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Four (now FOURTEEN!) Effin' Years! How will you celebrate?
Kelda:
I was early January, in Dundee. I must go find my ticket stub for the actual date. But the next day, I went and bought the soundtrack and joined IMDB message boards.
And th rest, as they say is history!
serious crayons:
A Sunday in January 2006. Other people have mentioned seeing it on the fateful date of Jan. 22. That may have been it for me, too, but I'm thinking it was more likely Jan. 15.
I decided to go to a movie, and it was between Brokeback Mountain, Munich and The New World. I'd noticed that BBM was getting good reviews, and was mildly interested in seeing it, although having read the story I thought I kind of knew about what to expect and wasn't super excited about it. Not that I didn't like the SS, just that I basically got the message and felt the movie would be preaching to the choir. I chose it more for the way the movie schedule worked into my time frame than anything else.
I went here:
I never did see Munich or The New World. I didn't see any other movie at all for months afterward.
Luvlylittlewing:
I saw BBM a few days after XMAS, 2005. I don't remember the exact day, but I suspect it was Dec. 28th. My daughter asked me to take her to see it, as she waited for the movie to be released for over a year. I had every intention of seeing Brokeback, and we saw it for the first time at the AMC complex in Emeryville, CA. I knew nothing about the short story, or anything else about Brokeback. After the movie ended I couldn't account for my feelings. I rushed home and read every review I could find and became a regular poster over at IMDB. I was hooked! I saw the movie 15 more times in 06 at 3 or 4 different theaters in The Bay Area. I don't know how I'll celebrate. My daughter wanted to watch it on Bravo yesterday, but I didn't feel up to it. Once the movie starts, I can't take my eyes of of it. I may take out one of my copies of the DVD (I have 3 for some reason) and have a private showing, just my daughter and I. 4 years is not such a long time, IMHO. I plan to be a Brokie forever.
Ellemeno:
I used to play the movie and book games on IMDb, and had favorite players whose posting history I would check, as a quick way to find the best games in play.
One was DryToast. I started noticing that he had dozens (and eventually hundreds) of posts in the IMDb forum for a movie with a weird name, "Brokeback Mountain." I took a look, and then read more and more of the posts in the forum. I can't say what got me sucked in, but I was. That was in October 2005.
I read all the posts, I downloaded the short story to my Palm and read it over and over. I watched YouTube videos people had made from the Logo documentary about BBM. And then, the day BBM was supposed to open here in Seattle, Dec 16, 2005, I flew across the country to be with my family for the holidays. The day it opened there, I flew back to Seattle. I finally, finally saw it, by myself, on December 31st. I saw it a bunch of times in the theater, and several (though not a bunch of) times on my DVDs. Now I mostly just watch it when I'm with other Brokies, or in an organized chat to watch it. Like many of you, I can play it in my head if I want to watch it.
I don't know how I plan to celebrate - I guess I see my anniversary as mostly in October, when I first discovered it. Sometimes to honor BBM, I wear blue and brown together (something I had never done before), or talk in Brokieisms.
Marina:
I saw Brokeback Mountain on Jan. 1, 2006 - it made such an impression on me that I kept the ticket stub. I remember I had heard a discussion about it on Good Morning America, and it sounded so intriguing to me. I love Wyoming as well - then I heard the author's name and I realized I had a copy of Wyoming Stories that we bought, but I hadn't had time to read. I read the short story and it brought me to tears, especially the part where Ennis still dreamt of Jack - so I fell hook, line and sinker for the entire thing. My husband read it too. We were not disappointed when we saw it either - everything, from the soundtrack to the cinematography, to the magnificent performances of Heath and Jake, to the beauty of their intimacy. Just amazing. I've seen it countless times, I even enjoyed it on Bravo last night, even though I own 3 copies of the DVD - the first one, the Collector's edition, and then one on Blu-Ray, and if a deleted scenes/anniversary edition comes out, you bet I'll get that too. I have the soundtrack as well. We both just sat there as the credits rolled, stunned - couldn't cry, couldn't even move. Looking around, I did see that it affected everyone in some way - some couples touching each other affectionately, some softly crying. In subsequent viewings I have cried buckets too. I guess you could say it made an impression on me - and it is one of my very favorite films, ever. Just a haunting and affecting film.
How will I celebrate four years later? I'd love to see it on the big screen again, somewhere. I have only seen it on the big screen once.
:D
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