We've got a big anniversary and movie event coming up

[Brokeback_Dev]

I keep my first theater viewing ticket stub with me whereever i go in my "wallet"  it says Jan 22nd 2006.  I was looking for Brokeback Mountain in theaters around here and it just wasnt coming.  Anyway I grabbed my daughter and entourage and finally saw it.  Only had to drive 45 minutes away..  My husband had a great Idea of putting the ticket stub inside my poster frame of Brokeback.  I think it will be safer there because I want to preserve the stub, its history!
 

[Lynne]

I'm going to spend the month of December celebrating being pissed off because I wanted to see the movie and it was only playing in one theater in my entire god-damned time zone.  And, man, I was lurking on IMDb then, and there was someone who had a sig that said something like "Dec 9 if you're lucky, Dec 16 for everyone else!" Made me soooooooo grumpy. And then suddenly everyone had seen the movie, and I had to stop reading because there wasn't anything to read except spoilers and trolls.  )

(I need a "I'm going through my moody time again; please put me on 'ignore'" smiley.)

That was me too, Mel!  i was sure there was some conspiracy at work...it was mid-January before my first viewing.
-Lynne

[Kd5000]

SouthendMD,

You saw it at the Coolidge Corner Theatre?  Hope the sound system has gotten better.  I saw it on 1/6 or 1/7 at one of those newer up to date  screen cinemas.  I could hear the crickets chirpin in the background.  Real nice.  It sold out, but I got took off a 1/2 day of work to get there real early!
I was determined as I've never been determined before to see this movie.

[MaineWriter]

I actually posted some thoughts on my anniversary, if anyone is interested.

Here's the link:

http://lazylfarm.livejournal.com/26460.html

Leslie

[serious crayons]

For me, it wasn't until late January! Partly that was because December was really busy for me, and I didn't get a chance. But also, it was because I wasn't in much of a hurry. I thought it would be good and all, but I wasn't all that excited about it. Finally, I had a night off to go to the movies, and I picked BBM only because it had the most convenient showtimes. If I had known that from that point on my life would never be the same, maybe I'd have picked "Munich" instead!

Kidding, of course. (And I never did see "Munich.")

[MaineWriter]

Kidding, of course. (And I never did see "Munich.")

I did see Munich. And all I can remember from it was that it was bloody and Eric Bana was good looking.

As for BBM...well....

L

[Kelda]

Looking at my stubs I saw it about a week after it came out in the UK.
14 January in Dundee with my 2 mates and then again on 22nd with my Mum.

[Marge_Innavera]

I keep my first theater viewing ticket stub with me whereever i go in my "wallet"  it says Jan 22nd 2006.  I was looking for Brokeback Mountain in theaters around here and it just wasnt coming.  Anyway I grabbed my daughter and entourage and finally saw it.  Only had to drive 45 minutes away..  My husband had a great Idea of putting the ticket stub inside my poster frame of Brokeback.  I think it will be safer there because I want to preserve the stub, its history!

Boo-hoo, I didn't think to keep my ticket stub.     But saw it the day before you did, Jan. 21st.  I'd read an interview with Ang Lee in the KC Star the month before and had followed the news and reviews -- it was in limited release at the time, had to drive all the way to Cupcakeland (a/k/a the Kansas suburbs) to see it in a theatre that sold out in 20 minutes. Three Saturdays later, it opened in a theatre much closer to home and had to go see it again--it kind of all widened out from there. Now I'm on two forums, helping on a newsletter for one of them, working on a fanfic story, have donated DVD copies to two college libraries  and own two of my own, wide screen and full screen!

Talk about divine madness.....

[Shakesthecoffecan]

January 7th for me, with a hundred mile round trip to see it.

I will never forget the feeling of seeing the croud out front and wondering if we would be able to get tickets. And I will never forget the first time I heard Jack tell L.D. Newsome: "Now you sit down you ole' sonofabitch" and everyone in the theater applauded. 

[nakymaton]

I drove four hours one way to see it during the first week in January. (And then I drove back.)

And then, the next week, it opened in my town. Last minute change in the schedule; the little local theater chain managed to pick up maybe four or five prints and served as a test for how BBM would play in smaller towns, at least ski towns and college towns.