Brokeback Mountain Wins Best Picture at Golden Globes [PUKE Aert]

[Desparado]

my son went to see it. He is studying film. He said it was well made technically, but the story was very depressing regarding the lifestyle and how it wreaks havoc in peoples' lives. He said the movie portrayed the misery and devastation in everybodies lives involved with the central characters and was not flattering to the gay lifestyle at all.

[dead]

"Brokeback Mountain" per screen avg. is $8,480 compared to $1,830 for "Cheaper by the Dozen".

In the history of cinema, I've never seen "per screen avg." so hyped as it is with this movie.

You could make a Hungarian yodeling movie, show it exclusively in Hungarian mountain towns, and crow about it's high "per screen average", but it still doesn't mean anybody outside that limited circle had any interest in seeing it.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Which is just over twelve percent of Narnia's take ($263 million according to IMDB, including $12 million last week). Yet you won't see Narnia winning any leftist awards.

[Ole Okie]

As for myself, I pretty much know what it's going to be -- a repeat of Tender Mercies, a boring film I pretended to like for years because everyone said it was "brilliant."

That's interesting. I'm among the curmudgeonist of movie curmudgeons. I've been to one movie in the last five years and have no desire to go back to any others.

Yet I loved "Tender Mercies". Don't remember reading that it was brilliant, and I certainly don't recall any homosexual theme in the movie.

So boredom, just like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

[SkyPilot]

That is a great cartoon.

[pookie18]

That is a great cartoon.

Led with it in Today's Toons 1/17/06. Cartoonist Mike Lester placed 4 in the final 25 in Free Republic's Best Of Today's Toons 2005 voting. More to come over the next few days...

[SkyPilot]

I listened to Glenn Beck this morning, and they were laughing out loud at how blatant Hollywood's push of homosexuality is evident with these movies.

Transexuals? Gay sheep herders? Capote?

Give us a break.

[durasell]

No homosexuality in Tender Mercies. It was just boring as hell. All the actors in the thing 'ACTING THEIR GUTS OUT!'
I suspect Brokeback is also boring. I actually fell asleep during the director's other movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

[pookie18]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559544/posts

[durasell]

p.s.

The only movies I've enjoyed in the last year or so have been The Aviator and Charlie and the Choc. Factory.

[rfreedom4u]

It probably is rigged. After all, I've never been polled.

[conservative_crusader]

I was very disappointed in Hollywood after this particular practical joke of theirs. Not that I'm surprised. Chronicles of Narnia which made an incredible $546 mil in the states and abroad. More than half of its income was raised outside of the country according to http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=narnia.htm

While BM comes in with a measly $32 Mil gathering nearly 100% of its income inside the U.S. according to http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brokebackmountain.htm

Strangely enough both films have the same release date. Something tells me that while Hollywood is playing up the success of BM, that Narnia is raking in all of the dough. The foreign and American moviegoer alike have obviously enjoyed Narnia. Not so BM.

[ConservativeGreek]

not talking about a movie being a financial success.

OK, I understand the distinction.......

[durasell]

Comparing apples and oranges. Different types of promotion, release strategies etc. for each movie.

[Sans-Culotte]

No homosexuality in Tender Mercies. It was just boring as hell. All the actors in the thing 'ACTING THEIR GUTS OUT!'

I've reached a point where movies that are not about anything much, aside from "great acting" do not not do anything for me.

Even though I was not interested in "Brokeback", I can actually watch a film featuring gay characters if the story appeals to me, and the movie isn't preachy. I thought Gods and Monsters, starring (Miss) Sir Ian McKellan was an interesting film, based on the last days of (flamboyantly gay) Hollywood movie director James Whale.

It was obvious that the Globes were rigged from the start. I had no doubt "Brokeback" would win big, but awarding one to Geena Davis was over the top, IMO, and gave the whole thing away.

[durasell]

Gods and Monsters -- another of those 'ACTING THEIR GUTS OUT!' movies. On the other hand, McKellan was really good in Richard III and the other guy (can't remember his name) is a surprisingly good actor. He'll take one in the 'nads for laughs (Bedazzled) and can act seriously (Quiet American).

[melt]

Welcome to FR. Once you get the idea, the HTML Sandbox is a snap.

[noblejones]

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That is, until technology gets to the point that any Joe can make a decent looking movie. Like Photoshop except in motion. Then we'll see the same decline that is befalling the big music labels that artists are using the Internet to get around.
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Yeah. It's funny that the very thing the lefties fawningly extoll, the "power of the people," is the very thing that is choking off their meal ticket. As Cartman might say: "sweeeet."

[Majie Purple]

Thanks,melt!

[RobbyS]

Ask him if the film could have been at all compelling if the story had simply been one of obsessive love but between a man and a woman.