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DiscountDelight - Brokeback Mountain (Full Screen Edition)
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List Price: $29.98
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Manufacturer: Universal
Directed By: Ang Lee
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025192631627
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Universal
Manufacturer: Universal
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal
Release Date: 2006-04-04
Running Time: 134
Studio: Universal
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-12-16
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Summary: Great Film
Comment: this movie was was pretty good. i truly liked it! the movie had it's good points, but what it lacked was the true depth of their relationship. i feel that they could have given more detail as to why they were drawn to each other, other than companionship. Heath Ledger was great. He really showed true emotion, to how confusing and hard the situation was. And Jake Gyllenhaal did well, playing the nieve cowboy who wasn't in tune with reality and the uglyness of the world. Michelle Williams also did great. I could feel the raw emotion she gave as she found out about her husband's secret. This movie really touched me. I give it two thumbs up!
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Summary: The most moving film I have ever seen!
Comment: This is a wonderful film, with an interesting story line, excellent acting, and outstanding directing. It is one of the most moving films I have ever seen!
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Summary: Breakthrough approach to a forbidden subject, but too slow and too long.
Comment: I saw this film a couple of months ago but just haven't gotten around to reviewing it. By now, of course, everyone knows the general plot. And everyone has an opinion about this film whether he or she has seen this film or not. The opinions tend to follow the person's views on the gay issue. This seems a little unfair because I think a good film should stand by itself and not just be a reflection of a personal opinion about its theme.
The credits are impressive. Ang Lee directed it. As always, he makes the audience really understand his characters. The two cowboys, as played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenthal, become real and easily identifiable for their very human qualities. The film is based on a short story by Annie Proulx. She writes about the dark side of the American West, not the place of the great John Wayne myths. The writer, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are also experts on the west. I would expect nothing but the best from them.
The story is complex and more than the sum of its parts. It starts in 1963 when the two young men spend a summer working together herding sheep on the lonely Brokeback Mountain. For the entire summer, they have no other human companionship. Naturally, a bond develops between them. And then, on one cold and lonely night, they have a brief romantic encounter. They both would like it to be only a one-time thing, but it isn't. Their feelings grow for each other. Later, they are discovered, go back to their respective lives, and try to forget each other.
Both men marry. Both have children. The marriages are not happy. And there are some scenes between these men and their wives that show the sadness and impact of these flawed marriages. Then, several years later, the men come together again, and from then on, they spend several weeks each summer continuing their relationship on Brokeback Mountain. They say they are going there to fish; but they never do bring home any fish.
The story takes place over couple of decades. It is a gloomy story, one that the audience knows will end badly. There's fine acting, great scenery and everything else that deserves the accolades it received.
Problem is, the film runs 134 minutes which is much too long. The action is subtle and brings up unsettling emotions. After a short while, I knew I had gotten the point of the film. The storyline didn't really change and there were no surprises. I found myself constantly looking at my watch. If I had been home in front of my DVD I know I would have fallen asleep.
I commend Brokeback Mountain for its breakthrough approach to a forbidden subject and some great acting. It was just a little too slow for my taste.
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Summary: Responding to Reviwer Eugene Fenlon. "Eugenius."
Comment: I rented a movie just yesterday, and was just going to leave a review I wrote on the Amazon board, but before I do that, I happened to catch your review, and decided to change my long review into a short input.
Is this a movie for straight men? Absolutely! This movie shows what true love is to human beings, and despite the fact that the women in this movie suffered, the female viewers of this movie are not offended. Most of whom even commented that Jack and Ennis should be together.
If even women aren't offended, why should we men get squimish because of some sex scene between two guys? People who say these scenes are not suitable for straight people are only sounding that they are uncomfortable with their own sexuality. I watched this movie with my wife, and I can assure you that we are both moved by the beauty of this movie.
So...losen up, this is an art, not an action movie.
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Summary: This movie shows me how much I hate sexists!
Comment: Okay, I really don't understand what the big deal is with guys who say that this is a woman's movie. This movie is the combination of romance and spirituality, both are qualities of all human beings, not just for women. In fact, I went to this movie with my book club. There are both men and women in this group, and we voted, unanimously, that this should be the best picture winner.
Of course, we all know what Oscar did after that...Another sexist move, but expected considering that men dominated the Oscar board.
Oh, and the reviewer who said that this is a girl movie, not guys, and that straight guys should not watch this movie, you might be interested to know that I reported your comment to Amazon as inappropriate. Sexists comments like that should not exist anywhere on this board, if not the world!
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Editorial Reviews:
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A sad, melancholy ache pervades Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's haunting, moving film that, like his other movies, explores societal constraints and the passions that lurk underneath. This time, however, instead of taking on ancient China, 19th-century England, or '70s suburbia, Lee uses the tableau of the American West in the early '60s to show how two lovers are bound by their expected roles, how they rebel against them, and the repercussions for each of doing so--but the romance here is between two men. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two itinerant ranchers looking for work in Wyoming when they meet and embark on a summer sheepherding job in the shadow of titular Brokeback Mountain. The taciturn Ennis, uncommunicative in the extreme, finds himself opening up around the gregarious Jack, and the two form a bond that surprisingly catches fire one cold night out in the wilderness. Separating at the end of the summer, each goes on to marry and have children, but a reunion years later proves that, if anything, their passion for each other has grown significantly. And while Jack harbors dreams of a life together, the tight-lipped Ennis is unable to bring himself to even consider something so revolutionary. Its open, unforced depiction of love between two men made Brokeback an instant cultural touchstone, for both good and bad, as it was tagged derisively as the "gay cowboy movie," but also heralded as a breakthrough for mainstream cinema. Amidst all the hoopla of various agendas, though, was a quiet, heartbreaking love story that was both of its time and universal--it was the quintessential tale of star-crossed lovers, but grounded in an ever-changing America that promised both hope and despair. Adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from Annie Proulx's short story, the movie echoes the sparse bleakness of McMurtry's The Last Picture Show with its fading of the once-glorious West; but with Lee at the helm, it also resembles The Ice Storm, as it showed the ripple effects of a singular event over a number of people. As always, Lee's work with actors is unparalleled, as he elicits graceful, nuanced performances from Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway as the wives affected overtly and subliminally by their husbands' affair, and Gyllenhaal brings surprising dimensions to a character that could have easily just been a puppy dog of a boy. It's Ledger, however, who's the breakthrough in the film, and his portrait of an emotionally repressed man both undone and liberated by his feelings is mesmerizing and devastating. Spare in style but rich with emotion, Brokeback Mountain earns its place as a classic modern love story. --Mark Englehart
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