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Brokeback Mountain

Rating: R

Stars (out of 4): **

Length: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Synopsis: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are sublime in director Ang Lee's new forbidden romance story. Much has been writen about the bravery of all involved to make a movie about gay cowboys. Once you step back from the hype, "Brokeback Mountain" is a simple, yet finely nuanced relationship picture that uses our preconcieved notions of the Western film against us.


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Posted by Aiko (anonymous) on January 10, 2006 at 2:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I bet (not because of the gayness) that this movie will be a very bad one!

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Posted by Shelby (anonymous) on January 10, 2006 at 4:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I just hate Ang Lee and his amateurish, sentimental crap. This may be his best movie though--maybe I'll see it when it's on dvd.

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Posted by RonHolzwarth (anonymous) on January 16, 2006 at 11:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)

"I bet that this movie will be a very bad one!" - Aiko

This movie is winning acclaim from critics all over the world, and most likely will win at least a few Oscars. But there is one exception, Aiko. He stands alone among the critics. But you can't blame him, he hasn't seen the film.

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Posted by Aiko (anonymous) on January 17, 2006 at 9:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)

RonHolzwarth, did you like the movie and why?

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Posted by consumer1 (anonymous) on January 20, 2006 at 7:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)

This is just another attempt to force the gay agenda down the throats of everyone else (no pun intended) to try and normalize an abnormal behavior. It sucks. Really...

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Posted by BunE (anonymous) on January 20, 2006 at 1:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Consumer 1, I hear you.

Right after I saw it, I dumped my girlfriend and had sex with some dude in a tent up in the flint hills.

Jerk.

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Posted by consumer1 (anonymous) on January 20, 2006 at 3:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Exactly... BunE

Resort to name calling if it fits into your purse better. And you can call your life mate a girl if you want to. The movie has an agenda if you deny it you are mistaken.

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Posted by Manfrneks (anonymous) on January 23, 2006 at 7:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I am so tired of hearing that the gay agenda card is being played everytime a gay issue comes up. Brokeback Mountian was a love story, not unlike any love story. They just happend to be men. But there was an underlying theme of bigitory and hate...one that seems to be present in the comments on here. Get real, live and let live.. We are all taught through our religon(s) ( or personal morals) to love...but some make it so hard to live up to that....
Being gay is not what we do, it is who we are! Just like being straight in not what you do, but who you are... Neither of us can change that..

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Posted by kkimball (anonymous) on January 23, 2006 at 1:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hey Consumer1, why don't you leave the shock and awe family values rhetoric to your pithy little restaurant reviews (12 out of 13 comments have to do with his restaurant choices) and leave artistic comment as artistic comment.

Please see Jon Niccum's review of Brokeback for my editorial comments on the MOVIE, not my political agenda.

BTW, its only abnormal behavior until we all get used to the fact that its normal behavior.

I'll take your comments more seriously when you're able to think for yourself.

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Posted by consumer1 (anonymous) on January 24, 2006 at 1:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Kkimble, you don't have an agenda do you? You are hardly one to advise anyone about speaking. You represent only what you have been told by the limited thinking of your social group. If that works stick with it. If it doesn't then suck it up. No pun intended... Har har har. You are so different than everyone else in your group!! Wake up DS.

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Posted by kkimball (anonymous) on January 24, 2006 at 2 p.m. (Suggest removal)

In response to Consumer1:

1) learn how to spell...its kkimball not kkimble

2) in response to your comment <"You represent on what you have been told by the limited thinking of your social group"> My social group? What is that social group? If you mean the social group of someone that grew up in Kansas, has lived in Boston, New York, travelled around the world twice, has undergraduate and graduate degrees from an Ivy League school, is married, works at an investment bank, has published articles in both liberal and conservitive political publications, has frieds of all races, sexes, orientations, national origins, and political beliefs, if that's the "limited thinking" you're referring to, then yes, I represent that "limited" social group.

3) Your response to me, makes absolutely no sense. Specifically <"If that works stick with it. If it doesn't then suck it up. No pun intended... Har har har."> What does that mean, I'm curious? No really, I am!

4) what is DS? I assume that my comment got to you so much that you began with the previous unintelligible hysterics, only to end with name calling.

I absolutely respect conservative thinking and am sometimes considered a socially convervative thinker myself. What irks me, however, about "conservative" people like you and comments like the ones you've made with respect to this movie, is that it the way to you relate to people who think differently or attempt to propose an alternative, is juvenille and often just turns into name calling. We're not on a playground.

You're an adult...time to relate to the world like one.

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Posted by Aiko (anonymous) on January 24, 2006 at 2:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This movie deems no respect! Regardless the fact it was about Cupcakes on the Range! It just sucked!

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Posted by consumer1 (anonymous) on January 25, 2006 at 9:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Kkimble, I am just happy to irk you. Really.

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Posted by RonHolzwarth (anonymous) on January 26, 2006 at 1:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Aiko asked if I liked the film. Unlike Aiko, I do not place bets on something I have not seen. No present plans to see it, actually, I rarely go to movies.

I wonder what thought paradigm he used to arrive at his conclusion, which is not based on anything he has read or seen.

Was it just a guess? If so, why didn't he say so?

1 of 1 people found this comment useful.

Posted by kuhashieboi (anonymous) on January 26, 2006 at 2:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I saw the movie and really liked it. I thought the acting and the cinematography were both superb. And these days, what is normal? Normal, to me, seems kinda boring.

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Posted by Marion (Marion Lynn) on January 30, 2006 at 3:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Evidently my earlier comment on this movie was not foudn to be "useful" so it was removed.

The SAG awards told you evrything that you need to know about "Brokeback".

No score.

No points.

No bannana.

Thanks.

Marion.

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Posted by Marion (Marion Lynn) on January 31, 2006 at 9:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Well, the Academy Award nominations have certainly shown me up!

I don't understand it other than it's a politically correct movie but one of far less significance than Capote or Good Night And Good Luck.

Thanks.

Marion.

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Posted by Multidisciplinary (anonymous) on January 31, 2006 at 11:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)

My date and I both loved this movie.Leave the kids at home of course.We'll be buying it for the large plasma at home, can't wait to see the scenery on the big screen there. The story is passionate no matter how you look at it. It's compelling from a human viewpoint and anyone who says otherwise really lacks compassion.It wasn't the massive gay sex scenes we were expecting.Well told.If we had time, we'd probably go again.Goodness knows there's nothing else on right now.

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Posted by myunitedstatesofWHATEVA (anonymous) on February 10, 2006 at 6:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

you know what consumer1

go eff yourself.. im catholic.. and straight.. but heck gay power all the way

i think someone here needs to get his ass out of the 1950's

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