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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is one of those movies that you've heard way too much about before you see it. Knowing a movie has already won awards makes it very difficult to judge objectively. In the case of Brokeback Mountain, it's a powerful story, but not without its faults.
Brokeback Mountain is indeed a thoroughly recommendable movie. The Wyoming scenery is beautiful and the love story is compelling too. I just can't get past the feeling that it's only hailed as fantastic because two straight Hollywood A-list hunks put their tongues down each other's throats. It isn't fantastic - it's just good - but I suspect it makes no difference what I say. You already knew before you read this whether you were going to go and see it or not, and I daresay the expectation you have, whatever it is, will be fulfilled. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: - not that I think it's a 5/5 movie, I just think that the people who want to watch it will see it that way. Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - look the other way during the single-sex encounters and wait patiently for the boobs of both Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams (click the links for a preview). The gay scenes aren't very graphic, though Heath Ledger does spit on his hand to ease his passage - so to speak. To enjoy this film you should be: keen to see it.
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Homosexuality is like eating snails to me. If someone wants to eat snails, they should go right ahead and eat snails,
but I'd really prefer it if they didn't do it while I'm around, much less make a movie out of it. It's fair to say that
there's no way I'd have seen this movie if I didn't do this web site - but having watched it carefully and winced at the
appropriate moments (just in case anyone was watching and got the wrong idea - you know how up-tight us straight folks are),
I'm glad I did. To be honest, the gay thing isn't really the driving factor here - although director Ang Lee would
probably disagree in a bid to sell more tickets - it's simply a story of forbidden love that could have happened between
anyone. The fact that the couple is made up of two cowboys actually detracts from the story, as they manage to overcome
their indoctrinated upbringings with virtually no effort at all - they go over to The Brown Side far too readily for my
liking, as if they're cosmopolitan students rather than repressed macho figures.
Heath Ledger has had a cracking year, with two superb performances in 
But I digress. As well as the gay headliner, both characters are also married - Gyllenhaal to Anne Hathaway and Ledger to
Michelle Williams. Anne Hathaway has gone out of her way to lose the squeaky clean image she garnered from teen hits
The Princess Diaries and
