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mvansand76:
You must’ve read some 150 reviews in the past half year, what are your favorite quotes from reviews?

Here are mine:

Rolling Stone:
“That’s the key reason – besides its, its bravery, its dead-on relevance to right now – that this classic in the making ranks high on the list of the year’s best movies: it gets you good.”

The Toronto Star:
“It’s a movie about love that knows no boundaries and loneliness that knows no relief…(…)”

Entertainment weekly
“In an age when the fight over gay marriage still rages, Brokeback mounain, the tale of two men who are scarcely even allowed to imagine being together , asks, through the purity with which it touches us: when it comes to love, what sort of world do we want?”

TotalFilm UK (DVD)
“There is also a fragile, internalized beauty: the kind that comes from somebody you love, somebody you can’t live without, somebody you’d be willing to risk your entire life for… if only they’d risk theirs in return. Which, as Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist learns to his pain, is something his lover will never do.”

Time 01-30-06
“The movie is heartbreaking because it shows the hearts of two strong men – and their women – in the long process of breaking.”

Newsweek
“No American film before has portrayed love between two men as something this pure and sacred.”

 

 

 

serious crayons:
OK, mvansand, you made me go dig out my New Yorker of Dec. 12, 2005, which I've never been able to bring myself to throw away. Here's a line from a review by Anthony Lane, about the scene outside Aguirre's trailer:

"There is something wired and wary in their silence, and the entire passage can be read not only as an echo of "Once Upon a Time in the West," whose opening hummed with a similar suspense, but also as an unimaginable change of tune. Sergio Leone's men were waiting for a train; these boys are falling in love."

For some reason, that line always gives me goosebumps, and I haven't even seen "Once Upon a Time in the West"!

Mikaela:
You've already included my favourite, the one I can quote without even going back to check the source material, and it's this one:


--- Quote ---“The movie is heartbreaking because it shows the hearts of two strong men – and their women – in the long process of breaking.”
--- End quote ---

 :'( :'( :'(

Mikaela:
You know, this thread made me re-read certain reviews I bookmarked when the film first premiered. And oh, those are still very good reads - well worth re-visiting!! :) Here's a couple of quotes from The Stanford Daily's review on December 8:


On HL's and JG's role performances:

"Their chemistry is thick and natural, leaving the audience with a persistent case of the butterflies."



And specifically on Heath:

"Ledger (  ) succeeds wildly in a role so completely original that he seems to have had nothing to draw on aside from a tremendous amount of heart."


Ain't those review comments nothing but the plain truth?

serious crayons:
That Stanford Daily really knows what it's talking about!

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