Insults the audience

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2006)

This movie has no conflict, no character development, and no story. Everybody starts out miserable, and then things get worse. Its sensationalism is supposed to carry it? Imagine a movie about two alcoholics -- they start to drink, then they drink some more, then their wives leave them and their families are miserable, and then they are alone and then they die. With a non-story line like that, no one would say they've seen a good movie. Is it saved because the characters are miserable gays instead of miserable alkies? Oh, please, you're boring me.
Worse, the movie insults the audience. Its so-called resolution finally comes when unknown, unseen people in Jake Gyllenhaal's world kill him -- presumably because (and only because) he is gay. What a world we live in, huh? A lady in my beauty parlor said Randy Quaid should get the best supporting actor award for narrowing his beady eyes and showing what "everybody" really thinks about gays. Here we have the PC people understanding the plight of miserable emotionally stilted gays and showing how despicable the other people are who don't sympathize with what the miserable gays have to endure. What if the movie is wrong and most people are too busy with their own lives to care about what gays do, one way or another?
The movie gets close to comedy at the end when the two characters finally -- FINALLY! -- have an argument. One says, 'you never take me anywhere, just this miserable mountain.' That's pretty funny. In the movie and play "Same Time Next Year," the writers take essentially the same situation -- rare illicit romantic interludes -- and are able to show a range of character development and conflicts over the years. The two in B-Movie Mountain never change,never grow, and never have any interesting conflicts in 20 years.
I can't believe people are buying this "best movie" baloney.