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belbbmfan:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 18, 2006, 03:27:54 pm ---Also, there are certain parts that I've seen a LOT more often on YouTube.

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haven't we all?  ::)


--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 18, 2006, 03:27:54 pm ---for me watching it is like getting together with good friends.

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I've lost count of how many times i've seen the film in the cinema. I think it must have been 13 times. I just had a 'date' with Jack an Ennis once a week as long as the film was programmed, a very special time indeed.

moremojo:
I saw the film five times in the theater, but on DVD, only once so far all the way through. I played around with the early scenes quite a bit, looking for the hand-holding in Tent Scene 1 (saw it) and Jack's soft "Fuck me" in same (heard it); I also caught Jack's "Give 'em hell" for the first time experimenting with the DVD.

It took me several weeks to work up the courage to watch the film up to the end on DVD, and I was emotionally devastated when the closing credits came up. It was one thing to watch the film in the theater, and take the memory of the experience home with you--it's quite something else to have the experience IN your home. I feel in no rush to repeat the experiment, though I would not hesitate to go see the film again in the theater were it available that way.

My DVD viewing is limited also because my sister, with whom I live, doesn't want to see the film again. She saw the film with me on February 18th (first viewing for both of us), and she was deeply moved by it, agreeing with me that it was the most important film she had experienced. But she found the sadness overwhelming, and doesn't want to expose herself to it again.

nakymaton:
Never enough times, never enough. ;)

Though, to be serious, I haven't seen it that many time. Six, maybe, in the theater? It was only in town for eight weeks, and I couldn't managed to carve out time to go every weekend. And then since the DVD came out, I've seen it, I don't know, maybe once every six weeks or so. Except I think I watched it a couple more times than that during the first week or so that I had it... though I stopped when they came down off of the mountain a few times, too.

So maybe twelve times? I'm not burned out on it, and so far every time I've watched it (usually on my tiny computer screen with headphones, too), it has just devastated me, still. I don't think I could watch it more frequently than I do... it's still just too emotionally draining.

Lynne:
I can only keep track of theatre viewings (21 now!), but I checked the 'recite word for word option.'  I've seen it many, many more times since the DVD release.  And I've ordered it twice on hotel PPV on general principle  :P !

But I admit that sometimes I'm guilty of stopping my DVD after the post-reunion camping scene...I have to be in just the right mood to see Brokeback Mountain through to the end these days.

-Lynne

Edit:  Incremented viewings to 21 thanks to Boston screening!

SFEnnisSF:
45 in the theatre (including our Boston screening)

about 8 on DVD

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