DEEZ NUTS get tired?? You should give yourself a break. You do know that yelling "***" at the screen whenever the opposing team gets over on us doesn't help us win, right? Supernuts: I'm a straight guy who's totally stoked about the movie. Not because I care about this (or any other) movie itself, but because of what it will do to advance the cause of gay rights, which is the number one most important civil rights issue facing our country today. Respond with *** jokes. Please. Your bigotry is on the record.
I don't see what the big deal is. Most cowboys really were gay. The ones who weren't had sex with livestock.
R U SIRUS?!?!?!? Sincerely, A Homophobic Bigot who enjoys his posts being responded to with accusations of having repressed homosexual tendancies and rolleye smilies.
Perhaps you haven't heard, but I'm Tracy McGrady. It'd also be when the opposing team "pulls ahead" moron.
First of all, critics of the movie should stop referring to it as Hollywood. It isn't a hollywood flick. It is an independent film, not coming from the Hollywood establisment.
Where is my John Wayne Where is my Prairie Son Where is my happy ending Where have all the cowboys gone Where is my Marlboro man Where is his shiny gun Where is my lonely ranger Where have all the cowboys gone Where have all the cowboys gone Where have all the cowboys gone Yippee yo, yippee yeah
The funniest thing about this situtation is that on an old episode of South Park, Cartman described all indie movies as "gay cowboys eating pudding"
Did he not make a movie that involved Hollywood actors, Hollywood... since when does where a director is born mean it isn't from Hollywood? Hollywood isn't a city, it is an industry. It's like lumping together a professional sports league. I didn't say it was a problem... they can make what they want to make, but then they whine and complain about how box office numbers are down for the 500th week in a row... and they blame movie pirating. Well, if they stopped making crap that people didn't want to see then they wouldn't have that problem. The same goes for the music industry. Movies like Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Jarhead, Brokeback Mountain and any other movies that try to "make a statement" in a movie tend to always fail even though they have huge budgets... meanwhile movies like Walk the Line which have a relatively small budget end up making $100 million because America is tired of Hollywood expressing their political and personal views in a film... regardless of their stance.
No true artist is going to work for a huge studio, because unless your name is Jackson or Spielberg you don't have full creative control. The vast majority of movies released by major studies couldn't even remotely be called art... and the same goes for most music from the top 40 list.
Yeah, Brokeback Mountain and the huge 13M budget, out convertin' everybody to cowpokin'. Its dissappointing so many people are dismissing this movie especially Ang Lee did such a fantastic job. He stayed faithful to Proulx's short story, obviously expanding the novella for sake of the medium but nothing felt unnecessary. The love story was carefully crafted and done better than I've seen in a long time and I don't even like love stories/movies. Oh yeah, and he does this w/o making the movie political.
The movie is in limited release, but making a killing in those cities: San Francisco, Provincetown, Dallas...
Does "America('s)" taste necessarily correspond directly to yours? Which of those movies failed, and how do you define failure? btw...I liked "Walk the Line" also. I also liked Syriana. From what I've heard, many people also liked Good Night and Good Luck, jarhead, and Brokeback Mountain. I think America's tastes might be a little more diverse than you think. Besides, every movie portrays somebody's point of view, no? Would you want to watch a movie that took no stand whatsoever on anything. Isn't that exactly what many conservatives argue is wrong with our "pc society?"
the movie is a critical success and some close minded people seem to think it is a failure... its called filmmaking, it requires talent... which most of the haters in this thread have none of...
Good Night and Good Luck: budget - 7mil, domestic box office so far: 22.5mil (opened Oct 7) Syriana: 50 mil, 22.3mil (Nov 23) Jarhead: 72mil, 62 (Nov 4) Brokeback: 14mil, 3.3 (Dec 9) Your position is obviously bulletproof. Kudos. PS - from what I have read, Jarhead was criticized because it didn't make a statement or have a great war narrative. It just recreated visually what the soldier wrote in his (bestselling) memoire.
