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Love makes ‘Brokeback’ Oscar favorite
MSNBC ^ | Jan 29 06 | MSNBC

Posted on 01/30/2006 8:45:32 PM PST by churchillbuff

when I finally saw “Brokeback” I found it nearly perfect. It’s more than a love story; it’s really about loneliness, which is a more universal emotion anyway. Some of us haven’t been in love; some of us don’t believe in love. Everyone’s been lonely.

It’s ambiguous enough to argue about endlessly. Heath Ledger’s Ennis del Mar feels like the man in the film — in the one sex scene, he gives rather than receives — and he’s taciturn and bottled-up in the way of men. He talks with his fists, and sometimes he talks too much, but he’s gentle with women and never has a harsh word for his daughters. One could argue he’s what we want the American man to be.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: barebackmountain; brokebackmountain; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; oscars; thisthreadisgay
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To: churchillbuff

Since a movie about gay sheepherders coming out of the closet has done so well, I heard they're going to make a movie about gay midgets coming out if the cupboard.


21 posted on 01/30/2006 8:57:47 PM PST by BikerTrash (Enough already with the carnival freak show...bring back COOL!)
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To: churchillbuff

"he gives rather than receives"

I've always heard that was the thing to do but now I have a different outlook on it.


22 posted on 01/30/2006 8:57:58 PM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: churchillbuff

If the minority sexual group called gays want poo poo on their penis that's fine, let them do whatever they want in the privacy of their own bedrooms but don't call me racist or mentally ill because I don't want to see, hear, or read about it.


23 posted on 01/30/2006 8:59:27 PM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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To: churchillbuff
Couldn't get through this syrupy-sweet article--in fact, I can't get more than a paragraph or two into ANY of these stupid mash notes, which all begin like this: My liberal male friends were all averse to this movie (none of these writers have any conservative friends) and they LOVED it, so that makes it a great classic!

In the interests of fairness, though, there is one thing these simps have in their corner--the movie is a real hit. And I find it amusing that while I was almost the sole voice arguing that this thing would be a hit, that it was not the loser some here tried to claim, and that even though those who don't know anything about the movie industry kept shouting "Failure!" and sending notes to my email box...no one around here seems to be talking about its box office "failure" anymore...

Sorry, but if I'm gonna rap the MSM for their biased pro-gay agenda cheerleading, FReepers have to take the hit for their disingenuousness about the FINANCIAL story here.

What will be an interesting comparison though is how the next 'Passion' will be treated by these same pundits. They will either do what they did with Narnia--"Christian content? WHAT Christian content?!"--or go back to the old "anti-semitism" truncheon. That would be like saying BBM is anti-woman and anti-marriage because it seems (I have no intention of actually seeing this snoozefest) to promote screwing around on your wife...which Hollywood seems to think is bad, apparently, unless it's with a guy.

24 posted on 01/30/2006 9:00:15 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
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To: churchillbuff

Gene Shalett reviewed this film. He said something like it was 'a story about a sexual predator attacking a cowboy.' Now all of Hollyweird is lining up to praise it. That must be one reason why people are not going to see movies anymore. 'Nuff said.


25 posted on 01/30/2006 9:00:42 PM PST by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: churchillbuff

I keep thinking of Taco del Mar.


26 posted on 01/30/2006 9:00:58 PM PST by Daralundy
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To: churchillbuff
One could argue he’s what we want the American man to be.

No. Actually, hell no. I don't want a homosexual or bisexual adulterer as the "American man."

27 posted on 01/30/2006 9:01:24 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: churchillbuff
I read the whole review. It really made me angry to read. This flaming POS thinks America is waiting on the edge of its seat to learn all about homosexual "love".
28 posted on 01/30/2006 9:12:58 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Theresawithanh

Yep. Their marriages do not matter, love doesn't matter, nothing matters except that they push the idea of two guys gettin' it on. The end justifies the means, so to speak.


29 posted on 01/30/2006 9:14:07 PM PST by kenth
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To: churchillbuff
"All of this in a country that annually passes laws outlawing gay marriage or denying “special rights” (or what the rest of the civilized world calls “rights”) to gay people."

My, My. Well I guess at this point the author figures there's no reason to go on pretending he's not a shill for this aberrant behavior. The MSM has no longer cares that all pretense of objectivity with respect to this subject and movie has been cast aside. They are absolutely shameless and will continue to slobber all over this piece of propaganda until the rest of us cry uncle.

I just wish the Oscars would hurry up and get over so we don't continually have to be subjected to this nonsense.
30 posted on 01/30/2006 9:17:02 PM PST by bereanway
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To: Darkwolf377
In the interests of fairness, though, there is one thing these simps have in their corner--the movie is a real hit.

Actually, it is. To my huge surprise.

In fact, so many people who've seen the movie have thought it was a great movie that I'm actually tempted to see it myself.

Not that I care anything about gay cowboys. And I'll undoubtedly wait until it hits video.

31 posted on 01/30/2006 9:17:06 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: SteveMcKing
Doesn't mean its really a story about adultery.
32 posted on 01/30/2006 9:32:20 PM PST by svcw
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

A hit. Not really.


33 posted on 01/30/2006 9:34:20 PM PST by svcw
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To: svcw

Not like Harry Potter, obviously. But a lot of people who've seen it (surprisingly to me) seemed to like the movie.


34 posted on 01/30/2006 9:41:46 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: churchillbuff

I can only imagine what will be in the DVD extras and outtakes?


35 posted on 01/30/2006 9:50:12 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (liberals... peace activists 1968-1992, 2000-2008...war mongers 1992-2000)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
This article is a real beaut, I have to admit--is this guy being paid by the cliche? He knows his audience--he makes sure he gets the "women are more SENsitive" angle in there.

I won't see this, which is too bad, Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite writers. I just can't take these two horrible actors who are always badmouthing the Prez. Two hours watching them would be agony. And I just don't care for the material.

But there is one more thing I forgot to mention about this article and the ninety others that have come out in the MSM from these lib writers: All of these libs, who are praising this movie as NOT a gay movie, manage to get in that THEY aren't gay. (See if you can find where this guy sneaks it in.) They spend 99% of the article insinuating that men who aren't interested in seeing this are the weird ones, and yet they don't want anyone getting the impression that THEY are "like that". Hypocrites all.

36 posted on 01/30/2006 9:50:18 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
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To: svcw

Which is worse? Reading that or spelling Elton John's funky socks? Either way, I'm going to be sick.


37 posted on 01/30/2006 9:51:58 PM PST by outofhere2
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
"I can only imagine what will be in the the DVD extras and outtakes."

I can only imagine what will be in the DVD "In- 'n Out-takes".

38 posted on 01/30/2006 11:23:34 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: churchillbuff
It’s more than a love story; it’s really about loneliness,


"I'm sooo Lonely..."

39 posted on 01/30/2006 11:34:21 PM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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To: churchillbuff
“Brokeback’s” got so much buzz it’s vibrating, and women have never shied away from things that vibrate.

I just got done reading the latest DUmmie FUnnies, now this.....

40 posted on 01/31/2006 12:01:58 AM PST by NRA1995 (GOOOOOOO STEELERS!!!)
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