Brokeback Moutain (yes, again)

aaharvel

just bought in on dvd today.

regardless of politics, idealogy, whatever, a great movie.

i highly recommend it. Heath Ledger's performance is absolutely devastatingly powerful.

probably the best movie since the LOTR trilogy.

peace.

Shizelbs

Aside from a few select scenes, I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Far more than I thought I would.

mrbigbluelight

homophobic, the thought of a movie with 2 cowboys smooching just isn't my cup of tea.

Want to make a **** issues movie, look up "Philadelphia" (Tom Hanks) and take notes.

Want to make a cowboy movie ? Look up "Shane".

I have to admit, though, if Brokeback had two cowGIRLS smooching, than I'd be on Fandango right now ordering tickets.

See what I mean ?

aaharvel

mrbigbluelight wrote:

homophobic, the thought of a movie with 2 cowboys smooching just isn't my cup of tea.

Want to make a **** issues movie, look up "Philadelphia" (Tom Hanks) and take notes.

Want to make a cowboy movie ? Look up "Shane".

I have to admit, though, if Brokeback had two cowGIRLS smooching, than I'd be on Fandango right now ordering tickets.

See what I mean ?

no labeling necessary- to each his/her own. I'm only mentioning this thread as a movie review and/or an opportunity for other Polkies to comment on the movie, either positive or negative if they've seen it.

If you want to talk political or idealogical, do it another thread.

(edit) as for Philly, yes excellent movie. Certainly made Tom Hank's career and did good for Denzel. I thought i started this in the movie threads not the clubhouse. my mistake.

danger boy

to bad because of all the hype of the subject matter and all the jokes that surrounded the movie. a lot of people missed this beautiful movie. It's art, with a little bit of imagination thrown in to tell a good story.

I'm not going to push the movie anymore. Everyone knows what it's about.. see it or don't. It is what it is.

nebborjk

My wife and I watched this last weekend. I have to say I wasn't expecting very much from this movie and it met my expectations. Possibly the most overrated movie of all time. There's no way this movie should have won any awards. It over achieved just by getting nominated. It didn't mind the story line and the "****" parts of the movie were so short as to be barely noticable. They showed them having sex with their wives more than with each other. And why so little dialog. The first 30 minutes had maybe 5 minutes of dialog. The whole time I kept wating for the movie to live up to its hype. Sadly it never did.

shack

nebborjk wrote:

Possibly the most overrated movie of all time. There's no way this movie should have won any awards. It over achieved just by getting nominated.

Agree 100%!

BIZILL

shack wrote:

Agree 100%!

agree 101%. and not due to the '**** factor', but the movie just sucked. even if it were a movie about straight folk, it would have been boring.

Kris Siegel

aaharvel wrote:

I thought i started this in the movie threads not the clubhouse. my mistake.

Moved

Ern Dog

I saw it at the theaters and enjoyed it and I will be renting the DVD to watch it again soon. I thought the actors and the producers took a Huge risk by telling this story. It definetly pushed me out of my comfort zone.

Skynut

I wasnt' going to reply again but my kids saw this movie at their dads house.
when they started to tell us about it they were real confused about why they saw a movie about **** cowboys.
It was pretty funny hearing them describe the movie but the bottom line is they did not like it.

Demiurge

It was a real stick in the mud for us.

danger boy

Skynut wrote:

I wasnt' going to reply again but my kids saw this movie at their dads house.
when they started to tell us about it they were real confused about why they saw a movie about **** cowboys.
It was pretty funny hearing them describe the movie but the bottom line is they did not like it.

Umm how old are your kids? It's not a kids movie. It's aimed at adults.

Skynut

10 y/o boy and 14 y/o girl.
And you are right, not a kids movie and we were concerned about dads choice of movies.
we aren't all that great about movies either with all the R rated movies we let them see.

bobman1235

If you take out the ****, it's a sad / tragic love story, but one that's been told a million times. The only thing that set this apart from 20 years of goofy romantic "chick flicks" was the fact that there was a homosexual element to it.

danger boy

bobman1235 wrote:

If you take out the ****, it's a sad / tragic love story, but one that's been told a million times. The only thing that set this apart from 20 years of goofy romantic "chick flicks" was the fact that there was a homosexual element to it.

1 **** themed cowboy movie in 20 yrs VS 2000 goofy chick flick movies.. and i don't see a problem with that. but alot of people wigged out on that fact.

aaharvel

nice, civil discourse.
Well done fellas.

Skynut

So far so good but we all know how the last 4 or 5 BBM threads ended.

MacLeod

aaharvel wrote:

probably the best movie since the LOTR trilogy.

Im simply speechless.

I dont even know where to start to disagree with this.

aaharvel

i haven't been big on the movies that have come out in the past few years. Too many have catered to the MTV crowd, special effects over characterizations. simple as that.

bobman1235

aaharvel wrote:

i haven't been big on the movies that have come out in the past few years. Too many have catered to the MTV crowd, special effects over characterizations. simple as that.

There's a LOT of movies that come out every year. Stop just watching the blockbusters and dig a little under the surface and you can find some really good movies if you're not into the special effects MTV movies. Cuz if Brokeback is the best movie you've seen in years, then you either really like sappy love stories (which is fine) or you need to broaden your horizons. (I don't mean that as an insult, just a suggestion.)

aaharvel

bobman1235 wrote:

There's a LOT of movies that come out every year. Stop just watching the blockbusters and dig a little under the surface and you can find some really good movies if you're not into the special effects MTV movies. Cuz if Brokeback is the best movie you've seen in years, then you either really like sappy love stories (which is fine) or you need to broaden your horizons. (I don't mean that as an insult, just a suggestion.)

none taken

MacLeod

aaharvel wrote:

i haven't been big on the movies that have come out in the past few years. Too many have catered to the MTV crowd, special effects over characterizations. simple as that.

Thats a good point.

There have been a lot of fluff movies that seem to have been releases just to release something.

There have been a few that I liked that along those lines but youre right that most have been forgetable to say the least.

No wonder Hollywoods sales are down something like 13%! Theyll snap out of it tho surely. There is too much creativity in that town to keep making crap.

Skynut

MacLeod wrote:

No wonder Hollywoods sales are down something like 13%! Theyll snap out of it tho surely. There is too much creativity in that town to keep making crap.

They have talent but no balls.
They want guarantied profits and therefore they do not like to take chances.
They would rather re-make any movie that was a hit than take a chance of loosing money.
Once they feel it in their pocket books they my tap into their combined creativity and try something new but not till they have to.