Decent Citizens Around America Pulling Brokeback Mountain from Theaters

Whatever happened to people simply not submitting themselves to things that offend them? It's like those Biblethumping idiots who are offended by Eminem or pornography and think it's up to them to make the collective decision on whether or not this is fit for people to see or hear. I'm offended by Benny Hinn and other "televangelists" but you don't see me lobbying to have them removed from TV. I think people are smart enough to make their own good judgement. But of course, people are idiots. So they feel that if they're offended by something, no one, I mean no one should be allowed to see/hear it either. Idiots.

It is just a movie, people. If you dont like a certain form of art, then dont subject yourself to it.

I was one of the key crew in the movie and it is fantastic....whether you are stright as I am or gay. It doesn't matter. What happened to America..Home of the Free.Free to be told how to think, how to live .Pathetic.

movies about gay cowboys should come in the mail in a plain brown wrapper!

if you want to be gay, be gay, just go fuck yourself in private please, thank you!

I'm not into Gay movies, however that's wrong. They show sooooo many other movies around about differing things from murder, torture, rape etc.

I haven't seen the movie but I read the review and I will sum it up. (no worries, this isn't a ruiner)

Two cowboys fall for each other and realize (denial) they shouldn't be together and marry women. Later they reunite and hook up.

Nudity: 1 shot of cowboy from side.
Nudity: 1 shot of 2 cowboys jumping off a waterfall, from a distance.
Sex Scenes: Unsure how many, but the reviewer said it was normal man sex with no nudity, only motion and sound.

It's a Romance movie.


Lighten up people, if you don't want to see it, dont go see it, to each their own.

ROOTIN' TOOTIN' MOVIE REVIEWIN'

By Rip Rense
[email protected]
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I'm a homophobe.

That's the verdict rendered, apparently, just because I don't want to see "Brokeback Mountain."

I suppose not wanting to see films fraught with chain-saw killings makes me a murderphobe. I suppose not wanting to see romantic tear-jerkers about women's love affairs makes me a femalephobe. Not wanting to see movies about idiotic young people makes me an idioticyoungpeoplephobe.

Hey, I'm not being paranoid here. George Weinberg, the very psychologist who coined the term, "homophobe," says I'm one.

The evidence? My aversion to seeing "Brokeback Mountain," which is a film about two cowpokes who like to poke each other. Brokeback Mountin'! Whoops---there I go, making light of homosexual encounters! Only a homophobe would do such a thing.

Dr. Weinberg, the New York City psychologist and author of "Society and the Healthy Homosexual," says this is "definitely homophobia," and he offers the following advice:

"First understand you have this problem," he explained in a Newhouse News Service article. "At least by acknowledging it, that's a start. It's like saying, 'I have a fear of heights."'

I have no problem acknowledging my fear of heights. I grip the railing at the Grand Canyon. But as long as I'm not in prison, I have no fear of homosexuals.

And you know, I keep trying to talk myself into believing that psychotherapy is a constructive thing, at least for some people who have suffered severe trauma, but then guys like Weinberg pop up (so to speak.)

Of course, he would undoubtedly say I have undue hostility toward him, and that this is a mask for repressed homosexuality.

Look, I hate "Brokeback Mountain." That's my review. I don't care if Orson Welles came back from the dead to direct it. I have not seen it, will not see it, and I believe it to be an abomination. Not because it depicts two male homosexuals in a sincere love affair (sorry, Dr. Weinberg.) Big deal! I was aware long before "Brokeback Mountain" that persons of the same gender can and do commit to one another out of lust, and even love, sometimes for a lifetime.

The thing that bothers me here is that this movie is what passes for important social commentary in this stupid society. I put the discourse generated somewhere between banal and puerile---which, of course, is just right for a country obsessed with "intelligent design," abortion, and democratizing the world.

I mean, never mind that Uncle Sam is bankrupt and in hock to Saudi Arabia, China. Never mind New Orleans. Never mind the Jesus freaks and Israel shills running the government. Never mind Iraq. Never mind "music" about murder and rape pumping into the brains of millions of kids. Let's talk about homosexuals tongue-kissing!

Yes, all across the nation, people---well, women people---are declaring, "Oh, I really, really want to see 'Brokeback Mountain.'" I hear it constantly. Well, why do you want to see it? Is it news to you that homosexuals exist? Have you really really never seen a love story before? Or is this just a way of declaring what a humanitarian, egalitarian, wonderful soul you are because you will pay $10.50 to see a flick about a couple of guys who want to get into one another's chaps?

(There is a play on words that comes to mind here, involving "chick flick" and the vice-president's first name, but we'll skip that.)

And then there is the refrain that is rattling (heterosexual) marriages across the land: "Why does this movie upset you so much, Honey? Does it threaten your manhood?"

Well, speaking for myself, I don't have too much manhood left. It was largely stolen by political correctness and Affirmative Action that denied me a number of jobs and promotions because I was not a female, and not a minority---or at least in one case, not a female minority. But I do what I can---some days I don't even shave or say "please" and "thank you"---but I don't fool anybody, I guess.

Still, the fact that two good ol' fu---er, that is, buckaroos---tongue-kiss one another on the big screen does not threaten my masculinity. It does several other things, though. First, it threatens, or at least insults, my intelligence to be put in the position of having to react to this as though it is an important event in the world.

And yes, it sickens me. I am hard-wired (paging Dr. Freud) to find the sight of two men smooching to be repugnant, disturbing. The DNA strand reading "No possible procreation here" lights up, and my brain command center's "WRONG" receptors are overloaded. This is the heterosexual machinery, functioning as intended.

Yes, as intended.

Of course, the intellectuals and experts challenge this, too. Consider:

"It does seem to be almost culturally universal that heterosexual men can have a deep repulsion to overt homosexuality," said Dean Hamer, scientist and author of "The Science of Desire: The Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior."

(Good, Dean! You're quite a keen observer of your fellow man, and perhaps their jeans.)

"But," he added, "there is no study I know of to ascertain whether this is a biologically based trait."

Brilliant! These eggheads always throw that out: "no study," "no evidence." No evidence other than the behavior of billions of humans throughout history, that's all. Well, Dean, nobody ever taught me that homosexuality was evil. It's a wonder I turned out "straight." And by the way, what a slyly pejorative term that is, eh? As in "straight and narrow," unimaginative, unadventurous. Not a very gay idea! Funny how it has been picked up by the media as a conventional term. . .

But disregard this rant, as I'm just a homophobe. Never mind that I have no problem with "gay marriage." Never mind that some of my best friends. . .well, you get the drift.

Or maybe you don't.

Take my dear old friend, Donna (please), who has stopped speaking to me because of "Brokeback Mountain!" Really. Now, Donna is a nice lady, and a brilliant author/writer, but whenever I express an opinion with which she disagrees, she gets snippy, and sends little repressed hostilities my way in the form of e-mail.

The other day, I asked her what movies she had seen. She gave me a list. I wrote back that I didn't know some of them, liked others, intended to see still others, but would not see "Brokeback Mountain."

"I find the sight of two men kissing to be repugnant," I wrote. Of course, I added "I find the sight of a man and woman kissing to be almost as repugnant," but I guess that didn't help. I received a crisp note informing me that I was "proselytizing." What's more, she had not asked my opinion about the movies, and requested that I do not "proselytize" in future e-mails.

She finished this with the veneer of civility: thnx."

Worried, I wrote back, asking her why she reacted with such um. . .intolerance. That I thought we were just having that most ubiquitous of L.A. conversations: the movie chat.
No reply!

Hey, Donna, guess what: I'm proselytizing again! Thnx yourself!

See? "Brokeback Mountain" is breaking people apart. But then, that's what it is designed to do-or at least, that's what the studio and PR departments hoped would happen. They loftily call it "provoking controversy," of course, and claim they are making people re-think stereotypes. (Translation: they are making money.)

Hey, I'm rethinking a stereotype because of this film. I mean, was John Wayne swaggering or swishing? This gives whole new implications to yeee-ha, doesn't it? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cowboys should sue. Or maybe not. "Brokeback," after all, plays like a comic horse opera. It's like what Letterman said the other night, in summarizing the plot---something like "these two cowboys go out and have a rough day on the range, roundin' up dogies, then at the end of the day, they go home, and they kiss." That's a howl.

And the clips of "Brokeback" dialogue I've heard on radio break me up. They sound like an old Richard Pryor album. Two crusty, gruff, masculine cowhands mutter in taciturn cowboy cadence---you know, with the wide open spaces between their sentences---about how they "cain't" let this feelin' come over 'em agin. . .

This had me on the floor, in full homophobic seizure.

And if that bothers you, Dr. Weinberg, I'd say that probably makes you a heterophobe.

"if you want to be gay, be gay, just go fuck yourself in private please, thank you!"

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What are you talking about here? did some gays broke into your house and performed a sex act before your eyes with a third one put a gun against your head to threaten you to not close your eyes for what you see and after that to suck his dick? No, that never happened? THAN SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATED SHEEP!!
Heterosexual couplings, dating, sexuality, romance, breeding etc. are putted through everyones throats for centuries and drilled in everyones minds 24 hours a day in 98% of movies, advertisements, magazines, daily conversations, hetero's kissing in public etc. etc., do you ever hear a homosexual whine about that and saying all that heterosexual expression is a treat to them, NO only religious indoctrinated sissy's like you do whine about the 2% gay romance you might see on television (If you look hard enough for it that is, but i guess that you DO look hard enough for it, cause homosexuality seems like a secret obsession for you, that it makes you hysterical to see 2 normal men have a romance with eachother is only proof of how insecure you really are inside yourself about your own sexual preferences, people like you always wind up in topics about gays, i wonder where you're really fantasising about when you lay in bed at night and don't think about your angry 'god' or low level social programming for 2 or 3 minutes?!?)

Good for em!

Do you mean intolerant citizen and control freaks?

No one puts a gun to anyone’s head and forces them to see a movie.

These groups are afraid that the movie will generate empathy for the homosexual community,...imo.

Sad really.

Religious zealots suck regardless of religion.


Z

Yeah 60413 - only straight people should be viewed fucking in public. You biggoted assholes need to learn you did not write the laws of the universe. Homosexuals are as normal as hetrosexuals.

his dick got hard so he pulled it

"Homosexuals are as normal as hetrosexuals."

Sheepman , sheepman candlelight
Doin’ the town and doin’ it right
In the evenin’
It’s pretty pleasin’

Sheepman Jakey, sheepman sam
Do the jitterbug out in sheeple land
And they shimmy
And sammy’s so skinny

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin’ and jingin’ the jango
Floatin’ like the heavens above
It looks like sheepleman love

Nibbling on bacon, chewin’ on cheese
Sammy says to Jakey honey, would you please be my missus?
And he say yes

if we pretend it isn't there maybe it will just go away

if we don't look at it maybe it will just go away

maybe if we don't think about it it will just go away

such is the american christian right


BUT we were all supposed to go see that really violent movie depicting the crucifixion of christ so we might be redeemed, seeing someone flail a man's flesh with a cat o nine tail imbedded w bits of broken pottery is not my idea of a good afternoon's entertainment

But if I don't enjoy that I am GOING TO HELL!!!!

What about the rights of the theater owner not to show it? Its his theater. Its his loss? right?

"BUT we were all supposed to go see that really violent movie depicting the crucifixion of christ so we might be redeemed, seeing someone flail a man's flesh with a cat o nine tail imbedded w bits of broken pottery is not my idea of a good afternoon's entertainment"

Spooky,... I heard they yanked 'Brokebutt' in Salt Lake City, but showed the movie Hostel. This movie supposedly showed people tortured for 2 hours.

If these so called Christians knew how many people Pat Robertson has fucked in the ass,....would they be appalled?



Z

Pat Robertson

It was still the number 6th rated movie of the week. So the "decent" are a small minority.

They should really watch the movie too. They might learn a thing or two.

"Decent Citizens Around America Pulling Brokeback Mountain from Theaters

First Utah, now Washington. The trend will continue!"

"Decent Citisens" deny reality.

There are "homos" in this world.
They have relationships, and sometimes it makes a great story.

It's almost like they are afraid if people see this, God will treat this country like another "Sodom and Gomorrah".
When in truth what Really scares them is that God would say Your no Lot!

"If these so called Christians knew how many people Pat Robertson has fucked in the ass,....would they be appalled?"

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Yeah, and what about all those christian ministers commiting incest with their own kids...

But these mind controlled christian sheeple/minions are so twisted minded (direct effect of that religious mind control) that they are totaly in denial of all those things and totaly ignorant of the roots and real meaning behind their indoctrinated believe system!

It must be beLIEf system!

all I know is a woman in her twenties when telling a male audience was,

U can tell the other cowboy is "getting" it.

and covered her face laughing.

so nudity, etc,

In the movies things are insinuated all the time., without showing it. Really , see kids, they once wouldn't show Elvis Presley on TV because of his hip swivel.

really,


you can get on the internet and get what you want it seems,

and you argue of who buys a ticket,

They were NOT gay cowboys, they were sheep herders. Is was pulled because of poor ticket sells.

It's just a chick flick for gays.

What's the problem ??

"The Passion" -that two hours of torture called a movie --THAT WAS CHRISTIAN ART!

You've got to be taught to hate and fear,
You've got to be taught from year to year,
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear --
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade --
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late!
Before you are six, or seven, or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate --
You've got to be carefully taught!
You've got to be carefully taught!

Pulling this movie isn't going to make homosexuality go away. Homosexuality is as old as man is. If you dislike such activities, ask God why he/she created such people and God did create them and loves them just as much as he loves the haters of these people.

God loved and saved Lot who then had sex with his own daughters.

So is God a sick f*** or what?

Brokeback buttfucking mountain?
That's that's gonna raise some
homophobe hackles.

Maybe it's because no one wants to watch that gay movie just like that stupid Gaysha movie. They could make more money replaying E.T.