Brokeback Mountain

Read the short story a few years back and it just floored me. Good thing it was the last one in the collection because after that I was just useless--cried and cried. Powerful stuff.

Because of that, I'm not sure I want to see it just yet. A little too worn out from an exhausting semester and a some emotional debris, so I'm a bit too "vulnerable" right now. Maybe when it hits DVD.

I wonder how the film handles the ending...

At the risk of being "The Turd In The Punchbowl", I saw "Brokeback" yesterday and didn't really care for it.

I found the plot interesting, but I thought the movie tried too hard and that Heath Ledger's acting was pretty bad (and he doesn't move his mouth when he talks making it difficult to understand him) and I thought most of the love scenes were very forced and unbelieveable and the scenarios too absurd and overly stereotypical. C'mon...Heath has to beat up Jake during sex just to be a "man"?

I also didn't like how they made Jake's character rather feminine and Heath's rather macho what with him being so violent. A bit to stereotypical and hetero-based for my taste.

After months of looking forward to this movie, I'll have to give it a 70 or so on a scale of 1-100. Yes, the scenery was awesome, but you could film a baby-killing scene in front of that scenery and it would still look gorgeous. Beautiful scenery does not an Oscar-winning movie make.

My two cents...