Freepers react to 'Brokeback' leading the Oscar nominations

[Scooter24]

To: Dr. Scarpetta
That is one sorry crop of overpraised leftist twaddle and historical revisionism. They couldn't even throw in one decent movie like "Walk the Line" for the 95 percent of Americans who aren't liberal, gay, Left Coast, Bush-hating anti-war protesters. The only one of the bunch that deserves to be nominated for "Best Picture" at all is "Capote," which really was excellent, but hardly a box office giant.
If I were programming one of the other networks, I'd put a John Wayne movie opposite the Oscar telecast this year and bury it in the ratings .
32 posted on 01/31/2006 6:01:59 AM PST by HHFi
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To: clawrence3
Also, these people do not understand that...when they push the envelope so blatantly far...further destroying the credibility of the Motion Picture Academy...even independents who care little about the gay issue...start to say "now wait a minute!"

The blatancy of this blows my mind. Why don't they just rename it the Gay Academy Awards and get it over with?

These people all want Brokeback to be up there with Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.
48 posted on 01/31/2006 6:05:09 AM PST by GermanBusiness
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To: itsinthebag
These nuts aren't cowboys; they are SHEEP HERDERS.
53 posted on 01/31/2006 6:06:11 AM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Other categories for which 'Brokeback' was nominated include: Best Depiction of a Dingleberry, Best Portrayal of Unsafe Sex, Most Unique Trashing of a Marriage Vow, and (the one that has critics all atwitter) Best Sound Effects.
74 posted on 01/31/2006 6:10:47 AM PST by AD from SpringBay
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To: DollyCali
Hollyweird's nod to the homosexual agenda of normalizing perversion
Just another reason not to give my money to those who produce, star in and make
such anti-moral sinful crap!

BTW how long did Rome last after it began its slide into immorality?
120 posted on 01/31/2006 6:25:20 AM PST by apackof2
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To: princess leah
I agree.It's really nauseating the way they're shoving this crap down our collective throats.I think they feel that if they(HW)just innundate us with homosexual themed movies,eventually we'll just accept it.So they keep cranking out this crap,but no one(besides libs and homosexuals)is watching this stuff.
122 posted on 01/31/2006 6:26:22 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: Racehorse
How about a REAL cowboy movie - someone above suggested John Wayne?
144 posted on 01/31/2006 6:33:10 AM PST by clawrence3
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:rofl:

I should also note, that as of today, Brokeback Mountain is the 8th top-grossing Western film of all-time. It could easily move up to the 4th or 5th spots.

Rank Title / Lifetime Gross
1 Dances With Wolves / $184,208,848
2 Maverick / $101,631,272
3 Unforgiven / $101,157,447
4 Back to the Future Part III / $87,727,583
5 Open Range / $58,331,254
6 Shanghai Noon / $56,937,502
7 Tombstone / $56,505,065
8 Brokeback Mountain / $51,024,343

[TlalocW]

1. I don't know... I just can't get behind that kind of lifestyle

Being a cowboy, I mean, not being gay. :)

TlalocW

[Atman]

3. I finally tried it

Riding a horse, I mean.

[Atman]

2. The right's strategy was to ignore it out of existence

They knew that every time the protest a movie like this, it just draws attention to it, so they tried a different approach...and the movie is still succeeding! It must be blowing their...uh...minds!

[BOSSHOG]

4. "Shoving this down our collective throats"

Forcing us to our knees. Pounding our asses over and over again. Please make them stop.

Gosh, maybe hollywood should make a movie about trailor trash and incest so free republic members could have a nice family night out.

[sui generis]

7. I just want to say look fuckers,

we watched Joe Dirt. You've already given us your finest. Quit bitching you pansy ass sissies. Take it like a man. We watch your cootch stuff all the time without freaking out and having a hissy fit. Stop whining you bunch of whiny girlie-man wimps.

:evilgrin:

[poverlay]

9. Thanks for the smile BOSSHOG. n/t

[dsc]

5. Back to the Future Part 3 being called a Western is a stretch

though in all fairness many Westerns in the 50's made less actual dollars but in real terms made way more money. That still is very impressive. Of the ones I watched it is by fare the best though Tombstone and Unforgiven are very good films in their own rights.

[ET Awful]

6. I love how the guy tries to promote 'Walk the Line' a movie about a guy

who was the antithesis of Republican thought . . . I wonder if HHFi has ever heard "Man in Black."

I like how he first bashes Brokeback Mountain because it is about gay men, but praises 'Capote'.

:rofl: These folks really ain't too freakin' bright.

The moran actually thinks that airing a John Wayne film opposite the Oscars will hurt the shows ratings? BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[zbdent]

8. According to them, Hollywood needs more snuff films

er, I mean, more "Passion of the Christ" type films . . .

[davidinalameda]

10. Shanghai Noon?

does anyone admit to seeing that movie?

[terrya]

11. Capote was a movie about a gay man

I guess their homophobia is selective. :eyes:

Love the thing about how "Brokeback Mountain" is being "crammed down our collectiv throats". Untrue, and interesting that they would use that particular phrase...

[sui generis]

13. yes but Capote didn't violate any masculine stereotypes

that's the core issue.

It's okay to be gay, as long as you're not married, uppity about your property, a clever unthreatening hairdresser or socialite, and as far in the closet as the back wall will permit.

[SushiFan]

31. Excellent counterpoint. I had never thought of

that myself. It's true, though. The straights fool themselves into thinking all the gays who can "pass" don't do anything nasty with each other ever. A swish in a dress or out of drag however reminds them of what they hate.


They really are stupid in their bigotry.

[TechBear_Seattle]

15. Their Freudian slips are showing n/t

[GodlessBiker]

12. They gotta get a life over there. Some of them are obsessed with this.

[BR_Parkway]

14. Surely the guy asking about the fall of Rome is referring to Julius

Bush (or would it be George Ceasar?).

[kevinbgoode]

26. Gosh..and I thought the fall of Rome was partially caused

by the intolerance of the "christians" of the day - a group that refused to accept anyone else's right to worship as they chose but demanded that all bow down to their version of God or face death.

Er. . .or maybe I just heard that on the American "Family" Association radio network.

[William769]

16. Thanks, this made my day!

[joeybee12]

17. How is fiction "historical revisionism"??

I mean, is this guy that stupid? Probably.

[ropi]

19. amen

i was wondering that myself.

[joeybee12]

20. Perhaps we should be charitable and Christian and understanding...

AFter all, at the mention of the word gay, all blood probably stops rushing to his head.

[xchrom]

18. they love to glorify their ignorance don't they?

[pro_blue_guy]

21. Do the people who make these hateful comments even look at us as humans?

Comments like this get me down; these people don't look at homosexuals for who they are, they look at us as a sexual act. I would like to be defined by my accomplishments and personality (those speak for themselves). I am proud of who I am; I am proud to be gay; but I am disheartened whenever I hear these statements that suggest we (myself and all of my homosexual brothers and sisters) are subhuman.


Hate does nothing for society.

[TexasProgressive]

22. Same Here, Man

Just when I think I'm over it, I read something that brings me down again.

Here's what really gets me down. Homophobia extends beyond the obvious suspects, like inbred dumbass moran freepers.

I'm so fucking tired of this. I've lived with it for too long.

True story. I know a man who lives in Nevada and manages a cattle ranch. Not a "dude ranch" but an honest to God working cattle ranch. We met when we were both 23. That was a while back. We were lovers. He is the real thing. All man. All gay. I see his face in every single frame of "Brokeback Mountain" and it breaks my heart. He lives completely in the closet.

It's sad.

[NMMNG]

23. No, they don't look at us as humans

Or at least not as complete humans. They look at us as people engaged in a sex act that they see as perverted, and nothing more. They simply can't see past that to see that we are more than something that is roughly 0.5% of our life (give our take), for those of us who are actually sexually active. And the reality is that most of them don't want to, for it is much easier than to keep hating as they have been taught than to learn the truth and put down their hate.

[Momgonepostal]

24. The Johnny Cash lover in the OP obviously hasn't...

listened to the lyrics of "Man in Black," one of the most leftist songs ever by a mainstream artist:

MAN IN BLACK
(Johnny Cash)

« © '71 House Of Cash »

Well you wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my back
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well there's a reason for the things that I have on

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down
Livin' in the hopeless hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because he's a victim of the times

I wear the black for those who've never read
Or listened to the words that Jesus said
About the road to happiness through love and charity
Why you'd think he's talking straight to you and me

Well we're doin' mighty fine I do suppose
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there oughta be a man in black

I wear it for the sick and lonely old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in morning for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men

And I wear it for the thousands who have died
Believin' that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died
Believin' that we all were on their side

Well there's things that never will be right I know
And things need changin' everywhere you go
But till we start to make a move to make a few things right
You'll never see me wear a suit of white

Oh I'd love to wear a rainbow every day and tell the world that everything's okay
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back
Till things're brighter I'm the man in black

[kevinbgoode]

25. One wonders how much time the Freeps spend on trying

to create more imaginary rhetoric that pretends there were never any gay people in the world until the liberal drag queens rioted at the Stonewall Inn.

Again, they sound more and more like the only thing that is breaking the straw on their camel's back is their personal humiliation that even gay sheepherders in the repressive "conservative" early 1960's could find each other and fall in love - while it appears that wondrous gift from God continues to elude even the most venomous Freeper.

Ah well. . .maybe they are all just trying to say - "If I'm not gonna get married cuz no one loves me, then I sure as hell don't want the "fags" to get hitched."

Let's start a campaign to round up all the old Doris Day singles of "Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be)" and ship them off to FreeperLand.

[tfizzle]

27. I doubt that considering that

the movie is based on a short story, not actual events. Further, not sure how you can qualify that these 2 are in love, when the only thing that they do is sex each other up. To me thats not love. Its not as though its a tragic love story, the one guy goes out and gets/gives it to/from other guys when hes not with Heath. Hardly a love story.. :puke: its all about sexing each other up. . . And beyond that, how could someone who has made such a painstaking effort to hide his relationship with a guy for years, just all of a sudden break down and rush to embrace/kiss him for the world to see? It doesnt make sense..

Did you ever think that maybe the movie isnt all that good?

[mitchtv]

28. it was more than sex

when Jack drove from TX to WY upon news of ennis' divorce and said "I'm here" convinced me he loved ennis. So you can't have sex with another, when your affection is stifled? Maybe you had your mind made up before.I thought it was a good movie. Enjoy your stay at DU.

[xchrom]

29. did you actually stop to really think about it?

not so different from stanley kowalski eh?

or do you know who that is?

everyone knows it's based on a short story -- but a short story that has remarkable resonance with what actually happens in peoples lives.

it seems fairly obvious you didn't see the movie from the sexed up comments -- because the two actually spend more time not having sex in each others company than having it.

enjoy your stay -- i have a feeling it will be short.

[Chalice_Thunder]

30. Disagree.

The love between the 2 was VERY much in evidence all over the movie...at least from my perspective. Contrary to what the talibangelists would have you believe, this is NOT a movie all about sex.

I think it's a beautiful, tragic, and extraordinary story of love between 2 men (along with the consequences of that love)