has earned more money at the box office than these two movies combined...
That is pathetic, and it speaks volumes that the MSM and Hollywood treat these two horrible films as "must see" propaganda.
Message to Hollywood, you stink.
Posted on 01/13/2006 9:17:31 PM PST by wagglebee
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Brokeback Mountain," once ridiculed as "the gay cowboy movie" but now the front-runner in Hollywood's Oscar race, gets its first major awards show test on Monday night -- in prime time with millions watching.
The gay romance goes into the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday with the most nominations -- seven -- of any film and with a favorite status that many in the industry think could be unshakable in the buildup to the March 5 Oscars.
The Golden Globe Awards are an only-in-Hollywood tradition. They are given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a hard-to-join group composed of a large number of freelancers working for some obscure publications.
But they give one of the best awards parties in town and over the years the show has become famous as a predictor of Oscar winners. And the stars sashaying across the red carpet in drop-dead designer duds is reminiscent of the glamour of old Hollywood.
Normally the Globes help set up the Oscar race by drawing public attention to films that are the strongest contenders.
The Globes' two main awards are best drama, for which "Brokeback" is a contender, and best musical or comedy.
Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee's tale of love and loneliness in the mountains of Wyoming is a strong contender for best drama by virtue of its picking up a slew of best movie awards from film critics and nabbing top prize at 2005's Venice Film Festival.
But its makers are very conscious the movie's theme of homosexual love in the macho world of Marlboro Country could be a problem for mainstream audiences and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Lee has said he thought reaction would be split. "Some people would like it, and some people wouldn't even go to see it or it would be a laughingstock, like when they called it 'a gay cowboy movie.' Then when they see it, they start to embrace it. It's a wonderful turnaround."
"Brokeback" is up against "The Constant Gardener," a thriller based on a John le Carre novel; "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's tale of the fight against McCarthyism; "A History of Violence," a story of the violence that lurks beneath the surface in everyday life; and "Match Point," Woody Allen's "comeback" film about the cost of social climbing in Britain.
"Brokeback's" star, Heath Ledger, who has won rave reviews, is a candidate for best actor, but the competition is tough with Philip Seymour Hoffmann, seemingly the man to beat for his performance as gay novelist Truman Capote in "Capote." Other category nominees include Terrence Howard for "Hustle & Flow," David Strathairn as broadcaster Edward R. Morrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck," and Russell Crowe for "Cinderella Man."
Vying for best musical or comedy are "Mrs. Henderson Presents," "Pride and Prejudice," "The Producers," "The Squid and the Whale" and "Walk the Line."
The nomination of "The Squid and the Whale" as a comedy surprised many because the movie is a harrowing tale of a divorce as seen from the eyes of a couple's two teenage sons.
It'll be a gay, undocumented worker, terrorist transsexual president probably.
"I don't watch much tv, as you might guess."
And your brain is much better off.
has earned more money at the box office than these two movies combined...
That is pathetic, and it speaks volumes that the MSM and Hollywood treat these two horrible films as "must see" propaganda.
Message to Hollywood, you stink.
Also, look at the receipts for Bareback Mountain and compare them to other film flops - the flops do even better.
Notice the budget for Munich. They won't even come close to breaking even.
GV: All together now...
They're not gay cowboys. They're SHEEPHERDERS!
Sheepherding 'rump rangers"
sw
Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the fix is in for BM? BM will take top honors ar GG and the Oscars. What a puking shame we have become.
Fools.
You can spray deodorant on a pile of poop, but it still stinks. Brookback is still a pile of poop. Most people are smart enough to know this.
Yep, that's what Hollywood considers a huge success; if it's politically correct and doesn't lose money, they can crow about it. The media has hyped it, so the smallish liberal audience of course would make a fetish to go to see it. "Brokeback, of course I went..."
Now the Passion, that was just a fringe movie.
"only queers are going to see this movie in my state. and people desperately wanting to look like loony liberals."
Probably any state. I think those are the only kind of people, period, who will see this film.
The very same thing happened to me! I just get so sick and tired of it. I am spending more time on the computer than watching tv now.
LOL.
I think Ang Lee may be right. Hollywood may or may not be pushing the film to make it feasible for Academy Awards, but Hollywood can only hope that by pushing the movie they're doing something positive for the gay agenda, or acting as handmaidens or agents for it.
Everything I have read and heard about the film (and from unlikely sources, like Michael Medved) indicates it would be wrong to see the film as a political battering ram---it is not what the film is about, and attempts to reduce its message to that kind of simplicity make the reducers look like simpletons. There is an aura of sadness and tragedy that hangs over the film, and it is NOT because the movie is promoting the message that an intolerant society is keeping these star-crossed lovers away from each other. The tragedy may be that in allowing their unrequited obsession to continue, they wind up wrecking their own marriages, both to straight women. So the tragedy may be as much about the emotional immaturity of the men (who have already committed to traditional families) as it is about a societal structure that may never be ready for them and their ultimate "infidelity".
I'm more than a little irritated by this. Over the holidays I've just seem two very good films, King Kong and Narnia - and neither appears to be getting much recognition, just because of this idiot Brokeback film.
Of course the joke is on the leftists. They turned Eric Cartman into a prescient genius (apart from the absence of pudding).
Regards, Ivan
"When will we see a movie about straight male hairdressers?"---
2 Peter 2:7
But at the same time, God rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a good man who was sick of all the immorality and wickedness around him.
Jude 1:7
And don't forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with sexual immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and are a warning of the eternal fire that will punish all who are evil.
The gay cowboy director just one best director.
Funny thing was: the presenter, Clint Eastwood, seemed genuinely disgusted it won. If so, good for Dirty Harry.
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