I was just checking my Netflix account and out of Brokeback obsession, I decided I'd read the reviews by customers on Brokeback Mountain. I must have gone through eleven pages and saw, at most, three reviews that gave it four or five stars. Several gave it three, but that's extremely average.
So many people were criticizing the movie, and it was so annoying! All the reviews said the same thing: "So boring. Felt no love between the characters, couldn't root for them either. No build up to the first love scene. The movie was mean to the wives. Heath mumbled. This movie is SOOOO OVERRATED. Critics got it wrong. Oh, but I liked the scenery..." Shut up, my God.
I was sitting there, dumbfounded. I was like, how? I was like, you see the chemistry between the characters, the sympathy everyone has for Lureen and Alma, the brilliance of the music, nuances, symbols, acting, etc. It made me mad. Soon I'm gonna write a (hopefully elaborate) five-star review praising the movie.
Anyway, has anyone else ran into repeated claims by others that this movie "sucks?" Cause of all the people I know who have seen it, 90% of them think it's overrated and alienating.
In the end, it's not a big deal, but I sometimes fear it will have a Titanic-like backlash. At first everyone loved that movie, now people joke about it. I don't want that for Brokeback, cause it's such a powerfully and artfully made masterpiece.