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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, April 07, 2006 - 5:18 pm
I'd rather watch 2 girls than 2 guys...not sure why LOL
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 07, 2006 - 5:34 pm
Lol
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2006 - 6:50 pm
I'd rather see 2 bottles of ketchup mixing it up.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, April 07, 2006 - 6:55 pm
Heehee!
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 7:38 am
It is more about how the men care about eachother - not necessarily raw sex. The love and passion is what inspires the positive feelings. Which is true whether it is a heterosexual bonding, or a homosexual coupling. 'squeek'
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 8:57 pm
TABBY! No, of course I didn't "try" it. I just watched. LOL. And I did discover while watching Queer as Folk that the 2 men scenes were exciting, but the 2 women scenes were not in the least exciting for me. Not in the least...
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 5:50 am
I just watched Brokeback and found it rather boring. I think because I didn't really feel like these 2 guys totally loved each other more than anyone else. I was disturbed by Jack "cheating" on Ennis with a male prostitute because it became just sex and not love. On the other hand I loved Brian and Justin on Queer As Folk because they truly loved each other. For my money I would have preferred Crash winning best movie to Brokeback.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 7:16 am
I also was disturbed by both Jack and Ennis finding substitutes for each other (Jack with the male prostitute and Ennis with his wife), especially Ennis. Those factors along with Jack finding a new lover in Texas made me wonder just how much these two loved each other or if it was purely the physical attraction. If it was love, I believe Ennis loved a Jack lot more than Jack loved Ennis. I was also disturbed by the first sex scene between Ennis and Jack as it seemed so violent. I did find it interesting that Jack's parents obviously knew their son was gay. The questions I do have are: 1. Do we know that it was blood on the shirt? 2. If so, was it the shirt he was wearing when he died? 3. If so, why in the world would Jack's wife send it to his parents? I still prefer Crash.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:33 am
Native, ** spoilers ** the shirt that was hanging up was the same shirt from their _first_ visit to Brokeback mountain, when they fell in love. It was the blood from when one punched the other in the face. It was left hanging in his closet where he lived at the time (at home with his parents). This occurred before he met and married his wife. It's really a symbol of their love -- like how some of us save old momentos from a past relationship like a card or a ticket stub or an old t-shirt the other used to wear.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:50 am
Duh! Thanks, Brenda. I didn't even think about that.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:09 am
Realistically what choice did Ennis have other than to find a wife? I think that was one of the major points of the movie. A gay man in that time had little choice but to subjugate his sexuality and pretend to conform - and then look what grief followed for everyone, not just him. Stolen moments were all he could ever have with Jack, so I can understand Jack eventually (and wasn't it about 10 years later? it's not like he just got bored the next summer) trying to distance himself and find someone who could be with him all the time. And then look what happened - someone killed him. Choices, or rather lack of choices, and how that destroys two people who simply wanted to be together, that's what it was about. <42>
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:59 am
like how some of us save old momentos from a past relationship like a card or a ticket stub or an old t-shirt the other used to wear. OR A BLUE DRESS FROM THE GAP?
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 12:19 pm
LOL Tabby! You got it!
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Bbfanatic
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:16 am
I just cant get myself to sit through it. I dont like cowboy/ western type movies.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 2:18 pm
It's not really a western (cuz I don't like those either). It's a love story, plain and simple.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 8:33 pm
I found the movie disturbing and sad in what they went through and haunting in that I couldn't stop thinking about it the next day. For the record, I think 2 guys together is hot and I'm glad I no longer feel alone in this thought and I'm not just a perv. LOL
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 6:26 am
I tried to watch the movie but I found it boring. I just couldn't get into that long drawn out accent, I felt like saying spit it out. Only made it through the first 45 minutes.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:41 pm
"in that day and time" They first met in 1964 and the time lapse was, I believe, about 20something years. During that time, yes there were hate crimes against gays but not as often as happened years before that. But of course they were cowboys and therefore would have been despised by other cowboys if found out. I don't know. I just couldn't feel any empathy for them. I also didn't like their first "encounter". It seemed forced and violent.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 10:28 am
Saw the film on pay-tv the other night. Gotta say that it was almost too slowmoving for me. Like swimming through molasses. I liked the actors, and the storyline. But it could have been made with more zip in it. (Pun intended) Although I was rooting for the film during the Oscars, I hadn't seen it yet, but now that I've seen it, I truly feel that 'as a movie' it just didn't have many, if any, of the attributes that would make it Oscar-worthy. I haven't seen the film that did win the Oscar, but if it was exciting, and gripping, and stood head and shoulders above the rest, then yes, it deserved to win, while this snoozer did not. I was a HUGE fan of Queer as Folk, to the point where I visited the set and interviewed some of the actors, and the producers, etc. And I totally feel that almost any random episode of that show was better, livelier, more enthralling and more entertaining. Certainly more graphic, but it also had humour, which this film painfully lacked. The story could have been told in a 15 minute flashback. I felt annoyed that I'd sat there for as long as I did til the end. One big yawn. Yes the story was compelling but the writing and direction. zzzzzzzzz And I could tell these were straight actors, who were awkward about the romance, never mind the sex scenes. At least that's how it seemed to me. In QAF many actors were straight (or I suppose bi,) but you couldn't tell who was who, or what, if you didn't already know! Anyhow, I'm like Watching2, I find the whole topic pretty um, hot hot hot. But this film was a 2 out of 5 for me. 1 point for music and scenery and 1 point for cute actors and a good story that dragged on way too long.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 12:27 pm
MAme, did you interview Gale or Hal? You lucky -- to have visited the QaF set must have been so fun! I want to hear more!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 7:32 pm
This movie brought back some memories of the early seventies for me. A very good friend of mine enlightened me on how being 'out' was so dangerous during those years. Then I saw two movies that proved there was danger everywhere and not just for women. How naive I was. He did enjoy Halloween every year, because it was the one day of the year when he could 'be himself' in public and not get arrested or beat up.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 9:38 pm
Brenda I interviewed Hal. I met a few of the cast that day. Hal was hilarious! I intereviewed him in his trailer, and he kept me in stitches. We bantered quite a bit for a while. I spent most of the interview just cracking up with his antics. Randy was on set but wasn't very friendly. Can't remember if Gale was there. I'm thinking perhaps not or I'd have remembered. IF I remember more, I'll post it for ya in the QAF thread here. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 9:40 pm
Oh yeah, I have a copy of the script they were working on that day! 
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, June 02, 2006 - 6:27 am
I thought the movie was good. The scenery was beautiful. My only problem was trying to understand what Heath Ledger was saying at times. Very cool Mame!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 6:19 pm
I finally saw it. Not too shabby.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 2:38 pm
quote:For my money I would have preferred Crash winning best movie to Brokeback.
Uh...Crash DID win Best Picture. Not sure why though....hated that movie. But that's for another thread.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 7:34 am
It's on HBO now and I've almost watched the whole thing; the scenery is great; good acting. I liked it.
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