Remarkable, Haunting, Groundbreaking, Heartwarming, Heart Wrenching........do i need to go on?

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2006)

Well i first saw the film over 2 weeks ago (and seen it a few times since then) and i have to say that i have NEVER been touched by a movie like this EVER, especially not to write in a review of it so that shows the depth.
Now I'm not going to go into too much detail of the whole general film as there are lots of fantastic detailed reviews already. I've just come on here to put my 2 pence worth about some of the topics its brought up and to reply to some of the reviews.
The movie i heard about a few months back and listening from the media about it being "2 Gay cowboys" didn't really interest me as i thought it would be overly done(Hollywood style), e.g obvious CAMP gays with limp wrists, being bitchy etc, but after hearing the reviews i thought i would give it a watch. HOW WRONG WAS I? There are so many things great about it that i cant begin to explain but most have been said in previous reviews. I love the way its so subtle and slow moving and not filled with action scenes to one liners that most Hollywood "blockbusters" seem to have to have.
As a gay man myself it is EXTREMELY frustrating that the media in all forms tend to play Gay men, as camp, hairdressers, bitchy, all "look at me" etc. Thats why Brokeback mountain deserves more praise as it shows them as macho normal males, which is what most gay men are (like myself), its just you don't "see" them as such because they mingle more with the background of society. It shows them in love but trying to cover it up (more so with ennis) for the sake of the society at the time. Like has been said a million times before but the acting is faultless and just with the looks they give each other you really feel they are real and in love.
Now to reply to a few reviews and points already on here, 1st regarding the film being "slow" and "boring", I feel that unfortunately people have got use to Hollywood making films so In your face, with big action scenes and special effects, films that need to be fillered with one liners just to fill a poor storyline. That when a film comes out that challenges all that, with little storyline, relying more on the scenery and more importantly the Acting that some people unfortunately lose interest, which is such a shame as i loved the pace of the film. The slow pace in which we learn about the characters makes you feel like your there and you know them, especially when you feel like your grieving at the end.
Secondly people saying, "well it would get a different reaction if it wasn't man loving man", well films are not supposed to be broad. They have to to be specific within it's characters and environment for it to achieve its main goal... Thats like telling the fans of Titanic " I bet if the Ship didn't sink you probably wouldn't have loved it like you do"... Do you see the dilemma with it.... In Brokeback, The two characters have to be two men for the story to work.
Quite a few of my friends have seen it, most on my recommendation and the majority LOVED it, the few that didn't, and i mean a few, were surprising girls, they said it was boring and switched off half way through, but they admitted that they love action thriller which this definitely isn't.
I know this hasn't exactly been a review about the film in full, as like i said there is hundreds of fantastic reviews (apart from the pathetic hyprocritcal homophobes), which could detail the film better than me.I just thought after reading a lot of reviews i had a few points to make If you really are a avid movie goer, with an open mind you will LOVE this film, why do you think the major movie reviewers for the media love this film.
I've never been touched and moved by a movie so much as this one, and as many people say i kept and keep thinking about it as if their real people. God i need to get out more.
And just to finish there are so many touching scenes where the music really does tug on your heart strings but i have my take on the "I swear" line I've been thinking and i have come up with this conclusion. Its just after the heart wrenching sense with his daughter and if her fiancé loved her, she leaves, He buttons up the shirt and then straightens up the Postcard of Brokeback mountain, and then says it.
After talking about love, his shirt etc he is swearing that if he could go back and change (set up ranch with him etc) then he would. As its obvious Jacks parents know he is gay. Anyone else's opinion would be gratefully received The only thing i would say is please don't go into the cinema hyping this film up and i don't want you to be disappointed, but go in with an open mind and I'm sure you would love it