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Oh, see, it made me get all choked up, even though I hate crying at movies! i really thought Heath Ledger was excellent in that. I felt so terrible for him. I wasn't that impressed with jake G., though. I'm really sad about heath ledger - I thought he had many years of great movies ahead of him after that.

I agree about the love scenes, though. nothing shocking or particularly note-worthy there.

I think the whole brokeback thing was OMG THEY'RE TEH GHEY! Which then created two groups: OMG we have to support them because we're modern politically correct people! and OMG they're going to hell! now our kids will catch teh ghey because they saw it in a movie!

We live in a strange world, one where everyone has to get upset about something and sometimes the choices are perplexing. (I say this as someone who gets upset about the strangest things - like broadcast television saying I'm mature enough to see a serial killer hack someone to pieces with a circular saw while he's still alive, but I'm not mature enough to see a woman groping a man's crotch on the same program.)

I'm not sure what the fuss was either, but maybe it was the fact that they were gay "cowboys"...? Oh well. What I find *really* ironic is that the Heath Ledger character is the one who lives in the movie - an example of how art does *not* imitate life...

By the way, I have an idea for the sock that is too short. Get TMK to build you a stretching machine.

I was underwhelmed by the movie as well. We saw it just a few weeks after Heath died. I thought is was kinda slow, although the scenery was nice. And I thought it was sad. So many people were unhappy in some way or another surrounding their relationship, including them. I deal with sadness too much in "real life". I like movies with good happy endings!

I really wanted to like it and I did get misty at the end (because you hate hearing the fate of Jake's character) but, over all, I was confused when there was this ginormous leap from irritatin' each other to IN LOVE with each other. If they had more progression shown on the relationship I think it would have carried the love story better.

I liked it. There were a few scenes that took my breath clean away, just from the pain they evoked. As for the fuss, I'm not sure. Then again, I don't know why there's a fuss about MOST movies there's a fuss about.
I miss Heath.

I have to agree with you on the Brokeback Mountain. I got bored. I love the visual scenes in the movie. I loved seeing the mountains of Wyoming. I loved seeing the sheep. I was bored with the two men. I wished that they could have had their love out in the open. I wasn't bothered by the sex scenes well except for one that I felt was so dramatic that I felt I was interrupting something very private. But the movie overall, blah. Didn't feel it.

I watched Brokeback Mountain with my teen daughter. I thought it was a nice love story. I wanted her to watch it to see that love can come in any form. I thought it was a good movie. Not a great movie but a decent one. I think it was such a big thing when it came out because of the whole "gay cowboy" thing too. It wasn't over the top. It wasn't graphic at all. The love scenes weren't that big of a deal. I think it was just the concept that had everyone all a twitter.

I thought the scenery was beautiful and almost worth the price of admission (no, I watched it at home) but I wasn't that impressed with the acting... and the story? it was 'alright'... was it believable? nah. not so much.

Yes, I felt the same about the movie. In fact, we (me and my husband) thought it was rather, hm... boring. The acting was okay but the story somehow lacked the energy, we didn't wait impatiently for what was going to happen next and some scenes were too long. I loved the scenery though, and the sheep, but I'm a knitter too! *^v^*

I really didn't like the movie all that much. yes, I get it, he's angry. Yes, I get it, he's angry because he's gay. Yes, I get it, he's sad. Yes, I get it, he's sad because he's gay. Yes, I get it, I get it I GET IT. Meh.

Dude! You can knit and StairMaster at the same time?! I bow down before ye! ;)

I think Elizabeth's got it spot on about Brokeback Mountain.

I related more to the "I can't have you but I can't give you up" theme and felt more for the murder of the one character than the whole "OMG they're both men, aren't we open-minded now" thing. But then, I write slashfics on the weekends for fun, so....

I liked the movie quite a bit, but I also really like Heath Ledger and will watch almost anything that he's in.

Now, it's not why I went to the movie, but I thought the whole gay/not gay thing was a little interesting. Like is Heath's character *really* gay? Sure he has a relationship with Jake's character but then even after he is married and divorced he is still pursuing other women. On the other hand Jake's character is pursuing men other than Heath. (I should really just go look up the characters' names!) In a way I think the movie puts more emphasis on loving a person and not a gender, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, I thought a lot of the scenery was beautiful. I think most of the hype was because it's apparently a really taboo topic to make a movie about.

You had to put in that last, didn't you? Didn't see the movie (don't get out much) so I had nothing to say -- till that last paragraph. Now you're in for it.

"Let me tell you a story
'bout a knitter named Ryan
who was going to the gym each day
At first she didn't know
How to make the machines go
and she hoped she could just slink away.

But then the StairStepper got movin'
and Ryan found her groove, &
she said, "This ain't so bad, TMK!
But wait, where are the brakes?
I can't get off! For heaven's sake!
I may never leave the YMCA!"

("Sorry, Charlie!")
(Oops, that's something else....)

I felt the same way about the movie. It was so GROUNDBREAKING (not). I did sort of get the story of the lifetime ache, though, and I could appreciate that, but as you say, the acting was "meh."

Denying such an integral part of your entire being for over 20 years, living in the stolen moments the two of you can carve out, away from the judging and prying eyes of a society that doesn't understand and will, in fact, KILL you for the audacity? And then having the thing you feared the most come true after harsh and bitter words the last time you saw one another? Loving and wanting so deeply, and yet being so afraid...watching it hurt. I appreciated the subtle and more layered than usual acting in the movie...sometimes it's nice to just not be hit over the head with the point.

I'm a sucker for a love story, even one filled with angst.

I remember getting to the end of that movie, turning to the hubby and saying, "wow, that's a lot of really unhappy people." It seemed to me to be all about desperately unhappy people is seriously dysfunctional relationships.

I love a love story, but I also love a happy ending. I prefer to see uplifting stories of relationships that work. People supporting each other instead of destroying each other in the name of love.

What can I say, I'm an optimist and a hopeful romantic!

I liked the movie, but thought it was intensely sad. What struck me was how many people were unhappy that would not have needed to be if the men could have been honest. Everyone just went 'round and 'round with nobody getting what they needed.

One thing really irritated me, though - they were NOT gay cowboys. They were gay SHEPHERDS.

Coke machine with energy mizers. I do understand.

I was in front of the machine, and it would not take my $$ and I really wanted that pop. one of my co workers came by and said it won't work until you walk by it on the other side of the room. thats like 30 feet away, who knew. boy did I feal like a dork!

I love the coke machine story -- although I have to confess to a certain fear that semi-sentient machines will, indeed, someday attempt to take away all of my life-support systems (read: internet access). Shudder.

I liked the idea of depicting a gay relationship in that era but I did not like the way it was depicted in the movie. The violent sex scenes disturbed me, they seemed rape. There was too much violence and no love.

BTW, I'm a married lesbian in a LTR. My wife saw it too and was equally troubled by the violence.

I wonder if it is a difference between how gays and lesbian views sex and love.

I wish the movie portrayed a more positive relationship and a happier ending, or even struggling together with love and a sad ending. There has to have been such in that time frame. I know of some gay couples in my state that have been together over 50 years so such relationships must have existed even then.

I think the movie was a wasted opportunity; it could have been so much better. I am ambivalent about it.

I HATED the movie. I was mad when we came out of it -- told people I felt like I'd been robbed of $7.50 and two hours of my life.

First of all it wasn't a love story, it was just a sex story -- they weren't tender toward each other, and except for the very first summer there's no indication they even enjoy one another's company. I didn't find it sad, because I just wanted to slap the both of them!

It struck me the way a horror flick does -- a horror flick is "scary" just because they play scary music and have an axe. A truly frightening movie like "The Ring" scares you on a much much deeper level. So this movie tugged at your heartstrings in the same kind of heavy-handed way, without the finesse or intelligence of a great story.

Go watch "My Beautiful Laundrette" for a seriously beautiful gay love story. It can be done, but this gay-cowboy-movie didn't do it.

OTOH, couldn't you just turn the sound off and swoon over Jake and Heath? Oh, yes.