwise, but they run sheep not cattle.
GLAAD demanded an apology from both Shalit and NBC News and urged supporters to contact the network and complain.
In addition to offering his searing analysis of the romantic relationship between the lead characters, Shalit commended Ledger's performance in Brokeback and allowed that the film had a "few dramatic peaks." He concluded that Ang Lee's much-nominated oeuvre was "wildly overpraised, but not by me."
sound familiar???
Communist Goals (1963)
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
An most interesting point of view. But I must say, yet again, that Heath Ledger must be giving some great performance in this movie. He has been UNIVERSALLY praised, in every article I've read. And they've ALL been anti-the movie articles. Oh, except for the review in The New Yorker, but my guess is that reviewer (whichever it was) was struggling with his own homophobia, as the whole piece was so tongue tied as to be unintelligible. He may indeed have praised Ledger too.
So, as of now I am curious to see it, for Heath Ledger and the gal formerly of Dawson's creek. I always thought she was very good in that.
You gotta laugh at the gays though, the "gay spokespersons" anyway. They act like their lives are all filled with purity, etc. As if, at the very least, their lives wouldn't be as screwed up as anyone else's. They may be fooling the press, but they're not fooling anyone else, including themselves.
I thought it was a gay shepherd western?
I keep hearing and reading that his movie has been nominated for a zillion awards before anybody has even seen it. What is up with that? Who has been doing all that nominating?
All this, and Middle America still thinks the film sucks. One [straight] reviewer complained that it was so dull, he found himself wanting them to get to the gay sex scene.
I'm really getting offended at all the anti-hetrosexual bias that the biased homosexuals are using against most of us.
IMO, this is a hate crime.
This has nothing to do with homosexuality - it has everything to do with fascism.
GLAAD can go to hell. Period.
I haven't (and won't) be seeing the film, but I have to say that of the descriptions I've heard of the "first encounter", Shalit may be dead on accurate in his characterization. I'm not surprised that the press hasn't discussed this, but I do think it's an interesting idea.
While I'm posting on a BM thread, has anyone noticed the latest ad campaign? It is absolutely sickening. All they show are the scenery and the lead characters hugging their wives and children. If you had no idea what the movie was about, you'd be in for a REALLY big shock when you got there.
Just a point of clarification--Shalit is wrong on one point: Jack does not coax Ennis into the trysts, Ennis is wildly willing. I don't think a person can be called a predator if the "prey" runs joyfully into his claws.