Brokeback Mountain

[ILLBFIRE]

In my book cheating is CHEATING!!!

No self-respecting man would stand for his husband to have sex with other man.

 

[Spensed]

In my book cheating is CHEATING!!!

No self-respecting man would stand for his husband to have sex with other man.

As a generalization, that, obviously, isn't true.

Many self-respecting people just don't give "cheating" the same focus or weight that you do.

In Brokeback, Ennis gets some self-respect towards the end of the story and at that point Jack's "cheating" isn't anything Ennis cares at all about.

 

[theprojectzero]

No! No! I dun't like Brokeback Mountain! Am i the only gay that hate it?

Sorry guys! I just gotta say this. Brokeback Mountain sucks! It's drop dead boring.

I mean come on! It could be better, man! I almost fell asleep with my friends. I say, Brokeback Mountain is just sume stupid movie to get your money.

But i gotta say that the storyline is good and emotional, but still could be better! I guess after the movie finish, i'm like is that it? I mean the end? Haha... I thought the ending would be better! Wotever. I'm nut happy with it! Hehe... Cheers, mate!

 

[Joshua]

Brokeback Mountain sucks! It's drop dead boring. (...) I almost fell asleep with my friends. I say, Brokeback Mountain is just sume stupid movie to get your money.

Would you mind to name certain scenes and give reasons why you found them drop dead boring and stupid?

 

[ILLBFIRE]

The movie is was kinda slow and at times boring, made even worst by all that cheating.

 

[sunoftheskye]

I liked it, but I think it's overrated. I didn't cry that much, just got a little teary eyed (which is a rarity for me, at the end of Boys On The Side when Mary Louise Parker died I fell out on my kitchen floor and started sobbing--I even cried when I saw the Spider-Man 2 trailer), but I think it's because it's one of those movies where like...it was so sad I couldn't cry. Like it was just tragic, and haunting. It's hard for me to even watch it again.

 

[Raven03]

I thought it was overrated as well but still enjoyed it. Though the last scene with ennis and Jack had annoyed me because there was a huge ass fly on the side of Heath's face when they were arguing.lol

 

[marcelo]

very impressed with michelle williams acting! never thought she could act, and this movie proved me wrong

 

[Fallen1984]

I saw it before much of the hype had built, and I still thought it was beautiful on a very fundamental level, even regardless of the gay factor. It should have won the Oscar, but the Academy is far more white, older, and conservative, than one might imagine, and many old-school members, notably Ernest Borgnine and Tony Curtis, who spoke to the press about it, basically said that they didn't even watch it because the subject matter disgusted them, sight unseen. So they gave it to that glorified after school special pablum Crash (and FYI that is exactly how I described it MONTHS before I saw BBM).

And this from the same Tony Curtis who made such a pretty girl in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.....hmm.

 

[santiagofarias]

But it's difficult to explain why they awarded best director to Ang Lee. I think they did this for balance cos they feared that to give both awards to BBM might outrage the public. ----------just a thought.

Many Academy members said publicly that they did not see BBM. They said the storyline just turned them off.

How can they vote for it if they didn't see it?


I really believe that's how Crash won.

 

[-live-]

Watched this film the over day, thought was good, got a question though (ill put it in spolier cos if you aint seen it then gives it away!

Spoiler

Was the gay guy who were killed(think he were called Jack), did his wife know he were killed for being gay or did she think it were for the tire reason???

Plus were a proper sad film not usaully my seen ethier.

 

[seijnsational]

ok this is going to get so much flame but here goes....

a) operafan... what part were you in the movie?

b) It lost because it sucked..... Crash was the better movie and deserved it over this over hyped piece of trash (ok that was a bit harsh... this wasn't a bad movie just waay too slow)

c) I honestly felt more at the end of Crash than at the end of BBM... it just didn't seem realistic to me...

Have I told you lately that I love you the Fallen God? I felt the exact same way. I had to sit through it several times because I kept falling asleep. And when they finally "did it" it was so ridiculously instinctive for two people who allegedly had never done it before? WTF!

I wish MY first time was so seamless.

 

[hubbellgardner]

The very fact that we're still debating this film a year and more after its release seems to indicate its intrinsic worth. And this cheating discussion is interesting despite clear indications that Ennis sleeps with various women during the long periods between seeing Jack... So many responses to BBM ignore another huge factor - this story was set in remote Montana/ Wyoming over 40 years ago- they COULDN'T be together in a relationship without risking certain violence. We tend to forget just how unforgiving society was back then and there was no such thing as an easy `coming out '. For me, that's what makes this masterpiece so haunting in its understated resonance - they truly loved each other- but could not be together.

 

[Spensed]

The very fact that we're still debating this film a year and more after its release seems to indicate its intrinsic worth. And this cheating discussion is interesting despite clear indications that Ennis sleeps with various women during the long periods between seeing Jack... So many responses to BBM ignore another huge factor - this story was set in remote Montana/ Wyoming over 40 years ago- they COULDN'T be together in a relationship without risking certain violence. We tend to forget just how unforgiving society was back then and there was no such thing as an easy `coming out '. For me, that's what makes this masterpiece so haunting in its understated resonance - they truly loved each other- but could not be together.

....although it wasn't just the anti-gay world they found themselves in that kept them apart.

Even risking the gay-hating violence that probably killed Jack, some gay couples back then did have a life together on the downlow. Certainly that's want Jack wanted and what he thought they could have. Ennis just didn't want it.

This is partly explained by his homophobia and fearfulness, but not wholly. Different guys want different things. The two of them got enmeshed in a powerful romatic love story despite or because of their differences. Whether that means that "they truly loved each other", I'm not so sure. Maybe by the end, they did.