...They Love Each Other?

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2007)

Reading the comments here it's good to know that I'm not the only heterosexual male to have seen this sorry excuse for a love story. Also reading the comments here I think I'm the only heterosexual man who saw this movie that is not a homophobe. I really don't care at all that the movie's about two dudes, what I care about is the fact that everyone said this is such a "powerful love story" and it's nothing special...at all. Yes the movie's pacing is slower then a line at the DMV. You cannot understand a d--- word Heath Ledger's saying. But the storytelling is worse then the mumbling.
I was asked to watch this "Powerful Love Story" by my girlfriend so seeing I will do anything for her, and that I'm a Film Major, I should be exposing myself to as many different kinds of movies as I can, I agreed to watch this movie. Quickly I realize that this movie is going to be a "long haul" with it's painfully slow pace. Then at about 15-20 minutes into the movie something happen that I didn't see coming at that point; Heath's ramming Jake in the ass. I was stunned, I thought what the hell? I looked at my girlfriend and her mother and they seemed unfazed. There was no foreshadowing to this, just a couple rack focuses of Heath with his back to Jake as he takes his shirt off, he didn't even make an attempt to look at him just a rack focus. There was no hint to sexual interest between them at all. If you're trying to tell a "Powerful Love Story" real love does not start with nookie, maybe if you're in high school, and you should show that the two characters, I don't know, love each other. In no way was I convinced that these two loved each other...at all.
The characters later get back together and have secret "love" up on Brokeback Mountian, and talk about running way with each other so on and so forth. So the secret relationship goes on for years and then the two men have a falling out because Jake needs to have sex more then the few times they meet. This relationship sure is filled with "love" the one guy in the relationship need sex so he cheats on his partner in Mexican back alleys he must "love" him so much. If they loved each other so much Jake's character could keep it in his own pants. I don't care if he did it because he felt like he was living a lie or whatever REAL love is about sacrifice. Years later Jake's character gets killed because he can't keep it in his pants and gets caught. I'm sorry but I cannot feel or care for a character that dug his own grave like that, he knew what would happen if he kept up his man-whoring ways but he just kept doing it.
In the end you really don't care about either character. They both were both just so selfish. Both never thought about anyone but themselves, not their kids, (who they abandoned), their wives, (who they abandoned) not even their relationship (which Jake's character screwed up with cheating and Heath's character screwed up with his controlling nature) just themselves. I would of like to see a movie about how they sacrifice so much to be together and how they worked through it because they loved each other, you know a "love conquers all" that would of been nice to see but what does Ang Lee give us a bad soap opera about gay cowboys, thanks Ang thanks a lot. On a high note this movie looks amazing the cinematography is breath-taking(that is why I gave this a 3 instead of a 1), but all and all this movie just makes you mad don't bother wasting your time on this "Powerful Love Story".