Why I'm totally uninterested in seeing Brokeback Mountain

[benburch]

Even though I'm bi, and even though I've been in love with a guy at one time in my life...

It's a Chick-Flick!

Sorry, romance stories (other than Cassablanca) just have never appealed to me!

[villager]

1. but you're going to see this new Sophie Scholl movie, right?

n/t

[benburch]

2. Oh yes!

Maybe even in a theater!

[MuseRider]

3. My husband liked it

I loved it. It has not left my mind in the last two weeks since I saw it. It is a lovely, well acted movie with a social message that everyone needs to see and think about, even those of us who have always been supportive.

[meegbear]

4. I'm a gay male and have no interest in seeing it either ...

just one of those things I guess.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I'm a lazy old fart

and don't like the hassle of going to a movie but it will eventually be on TV one way or the other. I'm looking forward to seeing it and I know my wife is as well. She just can't drag me to a movie house.

[bleedingheart]

7. I am lazy and cheap...

so I will wait until Netflix has it and then have it delivered....that way I don't have to pay $17 to see it in a theatre and I just have to mail it back...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

10. I don't normally recommend stuff on the big screen

Unless there's some specific reason to -- but Brokeback was one of the most gorgeously filmed movies I've ever seen. (And I have a degree in film studies.)

Some of the images of nature in that movie were absolutely breathtaking; so I'd recommend it on the big screen.

[VaYallaDawg]

22. Same for me. I do want to see it (just to see what all the

fuss is about) - but I'll wait for the DVD. Too lazy to deal with going to the movies. Besides, everybody tells me the audiences are so rude nowadays, they all yak throughout the thing.

[Der Blaue Engel]

6. True enough

But I saw it with two bi guys and they liked it enough to see it twice. :) I wouldn't say it's a romance in the way most chick flicks handle it, though. It's more about how these two people just couldn't get it together.

Amazing acting, IMHO, and terrific script. (Not that I'm trying to sell you on it or anything!) ;)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. This is no "chick-flick"....

it is not a "romance" story in the traditional sense in any way shape or form.

Yes, there is technically a romance. But it is a brutal, gut-wrenching, heart breakling film that has nothing to do with any romance film that Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks ever appeared in.

It is, in fact, much more like "Casablanca".

You would be doing this film a terrible disservice if you were to dismiss it as a only a "chick-flick".

Hell
A Chick who loved "Brokeback Mountain"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. totally agree. i dont do chick flicks either.

but this is not a romance.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

11. Agreed

You know, in all the "gay cowboy" hype, that fact was completely lost on me that this movie is actually an epic sweeping tale spanning multiple decades of several people's lives who are trapped in awful circumstances.

I went into it expecting something far, far simpler than what I actually saw -- a totally gripping and compelling epic. That's the reason it's nominated for Best Picture -- not because it's about gay cowboys.

[emulatorloo]

15. You are making it sound like Streisand/Redford "The Way We Were"

sorry just in a funny sarcastic mood. . .

:toast:

[MuseRider]

12. You said it perfectly.

It is brutal, gut-wrenching and heart breaking. I thought my husband was going to cry when the shirt scene happened and I was stunned that he did not fall asleep during the film. I was bawling my head off by that part but not in the traditional "chick flick" kind of way.

[taterguy]

16. Movies that make you cry are chick flicks

Unless they're about dying sports heroes :)

[emulatorloo]

or horses

EOM

[MuseRider]

24. Nope, not when

it almost made my husband cry and he hates chick flicks, me too for that matter. This was far more than a chick flick, it is important.

[BR_Parkway]

17. Totally agree, it's much more a drama than a romance movie

not into chick flicks here either, but glad I went to see it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. FWIW, you really forget about the "gay cowboy" aspect about 20-30

minutes into the film.

Read the short story. It is so well written and definitely NOT lovey dovey...chickish.

[katty]

14. So, what's the biggest bitch about a chick flick?

I am not partial to them, but what do guys really dislike about chick flicks?

curious

[emulatorloo]

18. Short Answer: Not enough stuff blow up or catches on fire in a chick flick

Long Answer: too calculating in working the heartstrings and wringing out the teardrops, like the most cloying and annoying 4.95 Hallmark Card

[taterguy]

19. for me it's my short attention span

I like movies where I laugh a lot, or I get to see things getting blown up, or I get to see nekkid flesh. I'm a man of simple needs.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

20. Ann Hathaway and Michelle Williams...

have plenty of nekkid time in the film. Would that help???

[taterguy]

21. I'll wait for the DVD

I don't like theaters because there's never enough leg room. I'll watch it at home so I can read the sports page during the slow parts :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

26. Besides being boring, cliche, and unrealistic you mean?

:hi:

[Kid OfThe Black Hole]

23. Thanks thats how I feel to and frankly

I think we are an oppresse minority!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

25. It's actually not.

It's more about the struggles everyone goes through when homosexuality is forced into the closet. I am TOTALLY and completely against chick flicks AND I'm straight, and I can still assure you this is not a chick flick at all.

[applegrove]

27. I thought it would be so sad that they could not be themselves. And

it would hurt their families. And it was.

Beautiful though.