CynthiasSocks said:

WHAT?!?!

honestly, I was getting kind of sick of all the sweeping praise of brokeback until I finally saw it. It deserves every compliment it's recieved so far, great movie.

BCorgman said:

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is one of my favorites, so congrats to him. I really want to see "Captoe" but I'm sure I'll have to wait for video. I also hope he gets nominated and wins the oscar. He has been ignored too often.

BCorgman said:

Also ignored for a great indpendent movie which I'm sure nobody saw called "Love Liza". It was defintaley an oscar worthy performance (also came out on Christmas like many Oscar movies) but the movie didn't get enough buzz and kind of died. Not only is it a great, moving dramatic movie about a man who loses his wife and becomes an addict, but on the other hand the DVD audio commentary is actually hilirious and entertaining. PSH rocks!

BCorgman said:

The only people that are probably surprised are the uptight Christain groups who try to get the movie shut down (and seemingly only did so in...Utah!). I can't wait to hear Christian groups call for movies like "Narnia" and....whatever other Christian bullshit to be nominated and win.

I just emailed Carmike Cinemas (based here in Columbus, Ga) asking them why "Brokeback Mountain" wasn't playing at any of their theaters. We'll see...

VinnyM27 said:

I think that was just an isolated incident honestly. I saw Brokeback a few times already, and there were, suprisingly, alot of women and alot of (Im assuming) straight older couples coming to see it.

VinnyM27 said:

I saw that movie! He was so good, and I tell ya, he huffed so many fumes in that thing I got nauseous just watching

Okay, am I the only one in the gay community that didn't like Brokeback? I definately thought Capote was the better film, although Heath Ledger was spectacular as Ennis.

Stymie said:

my buddy thought Ennis was a total coward, and was actually kinda put off by Brokeback.

Brokeback won 4 out of 6. Not bad. Heath Ledger lost but he did it to Phillip Seymour Hoffman(that's his name right?) for CAPOTE. I'm sure Hoffman was really good. I haven't seen it yet.

Woo hoo for Felicity Huffman for TRANSAMERICA.

It was a very gay Golden Globe awards show. 6 of the awards were for a gay or transgendered theme. CAPOTE has a gay character, duh, but the movie isn't about that.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I finally saw it yesterday.
Fucking wow.
The only thing I didn't like were the aggressive sex scenes. I couldn't tell if they were fighting or fucking. I almost teared up though, at that part when Ennis was up against that wall crying, and at the end when they showed what happened to Jack. But there were a few things that caught my attention:
1. Anne Hathaway has some nice titties.
2. The special effects were HORRIBLE. How the hell can she go from brunette, to a fucking feathered out blonde wig, in the same damn movie like nobody would notice?
3. The "what the fucking hell" look on Ennis' wife's face when he flipped it and reversed it on her
4. When Jack was riding the tractor with his son and in bright yellow letters it said "VERSATILE"
5. and what the FUCK was in Ennis' mouth through the whole damn movie?
Other than that, I love love loved it. It was too real for me though. I don't think I could watch it again. And yeah, Ennis was a fucking coward. "you know i ain't queer" bitch please.

DynamicSavior said:

that was intense, and meant to be. part fear, part untapped pent-up sexual energy from always wanting to, but never doing, and part animal lust.

it got me. the scene where he tries to vomit rather than cry was spectacular, and heartbreaking. seeing the shirts wrapped in one another totally killed me.



not really a special effect, hust a bad 'on-a-low-budget' wig... it bothered me too.



didn't catch that...

that's called texas lockjaw... people, men in general, really do talk like that by moving their jaw as little as possible. it's part of why i found his performance BRILLIANT. i grew up with guys just like that in texas.


his fear is the whole point of the movie.

Hi, Folks:

Super-busy, but I just stopped-in to say:











Everybody go out and see Match Point this weekend! Hope you're well. Hoping to spend more time here very shortly.


Best,
Ace

I like Johnny Depp... He is such a great actor.

cborgman said:

No, something was in the bottom of his mouth the whole damn time. What was it?

DynamicSavior said:

Most likely "chew".


M

Say what you want but this was the best picture of last night:




Got milk? Drew does! ET would phone home for THAT!


Seriously, I like the Globes better than the Oscars because none of the actresses wear underwear or bras. It is how all life should be.

Ace said:

Yes - this is a terrific movie!

Ace said:

Yes - this is a terrific movie!

I got a reply from Carmike- It's coming to Columbus Friday the 20th!

I forgot this even came on.

CynthiasSocks said:

cool....maybe it'll come to SC next.

Tom said:

I don't think so. I read a story on Boxoffiemojo that said "TransAmerica" was shecuduled to play over there...and it also disspeared from the lineup with no comment. The right wing media (or should I saw, media!) is already fussing about all the wins by gay oreinted movies. The websites will be cranking out the propganda faster than you can say "That gay cowboy movie".

CaptainChaos said:

Damn...those are the Golden Globes!

You know what? As much as I did love the movie, I'm still glad for the positive recognition that it's getting, but at the same time I'm not jumping up and down for joy yet. I mean, one up for us, but it isn't doing too much for the gay rights movement. I'm not saying it was supposed to as I'm sure that wasn't Ang Lee's aim when doing the film, but I'm not praising it in that sense. Just wanted to say....

CynthiasSocks said:

Dear Stuart:



Thank you for your message. We are playing “Brokeback…” in as many locations as it’s distributor has allowed. Since a film’s distributor decides where, when, and at what theatres its movies will play, all we can do is wait to see when they intend to expand their very limited release.



Sincerely,

Gary Green






Stuart,



Focus Features, the distributor of Brokeback Mountain has been and continues to roll out this film very slowly. They are presently (January 13) playing only 683 locations across the nation and last week only 484. A typical wide release film will play 2000 or more theatres. Studios use a slow release pattern (called a platform release) at times to create “want to see” or to take advantage of a special event like the Academy Awards. The Academy will announce the nominations on Tuesday, January 31, 2006.

Because of the nominations Focus is expanding more and we have been able to secure a print for our Carmike 15 in Columbus to open this film on Friday, January 20.

Thank you for contacting Carmike Cinemas.

Sincerely,





Bob Scarborough

Film Buyer

Carmike Cinemas, Inc.

bscarborough@carmike.com




I don't feel like a hick! I live in a Red state, but a Blue city!

Byron said:

youse guys???? i really like the "sheesh"