Tell me your views on the movie "Brokeback Mountain"?
451283
One of the best movies I've seen in awhile. Some friends at work have been making jokes about it ("Butt-Crack Mountain", etc) but after I saw it, I stopped laughing at them. I've heard folks say it was a pro-gay film but the movie didn't glorify homosexuality at all. In fact, it scared some people even furthur into the closet. My wife and I talked about it for days after we saw it. It will stay in your thoughts for some time after you see it.
83084
In my opinion I think Crash should win hands down, that was the best movie of last year. All the actors and actresses in that movie did an outstanding job portraying their characters.\n\nBut with all the spotlight brokeback Mountain is getting, that will probably win. I don't really think that was the best movie, even though it was very good. But Crash should win, it was a way better film.
85633
Well, there are many points of viw on this one.\n  Brokeback Mountain is critically acclaimd by many, beign the favorite at the Oscars.\n  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is also an amazing cinematic experience.\n\nIt all comes down to what kind of movie do you like?
737321
I think it's a good movie..  it's sad and sometimes slow, but overall good.  and hey, you get to watch heath ledger and jake gyllenhaal make out, watch it!  :))
677207
I liked it - saw it Friday, having read the book it hurt the suspense of the movie ( that happens when you know the end), but it was pretty true to book.\nCharacters fit their parts well. It isn't Lord of the Rings but it as good as any movie I have seen this year. Of course, it has been an off year. Everyone complaints on the religions view need to remember it is fiction, there is not a middle earth where they make monsters either - but it did not mean I was not entertained by Lord of the Rings. That is why they call it fiction. My husband & I liked it. (and no one in theater went to bathroom during 2-1/2 hr movie usually means it interesting)
32499
The Notebook.  Brokeback Mountain?
824214
Yes! Excellent movie and scenery.  My daughter says it is her new favorite.  I especially liked it because the book, "My Friend Flicka" was one of my favorites as a child.  And Tim McGraw was totally perfect as the dad.  I wonder about the mom though...she didn't really seem to fit in with the setting, more of a hippie type than a rancher.
286097
Haha, I just totally posted a topic just like yours. I definitely thought it should have won over crash. I mean, honestly, the average person heard much more about Brokeback Mountain than Crash. The acting was superb, it was origional, I enjoyed it.
847824
I agree with you. I thought it was a very intense movie also. I was also taken by the elements you mentioned shown in the movie. One thing that always bothers me in these type of films is the fact that if the characters are alerted of danger they disregard the warnings. For instance in this movie the siblings are warned by a psychic who describes in detail the horror that awaits them. The woman is so sincere she almost starts crying. What's up with that? Wouldn't any rational person feel there's some legitimacy in what the concerned person is saying? I would. All in all it was a good movie and tough on the nerves!
997593
It was a well done movie, I thought.  The performances were great.  I liked the circular nature of the narrative.\n\nHowever, it is basically the same statement over and over again, "Everyone's a racist".  That's a statement I find a bit too simplistic.
274048
Sure - didn't you see Brokeback Mountain?
980155
Great movie.\n\nThe 2 Irish brothers who turn vigilante and take on the entire criminal underworld was great.
222360
It's a very intelligent movie, just like Clooney's previous (confessions of a dangerous mind).\nIt has a very slow pace, but it's a very good movie.
258908
Brokeback Mountain of course! ... It sucked, but it will win the Oscars. The Oscars are so overrated! The Capote movie was much better and I'm sure it will win something, but yeah Brokeback will win it all. Actually I liked Transamerica better, its got a better storyline.
953629
Wow that was an amazing movie,--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n \nI'm the first to admit that I get a little sappy when writing about Dead Poets Society. I first saw the film during my senior year of high school, and 16 years later it's a movie that is still with me, one that I go back to time and time again.\n\nThere's a little bit of formula at work here: A stuffy rep school, 1950s, a collection of impressionable young boys, and a teacher that will change their lives. But there's something at work that turns what could have been a forgettable, droll piece of saccharine storytelling into a classic. Part of it is Robin Williams as Mr. Keating, a young English teacher that uses poetry to teach them how to "Sieze the day," to suck the marrow out of life, as Thoreau put it.\n\nThe poetry angle is an interested and unexpected one. And writer Tom Schulman and director Peter Weir have no confusion that the idea is a little corny. Putting a kid in front of the class, covering his eyes, and forcing him to free associate until he comes up with a verse about Walt Whitman? Sounds ridiculous, but it works. In fact, it's one of the most powerful scenes in the film.\n\nThat's because the kids in the film are just as good as Williams is here. Robert Sean Leonard is the ostensible star as Neil, a deeply repressed lad who's the class president type yet dreams of doing something artistic, despite the insistence by his father (Kurtwood Smith) that he become a doctor. And then there's roommate Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), an intensely shy young man who's attending Welton Academy for the first time this year and will be memorably brought out of his shell, fighting all the way, by Keating. The other students of note -- Josh Charles as a lovesick kid and Gale Hansen as the unforgettable rebel "Nuwanda" -- are equally apt.\n\nUltimately the film revolves around Neil's story, when he decides for the first time to defy his father and act in a local play -- as Puck, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, of all things. This leads to a series of catastrophic events that culminates in (spoiler alert from here on out) Neil's suicide and the scapegoating/firing of Keating for it.\n\nAt once uplifting and emotionally crushing, there's no way to leave this movie without wanting to somehow improve your life and follow Keating's advice by seizing the day. Every time I watch the film I'm compelled to complete some lingering project, plan a trip, move into a new house, or do something unforgettable. Weir's direction perfectly captures the 1950s mood -- an era of repression just on the verge of breaking wide open -- and Williams manages to keep his mania in check for the bulk of the film, trotting out an impression here or there when the story requires it.\n\nIn recent years, Dead Poets Society has become a curious platform for deconstruction and revisionism. Viewers wonder, among other things, whether Neil was so troubled because he was secretly gay. Whether Keating might genuinely be guilty of contributing to his death. Whether "Sieze the day" isn't such a great motto after all. I'm not actually supporting any of these ideas per se, but the latter-day ruminating gives the film more weight than you might otherwise think, and it makes the movie all the richer for it. \n\nI Give it 4 out of 5 stars lol
371797
I agree with you.  I saw both films and if I had to choose which one to ban because of "family values" it would be "Hostel."  I'm a HUGE fan of horror and gore, but this was a lot, even for me.  If I had a child I sure as sh!t wouldn't want them to watch this film!  "Brokeback Mountain" was a genuine movie, a good movie.  With such a topic as homosexuality (which I never really derived from the film, just that the two had a love for each other, not men in general), hypocrisy runs abound.
508847
I thought it was a great movie.  Was kind of leary at first, considering it was about 2 bi cowboys.  First I'd like to say that the love scenes were not over done, and that the love story between them was amazing.  These two men had a relationship that spanned over 20 years.  It was not only about sex, but a deep abiding love for one another.  I found the film to be very real, and very heart breaking at the same time.