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The true reason
Momof2:
I agree. It is nice that you have people who have been affected by this beautiful film. I have no one. I live in a Bible belt, conservative state. That is why I am thankful for a forum like BetterMost. It is refreshing to communicate with others who are also passionate.
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I live in a town that has more Baptist churches than gas stations or resturants. Very "biblical" ways of thinking. I do not share BBM with anyone here. A few people have seen it were I work. Just a quick mention. No live shattering or changing moments for them. The day I bought the DVD the girl working the counter said Oh I heard that is good. I have not seen it. I told her it was the best movie I had ever seen and that it was well worth watching. The only cinema here in town would not show BBM. Very anti-gay here. The thing that is strange to me is that most people that are bigots are bigots about ever social "norm". But there is a lot of interracial dating and children in this town. The people in this town are "hill" people. It is weird how some unacceptable things are accepted and others are not.
To me BBM is my little "secret". It is something that has changed my life and my way of thinking. I am so glad that I saw it and found this forum. It is like a family. I like the fact that I can talk to other people that love Jack and Ennis like I do. Thank you all for being a part of this wonderful journey.
serious crayons:
It's my secret, too, though not necessarily because of homophobia or conservatism in my environment. I live in a very liberal suburb of big blue-state city (Chicago), I moved here recently from a very liberal blue-state city (Minneapolis), and my friends are all fairly liberal and presumably pretty unhomophobic.
The reason I keep it secret is mainly because I know people would think it's way too weird to spend seven months obsessing about a movie to the extent I have. If it were Titanic, they would think it just about as weird. Hell, I think it's weird myself! ;D
That's why I'm glad to know all you guys -- you may be weird in that one way, too, but in other respects you all seem very sensible and intelligent and normal, which I find hugely reassuring.
dly64:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 09, 2006, 10:27:14 pm ---Ah, but there’s the irony--they wouldn’t think that obsession as weird as Brokeaholism. One critic said about Titanic, “50,000,000 teenage girls can’t be wrong.”
I remember another critic saying about BBM that “this movie is aimed at women between <nn> and <nn> who like to watch two hunky young actors smooch and talk about their feelings.”
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Errrrrr ... I guess that critic doesn't get it. Can I surmise that this person was a homophobic male?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 09, 2006, 10:27:14 pm ---Ah, but there’s the irony--they wouldn’t think that obsession as weird as Brokeaholism. One critic said about Titanic, “50,000,000 teenage girls can’t be wrong.”
I remember another critic saying about BBM that “this movie is aimed at women between <nn> and <nn> who like to watch two hunky young actors smooch and talk about their feelings.”
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Well, that would make a Titanic obsession weirder, because I definitely don't fit into the teenage-girl demographic. But the BBM demo -- depending on the <nns> -- sounds like it fits me to a T! ;D
No, actually, I suppose that's not the first image to pop into most straight people's heads when they think of the average BBM fan. So I suppose even relatively unhomophobic straight people who don't "get" it might raise more of an eyebrow at my Brokeback obsession than they would at Titanic. But believe me, if I were obsessed with Titanic, you can bet I'd be hiding it!
If only I were obsessed with, oh, I don't know ... "Citizen Kane" or "The Manchurian Candidate" or something. Maybe I could be more open about those.
--- Quote from: dly64 on August 09, 2006, 10:52:01 pm ---
Errrrrr ... I guess that critic doesn't get it. Can I surmise that this person was a homophobic male?
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Uh-oh! Diane, your post came in as I was writing this! Why do you surmise that? Well, I mean, of course, you're right that the critic apparently doesn't get why the movie is great in so many ways. It's a vast oversimplification, at best. And not quite the respectful tone I prefer people use in discussing BBM.
On the other hand, that description would probably fit a lot of people on this board ...
dly64:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 09, 2006, 11:00:21 pm ---Uh-oh! Diane, your post came in as I was writing this! Why do you surmise that? Well, I mean, of course, you're right that the critic apparently doesn't get why the movie is great in so many ways. It's a vast oversimplification, at best. On the other hand, that description would probably fit a lot of people on this board ...
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Very true. It just sounds like a critic who would describe this movie as the "gay cowboy movie." Ironically, when I first wrote my note, I acknowledged that I, being a female, enjoyed the two hunky men smooching. But, I changed my mind .... Hmmmm ... I guess I was trying to avoid acknowledging that, yes ... these guys are hot, and so are the love scenes. ::)
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