Disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2006)

O.k., so sue me. I succumbed to the endless onslaught of reviewers who claim this is a great film. So I went to see it.
I should have known I wouldn't like it because I NEVER like the movies that all the critics rave about. Why is that? Why do critics like movies that suck? Perhaps they feel that they need to get people to see movies that they think bring up Important issues. That is, issues that the critics deem as Important, i.e. gay cowboys.
Anywho, the movie sucked.
First off, I think the two actors who played the gay cowboys took their roles a bit too seriously, because it appeared and sounded like they had big wads of chew in their mouths throughout the entire movie, and I could not understand about 90 percent of their dialogue. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the movie a bit more had I been able to understand it. Who knows? O.k., now about that scene. You know the scene everyone is talking about? As far as sex scenes go, it stunk. I mean, OUCH! Ever heard of lubrication people? Supposedly, we're to think these two guys never participated in this particular type of intimacy so I mean, come on, that's gotta hurt. There was not even any foreplay. Just wham bam thank you. ..sir. Sheesh.
All in all, the movie just stank. The dialogue, the acting, the story line. It all stank. There was no one in the movie that you could root for. The two main characters were despicable human beings who ruined not only their own lives, but also the lives of everyone around them, i.e. their wives and children. Not to mention two hours of my life. They were just as likely to punch each other as kiss each other.
Part of the problem is that I don't like depressing movies. Or depressing books. Why is it that the critics always root for the depressing stuff? It appears that critics believe books and movies have to be depressing in order to be worthy of praise. Not me. I like movies and books that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. Adversity is o.k. as long as our hero or heroin learns how to triumph in spite of it. How is it entertaining to watch people's lives that are as depressing or even more depressing than yours? No thank you very much.
In short, don't see this movie, unless you like movies that suck.
Oh wait, one more comment, this is like the gay version of Same Time Next Year. I didn't like that movie either.
O.k. had to add this comment here. I forgot to mention about the previews. There was this really long preview for what appeared to be gay pornography... basically a really long commercial advertisement for a video you can buy (i think) called gay sex in the 70's. So, it appears that if you want to see an "award-winning" movie that just so happens to have gay characters in it, you are subjected to gay porn advertising. Gross. I don't want to see straight or gay pornographic advertising thank you very much. I just like going to see good movies. I think it was highly inappropriate to advertise that during the previews for the film.
And for the record, this review was not written in order to insult the homosexual lifestyle. I have several friends who are homosexual and they are lovely people. This movie is not about them. This was a horrible movie with horrible acting, and a horrible story about horrible people.
I decided to post this review on here because yahoo deleted it the day after i posted it. Apparently they are deleting negative reviews, and many people keep reposting their reviews because of that. I was appalled to realize those people were not in fact paranoid, because it happened to me too. So I am ceasing to use yahoo movies, and have decided to jump on the IMDb band wagon. Hopefully things are done more fairly around here so that ratings of movies are more balanced and not skewed in favor of good reviews.