Broke back Mountain

[rainbabies]

I've heard it is good from a few people who saw it. This one is on my list, too. Realistically....I might as well go add it to the Netflix queue.

[rainbabies]

[Auspicious]

Has anyone else seen this and is surprised that Anne Hathaway is the only one of the four long-term characters not to be nominated? I really thought she did a good job with her character and really aged her over the twenty years through changes in mannerisms and expressions and voice etc instead of latex makeup or anything like that. I don't know. Maybe it wasn't a subtle enough performance or something, but I didn't think her character was supposed to be a subtle woman.

[SueC]

I so want to see this, maybe I'll try to drag dh to see it this weekend!

[Auspicious]

I'll tell you, maybe it was just the mood I was in but right from the start I was very tense watching this movie and had the constant fear that something terrible was going to happen to them at any minute--either a bad accident up on the mountain or that someone was going to show up and Matthew Shepard them and it would be graphic.

And they are in peril and that issue is definitely addressed in the movie, but it's not a horror movie or anything and there weren't any parts I had to watch peeking between my fingers.

I say this just because I wish I had known beforehand to go ahead and relax and let the story unfold instead of spending two hours with my heart in my throat.

[SueC]

Good to know Julie, I think for some reason I thought there would be some sort of tragedy as well, so I probably would have done the same thing.

[rainbabies]

[Flynn]

Well acted. I liked it.

DH and I just saw it last night. We weren't impressed. We both felt that the film didn't invest enough time building up their relationship before the tent scene. I mean they met, had a few conversations, and then the tent scene happened and all of a sudden we're supposed to believe they had an intense connection? We didn't feel it at all.

Crash was definitely a better film and deserved the Oscar.

[Gwendolyn]

I'll tell you, maybe it was just the mood I was in but right from the start I was very tense watching this movie and had the constant fear that something terrible was going to happen to them at any minute--either a bad accident up on the mountain or that someone was going to show up and Matthew Shepard them and it would be graphic.

And they are in peril and that issue is definitely addressed in the movie, but it's not a horror movie or anything and there weren't any parts I had to watch peeking between my fingers.

I say this just because I wish I had known beforehand to go ahead and relax and let the story unfold instead of spending two hours with my heart in my throat.

I am so glad I knew this...Everytime they went into town or someone found out...I thought of this to assure myself that some horrible tragedy wasn't going to happen.

I enjoyed it. It was good. I think all of the hoopla was more about the subject matter, than the actual film...

[alison]

Dh and I saw this movie this evening and liked it a lot. First, living in a concrete jungle, like Chicago, makes you yearn for nature--mountains and great big evergreens. Sigh. The scenery was beautifully captured; not just the outdoors, but the interior scenes as well (the living spaces, for example). Gorgeous movie.

[migirl]

I enjoyed it as well. DH refused to see "the gay cowboy movie" , so I watched it by myself while he was out of town. I thought it was very well-acted, and didn't think the gay thing was played up all that much. You even kind of overlook that they're two men involved, it becomes much more of a love story that happens to involve two men.

I don't know if that made sense.