20 Years Brokeback Mountain

[cityboy-stl]

I've never seen it. I do not want to sit there bawling, and I cannot take watching another tragic gay love story.
I want a film where the straight people die, and the gay people live happily ever after.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I'm struggling on whether I've seen Brokeback Mountain or not... I don't remember seeing it, but I do know of the movie. But a part of me wonders if I didn't see it at some point and I just don't remember.

If you've seen it, the scene where Jack carves the turkey will come up as a memory. It wouldn't have been featured in any clips or trailers. It was memorable.

 

[Kahaih]

I've never seen it. I do not want to sit there bawling, and I cannot take watching another tragic gay love story.
I want a film where the straight people die, and the gay people live happily ever after.

[Spoiler alert]​

In God's Own Country the dad doesn't die, but is left almost completely disabled (stroke) while the gay guys make nice and live happily ever after running the farm without him.

Will that do?

 

[Kahaih]

I'm struggling on whether I've seen Brokeback Mountain or not... I don't remember seeing it, but I do know of the movie. But a part of me wonders if I didn't see it at some point and I just don't remember.

Don't bother struggling.

Even if you've never seen it, you've seen it all before. BBM is totally predictable, cliche, dull, not a damn thing surprising/interesting, . . . . did I mention dull?

 

[LeicsDom]

it looked a lot like Brokeback Mountain, but I couldn't imagine a major studio doing a film adaptation of that story. When I finally saw it, I was duly impressed.

It is something us Brits do well, small Independent films

 

[LeicsDom]

[Spoiler alert]​

In God's Own Country the dad doesn't die, but is left almost completely disabled (stroke) while the gay guys make nice and live happily ever after running the farm without him.

Will that do?

And plenty of full frontal nudity

 

[cityboy-stl]

[Spoiler alert]​

In God's Own Country the dad doesn't die, but is left almost completely disabled (stroke) while the gay guys make nice and live happily ever after running the farm without him.

Will that do?

I have to find that one.

 

[unloadonme]

I have to find that one.

Do. God's Own Country is an excellent film. I think the producers made a point of saying that it was not just a Yorkshire version of Brokeback Mountain. There are similarities though and, as others have already said, it has a happy ending. Alec Secăreanu who played Gheorghe is sex on legs.

Another film which is perhaps something of an urban version of both of these films is Weekend. In common with God's Own Country, one of the characters, this time played by Tom Cullen, is a dark and somewhat brooding hunk. I don't want to include a spoiler, other than to say that the final scene is not what I was hoping it would be. Highly recommended though.

Weekend (2011 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PalacePaul]

If you really like the genre, there is Ander, a Spanish movie about a farmer's gay awakening. Also the first gay film ever shot in euskera.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ander

 

[pornoboy]

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[Kahaih]

This plays at the closing of God's own Country;

Along with several old clips of farming. Well worth the price of the ticket/dvd, and then some. Of course, for some of us, that way of life wasn't all that long ago.

 

[unloadonme]

And this is the closing music from Weekend.

 

[Kahaih]

Then, of course, there is the Jewish version of Brokeback Mountain;

https://g.co/kgs/pzkJfF3

They don't have any sheep, but Eugene Levy's eyebrows get a lot of screen time, and David wears a lot of sweaters, so it's almost identical to BBM, visually.

 

[rareboy]

 

[fredroy]

I have the DVD. I tried to watch it about a month ago and it almost went to the Library Thrift Shop stack. What is this pretentious "artistic" bullshit? I won't trash a disc, I'll give it away first.

It's on the "to watch stack". I'll give it another try.

 

[backagain]

I saw it when I was out. I grew up in a liberal state that others may have not and had different experiences. I have read a lot of books on gay history. The story seemed very plausible. 2 people succumb to a society and saw no way out. Even within a liberal state, there is always a bit of tension.
I refer to "Paris is burning" A documentary well worth watching came out in 1990 looking at the 80's. Different decades get better, but there is always something to watch out for.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

It's a beautiful movie, but I didn't like it. It smacked too much of those old-fashioned movies where at least one of the lesbians or gay men conveniently dies at the end.

Also, it was more or less presented as a landmark movie, which it certainly wasn't, not story wise and not in cinematography. I hated that.

 

[pornoboy]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

And this is the closing music from Weekend.

My (late lover) Jack loved that, but I've never seen it.

 

[Dominus]

I am one of those old gays that dislike these gay themed movies that have tragic endings. Like, life isn't depressing enough? STOP MAKING GAY THEMED MOVIES WITH TRAGIC SAD ENDINGS.