Brokebaaaack
The Golden Globes are upon us, and if the hype is to be believed, "Brokeback Mountain" leads the pack.
The PR for this film keeps insisting that it's not just just a "gay cowboy"movie.
And they are right: it's not.
It's a gay SHEPHERD movie.
These guys wrangle sheep, not cows! And do we really have to ask what young men and sheep get up to all day?
Full disclosure: I haven't seen the movie. But I read the story.
The film critics keep dancing around the central scene, saying things like "the filmmakers avoided the more graphic depictions of the relationship between the two men " yadda yadda.
Let me spell it out for you: they mean they left out the "Deliverance" scene. Presumably so they can pretend "Brokeback Mountain" was really a lovely, tender, romantic story.
It has all the tenderness of "Deliverance." And none of the "Duelling Banjos."
Just what one wants in a date movie.
The PR for this film keeps insisting that it's not just just a "gay cowboy"movie.
And they are right: it's not.
It's a gay SHEPHERD movie.
These guys wrangle sheep, not cows! And do we really have to ask what young men and sheep get up to all day?
Full disclosure: I haven't seen the movie. But I read the story.
The film critics keep dancing around the central scene, saying things like "the filmmakers avoided the more graphic depictions of the relationship between the two men " yadda yadda.
Let me spell it out for you: they mean they left out the "Deliverance" scene. Presumably so they can pretend "Brokeback Mountain" was really a lovely, tender, romantic story.
It has all the tenderness of "Deliverance." And none of the "Duelling Banjos."
Just what one wants in a date movie.
I saw the movie on Friday and they did not leave out the "Deliverance" scene. I don't know what I was expecting, but I was shocked and disappointed that the first "encounter" between the shepherds was so physical, empty, violent and lacking in tenderness. And it strikes me that the character Jack was something of a sexual predator. Maybe the depictions in the movie are making a point, but I am not sure what it is. Not my idea of a date movie either.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't sound like a funny movie.
ReplyDeleteI simply cannot be bothered by unfunny movies.
-J.
no straight man would go see a romance movie anyway. especially one featuring un-straight men.
ReplyDeletereal men want to see explosions,gunfights, and hooters. preferably at the same time.
brokebaaahk has neither.
i'll take a pass.
I'm not so sure, ginuzz. I enjoy a good romance film... and many without explosions and gunfights.
ReplyDeleteForget Paris was good, but I don't think it was a big hit. Love Actually was quite good.
Just to make sure I balance my reputation I love Raiders of the Lost Arc, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, LA Confidential, and Spider-Man.
;)
Is Broke Back the fictional name of a mountain or a sexual position?
ReplyDeleteno straight man would go see a romance movie anyway.
ReplyDeleteEven if it has Maureen O'Hara in it? I mean, have you even /seen/ "The Quiet Man"? I mean, you can't hang with "Casablanca" either?
Don't overcompensate; it's unseemly.