TOTW 11/07: How will moviegoers view BBM 30 years from now?

[Scott6373]

Perhaps it's the fact that I can't sit through it again.  I figure if I find it tedious at this point, what will it be like when I am approcahing 80?

[loneleeb3]

Perhaps it's the fact that I can't sit through it again.  I figure if I find it tedious at this point, what will it be like when I am approcahing 80?

You need to watch it with someone! 

[Scott6373]

You need to watch it with someone! 

What difference would that make?  I have watched it with many someone's

[Jeff Wrangler]

Perhaps it's the fact that I can't sit through it again.  I figure if I find it tedious at this point, what will it be like when I am approcahing 80?

You'll just have to use the "pause" button more often so you can get up to go to the bathroom. 

[loneleeb3]

What difference would that make?  I have watched it with many someone's

You need to watch it with a special someone! 

[Scott6373]

You need to watch it with a special someone! 

Hmmm...that's a concept, but back to the topic of the thread.  I think the film will be viewed as a finely crafted piece of cinema, but again, I have to remove myself from the emotional reaction and view the film for it's value as a catalyst for change.  I think there are cinematic endeavors that did a better job at exposing the horrors of homophobia.  I don't think that was ever the intent of the filmmakers on BBM anyway.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I have seen it with strangers, I have seen it by myself, I have seen it with brokies, on the big screen and the small. I have gotten together with brokies and we have not watched it. It is different every situation.

We could look to a couple of other examples, one being Boys in the Band, which was released in 1970. Kerry has posted much about this film. It was ground breaking in a number of ways as its intent, as I see it, was to portray homosexuals in a positive light. I think it still holds up after nearly......jezus...40 years....

Another example is Making Love, from 1982. It caused a stir at the time, as I remember (I was too young to remember BITB coming out) and it had an effect on the larger population. I watched it then (in 1984 when it was on TV) and I saw it again about a year ago and thought it was as dull as a box of plastic forks.

Brokeback, I predict, will be seen as a catalyst for change. Its loss at the Oscars will certainly ensure its celebrity, as if it needed it.  I think it will remain a classic tragedy along the lines of To Kill A Mocking Bird.

[Brown Eyes]

I agree that the Oscar loss, in a bizarre way, can be seen as good for BBM in terms of its long term legacy.

[loneleeb3]

it's value as a catalyst for change.

It sure as hell changed me!
Thats how me end up here!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I think there are cinematic endeavors that did a better job at exposing the horrors of homophobia.  I don't think that was ever the intent of the filmmakers on BBM anyway.

You're kidding. ... Right?