I wouldn't expect for a married, hetero woman to have to be a closeted fan. What are you afraid of? I mean, if someone's gonna talk smack about BBM, tell 'em how it is: that this movie is fantastic and artistic masterpiece.
Ahh, I know everyone's entitled to their respective opinions and what not, but I get very peeved with the more outrageous Brokeback revolutionaries.
One occasion that I'm still kicking myself over: At work one day, my boss had told me how she called me the day prior and heard that I was at the movie theatre. Turns out she was at the same theatre, seeing Nanny McPhee with her kids and she asks me, "What did you go see?" I said, "Brokeback Mountain." (It was my 5th viewing.) She asks, "Hmm...and what'd you think of it?" I was like, "Eh, it was depressing." And I realized as I said it that I sounded as though I was indifferent to the movie so I quickly added "But very well-done!" At that point, someone started talking to her so I doubt she paid the slightest amount of attention to what I had to say then.
I know in the grand scheme of things, it's really not important but if I could do it again, since people so rarely ask me what I think of Brokeback (and it's one of my very favorite things to talk about), I would say how I really feel -- like Ennis should have done -- "It's, what I believe to be, the best movie I have ever seen. It's devastating, beautiful, subtle, honest, and artistic, and I could watch it again and again."
I don't usually let people know that I'm obsessed with this movie but I try to be upfront about it. If it comes up -- which for some reason, it very rarely does -- I'll say things like, "Yeah, I thought it was really good. Ang Lee's a genius. It was wonderfully-acted."
Those, still, are such understatements.