Yeah, I feel the same way, Jeff. I hardly knew them before BBM. Now I've seen Jarhead and Moonlight Mile with Jake in them. I didn't like either of them. I've seen Keith in Casanova and A Knight's Tales and they were "ok", but none of those movies matched up to Ennis and Jack in BBM.
I've stopped watching the movie for now. Six times was enough for me to know what happens and how I will feel every time I watch it. I'm reading Annie's Collection of short stories, "Open Range". She is a very interesting writer, I mean, the language she captures and invents. Her characters and plots are so convincing; you just know they are based on real life. I'm enjoying her very much.
I do come here to talk about stuff still though, so I'll be seeing you around here...
Rayn
I hadn't seen Jake in anything before
Brokeback. The film of his that I really want to see some day is
October Sky. That came and went through the Philadelphia theaters pretty quickly, but I remember seeing the TV commercials for it and thinking it looked like a nice, sweet story. I'm thinking also, possibly, of
The Good Girl, but that one isn't high on my list because I've never gotten the appeal of Jennifer Anniston. I've never found her particularly pretty, and her character on
Friends always annoyed me.
As for Heath, I'd seen
The Patriot and
A Knight's Tale. I didn't like either of those films, but not because of Heath. With regard to
The Patriot, my M.A. is in Early American History, and there were plot turns in that movie that I found way too implausible. I could say pretty much the same for
A Knight's Tale. I do medieval and Renaissance historical re-enacting and re-creating, and the rock-and-role dance sequence in
A Knight's Tale made my flesh crawl. In any case, in both movies Heath struck me as another very pretty Aussie boy and not much else--which is one (of many) reasons that made
Brokeback so stunning to me. I freely admit I seriously misjudged him.
Mea culpa! Casanova also came and went pretty quickly from local theaters, but in any case I wasn't prepared to accept him in another role while
Brokeback was still playing a few blocks away.