Posted today on Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site:
REVIEWERS CALL ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’ TWISTED
Gay love story carries a high “ick” factor.
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Posted today on Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site:
REVIEWERS CALL ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’ TWISTED
Gay love story carries a high “ick” factor.
Here we go with the Youth comments again, like kids at seventeen (the age at which they are permitted to see this movie) are going to be led astray by the love affair of two men. I think Focus has some explaining to do about how “youth” are seeing this “R” rated movie…Do they have some hidden knowledge about youngsters seeing “R” rated movies that the rest of the known world doesn’t have?
I am puzzled how this movie can have effects on the youth of the nation when they can’t see it!
Well come on. I’m not sure that seeing an R-rated movie is all that difficult for a high school kid. It certainly wasn’t 15 years ago when I was in high school and unless they’ve started putting armed guards up at the theaters, I doubt it is now. Everyone in high school either (a) knew someone who worked at a theater or (b) knew which theaters allowed in kids under 17. (Or (c) there is always the old pay-for-one movie, go see the other movie trick.) Of course, you’d REALLY have to want to see Brokeback Mountain, which might suggest more than a passing curiosity at the content. No?
So, on the one hand they claim the movie will show “a type of bondage” which leads to “tragic consequences” and has “a high ick factor” that will lead to people “vomiting their way out of the theater.”
On the other hand, it will cause youth to be “led astray” into “thinking that gay sexuality is perfectly normal.”
Yes, everytime I see something utterly disgusting that makes me vomit, I immediately want to run right out and try it. I think the reviewer doth protest a leeeeetle too much.
Like I said…mixed couples kissing had the same effect.
Especially between blacks and whites.
There was an ‘ick’ factor there too. As if the white character were kissing a subhuman beast.
The sparks between Ellen Barkin and Lawrence Fishburn in a movie called “Bad Company” created a firestorm among the same crowd that doesn’t like BBM.
The former movie, featured people in lust, rather than love, until later on in the movie.
Whereas, Jack and Ennis…didn’t have a manual to teach them or open their minds to their possibility.
They had to find it on their own….and heterosexual conceit and influence (always demanding gay deference) got between them and affects these two men.
The religous right and conservatives are gloating somewhat over the outcome.
Still not conceding that THEIR conceit is the negative, not what Jack and Ennis felt for each other.
Had their relationship developed in this day and age, the outcome certainly would have been different.
And THANK God for that.
The first commitment ceremony I went to between men was in Casper, WY.
The couple had been close friends of Matt Shepard and taught me well about the small, but supportive gay community that exists there in their towns.
My first published op/ed was in the Casper Star Tribune, three years ago.
One of the couple is now the mayor of Casper.
BBM is their story a generation before…and if you know WY, you can look at this story and go…yep…it’s like that for sure.
Boo said:
So, on the one hand they claim the movie will show “a type of bondage” which leads to “tragic consequences” and has “a high ick factor” that will lead to people “vomiting their way out of the theater.”
I think those were two completely separate reviews, the former from Exodus and the latter from an MSNBC movie critic. I don’t think they were part of a collective thought, though there are bound to be other incongruities that are.
David
In reference to my comment above, I was wrong – the article does hold both views. I was thinking of the video in another article. Sorry 🙁
David
OMG, I didn’t even notice this:
The nutcases are calling the movie “twisted” without even referencing the irony that one of the characters is named Jack Twist. C’mon, fundies, at least make your mockery topical.
And they don’t even tell us how “marred” the love between Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar must be.
Oh, those fundies… just no sense of humor at all.
(FYI, “twist” in the character’s name is intentional but has to do with the leg and butt muscles requied to stay on a bull)
It looks like gay activists are having an OK time in getting the liberal elite to show up for the twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda.
Tonight’s showings in Los Angeles for 6:30, 7:55, 8:35, 9:50, and 11:00 are sold out and it’s only 1:30. So I guess I either leave work early and go at 5:30, see it at midnight, or wait until tomorrow. Darn it.
What’s the hurry?
Wait until the ABC Family Channel carries it with all the offensive parts cut out.
I just love Westerns, and war movies.
Since I was a girl.
It’s only recently that Westerns got more realistic, having people of color and such in them without it being a statement about slavery or noble savage (Indians) in the mix. Nearly all the stories about range wars and homesteaders.
I recommend a movie called “The Ballad of Little Joe” about a woman who lived as a man in a rural frontier.
This is an unusual story for the genre and based on a real person.
The Western genre was practically dead by the late seventies.
Until early American frontier pageants starring Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Pale Rider) and Kevin Costner (Silverado, Dances With Wolves)
brought the Western back with a rip, snort and a root and toot.
Brokeback Moutain and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, are carrying contemporary issues within the genre.
It’s about time.
I saw brokeback mountain and loved it. I thought it was a very good movie. It showed the love between two men that cannot be exstinguished by circumstances beyond their control. Every relationship gay or straight starts out in a lustful way and then develops into something more meaningful. I am recommending this movie to everyone. To people who are scared that the youth of society will think homosexuality is perfectly fine I say it is perfectly fine and acceptable. It is an alternative lifestyle that is embraced by many men and women. The days of controlling the masses in the name of God and family are over. People are free to be themselves and love outside of the box.