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moremojo:

--- Quote from: scottf. on April 17, 2006, 01:29:26 pm ---Evertime I've been into Blockbuster, since BBM came out, it's been completely rented out. Same thing for our local chain, Movie Gallery.

Scott F.

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I imagined that BBM would do very well, financially at least, in home-entertainment format. A lot of folks who might have been too sheepish to venture into the theaters to see it might feel bolder in seeking it out this way. Also, some towns never got the film theatrically, such as my mother's current place of residence, Kerrville (TX)--she had to come to my home town to see it.

A co-worker of mine, Edith, saw the film through Netflix, and came to me last week to tell me she loved it. In fact, she had seen it twice, and was thinking about buying it. She wanted to ask me a couple of questions, and they were the two by-now classic ones that keep coming up: How did Jack die, and what did Ennis mean by "Jack, I swear..."? She found my open-ended responses intriguing, and this seemed to pique her enthusiasm to return to the film again. So we now may have another Brokie on our hands!

Scott

Kd5000:
Well, the last person I knew who saw it on the big screen expressed frustration to me with the ending.

"It's a perfectly fine story, none of this going back and fourth in time, everything is spelled out for you, yes they are a couple (no T. Williams vagueness), no immediate  fade out to black when they go into the tent, etc  but then they come up with this ending. What gives..." 

I just say "open to interpretation, it's the latest thing in film."

sparkle_motion:
Off-topic, but I don't think this deserves it's own thread...
I got a DVD player for Christmas, so it's brand new.
Well, I first noticed this fuzzy noise in the background (almost like it's raining) when I got my Brokeback DVD. Now, I'm noticing it on all the videos I watch. It starts about midway thru the movie and it's VERY loud. Could this be my TV? It's about 15 years old but I don't hear it when I'm watching TV. Or could the DVD player already have something wrong with it? Anyone tech people out there?

kirkmusic:
It could be you've got a bad audio cable connecting your DVD player to your TV.  If it doesn't make that noise when you're just watching TV I think that might be it.  Don't know why it would just start halfway though.

slayers_creek_oth:

--- Quote from: scottf. on April 17, 2006, 01:29:26 pm ---Evertime I've been into Blockbuster, since BBM came out, it's been completely rented out. Same thing for our local chain, Movie Gallery.

Scott F.

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Movie Gallery ain't no local chain.......there are 6 or 7 of them here in Utah and all over in Texas and Virginia too.....

Hollywood Video, Blockbuster, and Movie Gallery have all been sold out here too.....Wal-Mart has been increasingly low on their stock and get this.....they even have BBM at a little place called 'Flicks' which is a Mormon owned store where they edit out all the 'bad' stuff......

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