[Ma3lst0rm]

Shalit has folded but I suppose it is to be expected. It is hard to be a movie reviewer and honesty review a "gay" movie. Homosexuality is about deception, the truth is too ugly and its predatory nature too much to admit in good company. I wonder if this movie would be receiving the praise it is if it were mere heterosexual adultery with a mountain slut trying to win away a family man with lots of hot sexual temptation? The left and the sexual trollop squads are shameless and reveal a profound emptiness when they praise fetish driven sexual activity as if it is profound love something I doubt they know.

[IronJack]

I don't know what it is about the homo lobby that makes normally brave men fear them. For the love of Mike, they only represent 1 or 2 percent of the population!

[Palladin]

I'm sorry that Shalit backed down. I guess he wants to keep his job.

[facedown]

Shalit is a coward.

[hole_n_one]

The left and the sexual trollop squads are shameless and reveal a profound emptiness when they praise fetish driven sexual activity as if it is profound love something I doubt they know.

That's good stuff!

[jazusamo]

It's too bad Shalit folded but he should have realized that if you offend these poor babies who are less than 2 or 3 percent of our population he'd get hammered. He should have offended straight couples and he wouldn't have gotten any flak.

[Casloy]

Coward

[Felis_irritable]

"I did not intend to use a word that many in the gay community consider incendiary."

Oh cripes, is the guy portraying a sexual predator or not? Maybe many in the homosexual community consider the expression incendiary because it hits too close to the, uhhh, bone?

[operation clinton cleanup]

In his review, Shalit called the film "wildly over praised" and described Gyllenhaal's character as a "sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts."

I'm stunned... I would have thought Shalit would have praised this film. But I have not seen/read a Shalit review in 10 years. Good for him for being honest (at least initially!)

[stevem]

I thought Brokeback Mountain was one of the best movies I ever saw. Er, er, wait a second. I didn't see it and don't plan to. I did once watch a show about humpbacks on one of the science TV channels.

[quinhon6869]

I agree with you concerning this film's dependence on homosexuality as the underpinning for its popularity among left-wing critics. Like social cliques in school, praising this film gains the critic acceptance among peers and confirms their bona-fides of tolerance, acceptance and progressivism so important to the liberal mindset.
Shalit is correct to declare the film is wildly over-rated; I suppose he initially felt he had an established reputation for tolerance that had precluded him from the lock-step praise this film has received.

[meyer]

Thankfully, John Boy & Billy did a fair job when they had the Carl Childers character of "Slingblade" review the movie. It was quite funny.

[Calpernia]

Ok, then I will take the words as my own since Shalit won't stand by them.

Brokeback is wildly over praised. Gyllenhaal's character is one of a sexual predator who tracks pEnnis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts.

That is now my review.

[MindBender26]

Actually, by issuing this "correction" he simply reinforced the original opinion to the 80% of us that are not in love with anything and everything "gay."

[beckett]

Brokeback Mountain

• Rank for Jan 6-8 weekend -- 14
• Weekend gross -- $5,726,662
• Cumulative gross -- $22,436,190
• Weeks in release -- 5

A bomb. Nobody cares. Neither hissy fits from the Hollywood in-crowd, nor "prestigious" awards (Golden Globes, Oscar) bestowed by same, will result in any more than a few million people ever seeing the film. It's actual cultural impact, the supposed reason serious filmmakers make films for mass audiences, will be nil.

[RichInOC]

Brokeback Mountain...where men are men and sheep can relax for a change.

[treffner]

there is more than enough evidence to back up the "sexual predator" statement

"Homosexuals commit more than 33% of all reported child molestations in the United States." Psychological Reports, 1986, 58, pp. 327-37.

Which means, assuming Homosexuals make up 2% of the population, means that 1 in 20 Homosexuals is a child molester, while 1 in 490 heterosexuals is a child molester.

[KellyAdmirer]

Shalit's "apology" is very carefully phrased. Notice that he doesn't retract anything, say he was wrong in his conclusions or anything like that. He just says he's sorry if he offended folks. I think he did a good job with this. I'm thinking he had his lawyer help him write that letter.

[DaveyB]

"In describing the behavior of 'Jack,'" he continued, "I used words ('sexual predator') that I now discover have angered, agitated, and hurt many people.

High Five Here!!!

Too bad they are thugs who intimidate critics. In doing so they have angered, agitated and hurt many people. Jack was also a degenerate - perverted - lying - selfish - home-wrecking sodomite (or so I'm told - I wouldn't see that movie if payed me!)

[Tall_Texan]

Bill Clinton is a sexual predator but I don't think he's gay. That or he has really terrible eyesight.

[Joe 6-pack]

"We'll show that Gene how to review a movie."