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Rating:  - Same Time Next Year ...with a GAY "Twist"
I think it was Alan Alda and Ellyn Burstyn who appeared in the movie "Same Time Next Year", a play morphed into a movie version about a married couple who met yearly for a sexual/social trist.
This is the same thing...for gays. Heath Ledger was "lionized" for his acting here...but it is elementary. His outstanding quality was the timbre and sound of his voice. It sounded "western."
We have here two cowardly homosexuals who, instead of coming out of the closet, remain closeted snd severely adversely affect the lives of almost everyone they touch, most especially the females they marry and the children they father.
To see them frolic together joyously in their birthday suits on one of their trists in the woods around Brokeback Mountain, after lying to their spouses about their whereabouts, activities and true feelings sexually, arouses no pity from me.
These are two disgusting cowards, who reap poor rewards.
This movie immediately made me want to see another GOOD movie...and wash my mouth, eyes and mind out with soap.
Utter Rubbish.
Rating:  - *Great Movie!*
I loved it.It was great.A movie showing how strong love can be and how it can last forever.A must see.
Rating: - "If You Can't Fix It, You Gotta Stand It."
What do you do when following your heart and passions bumps up against the every day pressures of making a living and conforming to an exterior standard? "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it." This dialogue is repeatedly listenable, terse and dry, like the scenery. The film follows western men Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) over two decades of their relationship. Both men are great actors and use their faces and bodies to paint the range of emotions associated with the paradoxical pleasure and pain of love and attraction, with all its glorious moments and terrible imperfections.
The western Rockies (from Alberta through Wyoming) form the landscape for much of the film. I love this country and the filmmaker respected its beauty and austerity. The Tetons penetrate upward through the crust of the earth like fingers, skyward. It's a land in which you can find time to think, where nature paints the skies with wind and cloud. The film affords the thoughtful viewer reflective moments.
A couple of things seemed a little silly to me. "Let's indicate it's the '70s by giving the boys identicle sideburns!" And Twist wasn't entirely authentic as a rodeo cowboy, but he was fair. On the plus side, some of the nuances of eye contact and body language as people - in an instant - try to sort each other out on the basics were expertly filmed. I also loved the way the filmmakers made the connection between the touch and smell of physical artifacts as a token of a person who isn't present and very deeply missed.
I didn't end up seeing this until after the passing of the Heath Ledger, and it's an extra sadness that this film now - in addition to everything else it does well - serves as a memorial to his great talent. His portrayal of Ennis, a decent Wyoming ranchhand who settles into a dutiful dullness and only comes out of it into incandesence when his friend Jack comes around, is simply wonderful. Also painfully wonderful is Michelle William's performance as Ennis' wife, Alma, a good woman who for a time submits to a relationship that's less than what she'd hoped for. Her resignation is one of the saddest aspects of this film. In many ways, the mantle of that suffering was picked up by Ennis' daughter, Alma Jr. (Kate Mara) as the film develops.
And the music... The lush guitar fills the film with an aural soundscape complementary to the visual. The orchestrated version of the main theme resonated with me in such a glorious and sad way, as though experiencing a orange and purple sunset one knows might be one's last.
This is not a film that glorfies what Jack and Ennis had. And I have no idea how anyone could come away from this film demonizing the characters either.
Rating: - LOVE IN IT'S PUREST MOST INNOCENT FORM.TRUE NEVER ENDING LOVE
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LOVE THIS MOVIE. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO MOVED BY A MOVIE EXCEPT MAYBE THE TITANIC. IT LIKE WITNESSING LOVE BETWEEN TO PEOPLE THAT'S SO STRONG IT'S UNCOMPREHENSIBLE. I CRY EVEY TIME I WATCH THE END WHEN ENNIS IS SINGING IN JACK'S EAR AS THEY STAND AT THE FIRE, THEN JACK WATCHES ENNIS GO OFF TO THE SHEEP. THAT GLARE IS TRUE CONTENTMENT W/ LIFE AT THAT MOMENT.SOMETHING I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING FOR. DEF. A MUST SEE. (SORRY FOR CAPS HAVE TO HAVE THEM ON AT WORK.)
Rating: - Brilliant movie
I had watched this many many months ago and I've always wanted to own the DVD but unfortunately you can't buy in stores in Singapore.
The image and sound quality is excellent and although there are a bunch of interesting but not very substantive extras, I was a litle dissapointed there was no commentary. I did enjoy the commentary by Lee and his partner in crime Schamus for 'Crouching Tiger' so I was looking forward to something like that. I guess the commentary only appears in the 'Deluxe' edition.
Having said that, you can't go wrong with this movie. Its a classic and is timeless. I think history will judge it very favourably.
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