I just saw the best movie!

[SueleenGay]

I just saw the best movie!#0

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:01am

It was about a couple that falls in love although it is forbidden. They are both married to other people, so they meet once a year for a secret tryst in a beautiful and romantic spot and have mad passionate sex, get caught up on each other’s lives, fight, make up, bemoan the fact that they can’t be together forever and always.
It was called SAME SEX, NEXT YEAR. The only thing missing was the love song by Johnny Mathis and Jane Olivor.


Give me a break.

PEACE.

[munkustrap178]

re: I just saw the best movie!#1

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:04am

I take you didn't like it?

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[ZONEACE]

re: I just saw the best movie!#2

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:10am

I wish i knew how to quit you.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[SNAFU]

re: I just saw the best movie!#3

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:18am

How brave is Alan Alda to accept a role which deals with forbidden love?

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[bta212]

re: I just saw the best movie!#4

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:19am

Now, now now. Slow down here. I agree the movie drags a bit during the "Same Time, Next Year" portion, but there is a LOT to admire in Brokeback--some amazing performances and some truly powerful, heartbreaking emotional content.

It's all well and good to be glib, but this ain't Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn.

"They have never understood, and no reason that they should. But if anybody could . . . " --SS

[vbplayer]

re: I just saw the best movie!#5

Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:05am

I thought it was very well done. Why do people want to slam this film? SueleenGay, I respect your posts but would really like to know why this film hit you the wrong way.

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Author Unknown

[SueleenGay]

re: I just saw the best movie!#6

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:25pm

It was beautifully shot and acted, but duller than dirt. I didn't care about the characters. Self pitying homos. They didn't change (until, perhaps the very end) and if it had been a straight couple (as in SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR) no one would care. If they say the movie isn't about the fact that they are gay (isn't that what they are saying?) then imagine a straight couple and ask yourself if this movie would have been made.
I am happy people are moved by it, and obviously to each his own, but I expected so much more. I think people are giving it a little more credit than it deserves because of its high profile cast and director and subject. I am happy they made it, I just wasn't moved. Sorry.

PEACE.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

re: I just saw the best movie!#7

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:28pm

So glad to see Sueleen get on the short bus with Robbiej and me.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: I just saw the best movie!#8

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:34pm

I'm sorry you felt that way, Sueleen, and perhaps this is in naivete, but if it were a straight couple, the relationship would not be so forbidden -- that's why nobody would care. Maybe one of the reasons people care about these characters aside from the fact that they are gay is because they aren't allowed to be together, and if we feel for them, we want them to be. I guess the fact that it's "forbidden love," to use a cliche -- to me, was a big distinction.

ETA -- I think it goes without saying, but often when I don't say for that reason I later wish I had -- not to say it's *okay* that their love is forbidden, at all, but that's just my two cents on the topic.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 12/19/05 at 12:34 PM