Ok, it's a big hit, it won the Golden Globe...

[Archae]

But anyone else besides me have NO intention of seeing "Brokeback Mountain?"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. I WANT to see it....

But it's rated R, and I'm under 17, and neither of my parents intends on seeing it.....

x(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. So you have TWO choices.......

Wait until you're 18......or buy or rent the DVD......

I'm sure it won't be too long before it's out on DVD!

:bounce: :bounce:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. I'm gonna have to wait until the DVD, I guess, Peg.

I've got a few years yet until I am legally an adult. ;)

But I'll be damned if I don't see it sometime, somewhere!

:toast:

[ohiosmith]

2. Count me out too.

[henslee]

32. delted oops.

[Misunderestimator]

3. Why?

[progmom]

4. for any particular reason?

:shrug:

[Misunderestimator]

5. Jinx

[progmom]

7. buy me a coke?

:hi:

[Misunderestimator]

9. Ha!

Of course. :hi:

[progmom]

18. and not one of those weird diet cokes you have

no - i want one with real, honest-to-goodness nutrasweet.

:D

[Archae]

10. Simply put...

I don't like movies about cowboys, gay or not.

Last good western I saw was "The Shootist."

[Scout]

14. you might not mind it ... there wasn't THAT much actual

cowboyin' stuff, besides the outfits. There's some cowboy stuff yeah, but there's parts without it too.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

25. "cowboyin' stuff"

I beg to differ. There was plenty of that.

[LostinVA]

31. It's not a cowboy movie, it's a movie about two cowboys

Not the same thing. I'd call it a very good character-driven dramatic love story.

[gollygee]

8. I want to see it

we'll get it when it's on Netflix though. It's hard to find a babysitter.

[terrya]

11. It's a free country....

if you don't want to see it, don't.

I think that there's so much mindless crap coming out of Hollywood today, genuinely good films should be encouraged and seen.

But, that's just wacky, crazy me.

[ronnykmarshall]

35. Oh you crrrrraaaaaaazy!!!

Maybe they should make a film about Mr. Ed falling in love with Francis the talking mule?

[Scout]

12. I saw it

and while I certainly don't regret seeing it, and enjoyed the acting, the scenery, the story ... I didn't think it was all that much to be so excited about.

Ennis mumbled too much, I missed his dialog a lot of the time :shrug:

[ronnykmarshall]

36. He can mumble in my ear anytime!

Both of them!

Being the slut that I am.

[johnnie]

13. I won't see it n/t

[progmom]

16. also not a fan of westerns?

[johnnie]

19. Actually I'm not a fan of westerns

But, the last time I went to a movie was in 1996 and the last time I rented one was a few years before that.

I don't see too many films and this one looks like a love story. I'm not big on watching those either.

What is sad about this movie is that it is the homosexuality aspect of it that is gaining a large part of the attention. It seems that people question people who don't want to see the film because they might be homophobic or something and the truth is, it just doesn't seem like a movie I would want to go see.

Here we are in 2006 and the content of the film is still this controversial and a lot of people are only concentrating on that aspect rather than if it a good movie or not.


So no, the reason why I won't see this isn't because of the sexual content. It is because I don't go see movies at the theater, I don't rent movies, and I rarely sit for two hours in front of the TV watching movies.

[Misunderestimator]

20. Yeah... and it's sad that here we are in 2006 and homosexuality

is still such a controversial subject. Wild, huh?

[johnnie]

22. I agree

That was my point.

[Misunderestimator]

23. I don't think you do.

You seem to be assuming that this film is only being called good because it is about homosexuals. Why do you make that assumption?

[johnnie]

26. I'm not assuming anything

I said "Here we are in 2006 and the content of the film is still this controversial and a lot of people are only concentrating on that aspect rather than if it a good movie or not". I don't see where I am assuming that the *only* reason that people are saying it is good is because of that.

There are a lot of people that seemed excited because it won the awards it did last night. My guess is that not all the people excited over it saw the movie.

I'm not the best writer here at DU, but I can tell you that I'm not a stupid person. I understand what I see and hear.

[Misunderestimator]

28. Then I misunderstood.

" What is sad about this movie is that it is the homosexuality aspect of it that is gaining a large part of the attention."

[progmom]

21. johnnie

i was just curious. your response was terse and seemed rather vehement. and the presumption of homophobia thing...i think you're imagining that from me. all i did was ask if you didn't like westerns.

[johnnie]

24. I've never been big on westerns

But I haven't really seen this movie being portrayed as a western as much as a love story. I was just wondering why you asked me about westerns.

No biggie. I was just answering the OP asking if anyone else wasn't going to see the movie.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

27. Well, from all the press I've heard about it

everyone involved in the movie is emphasizing that it's a love story, not a gay cowboy movie. I don't think you can blame Ang Lee, et al. for the hype...Just sayin'.

[johnnie]

30. I didn't think it was a western

It looks like a love story from the ads I have seen.

[PittPoliSci]

17. cowboys to me are poison.

i won't watch something with cowboys in it. i don't care how "controversial" the movie is.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

29. As a rancher from Montana

I take great offense to that statement.

[PittPoliSci]

33. my uncle's a farmer?

i've worked on his farm?

that doesn't mean that i dislike cowboys, i just don't like reliving the experience.

[ronnykmarshall]

34. I saw it and loved it.

My SO cried his ass off.

[ContraBass Black]

37. Me also.

I'm not interested in a weepy love story or a western.


But I loved Rent.