The "Latecomers" Brokeback Mountain Thread

[KristinBelle]

I hated that movie.

I hated it too! I really thought I'd like it after reading all the glowing reviews but it was terrible. I thought the movie dragged on forever and I didn't feel sorry for the 2 main characters at all, I didn't even like them. The only thing I liked was the cinematography, it was a pretty movie.

 

[ButchJohnson]

I watched it the other week, and decided that I was gay, so I kicked my girlfriend out of the house, because it made me realize that our pool boy was who I was really in love with. (He wears a cowboy hat.)

No but seriously, I will rent this just as soon as I get around to renting the Bennifer film "Gigli" CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! Its 2nd after that.

 

[thewishfire]

I saw the movie a few months ago and really enjoyed it. It was very well acted and beautifully tragic. I'd really like to buy it someday. As a few other posters have said, after all the people I've heard going on and on about how great this movie is I was ready to be let down... but of course I wasn't.

 

[AuntieM03]

I liked the movie okay I just wish Heath Ledger had made a different acting choice. He took me out of the movie with his accent. It was a beautifully filmed movie.

 

[sotoalf]

- The only thing I really disliked about the movie was I felt it glorified adultery. Was the watcher supposed to be happy that Jack and Ennis cheated on their wives over such a long period of time? This is a sticky point with me. I think marriage vows are VERY serious and I felt this movie made the watcher want to cheer for Ennis and Jack to be unfaithful..

This was another unsupported criticism I've heard for months. How on earth does the film "glorify" adultery? The two men's lives are destroyed, as are the lives of their wives and children. Thanks to Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway's vividness given their limited screen time, the two wives were sympathetically drawn.

 

[smartestnumber5]

This was another unsupported criticism I've heard for months. How on earth does the film "glorify" adultery? The two men's lives are destroyed, as are the lives of their wives and children. Thanks to Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway's vividness given their limited screen time, the two wives were sympathetically drawn.

I never really understood the concern about adultery either. Weren't the marriages already shams in the first place? While marriage vows don't explicitly say anything like "I promise that I really am physically and emotionally attracted to you and I am not marrying you simply because I can't safely be with the person I truly love and everyone expects me to get married and have kids anyway," I'd say that promise is kind of implicit in the whole act of marrying. I take it that the wrongness of adultery is the breaking of a special promise that comes out of a certain kind of love--romantic and sexual love. But Enis and Jack never had this kind of love for their wives (or at least, it seems that is what the audience is supposed to assume), thus they couldn't even make the promise of fidelity with its usual meaning, so I don't think they could commit adultery with it's usual meaning either.

 

[poohandwendy]

I just watched BBM the other night, very moving and sad.

I thought the wifes description of his death was purposely left it up to the watcher to decide. For me, it showed another aspect of the difficulty, not knowing the truth because he was not able to even have the dignity of the facts, like a spouse would have.

And it also showed the turmoil for the wife, that she may have suspected more...or that she was kept out of the loop by those involved...or that it may have only been an accident but that she could never know the truth because their relationship was clouded in mystery, so much so that even his death was not clear cut.

 

[poohandwendy]

I never really understood the concern about adultery either.

I don't think it glorified adultry at all. I think is cast a different light on the damage of adultery. That no matter what the deception, no matter if there isn't much love in a marriage...it is still extremely painful and damaging for all involved.

 

[sotoalf]

I thought the wifes description of his death was purposely left it up to the watcher to decide. For me, it showed another aspect of the difficulty, not knowing the truth because he was not able to even have the dignity of the facts, like a spouse would have.

And it also showed the turmoil for the wife, that she may have suspected more...or that she was kept out of the loop by those involved...or that it may have only been an accident but that she could never know the truth because their relationship was clouded in mystery, so much so that even his death was not clear cut.

Yes. There's that heartbreaking moment when suddenly Lureen finally understands who Ennis is and what he meant to Jack; she lets out a tight whimper and her eyes cloud over. It's a great piece of acting by Hathaway.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I saw it and I thought it pretty much sucked. I was thouroughly bored.

However, I think most movies suck. I'm pretty hard on movies in general, I've said that a million times.