About That Flop, Brokeback Mountain
No God Zone, a blog I'll be visiting frequently, posts comments from people who have seen the alleged flop, Brokeback Mountain. The most interesting comment is at the bottom of this blog item, posted by a fundie:
‘I was dying to see it so badly and Wednesday I drove 90 minutes to the closest theatre that was playing it... and after watching it I wanted to see it even more badly than I wanted to before I saw it. I have never been so emotionally attached to a film in all of my life. ““Oh my God, I though that was just me! This film moved and affected me so much, I can't concentrate on anything!”
“It's playing about five miles from my house, so it's a constant temptation. I've seen it nine times and the tenth is just days (or hours) away. I'm so afraid I'll never see such beauty on a screen again, I just have to store up memories for the future. *sigh*”
“I've driven 60 minutes twice now to see it and I just saw in the paper today that it's now in my town!!! I feel like a kid on Christmas Morning!! Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend!!!”
“I just saw it last night for the third time and it hit me more than the last! sigh! It's just such an amazing movie!! So much to digest!!”
“I too find this movie will not let me go. I saw it 6 days ago and think about it endlessly all day long. It kept me up for most of the first night I saw it. I'm AFRAID to go see it again because I'm afraid all this emotion isn't good for me and the baby, poor thing (she's due in early March). But oh how I WANT to. This is the first place I actually felt like I could talk about it because I don't think anyone I know would get it. I saw it with my mom and either she wasn't as deeply affected as me or she's lying. My husband definately wouldn't get it. I wish I could stop this obsession!!!”
Here, says No God, are excerpts from one posting that make it clear why the religious nutters hate the film:
‘Last weekend, I was in Dallas and - to make a long story short - I ended up "having" to see this film. It definitely was NOT my choice to do so, but to avoid a confrontation, I relented. Everybody makes this sort of compromise sooner or later, right? If the film we wanted to see hadn't been sold out, I don't think I'd ever have seen ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”“It's been four days since I saw the film, and progressively, day after day, I have been forced to admit that I am ashamed of the way I felt about homosexuals. I literally had no concept of what life is truly like for these individuals, and must continue to be. In my heart I know that good, wholesome, long-standing friends of mine - true-believing Christians - have made life horrible for these people when they go out of their way to bad mouth them behind their backs...”
“I can't explain what I'm feeling, but I haven't had this kind of doubt (about the church I go to) since I made the decision a long, long time ago to leave the family business against my father's wishes. I also didn't go into the same branch of the armed forces that he went into. Which is another story. In a way, I guess, my own personal history and my relationship with a disapproving (and uneducated) father somehow made me "get" what Heath Ledger's character goes through. Let me just say that a lot of heartache was involved. The God I believe in, that I teach my kids to trust, would never wish the kind of pain that I went through on anyone, which really I now know for real, is the same kind of pain homosexuals must go through just to live what for them is an honest life, and the choice they must make. I'd never had my eyes opened to this before, not ONE IOTA.”
via ifeminist
I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good but not amazing.
What I found interesting is that the movie is such more about homophobia then anything else. And how homophobia, internal and societal, distroys lives.
I think the fundies comments fits with my reaction to the movie. Except that being a big Mo my eyes were already wide open.
alex the sea turtle at January 24, 2006 9:24 AM
I think compared to Boys in the Band or Midnight Cowboy, it's a MOW. Universal is pushing this because they don't have anything else.
KateCoe at January 24, 2006 10:09 AM
...speaking of advertising, could this be "someone" who is mentioned under the "psychiatry blame game" heading here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10696065/
bev at January 24, 2006 4:51 PM
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