My 2 cents
Jan. 27th, 2006 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumelia"Brokeback Mountain" is indeed worthy of praise. Not!
What the hell?!
In very few words the movie was;
a) Contrived
b) Slow
c) Boring
d) Not original at all.
To go into detail, I'll start with the technical issues that bothered me;
1) The editor of this movie should be ostracized from the movie making community. The movie was choppy, disconnected and filled with many a "When did that happen?" moments from me. The movie could have been a lot more enjoyable if the editing hadn't been really sucky.
With a budget as big as they had, Ang Lee should have been able to make a visual masterpiece like he did in "Bouncing Bunny, Hiding Hippopotamus".
2) The music; I may not have played an instrument in a while, but Composer sir, there is such a thing in your profession known as Variation... say it with me, Va-ri-a-tion!
The acting was good, because it was subtle, but there is such a thing as too subtle as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hagar_972 said in her post "was there a movie and I missed it?". The "Gay Love Scene" made no sense to me, because it was so sudden, yeeees, there were the deep gazes into each others eyes, the casual nudity and all, but please, a man, a manly man in a 60' does not offer his ass to his pal just like that... and was I the only one concerned about the lack of lube!?
There were many funny bits (only because ot was all so ridiculous and derivative), when Ennis and Alma make love and he flips her over with no warning, I'm sorry the look on her face was too priceless. If a guy ever did that to me with no explanation he would say goodbye to his balls, very rude indeed.
The conflict at the end should have come before they even made love, I felt it made no sense that they could have carried out an affair for so long, with out fighting it out.
It could be that I'm simply too far removed from the Americana iconography that was dripping from the movie (The Cowboys, the big cars, the Fourth of July etc.), but there is nothing new and amazing in this movie, it has broken no boundaries or social conventions, there have been many gay oriented love story movies from around the world for years.
The one closest to home is "Yossi & Jagger" which is one of my favourite movies in general, perhaps because it is Israeli, or perhaps it was one of the movies I bonded over with my father, but the premise was the same, forbidden love that cannot become true.
In conclusion, "Brokeback Mountain" is mainly a disappointing piece of unoriginal Americana that keeps the mythical gay romance a stereotype. Homosexual love, specifically when the two are super masculine, almost iconic in their testosterone glory, cannot endure, nor can it be resolved by anything other than death.
My 2 cents about the future Oscar Winner.
Woe, I say, Woe onto the foreign press and Woe onto the Academy of motion pictures.
BTW Uri Klein loved it... I'm so not surprised.
What the hell?!
In very few words the movie was;
a) Contrived
b) Slow
c) Boring
d) Not original at all.
To go into detail, I'll start with the technical issues that bothered me;
1) The editor of this movie should be ostracized from the movie making community. The movie was choppy, disconnected and filled with many a "When did that happen?" moments from me. The movie could have been a lot more enjoyable if the editing hadn't been really sucky.
With a budget as big as they had, Ang Lee should have been able to make a visual masterpiece like he did in "Bouncing Bunny, Hiding Hippopotamus".
2) The music; I may not have played an instrument in a while, but Composer sir, there is such a thing in your profession known as Variation... say it with me, Va-ri-a-tion!
The acting was good, because it was subtle, but there is such a thing as too subtle as
hagar_972 said in her post "was there a movie and I missed it?". The "Gay Love Scene" made no sense to me, because it was so sudden, yeeees, there were the deep gazes into each others eyes, the casual nudity and all, but please, a man, a manly man in a 60' does not offer his ass to his pal just like that... and was I the only one concerned about the lack of lube!?There were many funny bits (only because ot was all so ridiculous and derivative), when Ennis and Alma make love and he flips her over with no warning, I'm sorry the look on her face was too priceless. If a guy ever did that to me with no explanation he would say goodbye to his balls, very rude indeed.
The conflict at the end should have come before they even made love, I felt it made no sense that they could have carried out an affair for so long, with out fighting it out.
It could be that I'm simply too far removed from the Americana iconography that was dripping from the movie (The Cowboys, the big cars, the Fourth of July etc.), but there is nothing new and amazing in this movie, it has broken no boundaries or social conventions, there have been many gay oriented love story movies from around the world for years.
The one closest to home is "Yossi & Jagger" which is one of my favourite movies in general, perhaps because it is Israeli, or perhaps it was one of the movies I bonded over with my father, but the premise was the same, forbidden love that cannot become true.
In conclusion, "Brokeback Mountain" is mainly a disappointing piece of unoriginal Americana that keeps the mythical gay romance a stereotype. Homosexual love, specifically when the two are super masculine, almost iconic in their testosterone glory, cannot endure, nor can it be resolved by anything other than death.
My 2 cents about the future Oscar Winner.
Woe, I say, Woe onto the foreign press and Woe onto the Academy of motion pictures.
BTW Uri Klein loved it... I'm so not surprised.
