Ah, but there’s the irony--they wouldn’t think that obsession as weird as Brokeaholism. One critic said about Titanic, “50,000,000 teenage girls can’t be wrong.”
I remember another critic saying about BBM that “this movie is aimed at women between <nn> and <nn> who like to watch two hunky young actors smooch and talk about their feelings.”
Well, that would make a Titanic obsession
weirder, because I definitely don't fit into the teenage-girl demographic. But the BBM demo -- depending on the <nns> -- sounds like it fits me to a T!
No, actually, I suppose that's not the first image to pop into most straight people's heads when they think of the average BBM fan. So I suppose even relatively unhomophobic straight people who don't "get" it might raise more of an eyebrow at my Brokeback obsession than they would at Titanic. But believe me, if I were obsessed with Titanic, you can bet I'd be hiding it!
If only I were obsessed with, oh, I don't know ... "Citizen Kane" or "The Manchurian Candidate" or something. Maybe I could be more open about those.
Errrrrr ... I guess that critic doesn't get it. Can I surmise that this person was a homophobic male?
Uh-oh! Diane, your post came in as I was writing this! Why do you surmise that? Well, I mean, of course, you're right that the critic apparently doesn't get why the movie is great in so many ways. It's a vast oversimplification, at best. And not quite the respectful tone I prefer people use in discussing BBM.
On the other hand, that description would probably fit a lot of people on this board ...