I was so bored!

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2006)

True, "Crash" was not the best "Best Picture" but it was better than "Brokeback Mountain"! "Brokeback" was a BEAUTIFULLY filmed piece of trifle. It deserved "Best Adapted Screenplay" merely for pulling off the feat of dragging out a trite short story and making it a 134 minute motion picture that was about 34 minutes too long.
It was so dull I couldn't wait until the sex scene. The sex was jarring and totally void of romance or sensuality, for that matter. After that, I eventually lost interest, as I found no reason to root for them as a couple. One thing of which I am certain that Brokeback Mountain was much ado about nothing! Here's more reasons why:
1) There wasn't a whole lot going on other than the guys aging, fishing, having sex and lying. 2) They were in lust not love . . . nothing more than sex partners. Other than the annual sex date they had no contact with each other. It was the gay equivalent of 1978's Same Time, Next Year staring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn -- except with less emotional connection. You want tender love between men see 2002's Jagger and Yossi. It wasn't great but it was sweet. I have to see 1982's Making Love. I heard that was groundbreaking! It escapes me why people find this story significant. 3) The relationship wasn't realistic -- based the consensus from myself and the gay people I know. It was more than obvious that the story was written by a straight woman and adapted by a straight man and another straight woman. It was a gay story that straight people could handle. 4) Ennis was so "normal" most of the time. The only time he was tormented was when he was with Jack and they were about to part. 5) The movie came across as being told from an omnipresent point of view and then switches when it is convenient to move the SLOW story along. Did some of the stuff happen or was it a dream? 6) At a pivotal scene in the movie, when Ennis should have shown great emotion, he showed very little. Ennis cried before, so why not then or at least afterward? 7) After the pivotal scene, instead of ending the movie there, they dragged it out. There was no resolution or character display of coming to terms with life. It was just a ploy to keep me from getting up to go to the restroom.
Sorry, there you go. No prize for them