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Post by cougar on Jan 9, 2006 0:41:27 GMT -5
I saw Brokeback Mountain today. I knew it had a sad ending but I didn't realize it would be as bad as it is. I didn't know that Jack would be killed. Sorry if this spoils it for those of you who haven't seen it, but there it is. I won't divulge details.....I think the public advertising of this movie is evasive and even misleading. I can't imagine most straight people considering Brokeback Mountain to be just a love story that has universal appeal. Where I live, Utah, it was actually pulled from a local theater. Knowing the hatred that the local Eagle Forum has for gays and lesbians, I'm suspecting a telephone campaign on their part for the removal of Brokeback Mountain from the Jordan Commons theater. They (Eagle Forum) have a very well practiced organization for spreading word among their activist members......Whatever.......Cougar.....
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Post by Buckshot on Jan 9, 2006 22:59:22 GMT -5
Cougar,
What the heck is this Eagle Forum thing?
Do you have any info on them or do they have a web site.
Don't like the sound of them and would like to know any possible enemy.
Buckshot
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Post by StonerStudent on Jan 9, 2006 23:21:20 GMT -5
There are 7 threads about BrokeBack ar15.com ....never see people who hate gay as much they do ..but can't stop whinning about us
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Post by cougar on Jan 10, 2006 2:08:10 GMT -5
Hey....Buckshot asked about Eagle Forum. They are actually a national religious conservative group with a number of state chapters. I believe one of their founders was Phyllis Schlafly from back when the Equal Rights Amendment was before Congress, around 1977? They have a site, http://www.eagleforum.org.....In Utah their leader has (or had) a talk show on a Salt Lake area talk radio station...Anyway, about the movie, I would recommend it even though it's a sad story. I also like another gay, well, acutally lesbian movie from a few years back, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", but wait, one of the heroines gets killed near the end of that one too. At least she dies shooting it out with the bad guys. Oh yea, and there was a Winchester lever action used in Brokeback Mountain. Ennis used it to take down a bull elk.....Cougar....
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Post by Buckshot on Jan 10, 2006 22:52:19 GMT -5
Cougar,
I don't think I would care to see either movie, not becasue of gays or lesbians, just becasue I don't care for those kinds of movies in general.
Matter of fact, I have not been to a movie in at least 5 years now, just don't like theaters any more. Seldom watch even on tape and don't even own a DVD player of any kind.
I was more interested in hearing about a group that has that many phone drones on tap for calls that quickly.
I sincerely DON'T like to hear about that kind of group.
Buckshot
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Post by cougar on Jan 20, 2006 1:22:58 GMT -5
On 365Gay.com, columnist Libby Post has some good things to say about Brokeback Mountain....http://www.365gay.com/opinion/Libby/Libby.htm.....Cougar....
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Post by compulsive269 on Jan 22, 2006 18:38:06 GMT -5
Well well, I wanted to see the movie, but now that I know Jack dies what's left? Details? Phht! I'm also not surprised the religious bigots in Utah are attacking a gay movie. In their narrow minded world, gays are still Satin's spawn.
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Post by StonerStudent on Feb 12, 2006 13:56:04 GMT -5
JT and I went to see it last night and I must admit it was better than I thought it was going to be. Yep the ending is sad but the movie takes place in 1963 and pretty much shows what the "closet" looks like from the inside....and that while things are not great now..there alot better now then back then.
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Post by cougar on Feb 19, 2006 9:03:51 GMT -5
From the West Virginia Gazette-Mail, writer Jeff Mann had this three page essay on Brokeback Mountain and his own experience of growing up in rural WV. I note that he's one of us who lives in "condition yellow" most of the time...Cougar.....http://wvgazette.com/section/Perspective/2006021825
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Post by cougar on Feb 22, 2006 1:03:18 GMT -5
And now, for my final online reference to this movie, from Missoula, Montana, appearing in The Advocate online, writer David Stalling proposed that Brokeback Mountain may be the best elk hunting movie.....http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid25529.asp....There is, of course, more to his essay than just that. It's well written and, I believe, worth your time to read it.....Cougar......
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