Posted on 01/21/2006 6:21:27 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Yeah those gay cowboy movies are so popular these days. lol
Really crap movies have sold more tickets in an opening weekend than this crap shooting sheepherder movie has.
"Sheepherders are NOT cowboys."
Amen! and if the idiots don't even know that difference how could anything else about the stupid movie be believable. It drives me crazy to hear about the "cowboys" and their sheep. A hundred years ago in this country they would have gotten the stuffing knocked out of them if they coouldn't tell the difference. The last cattlemen attack on sheepmen in this country occured in 1909, and believe me they knew the difference.
Oh the other hand if you don't know the difference between males and females..............
Okay, I'm tired of "Brokeback Mountain" being called a "gay cowboy" movie. They're SHEEPHERDERS. Obviously, this would open up too many jokes.
Yeah, it's the nation's top gross-out film of the week. Or maybe of the decade. Century, perhaps. Millenium. All time...
How about "Don't View, Don't Spew"?
"Per theater" is another way of saying that the film didn't show at a lot of theaters across the country, but stayed mainly in city theaters with medium to large homosexual audiences.
...has received almost universally glowing reviews...
"Glowing reviews" won't fill theater seats with a film that turns off the average person. Most people I know, both young and old, won't go to see it, nor do they have any plans to by the DVD.
Now that they are advertising this propaganda/brain-washing on tv, the VO talks about romance etc. but the cuts all make it look like the romance is between the men and their wives/girl friends.
Needing the box office in straight cities/communities, they know they have to appeal to females, so they're promoting hetero romance and scenery in their previews.
Doubt it will fly as a chick flick.
I prefer either "Buttbuddy Mountain" or "Barecrack Mounting" myself.
Can't win on the field of play, just move the goal post.
Yup I will bet that movie, Brokback Mountain, is at that top of their list of movies to see.
I'm currently overseas, retired military but working out of a air force base. If you brought Brokeback in...there would be about 40 people to show up to watch the one and only evening show...mostly school teachers and teenage dependents. The exchange service wouldn't make enough money to make it a major showing.
And I'm willing to guess that throughout small-town America...its the same story. In the state of Alabma...its probably showing in Birmingham, Mobile, and Huntsville...for 3 or 4 days, and then moves on. This blaze of claimed viewership...probably is a California thing only.
I would guess that in communities not in the grip of BDS it would be a flop. I've also heard rumors of "phantom" ticket buyers intent on inflating "Per Screen" numbers.
Much easier if you're on a small number of screens.
Kind of like taking the odds on a long-shot horse at the track from 40 to 1 to 10 to 1 with a single $5000 dollar bet.
Yes, that was a great movie. I wait until they are on tv or at least dvd. It is some 50 miles to a town where there is a theater in this area, so I'd have to be really inspired to want to see one. This movie ain't it!
Hey, keep the homophobic sports comments to yourself. :D
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