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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
2/08
2/08:
Well, I finally got around to seeing Brokeback Mountain.
Regarded as a "gay cowboy western," I had avoided the picture for a while because I couldn't stand corny films. To my surprise,
the label doesn't fit it that much.
The first thirty minutes is dull until things start getting hot when Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) piques Ennis Del Mar's
(Heath Ledger) curiosity. From there on, the ball gets rolling. However, at the end, the movie turns out to be average overall.
The conversations fail to be interesting, the two lead characters aren't fascinating, and there's no substance whatsoever.
Nobody looks aged over time, either.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, both terrible actors, should be commended for taking risks. Yet they can do more to make
the romance believable. By the way, when the heavyset
dude walked inside the trailer and then came out, I wasn't paying much attention to his face. When I finally did,
I was like, "Is that him? Randy Quaid?" Wow, how the hell did he gain so much weight? Is it just me, or has everybody
grown massively fat these days?
All in all, Brokeback Mountain is a lackluster, slow, and unsubstantive picture about love between two homosexual
cowboys.