Posted by Temsonic on 09/23/68 11:40

"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
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>> 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

Actually it was Simon Mayo who said it and Kermode who did the cough and
splutter bit!

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