I saw Brokeback Mountain...& I'm still heterosexual! - Page 2 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Flash Walken · 03-06-2006, 07:03 PM

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I think we can all agree sex is enjoyable, anywhere.

not with dudes.

Vulcan · 03-06-2006, 07:45 PM

"What kind of books and movies do you like?"

Not very many but at one time I could relate very well with Corleone, now I like more inspirational stuff. Now I'm sure some one coming to terms with their sexual orientation or not, may be freeing, I don't find it that interesting.

VANFLAMESFAN · 03-06-2006, 07:49 PM

I hate this rep that this movie gets, it's not a ****ing gay porno or anything, so you dudes need to give your head a shake. The movie was reallly good and like Reaper said, the sex scenes were very tastefully done and they really arent a big deal, and this is coming from a guy who thought for sure that the scenes would bug me. But I didnt cringe, I didnt turn away, I wasnt a homophobe, you know what, some people are gay, some people are straight, deal with it.

If you don;t see this movie because you think its nothing but 2 guys makin out the whole time, you have got serious problems. This was a fantastic movie.

Azure · 03-06-2006, 07:50 PM

Well if I could cut out the gay stuff, the movie would be perfect. Why the hell they still keep on calling them cowboy's is beyond me.

FlamesAddiction · 03-06-2006, 07:59 PM

This movie is just a liberal attempt to recruit people into their evil homosexual ways.

Just kidding! Some people actually believe that though...

I saw some of the filming of this movie near Fort McLeod a couple of summers ago.

GrinderMac · 03-06-2006, 08:27 PM

Sorry not for me. If I'm going to spend the money on a movie I'm going to see a movie that reeks of testosterone....like Capote.

Robbob · 03-06-2006, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by GrinderMac

Sorry not for me. If I'm going to spend the money on a movie I'm going to see a movie that reeks of testosterone....like Capote.

LOL

Calgary Flames · 03-06-2006, 08:45 PM

I'm not going to lie, I'd feel akward buying tickets for this thing unless I was going with a girl... But it does look like a good film and I'll rent it when it's out on DVD. If for any reason, that it's filmed here in Alberta.

MRCboicgy · 03-06-2006, 11:34 PM

To be honest my bf and I haven't seen it yet, nor do we want to go to the theater to see it. We both figure it would be a better thing to rent and snuggle up with. It has nothing to do with being outed as we go to the movies almost weekly and it's quite obvious we are a couple. I mean if we are going out it's to enjoy ourselves, see an action or a comedy--keep the dramas and romances for a cold night at home.

FlamesAddiction · 03-07-2006, 12:31 AM

With theatre prices these days, I usually save the trips to the movies for films with effects and cinematography that is best seen on a big screen. Sin City and Kill Bill were good ones on the big screen.

Dramas and love stories, are rentals no matter how good they are.

For anyone who has seen Brokeback, does the film have an 'artsy' touch to it that might make it more theatre friendly?

RougeUnderoos · 03-07-2006, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

For anyone who has seen Brokeback, does the film have an 'artsy' touch to it that might make it more theatre friendly?

I haven't seen it either but all that fanciful wide-open Alberta sceneruh probably makes it big-screen friendly. You've probably missed your chance though and you'll have to suffer through the queeriness on your television.

Reaper · 03-07-2006, 10:07 AM

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We both figure it would be a better thing to rent and snuggle up with.

If I were you I'd see it in the theatre. The scenery of Alberta on the big screen is positively breathtaking.

Reaper · 03-07-2006, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

With theatre prices these days, I usually save the trips to the movies for films with effects and cinematography that is best seen on a big screen. Sin City and Kill Bill were good ones on the big screen.

Dramas and love stories, are rentals no matter how good they are.

For anyone who has seen Brokeback, does the film have an 'artsy' touch to it that might make it more theatre friendly?

I agree that movie prices are too high these days. However, this is one of the things we use our air miles for as we could never accumulate enough to redeem for a flight anywhere further than Balzac.

Bring_Back_Shantz · 03-07-2006, 10:22 AM

Okay I don't plan to see the movie and a few things on this thread have kind of made me laugh and kind of made me wonder.

1) Perhaps a lot of people (myself included) don't care if this movie is about gay cowboys. Maybe we don't want to see it for the same reason that we didn't go see the English Patient, or any other movie about some romantic love story.

2) I don't think there is anything too new about this movie. Oooh, a forbidden love, that's really nothing new, it's just a rehash of Romeo and Juliete (Except I assume they don't die in the end). There have been a lot of movies like this, just substitue, a white woman and black man 100 years ago, or an english princess an a commone dude in 16th century england, or a Jew and a Muslim. BUt because this is a gay forbidden love it is suddenly big new thing.

3) Come on people, if you want to go see the Alberta scenery, why would you go to a theater to do it (Those who live here anyway). GO OUTSIDE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

Will I rent it? No. Is it becasue it's about gay cowboys? Maybe a small ammount, but it wouldn't matter either way.

RT14 · 03-07-2006, 11:08 AM

On a side note, Brokeback Mountain has been banned from playing in theatres in China because it promotes an "alternative lifestyle" way of thinking.

Oh this country cracks me up! Oh well, my girlfriend bought a pirated DVD copy of it for about $0.75. For all their talk about cracking down on pirated material, it sure is easy to find them. Just walk in any direction for 30 seconds.

burn_baby_burn · 03-07-2006, 11:44 AM

I grew up on a Ranch out in the middle of the Prairie and I thought that the movie was excellent. Ledger's character is so real. He was a ranch hand who was living pay check to pay check and had nothing to show for it. Usually when Hollywood protrays cowboys they get it all wrong. They dress them up like a wannabe down at the Ranchmans. But this time they did it right. The final scene in the movie is very haunting. I don't care if your hetrosexual or homosexual. That is one very powerful scene. And like a poster mentioned earlier in the thread, people that don't want to see this movie because the main characters are gay? Are probably closet homosexuals that are worried this movie will push them over the edge. If your comfortable with your hetrosexuality, you should have no shame in watching this movie.

Cheese · 03-07-2006, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

I grew up on a Ranch out in the middle of the Prairie and I thought that the movie was excellent. Ledger's character is so real. He was a ranch hand who was living pay check to pay check and had nothing to show for it. Usually when Hollywood protrays cowboys they get it all wrong. They dress them up like a wannabe down at the Ranchmans. But this time they did it right. The final scene in the movie is very haunting. I don't care if your hetrosexual or homosexual. That is one very powerful scene. And like a poster mentioned earlier in the thread, people that don't want to see this movie because the main characters are gay? Are probably closet homosexuals that are worried this movie will push them over the edge. If your comfortable with your hetrosexuality, you should have no shame in watching this movie.

Oh BS! It just pees me off when someone says because I dont want to watch a gay movie or TV show that it is a homophobic reaction or because Im afraid I will turn gay.
Personally Im sick and tired of the proliferation of Gay TV, Gay Commercials, Gay everything. It has nothing to do with being anti gay. Less than 10% of the population is Gay yet it appears as though 50% of all movies, TV shows or commercials require a Gay person in it. We get it already, and weve given rights to be whatever you want to be....but 90% of us dont care and dont wanna be. We LOVE the opposite sex.
Who gives a flying fart about Gays and what they do, except Gays?
I work with Gay Architects and Interior Designers and quite frankly they dont represent what is shown in the mainstream media anyways....Im sure thats typical to CPs friend MRCBiology.

Cowperson · 03-07-2006, 01:37 PM

Haven't seen it yet but that's not unusual as Mrs. Cowperson and I go to the movie theatre only about once or twice a year . . . . I catch most movies on satellite in due time.

Funny sidenote on this movie . . . . I was glancing at the travel section of the Chicago Tribune about a month ago and saw a writer there calling Brokeback Mountain "mythical".

I penned him a short e-mail giving him precise directions to Brokeback - Moose Mountain west of Bragg Creek - and a brief description of the popular trail there plus the evidence of some pictures I had taken a few days before (late January) when I'd hiked up there with my dogs, right where Jack and Ennis had been lounging with their sheep.

That started an e-mail exchange where the guy said his editor was pushing to do a series on Oscar nominated movie locations.

Two weeks ago, out of the blue, the guy e-mails me and says he's at the Delta Hotel in Kananaskis and thanking me for the directions to Moose Mountain and a few other location tips BUT asking why Travel Alberta was insisting Brokeback was actually Three Sisters (by Canmore) and why he couldn't see them right outside his window like they said!!!

He got that straightened out the next day and went up to Moose Mountain in a howling snowstorm but it cleared in time for him to get a photo, although he didn't hike the trail.

Haven't seen the story yet - he was in Wyoming last week - but it will be interesting to see what he eventually has to say.

Cowperson

Flames_Gimp · 03-07-2006, 02:11 PM

I dunno, I kinda thought it was a little unrealistic, hard for me to believe that during the 60's cowboys out in hick towns in the middle of buttfcuk nowhere (pardon the pun lol) where practising homosexuality. Or was it really like that? Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but thats just how I saw it.

Flames_Gimp · 03-07-2006, 02:11 PM

and BTW, I watched it but I didn't pay to see it. Thank you internet