Reply #70: nice broad brush, there.

[Lerkfish]

If someone don't want to see Brokeback mountain, they're automatically homophobic? People you've never met?

wunnnnerful.

So now, is it just brokeback mountain, or if they think birdcage for example was boring, does that make them homophobes, too? Is enthusiastic thumbs up required for all movies with a gay theme or a gay character? How about actors who are gay? Are they allowed to have subjective opinions of their acting abilities or do they have to give them all thumbs up automatically?
How about actors they don't know if they're gay or not? Are they allowed to have discerning taste on any of them without fearing being accused of homophobia? I mean, maybe they liked Ian Mclellan, but didn't care for Nathan Lane. Am they going to burn in homophobic hell, now?

Howzabout if religious groups accuse anyone who doesn't want to see the Passion as heathens? Would that be in line with your thinking?

for the record, I personally do want to see it eventually, but like all films, I wait until they're rentable, as I hate the theatre experience. Since it was nominated, I'm interesting in seeing it, but its a hard sell for me: not because of the gay characters, but because I'm not really interested in westerns, cowboys, or country music. I'm not sure how much of those three things are in the movie, but I know it won't be a selling point for me what I've seen already.
however, I hear its a good love story, so I'll probably see it in spite of that its about cowboys.

But here's my question: Do we all need to submit a list of movies we're planning on NOT watching in advance, so you can accuse us of being whatever-ist in advance?