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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2007, 07:29:54 am »
I had a mild infatuation with the films Field of Dreams and with Breaking Away but the only thing that came near to my Brokeback Mountain obsession is the British mini-series from the 1980s based on Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.  I loved the book as well as the soundtrack recording and the twelve hours of staggering beauty.   Following the careers of the two stars was interesting too.

But Brokeback got me good - the novella, the screenplays, the soundtrack and of course the movie.

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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2008, 02:16:33 pm »
Great poll!  I don't know how I overlooked it for so long.

Of the list provided... I totally love Monty Python, but I'm definitely not obsessed with them or a real afficionado (I know some folks get really in to analyzing all the details and memorizing all sorts of factoids, etc.... I just like watching and enjoying).

So, I voted for "other."  Because the one thing that's consumed most of my time and energy in terms of interest in a cultural phenomenon or cultural figure... is David Bowie.  I've been a Bowie fan since I was 12 at about the same level of intensity that I'm a Brokie now.  I go through cycles of phases of intensity where Bowie is concerned.  Sometimes it's all I can think about and other times it's sort of on the back burner.  Since BBM and BetterMost have come into my life, I've been a bit distracted from my Bowie-ness for sure... so I'm sort of in Bowie-back-burner mode lately.
 ;D :laugh:

Anyway, I used to be involved in two different Bowie online communities pretty significantly.  But, I grew a bit jaded about both of those old websites and am no longer active at either.  My screenname was very different from my Brokie screenname is now.


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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2008, 06:25:01 pm »
I have loved other movies and t.v. shows, but nothing has maintained my interest for almost 2 years straight...  and no other movie have I thought about as much, no other movie did I fall asleep/wake-up with nothing other than the characters on my mind for weeks...  more simply, ain't nothing else caused a fever like Brokeback did.

I did use to watch Alias fanactically, and follow some of the online boards... but the online stuff was really only to occupy my time at a night job I had.  And I bailed and didn't watch hardly any of the last season.

The only other movies I saw multiple times in the theater were Titanic, The Fugitive, and Pulp Fiction...  and that was more for entertainment purposes... not cause I needed to 'sort through things' or 'figure things out.'
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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2008, 10:38:15 pm »
Always and forever:



I've been a geek of and have followed for years and years Star Trek and The X-Files and now BBM, but nothing has come close to the Star Wars movies.  I very very much liked the Old Trilogy.  I hold up The Empire Strikes Back as one of the best sci-fi/fantasy movies ever made.  But, who wouldn't like the Old Trilogy?  They are the underdogs, the good guys against incredible odds, Sticking it to the Man feel-good movies.  We have sexy bad boy pirates, spunky princesses, farm boys becoming men and making good, evil guys in black.

But being contrary as usual, though the Prequel Trilogy has immense weaknesses in plot and acting and direction and the movies are scorned by fans and non-fans alike, I found the Prequel movies more interesting and intriguing.

What you have is more complicated.  You find a series of movies where the universe isn't black and white.  Where people you thought were good and could trust really aren't or they change.  A series of movies where 'good' guys fall to weaknesses and become the epitome of evil, intelligent young women make bad personal choices (a classic "Why smart women make stupid decisions"), friends are betrayed, good guys struggle against the bad, trying to hold things together and stick to the law and their honor when the bad guys have no such compunctions, just to find out they were all duped into a trap that left the good guys no way out with tragic consequences for them and the entire galaxy.

I read official' books and comics and read and write fan fiction about the Old Republic and its characters and situations.

Guess I'm more interested in tragedies.  8)


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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2008, 10:45:52 pm »
re: star wars...

my issue (if you can even call it that) isn't with the plot/storyline of the prequel, but the movies don't seem as well acted to me...  what do you think dellaluvia? 

I must also confess, this is a situation where I am not sure if it's just that the initial Star Wars is a part of my childhood, such maybe what doesn't ring as true for me is actually something to do with me, rather than the movies themselves...
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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2008, 01:18:27 am »
re: star wars...

my issue (if you can even call it that) isn't with the plot/storyline of the prequel, but the movies don't seem as well acted to me...  what do you think dellaluvia?

The only acting/actors that fell down IMO were Hayden Christensen, Jake Lloyd and Natalie Portman (and I love Natalie Portman).  Unfortunately, they all held major roles.  All the other supporting actors were very good, despite the material.  The acting in the original trilogy was just as wooden as their performances - Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford especially - but they had somewhat better dialogue.

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I must also confess, this is a situation where I am not sure if it's just that the initial Star Wars is a part of my childhood, such maybe what doesn't ring as true for me is actually something to do with me, rather than the movies themselves...

That's up for you to decide Bel.   ;D  Many people were disappointed with the Prequel Trilogy, but perhaps for some, they were expecting more of the same as the Old Trilogy and were unhappy that they weren't as uplifting/light-hearted.


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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2008, 09:32:02 am »
..this should be obvious to anyone over the age of two...
Lean on me, let our hearts beat in time,
Feel strength from the hands that have held you so long.
Who cares where we go on this rugged old road
In a world that may say that we're wrong.

...Cause I know - A love that will never grow old.

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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2008, 11:38:06 am »


          i too was obsessed by Titanic.  to the degree, it was the first movie I ever went back to the
theatre and saw more thn one time... Like David it was more to do with the facination on the feeling
of being on that ship..The authenticity of the set and the realistic special effects..  also like David it
was more to do with the visuals than the story ine.  However the death of the boy was a strong
point for me.  The overwhelming sadness for that....Was highly emotional..However i did not go out
and purchase the cd, or the movie dvd..  I have never watched it since the theatre viewings...
          To compare those two is tobe unaccomplished.  However the death part is becoming a pattern.



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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2009, 04:43:55 pm »
BBM is the first movie I have ever had an obsession with.  I have loved other movies but not to the point of watching it day after day, sometimes twice a day for months on end.

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Re: What did you love before Brokeback Mountain?
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2009, 06:06:05 pm »
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