It’s “was effective and moving.”
Look, dude, I know it was about gay people, but you don’t HAVE to jump on the gay bandwagon and try to somehow pretend that it was a brilliant movie. It wasn’t. Interesting but flawed is about the best I could say for it.
Ooh, you got me. I’m a shill for Brokeback Mountain because it’s about gay people. That’s the only reason I liked it and the only reason that I’ve said nice things about it. Damn, now I’ve been exposed and I’ll stop getting my gay royalty checks.
The mother accepted her son. The father didn’t. No way. He more or less knew about his son, but was determined to deny him his dream of having his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain. He was determined to deny Jack’s ashes to Ennis. He was determined to hurt Ennis with that little line about Jack hooking up “with this new fella.” Everyone in the movie was all about denying Jack his dreams. Everyone criticized him for his fantasies and his dreams. They all insisted he do what he was supposed to and give up all that silly dreaming. In the end he paid the price for dreaming, and his father was going to punish him for those dreams, even after death.
Ennis was a pain in the ass. I don’t think you were supposed to connect with him. You were supposed to be frustrated with him, because you’ve known a man very much like him. Someone you want to grab and shake and smack around and say “wake the fuck up! I’m standing right here! You could have everything!” But guys like Ennis never open up. Or they open up ten, or twenty, or thirty years too late.
I think it was somewhat groundbreaking, but I really don’t think it was door opening. I really don’t. We’re not going to see a upsurge in big budget, skillfully directed gay movies that aren’t horribly cliche.
Hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see it.
I’ll be old and using a walker before we see a good gay James Bond who gets the guy. And by “gets the guy” I don’t mean “kills the bad guy.”
Fine. Than you’re just laying the praise on obnoxiously thick and dismissing the opinions of people who didn’t think it was TEH MOST BRILLIANT MOVIE EVAR!!!11!1one!
There was The Hours 'bout four years back.
Ooh, you got me again, because every post I’ve made on the film has been drooling fanboy. It’s like you can see into my soul.
It’s so cute watching you two fight. 
I liked it a lot. Having grown up in that area, I knew lots of men (including my dad) who had a great deal of difficulty showing their emotions. I thought that both actors nailed the characterization.
The one thing that bothered me was their accents. I’ve noticed that in movies before–that anyone who lives between the Rockies and the Mississippi must speak with a southern accent.
I have heard the “nothing happens in some scenes” complaint from a few people about BBM, but I still don’t get it. I thought things were happening and the plot was progressing in every scene. There was a lot of detail, subtleties, nuances and layers. Sure, two guys riding horses in the mountains doesn’t qualify as “something happening,” but it shows an aspect of their relationship. Think of The Straight Story: there are many scenes where you just see the old fellow on his John Deere traveling down a road and the Midwestern landscape. Nothing much happening, but it shows his devotion to his brother and how much land he has to cover during his journey.
Things can be "happening" in a movie and that still doesn't necessarily make it interesting. Consider the remake of **King Kong** (looks great but leaves you empty), **Memoirs of a Geisha** (first hour is engaging; last 90 minutes are a long, tedious slog); and **The New World** (reminded me of a Calvin Klein commercial with way too much interior monologue; I fidgeted some of the time and dozed during the rest).And Monster, right around the same time.
Well, in Monster it was more a facet of the overall story, not the main theme, at least IMO.
I forgot about *The Hours[i/], mostly because I haven’t seen it. But I don’t remember the hype surrounding it and buzz generated that I did for BB.
Yeah, I thought Heath Ledger, in particular, was excellent at portraying a certain type of emotionally closed off man. But, I did find it a bit overlong and got really tired of the guitar. Confession: I wound up fast forwarding with the subtitles on through a fair bit of it. Still enjoyed it but it didn’t take as long…
Monster wasn’t nominated for Best Picture; Charlize Theron was nominated (and won) for Best Actress.
I did not think much of it. I watch a lot of LGBT movies and of the ones I’ve seen, it was probably my least favorite. I loved the scenery but he sex scenes made me laugh.
I didn’t love it, but neither did I think it was all that. I watched it because so many of my friends have said “it’s fantastic, you’ll love it, it’s the best movie I’ve seen in a long time”. Well…it wasn’t. That may be in part because it’s not a genre that I typically like anyway - cowboy movies, romance movies…not really my thing. Maybe it was because I couldn’t really relate to the main characters, or maybe because I had a hard time following the story (it took me a while to figure out that they were going on fishing trips together - probably because I kept getting distracted while trying to watch it, a sign that I’m just not that into a movie I’m trying to watch).
I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it, but as a movie it just didn’t draw me into the story. It did for a lot of people, and I’m ok with that. Just don’t tell me I have to love it because it’s a movie about gay men. Let me not like it because I just didn’t, even if I can’t put my finger on just why.
It was just dopey from the first scene.
Not Revenge of the Spiderwoman by a longshot.
I meant *Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) *William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
And thank god for that. What a horrible drippy movie that was.
I was prepared to be underwhelmed, and not only did I like it, I liked it a lot.
I do not pretend to be an expert on gay male sex but it sure seemed like those two boys had some kind of chemistry.
Yes, the film was indeed slow-moving; I watched it over a period of two nights.
But I very much enjoyed its subtleties, the unsaid stuff.
Bittersweet as it was, I especially enjoyed the last half hour of the film.
I agree with moonstarssun about the accents, they were laid on a bit thick. I realize that part of the movie takes place in Texas, but don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in Wyoming speak quite like that.