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January 05, 2006
Brokeback Mountain
I saw this almost 2 weeks ago and I'm still not all that excited by that movie.
I think it's mostly because the scenery looked so expensive. It looked so good that they would have ended up sodomizing sheep or a gopher hole if they hadn't done each other.
Do we need another movie of tragic gay lovers? I don't know, but this simple story didn't need to look quite this expensive. Still, Heath Ledger does a great job with Ennis. He actually manages to be expressive while remaining quite minimal.
I'm not going to fault the movie for aiming for the mainstream, nor is it wrong to be tragic (because the story was written that way), but I just wish the love story seemed more compelling, because the two men never seem all that affectionate after that explosive kiss that Ennis's wife sees. They just seem disappointed. And where's the hope in that?
Posted by deaconmf at January 5, 2006 10:40 AM
Comments
it's refreshing to see a lukewarm reaction to the movie. i did enjoy it, but i cannot bear to hear one more person gush about how heartbreaking and gorgeous and poignant and inspiring it is. it was fine.
but if the movie was so damn expensive, why couldn't they spend a little more money on anne hathaway's wigs?
Posted by: magningning at January 7, 2006 12:10 PM
Oh man. Anne Hathaway just looked sillier and sillier as the movie goes on. She's one of the reasons I didn't realize so much time was passing.
Posted by: mitch at January 23, 2006 10:03 AM
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