Must Be Tuesday: Those crazy cowboys

Must Be Tuesday

Chatter from A to Z with a special place for Buffy, Angel and Apolo Anton Ohno.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Those crazy cowboys

I finally saw Brokeback Mountain and Crash. Sheesh, I should get to the movies more often. I really liked both of them. Crash was very good and I see why it won best picture. For so many stories they flowed together seamlessly. Well done.

As for Brokeback Mountain. Well, I think it was a bit overhyped. It was good and yes, there were gay cowboys. It was really a love story -- between two gay cowboys. I read the short story and they stuck to it for the most part, actually they were dead on in some respects. Still, I must say I was expecting some more in the sex department from the way people were going on.

Granted, there were, I would say, two pretty steamy sexual moments. I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but for those who have, I'm picking the tent moment when Jake Gyllenhall is shirtless and when they meet after a few years and Ennis' wife catches them. The kiss was pretty passionate.

Basically, they're apart for most of the movie and we see a lot of their lives away from each other. I love love stories, I'm a sucker for romance, romantic comedies, steamy romances, period romances, all of it.

It was sad, yes, passionate in some places. I don't know if it was romantic since they didn't really romance each other but they were sweet and gentle to each other in some moments the way a man and woman would be. I liked every scene with them, they really were the core of the film. I didn't want to see anything else but them.

I'm glad I finally saw it...FINALLY! Because I liked it.

I also think it was a good move career wise for Heath Ledger.

Gunngirl believed The Truth is still Out There at 10:22 PM

3 commentst:

At 8:32 AM, Linda said…

I have not seen Brokeback yet. I luved Crash. Have a good day sweetie!
At 6:37 PM, L said…

Crash was a good movie.
I just got Memoirs of a Geisha, very beautiful movie.
At 5:57 AM, mrs. awesome said…

i loved crash, and i think it deserved the win. aside from the gay rights and all that, taking it just as a story, i thought brokeback was just okay. moved a little slowly. and did anyone else have trouble understanding heath leadger?? i swear, he mumbled so much i nearly had to turn on the captions.