Posted on 12/14/2005 11:22:00 PM PST by Antioch
According to the accounting, which I know something about, this is looking to do just fine money-wise. No one can predict for sure, but this is being marketed craftily, conservative outrage included in the mix.
BBM has a budget of under $20 million. With the buzz it's getting and those admittedly preliminary per screen averages, when you add in the DVD and TV sales, this thing is probably already in profit. Not very nip and tuck when it's at or near profit before it's even opened in more than 5 theaters.
Thousands of sexually offended, furious bikers...
Can't say I'd ever want to see that...
Personally, I kinda liked the old "X" rating for queeer-movies.
Ya think?!
The point here is the cynically predictable juvenile nature of the project. "Gay cowboys, that'll get all those middle-class prudes!" First of all, we all knew it would be a critical success before it hit the screen. Second, we all knew it would be an Oscar contender (and Golden Globe winner, bank on it) before the voters even saw it. Third, it was predicted by none other than Eric Cartman, and I am really surprised that the main press doesn't mention it.
It's the same old indy film stuff, just this time somebody's heard of the director and actors.
Now the absurdity of a lonely sheep herder turning to his male partner for sexual companionship aside (I mean, we're talking SHEEP here!) its only purpose is to be provocative.
Fine, but let's not pretend it's Shakespeare.
BTW, how am I wrong about the thing not making money until the Oscars? It hasn't cracked a mil in gross receipts (gross). DVD and TV won't come into the picture until at least the spring.
Let's see...this is a film about betrayal, deceit, lust and peverse sexuality, to mention just the overview character points, and it's being endorsed?
I can barely believe what I'm reading: the thieves are running the bank, the fox has captured the henhouse, the homosexuals have overrun this aspect to "church" opinion.
Yes, this is a film about male homosexuality and lust in full bloom, and over and over again. But, take a look at the story itself and how these two main characters continue to deceive one another, their respective families and even abandon and abuse other people (also themselves).
The ONLY thing being lauded and commended about this film is that it's a pornographic film being sold and marketed in family neighborhood theatres. THAT's what the homoseuxual and otherwise, liberal groups is lauding: that they're making a "breakthrough" attempt to bring these terrible character faults into popular acceptabilty.
They're parading very bad character traits, not to mention behaviors, as "good" and going for sympathy for same. In that, they're commending themselves, and it's a moral and ethical loss for all of us.
LOL You aren't denying anything -in fact, you are acclaiming and promoting the sick film on this very thread.
Conclusion of Review: And his Versace cowboy boots were to die for.
Any bets as to how hard it will be to find a pirated Brokeback Mountain torrent?
Shouldn't be all that difficult to figure out. All you closet types who listened to idiots who told you to "marry a nice girl, and this will go away" will be feverishly downloading anything you can about this.
Do you ever notice how those folks who say "marry some nice girl and settle down, and this will go away" to gay guys never volunteer their own daughters for that little experiment. (Wise, but morally bankrupt, people.)
Can ANYONE defend the USCCB in this case?
The reviewer is absolutely drooling over the thought of drooling over the actors *****
The Virgin Mary intimated our Age to Lucy in Fatima in 1917:
"Look, my child, don't be surprised if, at a certain moment, a certain diabolical disorientation affects the best of minds, a disequilibrium, so that they no longer judge according to the voice of my Son and of Peter."
Personally, I doubt you'll find a pirate copy of this film on the internet. All homosexual issues aside, this film looks dull, tedious, and just plain stupid.
I grew up watching cowboys played by John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart. I want my cowboys to track down rustlers, fend off apaches, bust broncos, protect villages from marauding banditos, and always out draw the bad guy. I don't want to see cowboys (or shepherds billed as cowboys) sharing their feelings and tender moments. Cowboys shouldn't have feelings. They should have steely eyes and determined jaw-lines.
Haha, you got zotted.
The very phrase that rationalizes all forms of pornography.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.