Author Topic: Brokeback Mountain (Read 9348 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #75 on:** January 14, 2006, 01:06:24 PM »

fair enough but....

I don't think half as much was spent on sernenity.... 40 gay international awards awarder award makers who never seen it didn't give serenity the highest awards ever given to a movie they had never seen before and...

It didn't have name brand actors or directors or producers (unless you were a fan) and..

How many previews for serenity did you see? How much publicity did it get?

How much talent and name brand actors, producers directors etc were lavished on it?

brokebutt pulled out all the stops and this is the best they can do? the agenda doesn't seem to be selling sooooo....

we are still left with..... why did they do it?

lazs

Eagler · « **Reply #76 on:** January 14, 2006, 01:25:42 PM »

butt sex and then all day horseback riding just doesn't seem to go together .. lol

ya think it'd be a limited audience, I mean if you aren't gay, would you go see a movie about gays? I don't watch will & grace either ...

weaselsan · « **Reply #77 on:** January 14, 2006, 02:53:58 PM »

Now we need a show tune called homos on the range

Debonair · « **Reply #78 on:** January 14, 2006, 03:04:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Gaylord
As a San Franciscian I want to go on record right now of saying I just love the Navy, and its Sailors- especially since they started wearing those cute little bell bottom pants again- and if the Navy and San Francisco can work this out and we should become the home port of the Iowa I will be on the pier every night to offer whatever comfort I can to the poor, lonely, homesick sailors- emotionally, spiritually and physically- until the Shore Patrol runs me off like they did in Long Beach.

Too bad he is banned, he would have something funny to post here.
I heard he is all over Atari's Stampede BBS these days

FuBaR · « **Reply #79 on:** January 14, 2006, 03:07:14 PM »

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I cannot understand why a lot of gays think they have to do everything but rent billboards and TV airtime to pronounce to the world that they are gay, then expect to be treated with any kind of respect or anything resembling a normal society. The male flamers priss into some place looking like a cheap Tammy Faye Baker impression can`t really expect people not to laugh and treat them different than they do everyone else. Hell, it`s a sad comedy act. If you are a male and your sexual prefernce is to do the back seat boogy with another male then it would seem to me you would do it discreetly and save yourself a lot of hassle. A lot of gay guys are not flamers and most people they come in contact with have no idea they are gay. To a lot of the male of the species, myself included, a gay male is viewed as ....well.......just pure sickening and a disgrace to the human race. To me it is viewed on the same level as a child molestor who would make a great effort to publicise that he is such, then asked to be treated with respect. Ain`t gonna happen Homer. It is unnantural and will be viewed as such by most unless you buy into the "I gotta be PC about this and kiss some serious butt to get with the crowd I wish to" .
Just curious.......but at what age did your brother decide he was gay and what do think "made" him gay?

I always had suspicions he was gay, I dont think anything "made him gay" I think with the exception of certain psychological circumstances( I am in psychology) that they are just born that way. He admitted it when he was about 18-19, But like I said I always knew or had suspiscions. He isnt a "flamer" or anything and I doubt Most people would even know he was gay unless they spent alot of time with him .

SOB · « **Reply #80 on:** January 14, 2006, 03:53:15 PM »

fair enough but....

I don't think half as much was spent on sernenity....

Brockeback Mountain: $14 Million

Serenity: $39 Million

40 gay international awards awarder award makers who never seen it didn't give serenity the highest awards ever given to a movie they had never seen before and...

I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Are you saying that 40 gay organizations gave awards to Brokeback Mountain, but didn't give awards to Serenity?

It didn't have name brand actors or directors or producers (unless you were a fan) and..

Naturally it didn't, as it already had a cast made up mostly of the cast from the TV Series.

How many previews for serenity did you see? How much publicity did it get?

Not that much, but then a movie about space cowboys isn't as controversial as a movie about gay cowboys.

How much talent and name brand actors, producers directors etc were lavished on it?

Didn't you ask that already?

brokebutt pulled out all the stops and this is the best they can do? the agenda doesn't seem to be selling sooooo....

The GAY AGENDA? What was the agenda for making Serenity? If we're just counting the box office take, it lost money...surely there was some agenda for making a movie that lost money! I bet Joss Weaton is trying to gain mainstream acceptance for Reevers! But hopefully they make up the difference in DVD sales and maybe make another Serenity movie with a different secret agenda.

we are still left with..... why did they do it?

lazs

I would presume they did it to make money, as they are a business. And it looks like they succeeded in doing just that. Now all we're left with is a bunch of conspriacy theorists talking out of their tulips about the suspicious motives of movie producers over this one particular movie. Hell, where were you when they released Cheaper by the Dozen 2. I'd like to know what sinister motive was behind releasing this horrible piece of tripe on society!

bj229r · « **Reply #81 on:** January 14, 2006, 04:03:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
As far as I can tell Hollywood has just one agenda. $$$

Most movies are populist cultural ****.

This movie isn't about $$$, it's only in some 67 theaters nationwide (and I'd imagine vast majority of them are in New York and California) It's about the Left's agenda--they make a movie only THEY would like, then fall all over themselves assigning praise to it. Not much different from some left-wing nutburger getting the Nobel Peace Prize every year.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #82 on:** January 14, 2006, 04:07:48 PM »

Those are production costs. I believe (I could be wrong) that Lazs was talking about advertising.

I'd be willing to bet that the advertising cost of Brokeback is much higher then Serenity. But then again, I could be wrong. I don't own a TV, but I do see higher amounts of BBM commercials then any other movie (except hostel recently).

SOB · « **Reply #83 on:** January 14, 2006, 04:13:15 PM »

Ah, I didn't think about that...that certainly seems possible - higher advertising $. All the same, my opinion of the "gay movie conspiracy" remains the same.

Shuckins · « **Reply #84 on:** January 14, 2006, 06:50:46 PM »

Even if it falls of the charts quickly, fails to make any real money, and is trashed by all the major critics I'll bet dollars to do-nuts the Hollywood elite will fall all over themselves to load it down with oscars.

midnight Target · « **Reply #85 on:** January 14, 2006, 06:57:28 PM »

And you are absolutely certain that it doesn't deserve them?

Shuckins · « **Reply #86 on:** January 14, 2006, 07:03:46 PM »

Are you absolutely certain it does deserve them?

storch · « **Reply #87 on:** January 14, 2006, 08:22:47 PM »

reminds me of an old steely dan tune "show biz kids" I guess the more things change the more they stay the same

Toad · « **Reply #88 on:** January 14, 2006, 09:46:25 PM »

You heard about the sequel right? Bareback on Brokeback?

Ennis Del Mar moves to Pendleton, Oregon and gets a job in a woolen mill. The fuzzy wool fibers floating in the air and the smell of wet washed wool routinely send him into eroctic daydreams of his days of wonder with Jack. He's tragically killed while dry humping a cloth rolling mill and becoming...er... entangled and crushed to death.

Jack, upon hearing the news of Ennis's untimely death, loses it and returns to sheepherding on Brokeback Mountain. While doing his job and daydreaming of Ennis, he too becomes enthralled with the smell of wool and starts some new romances. Before long, he can no longer remember Ennis's face but does own the area's largest collection of rubber knee boots and velcro gloves.

It's kinda a happy ending as nothing to baa-aaa-aaa-aad happens once Ennis is gone.

-tronski- · « **Reply #89 on:** January 14, 2006, 10:09:13 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
see? there is nothing there for you. Who will see it?

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Actually I've not seen it nor do I intend to. Not my cup of tea either. Unless they spend 75 million on special effects I'll save time and wait for it to come to cable.

Your right...I'd rather see that movie about the woman who **** teases that gorilla...

Tronsky

Author Topic: Brokeback Mountain (Read 9348 times)

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