BrokeBack Mountain on DVD!
Pre-Order the movie Brokeback Mountain on DVD! It will be available 04/04/2006.
(2005, 134 min) - Pre-Order Brokeback Mountain Only $19.99
Country: US
Studio: Focus Features
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Linda Cardellini, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Anna Faris
Director: Ang Lee
Screenwriter: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Original Author: Annie Proulx
Rating: R
Review:
An iconic film, Brokeback Mountain is like the best Bach concerto, every frame feels as if it should follow the next, every performance is completely natural. Certainly our favorite film of 2005 and one of our all-time faves, we’re hoping for a sweep on Oscar night, an event that will shake our country to its toes. The first film produced by a Hollywood studio to feature a gay romance that doesn’t involve drag queens, AIDS or bufoonery, Brokeback Mountain is an essential film that belongs in every library.
Adapted faithfully from an Annie Proulx short story, screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have much to be proud of with their tale of two cowboys in love and how they deal with it, or not. Our story begins in 1963 where outside a sheep ranch trailer, Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) eyes Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and there’s a spark. Both men agree to go up to Brokeback Mountain with a herd of sheep. The plan is that the quiet, taciturn Ennis will stay nights in the camp and the comparably outgoing Jack will sleep some distance away with the sheep. On one cold, drunken night Ennis crawls into the tent with Jack and they cuddle. One things leads to another and they have fierce, non-affectionate sex. Jack says “It’s no one’s business but ours.” Their relationship that summer develops into one of mutual affection and fun. For lovers of male nudity, both men are shown washing themselves and there are superb butt shots. Later on in the film, they both dive naked off a cliff. Apparently the director has edited out any full frontal nudity. When the summer ends, the young men are separated and the pain is palpable. In a perfect world Jack and Ennis will leave together, set up a home and live happily ever after. But not in Wyoming in 1963 — cowboys don’t fall in love. Ennis weeps in pain at their separation, but life must go on.
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March 8th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Food for thought: Why is everyone so fired up about this brokeback mountain movie? It really hasn’t done all that well in the theaters anyways. The numbers I’ve seen say its only made about 76 million. The powers that be say that a movie needs to make 100 million to be a blockbuster so why was it even nominated? In fact, all the movies nominated for best picture made even less than BBM. And most people I’ve talked to say they have not and will not see it.
This is a clear cut case of the liberal agenda trying to force their homosexual opinion on us. And I for one am sick of it. Homosexuality goes against nature and God. You ever see two bucks doin it in the woods? And Leviticus 18:22 says Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. I mean really, how much more proof do you need? Call me narrow minded if you wish. Personally, I don’t care. I don’t claim to be perfect by any means, I’m a sinner just like the rest of you but at least I know what sin is and homosexuality is a sin period. And I for one am sick of seeing it on TV, in politics (gay marriage) and now in the movies. GIVE IT A REST PEOPLE, IT’S WRONG!!!!
One more thing. The Chronicles of Narnia made over 300 million and wasn’t even nominated for best picture. HMMMMMMM, makes you think don’t it?
March 11th, 2006 at 12:57 am
I’m very glad to see that the Americans start to live homosexuality as something NORMAL and usual! for us europeens it is already something, you don’t need to fight for anymore - you are, or you are not and you live for and with it - your problem! There is just one thing - called provocation of people in an environment, where you don’t want to assist to the show off of the sexual needs and tendency of someone - heterosexual, or homosexual!!! Gay-people kissing deeply and touching their bodies in a public environment is a provocation, which does not help to create tolerance, like heterosexuals kissing deeply and touching wildly their bodies is the same provocation but considered as funny and normal. This beautiful film is since a long time the most beautiful normal and human thing…
March 21st, 2006 at 5:13 am
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June 20th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
yes don i have seen two bucks do it in the woods, i seen two male dogs do it hell once i saw a bull try to do another bull.and just because the bible says it doesn’t make it true the bible was wrote by men.so until god comes down and tells us what we should do, i think you need to mind your own business and let people live life the way they want to.who gae you the right to tell other people how they should live. if you don’t want to watch the movie then don’t but don’t put down on people for liking it and wanting to give it awards.