Good for you, ClancyPants!
by toycoon (Sun Nov 19 2006 14:10:06 )
UPDATED Sun Nov 19 2006 14:13:56
I can't imagine anyone more qualified to be the official shepherd to lead our flock.
From all of us dumbass mules, the coyotes at bay, the Queensland heelers, a camel and the sheep (especially sheep #761), Salute!
Re: A startling confession
by blackvanilla (Sun Nov 19 2006 14:29:57 )
UPDATED Sun Nov 19 2006 14:30:59
Congratulations, Mr. ClancyPants!
You're way ahead of me. As much as i love the movie, i can count all the times i've seen it on one hand, which has something to do with the fact that i don't OWN the movie
. Anyone want to buy me a copy for Christmas?? LOL just kidding!
Oh, and don't mind TxMike. He's just mad to realize that not all straight men are close minded bigots like himself. I'm turning TxMike into a pizza this afternoon.
Have a good rest of your weekend, boys and girls!
Re: A startling confession
by Shasta254 (Sun Nov 19 2006 14:59:46 )
That is a lot of viewing, CPDM!! I am just up to about 21 times now, but I am still loving it. It will take me awhile to get to 300! You have probably seen it more that anyone.
"Gettin' tired of your dumbass missin'!"
Re: A startling confession
by jackie-77 (Sun Nov 19 2006 15:28:16 )
Wow. I doubt I'll ever watch it nearly that many times, with all the DVDs I own and haven't had a chance to watch (only a few dozen, I don't have much money but I've prioritized DVDs above even books (except textbooks)).
I'm trying to do college (Molecular Bio. bachelor's) and write a novel (with Science Fiction elements and Fantasy elements), I frequently lose entire days or even weeks (in terms of actually doing anything) to bipolar depression even with meds (and the meds keep me a bit dazed, but getting out of bed every day, going to some of my classes, and eating food semi-regularly make it worth it), and sometimes I get (I kid you not) too depressed to watch DVDs. So it's gonna take me a few years to watch everything once, interspersed with the ones I'll watch over and over (BBM more than any other, I think).
I've said a few times that I've watched BBM 3 times, but I realized yesterday that it's 4. First (after waiting a month for it to arrive) I watched it the day after I got the DVD. The next day, after my classes, I watched it again with the English Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing. I resisted the temptation to immediately watch it again without the subtitles (not all of which are correct, but as a whole they add a layer to my growing comprehension of the dialogue in a film). But then I watched all the Special Features instead of studying.
Less than a week later, I watched it with my Mom who's been living with me for a little over a year in my apartment across the street from campus. Then a few days later I watched it with her again. At her request.
I bought it in Fullscreen, which arrived a few days ago, to find out a little more even though the scenery and the photographic composition will be compromised.
And a couple of days ago, Mom said, when I mentioned another film I've been asking to show her for weeks, that she wants to see BBM in Fullscreen first. OMG nifty.
4 times straight through (and countless watchings of certain segments) in 2 1/2 weeks isn't bad with everything else I'm doing including spending hours a day on this board. I love some of you guys already, but I'm too shy to admit who in particular yet.
(Off-topic: The "Ennis with Jack" thread is so big it tends to crash my browser, plus how would I get anything done. To the person who, like me, is studying Organic Chemistry, and anyone else who's interested: Over in that thread, I cracked that the thread topic should make it easy to remember that in SN2 reactions, the nucleophile does a backside attack. In response to the query of what then would be the leaving group, I remarked that after Ennis did his backside attack, which required something to leave, Jack did need to wash his only pair of jeans, shivering in the cold rather than waiting for nice weather.
I've been good for days, but I can no longer resist making one more Chemistry comment: The reason SN2 can't occur at a tertiary carbon and happens reluctantly at a secondary carbon is that the HOMO of the nucleophile needs backside access to the LUMO of the electrophile. (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital and Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital, that is.) Me and my bad self. I should be punished. By a cute girl. Oh no, please don't throw me in that briar patch...)
Jackie
Re: A startling confession
by nonon99_99 (Sun Nov 19 2006 15:40:56 )
I have seen it about 40 times in whole, some scenes more than this number.
I can't stop talking this film to people around, but sadly so few sympathy and feeback I received. It's gone to embarrassing sometimes. Once I even gave a lecture on BBM to my university supervisor during my tutorial time.
Re: A startling confession
by retropian (Sun Nov 19 2006 16:34:15 )
UPDATED Sun Nov 19 2006 19:48:10
Hi ClancyPants.
You should go back to school, get a Masters Degree in film studies, then go on for a Ph.D and of course do you dissertaion on BBM. I'm serious. Then get a teaching position at a university. The subject of you class? "Brokeback Mountain; An analysis of the greatest film of the 21st century". A student dissenting from that view would naturally risk a failing grade.
Re: A startling confession
by zeerine (Sun Nov 19 2006 16:46:47 )
Bump
Congrats man, I feel like a coward for not watching it more than the 5 times I have.
Re: A startling confession
by latjoreme (Sun Nov 19 2006 17:43:31 )
My only comment is, "Get a life." No one with a real life would have the time or inclination to see the same movie 300 times.
So TxMike, what does someone with a "real life" do with his time? Hang out on the message board of a movie he professes not to like?
Re: A startling confession
by djo-17 (Sun Nov 19 2006 17:44:13 )
ClancyPantsDelMar: Way to go! You aren't WEIRD or at least AS weird as >>some<< persons who shall remain nameless might think. You are, like a lot of us, who have a "magnificent obsession" with this wonderful story. This is a positive obsession in my humble opinion. There are a lot of negative things out there to be obsessed about, which are harmful. Not with Brokeback Mountain, however. It merely hits you, so, as Ang Lee says: 'that you want to keep coming back'.
"What we got now is Brokeback Mountain...."
Doug O'Connor
Re: A startling confession
by littlewing1957 (Sun Nov 19 2006 19:14:10 )
<<This is a positive obsession in my humble opinion. There are a lot of negative things out there to be obsessed about, which are harmful. Not with Brokeback Mountain, however. It merely hits you, so, as Ang Lee says: 'that you want to keep coming back'.>>
You got that right, Doug!
Re: A startling confession
by spiceylife (Sun Nov 19 2006 19:44:16 )
UPDATED Sun Nov 19 2006 19:46:00
Hi, Clancy.
300 times? Right, here's my new bumper sticker :-
ClancyPantsDelMar - Brokeback King
Clancy, if you're weird, then we're all weird, too. We're all weird together, & that's okay by me. I'm keeping the best company...
I was standing, you were there
Two worlds colliding
Re: A startling confession
by dav0001 (Sun Nov 19 2006 21:17:40 )
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I've never seen a movie as many imes as you clancy, you bif nurcase..just kidding!!..but there are movies I love so much anytime they are on TV I watch them even though I also have the DVD which I watch alot so I see nothing wrong with how many times you watch it.
One little note..Txmike..do us all a favor and piss off.
Re: A startling confession
by littlewing1957 (Sun Nov 19 2006 21:26:52 )
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<<One little note..Txmike..do us all a favor and piss off.>>
And/or kiss a little Clancy PantsDelMar butt!
Re: A startling confession
by ClancyPantsDelMar (Sun Nov 19 2006 23:58:02 )
Golly everyone –
I thought one or two people might say “good” and the rest would shake their heads. Everyone has been so very nice and supportive of my … addiction? obsession?
No, it’s none of those. I don’t have an addictive or obsessive personality at all with regard to other things. Who would ever have thought that at my age I would walk into a theater one day, expecting a formulaic “Hollywood”-type movie, and then walk out several hours later a changed man? Not me, that’s for sure.
Anyway, as to some of your very nice comments…
“I’m sure there are scholars out there who have read Paradise Lost that many times. IMO, BBM is at least as worthwhile (maybe much more).”
Absolutely.
“Clancy, this is so strange because this morning (I kid you not!) I wondered how many times you’ve watched BBM, and this is before I even saw your post. I’ve always wondered, but never got around to asking.”
I know. We’ve talked about many varied things, and not this. I’m not 100% sure, but I think I’ve only ever talked to one person about this. There is one other person who knew, but that’s another story.
“One thing though. You wrote: “or to TxMike who epitomizes not getting anything having to do with the human heart.” Didn’t you mean “brain”?”
Let’s agree to compromise. Let’s make it BOTH! He certainly has!
“That’s awesome how you said repeat viewings didn’t lose that feeling for you.”
Not in the least. All my life I was a dry spigot, crying-wise. But even today I tear up just thinking about some aspects of the movie. I have seen literally thousands of movies and not one has ever affected me this way before.
“From all of us dumbass mules, the coyotes at bay, the Queensland heelers, a camel and the sheep (especially sheep #761), Salute!”
Well, it’s all of you who have taught ME so much! But since you put Sheep #761 in there, I’ll accept it! Bahhhhh…
“You’re way ahead of me. As much as i love the movie, i can count all the times i’ve seen it on one hand, which has something to do with the fact that i don’t OWN the movie”
This is a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation!
“You have probably seen it more that anyone.”
In a way, I think we have all seen it the same number of times… in our heads.
“The reason SN2 can’t occur at a tertiary carbon and happens reluctantly at a secondary carbon is that the HOMO of the nucleophile needs backside access to the LUMO of the electrophile. (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital and Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital, that is.)”
This is the best chemistry lesson I’ve ever sat through… and there have been far too many to want to remember!
“You should go back to school, get a Masters Degree in film studies, then go on for a Ph.D and of course do you dissertaion on BBM. I’m serious. Then get a teaching position at a university. The subject of you class? “Brokeback Mountain; An analysis of the greatest film of the 21st century”. A student dissenting from that view would naturally risk a failing grade.”
One part of me would LOVE to do this. But I did the back-to-school thing once and never used it. But it sure was a hell of a ride!
“This is a positive obsession in my humble opinion. There are a lot of negative things out there to be obsessed about, which are harmful. Not with Brokeback Mountain, however. It merely hits you, so, as Ang Lee says: ‘that you want to keep coming back’. “What we got now is Brokeback Mountain....”“
Wonderfully said and exemplified.
Anyway, from a few other comments, and from the fact that I have seen only one “ignore” post come in, I must conclude that TxMike couldn’t resist putting his two cents in. The guy follows me everywhere! Of course, my assumption would have to be that he said something negative. That’s all he ever does. And of course, I was right…
(TxMike quoted from latjoreme’s post)
“My only comment is, “Get a life.” No one with a real life would have the time or inclination to see the same movie 300 times.”
What a moron!
But I like how some of you handled him:
So TxMike, what does someone with a “real life” do with his time? Hang out on the message board of a movie he professes not to like?
Exactly. He just can’t get over his BBM obsession.
It is called studying the film, the art. If you agree one should not stop questioning, you should agree one should not stop learning too, finding the answers.
Exactly. And it is crap like this that shows him to be the hypocrite that he is. He’s CONSTANTLY contradicting himself. It’s because he doesn’t know what he thinks and he can’t express it.
One little note..Txmike..do us all a favor and piss off.
Excellent comment. Succinct, to-the-point, honest and true.
Finally, while this was very nice:
“ClancyPantsDelMar - Brokeback King”,
I will accept the title for only one brief moment. As littlewing1957 said to TxMike:
“And/or kiss a little Clancy PantsDelMar butt!”
I’ll go a bit further and say:
TxMike: Kiss my Pompous King-Size ClancyPants Ass!
(Oooo… on second thought, maybe I shouldn’t have said that… he’d probably use tongue!)
