Most UNDERrated film of the year

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2006)

Okay, so I lined up to see it on opening weekend here in SF and really liked it. REALLY liked it. But then the doubt sunk in. Maybe it wasn't that I liked it, maybe I only bought into the hype... maybe I was only taking a stand in the culture wars... then it hit me: maybe it wasn't that I liked Brokeback Mountain, maybe I said I liked it because I felt *obligated* to like it.
So I snuck out and saw it again today expecting to be disappointed. Nope. Turns out I in fact did really really really like this movie. Because it was good. Because it was damn good. In fact, I think that the only reason it is at all controversial or is playing any part of the culture wars, is because it is so heartwrenchingly good-- you don't see fox news making a stink about Breakfast on Pluto or Transamerica, no?