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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 05/11/57 11:40
"Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
news:foJKf.24320$wl.660@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Gunther Gloop wrote:
>> Nobody has broached this topic in here that I noticed. ...due on dvd
>> at some point.
>>
>> I _was_ planning on going to see it in the cinema, but it only got a
>> limited release here and by now I've more or less gone off the whole
>> thing. I was telling a friend of mine I was going to go see it and he
>> sniggered and told me to watch out who I sat next to. It appears that
>> most (hetro) people I've talked to about it have a similar reaction
>> -apart from women.
>> Following all the hullabaloo and hype I'm not sure I could now watch
>> it. Initially talk was about "a great movie that featured a couple of
>> men that 'did it' in a field" -or someplace. Whoopdedoo. I can handle
>> that. But by the time it arrived here it seemed to have been hijacked and
>> triumphed-over by the 'gay sector', who eventually all seem to boil
>> it down to "if you won't see it, you have a problem with your own
>> sexuality"... and that type of 'argument' puts me right off ever
>> sitting through it.
>> Although I'm sure it's more than "a gay cowboy movie" (?), I only ever
>> see/hear gay people defend/rave about it and/or "liberal media types"
>> who are possibly a little too anxious to seem hip/cool.
>>
>> Apart from Hulk (which most people seem to have hated), I can't say
>> I've _loved_ any of Ang Lee's movies to date (which most people seem
>> to love). Still, I recognise his directorial talents and range and
>> admire his difficult choice of topics at times.
>> On the whole, they seem to be the types of movies I would normally
>> love... but I appear to be missing that final piece of the puzzle
>> that shows me the error of my ways. Some day I might appreciate them
>> more -hope I do!
>> But anyway, getting back to Brokeback... I'd like to hear some
>> reasoned points on what's good about it, from a non-gay perspective?
>>
>>
>> Have any hetrosexuals here seen it or have you all been afraid of who
>> might be sitting next to you? Do you have difficulty with your
>> sexuality? Are you as annoyed as I am about that phrase being thrown
>> into the equation? ...Or why _haven't_ you seen it?
>>
>> Is there anyone left here to discuss it?
>>
>> -Kevin.
>
> Mark Kermode on Radio 5 likes it but it got accidentally referred to as
> Bare-back Mountin' and hasn't been able to be sensibly reviewed since!!
<LOL>
Did Simon Mayo start coughing & spluttering?
Kermode is one of the more entertaining people you hear and sometimes see
giving opinions - wish there were more like him
Tricky
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