Quote - @Stepdad --

We agree 110%.

Brokeback Mountain was one of the most MSM-favored, over-hyped under-perfomers of a movie to come along in decades.  To read the press clippings, you'd think that the entire country was lining up at the theaters -- unable to contain themselves waiting to see this brilliant, inspiring film.

The reality was quite different........but hey, the movie was incredibly cheap to make by today's standards, and it eeked out a couple of dollars in profit (no CG required) -- so that meant that BM was the biggest movie house success since......since........A Beautiful Mind ! 

No, I haven't seen it.  In fact, I haven't even seen A Beautiful Mind.

 

Lol... A Beautiful Mind.. don't bother.  Even if someone offers to bring it over on DVD, don't bother. Even if they tell you they'll pay you money to sit and watch it with them, don't bother.

Sadly I sat through about 30 minutes of Brokeback mountain.  My wife is a big movie buff so we saw it on cable TV - and to call this movie awful would be the understatement of the century.  Funniest thing was, after half an hour of agony wife turned to me and said "You know, even if this were about a heterosexual couple it would be an awful movie".  I scared the dog half to death diving for the remote,.. lol..

I saw all of a Beautiful Mind, again thanks to cable TV.  That was one of those that my wife actually apologized to me for afterwards.  "Sorry honey, I kept thinking it was going to get better and it just never did".. lol..

Sadly Hollywood just churns out a lot of crap and not much in the way of good entertainment anymore, and the problem is not so much CG or the lack of it, it's a lack of talent for writing good characters and storylines and a lack of understanding on the part of Hollywood execs that not everyone, in fact very few people share their core values or worldview.  Mostly it's a total lack of clarity about the fact that for myself and others like me, when we pay the kind of prices you have to pay to go see a movie nowadays in the theater we want to be entertained, not preached at.