Hey guys just finished watching broke back mountain and It was a good movie but in the end it was sad anyone else seen it before? Thoughts on it?
One of the best movies I ever saw. Not as an LGBT movie, but as a movie, period... Thoughts on it? Hmm, I'd say I have more feelings on it. When a work of art is that good, you don't feel like thinking about it much
I caught the tail end of it on HBO or something once, it was okay, not really my kind of movie, LBGTQ or otherwise. I think Ang Lee directed it? It was outside his usual type of movie, I felt.
It was an awesome movie. Sad ending, but that was the story for most gay men back then. It still is for some.
It hits me hard, having spent 10 years growing up in an environment very similar to the small town Wyoming one from the movie. The only difference now is that most queers now have the financial or academic means to escape and move to a more tolerant area, as I did. The story the Heath Ledger character (sorry, forgot his name) tells about the old presumably gay couple is still not an uncommon occurrence in the small town Midwest and South in the US. These are towns essentially run by churches where hearing things like "all gay people should be rounded up and executed" or "we should just nuke the Middle East" is not at all strange. Anyhow, tl;dr version, extremely touching movie for me. Especially the ending. And far more realistic than most people know...
Honestly, I think movies should be longer than they already are. Nobody really goes to the movies anymore, they just wait until it's out on video. I liked it when going to the movies was a big event. That's why I think some movies, like ones based on big books or the like should run upwards of five hours in length, with two intermissions. It would make going to the movies an all-day event!
Brokeback Mountain, which came out in 2005 opened the flood-gates for me, it was the first time I could imagine a guy as more than just a sex-fantasy...it was shattering.
I liked it .. Amazing photography and scenery. but the negative images (the violence and the murder of the elderly couple) were overwhelming although maybe true to the time/era. I also thought the first sex scene was not very convincing.
I hadn't come out to myself when the movie came out, so my response to the movie was complex. Maybe I should watch it again now that both the movie and I are out.
