That sound you hear . . . Freepers heads exploding

[ProfessorPlum]

Watch the trailer and find out why . . . :)




http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/brokeback_mountain.html

Oh Hollywood, why do you hate America so? /sarcasm


(Edit to fix dumb typo)

[Jessica]

1. That looks incredible.

Thanks for this ... wow.

[skids]

20. Hrm, noone sees what I saw.

Alcohol problem.

Fell off a horse as a teen.

C'mon people, where have we heard that before?

[skids]

2. Hrm, some of those story elements seem a bit...

...familiar, don't they?

:rofl:

[MrModerate]

3. I think it's sort of like the sound when you . . .

Put an M-80 inside a pumpkin.

It's all good.

[Obamarama]

4. I've heard about this movie...looks good!

I'm looking forward to seeing it. I hope this is a realistic portrayal of the ridiculous torment people are still forced to endure thanks to those who believe "traditional" family values are the only ones that count, as opposed to a moralizing "gay men go straight" story.

If it's the latter, I will ask for my money back at the end of the movie.

[ProfessorPlum]

6. From the looks of the trailer

(did you watch it?) it looks like there is much realistic torment and not so much moralizing.

But it is only the trailer, of course.

I can only imagine the outraged editorials that will be aimed at the "Hollywood Elites" after this.

[Obamarama]

8. I just went to IMDB and read the synopsis....

It takes place in 1963, so I imagine it won't be a "happily ever after movie." I'll reserve judgement until I actually see the movie, but if this is another movie where gay characters are portrayed as sad, tormented misfits then I suspect I'll be sorely disappointed.

On the surface, though, I have to admit it looks intruiging.

[confludemocrat]

12. I think the point is that gays were often sad, tormented in the closet &

made misfits by society and their love considered perversions.

[Obamarama]

14. I'm just questioning why we need a cowboy version of Boys In The Band?

As a gay man, I don't want to go sit through 2 hours of internal gay struggle and self-loathing. I went through that myself and don't need a movie to tell me how difficult it was, and unfortunately still is for far too many people.

I just hope there's a more meaningful overall message in the movie other than "gays live sad, conflicted lives."

[Iris]

18. perhaps some straight people will see it and gain some new perspective on

what it means to be gay in America. That is, after all, what literature, movies, art, etc. are supposed to do. You may not be the target audience for this one, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have value.

[Hello_Kitty]

19. I'm straight and I live a sad, conflicted life. n/t

[Sperk]

5. Arrrrrrrrggggghhhhh! Don't HUMANIZE the gays, whatever you DO!

looks great, I think I'll take my homophobe brother to see it.
:evilgrin:

[Canadian Socialist]

7. It was filmed here

in Calgary. I actually saw the two guys (Heath L. & the other one) in a bar on the 17th Ave strip just down the street from where I worked. If I was only 25 years younger... I would have been an incredible slut w/them <sigh>

[fiveleafclover]

9. Don't let numbers stop you

Who knows if we get to slut it up in the afterlife anyway? If there is one?

[leftofthedial]

10. ah, the enduring fable of the gay caballero

[confludemocrat]

11. How many people are gonna see trailer, not get it and go for aCowboy Movie

that they didn't expect? I earlier saw a different version of the trailer without the spooning and hugging.

[tamtam]

15. That is what I was thinking

The freeper types might go to see this movie expecting some bull riding. LOL, I'm sorry but the visual is too much. :rofl:

It looks like it might be a good movie; a little on the sad side though. I wish someone would direct movie more on the lines of Queer as Folk. I miss that show:cry:

[cynatnite]

13. Larry McMurtry wrote the screenplay

I've heard a lot about this movie in the last few months. I plan on seeing it as soon as it comes out.

Proulx (?) wrote the story, I believe.

[kweerwolf]

16. I loved Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" ...

... although Hollywood did the usual dumbing down and cutening up of it.

Her characters are so often sad and tragic things happen to then ... but she has a way of affirming life even in the middle of tragedy.

Normally I never go to a theater to see a film, but this is a case where I'll make an exception ... and bring a couple of boxes of tissues, too.

[brainshrub]

17. Will anyone be eating pudding?

Cartman: Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.

[Up2Late]

21. A movie about two Cowboys who like Hugging and Camping, So?

What the big deal? Lot's of young, viral outdoorsy types like that sort of thing.... :shrug: :silly:

Just kiddin', but I'm afraid I'm going to skip this one, not my type of movie.

But yeah, it should be fun watching the RW popin' blood vessels and raising hell after they sit though the whole movie with a hard on.

Looks like it could be the Gay Guys "Titanic."