Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:07 pm**

Brokeback Mountain. Who saw it? What did you think?

I still feel sad, a day after seeing the movie. Had to go to a bar and get a drink after we were done watching it. I've never been one for romance movies, but this was so good... So depressing, but so good. The audience clapped at the end, which nobody ever does at movies anymore.

Posted: **Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:09 pm**

I can't believe none of you have gone to see this.

Come on, I don't care if it's only out in 69 theaters. Go see it! If it wins movie of the year, y'all are gona be real sad that you missed it.

Posted: **Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:00 pm**

Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:I can't believe none of you have gone to see this. Come on, I don't care if it's only out in 69 theaters. Go see it! If it wins movie of the year, y'all are gona be real sad that you missed it.

*snicker*

Intentional Freudian slip?

Posted: **Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:14 pm**

I might see this movie if you or someone else dragged me to see it, but otherwise I don't think I'd have any desire to just go see it by myself.

Of course, it may be that I'm just dreading to walk back into a movie theater after suffering through Syriana. Heh.-jay

Posted: **Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:23 pm**

Encryptic wrote:
Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:I can't believe none of you have gone to see this. Come on, I don't care if it's only out in 69 theaters. Go see it! If it wins movie of the year, y'all are gona be real sad that you missed it.
*snicker*

Intentional Freudian slip?

Not on my part... and I assure you, I did see it before I posted. I just figured nobody would care to comment.

As for seeing it again: It took me a week to finally get over seeing it the first time. I am not watching this movie again until it comes out on DVD. It's just too emotionally draining for me.

But at least now I know there's no good reason to see Syriana.

Posted: **Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:31 pm**

I really, really wanna see it! But I don't think it's out here yet...

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:11 am**

I really wanted to go but *surprise!* it's not showing anywhere near me.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:35 am**

Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:
Encryptic wrote:
Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:I can't believe none of you have gone to see this. Come on, I don't care if it's only out in 69 theaters. Go see it! If it wins movie of the year, y'all are gona be real sad that you missed it.
*snicker*

Intentional Freudian slip?
Not on my part... and I assure you, I did see it before I posted. I just figured nobody would care to comment.

As for seeing it again: It took me a week to finally get over seeing it the first time. I am not watching this movie again until it comes out on DVD. It's just too emotionally draining for me.

But at least now I know there's no good reason to see Syriana.

Just messing wit' ya.

Seriously, sounds like a good movie from what I've heard on other forums. I'll probably wait for the DVD as well, though.

Posted: **Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:12 am**

One of my best friends called me last night and said "Don, you're not emotionally stable enough to watch this movie." So I'll be giving it a miss.

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:16 pm**

have half seen it on LOGO, but I fell asleep....

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:15 pm**

ahhh... the old boy meets cowboy hollywood stereotype.

it was pretty good but lacked a certain punch if you ask me.

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:33 pm**

uuuuhhh....ride 'em cowboy?

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:44 pm**

Tazzman wrote:ahhh... the old boy meets cowboy hollywood stereotype.

it was pretty good but lacked a certain punch if you ask me.

What, Jack's last scene wasn't punch enough for ya?

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:15 pm**

Lacks punch? What movie did you see?

One point of analysis, and I have not read the Annie Proulx short story it is based on (BTW, my beginning fiction instructor thought Ms Proulx the worstwriter in the world), was she writing to the following cliche TANGBTAIL (They are not gay, but they are in love).

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:16 pm**

I keep hearing this one sound bite; "...tell me how to quit you" , or something like that. One thing I despise is a period movie where the dialogue is rife with modern cliches.....not saying this movies is, just saying I hate that sort of thing.

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:34 pm**

I have not seen the movie, but have recently read the short story, which was lent to me by a friend.

I thought the story was heartbreaking.

The two main characters are very much in love- and the kind of deep and passionate and lifelong love most of us will never be able to experience in our lives - but deny that love because they do not want to see themselves as being "queer".

This not only hurts them deeply over the years, but also hurts their wives and families a great deal. They do marry - God knows, they do want anyone to think that they are gay, so they do what so many gays have done over the years and marry and have families. And trying to live a lie so huge cannot but have a very strong affect not only on them, but also their families.

I do not know how the movie compares to the short story in terms of content or plot...but the story was heart wrenching.

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:05 pm**

Heh, if I want to watch ruined marriages and gay lovers, all I have to do is go to a family reunion.

Posted: **Wed May 24, 2006 5:22 pm**

I finally saw it this morning. Very well done movie, and Heath Ledger put in the performance of a lifetime. Very sad, though nowhere nearly as sad as the short story (thank God - the short story made me cry like a baby, and that's one of the main reasons I put off seeing the movie so long).

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 9:34 pm**

duchess of malfi wrote:I finally saw it this morning. Very well done movie, and Heath Ledger put in the performance of a lifetime. Very sad, though nowhere nearly as sad as the short story (thank God - the short story made me cry like a baby, and that's one of the main reasons I put off seeing the movie so long).

Gosh, the short story must be horrible. Because the movie is one of the saddest I've seen. Jake Gylenhall's character is actually willing to live a gay life in the movie, it's Heath Ledger's character that is so afraid of it. And the ending is heartwrenching. We had a friend who wanted to watch it the day after we got it, so I watched it two days in a row, and thought for sure I wouldn't come out of a depression for a week. It'll be quite some time before I have the strength to watch it again. It's definitely up there with tearjerker classics such as Love is a Many Splendred Thing.

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 11:10 pm**

Reading the short story just about put me in a depression. Seriously.

spoilers in differences between the short story and film:

Spoiler

the guys actually got along better with their wives (especially in a sexual sense) and children in the film - the daughter's engagement in the end, and her wanting her dad at her wedding never happens in the story - not does she ever ask her dad if she can come live with him - those were sort of upbeat acceptance things that never happened in the story, which was unrelentingly sad