Just adding another thought to the previous post - I hate going in and actually changing posts after I have completed them - I think Israel's main foreign policy thing of the next six months will be how to 'sort out' Iran's looming nuclear capability, rather than what happens in the West Bank and Gaza. Unless, of course, Hamas do piss all their electoral respectibility away and declare another intifada...
Anywaysssss - onto better topics methinks. I caught Brokeback Mountain today. Is a very good movie, though it doesn't grab you by the collar and capture your attention that way. Thought it was just a good campaign for Wyoming tourism before the plot finally started to sink in. It builds slowly, though not too slowly thank goodness, weaves a great story around you, though again, not in that all immersive way most movies seem to nowadays, and gently leads you to the end. There are twists and turns of course, some rather big, but the movie is just set at a slower pace than 'wham bam bam', as it were.
It's more a relationship movie than a gay movie or a cowboy movie - just had a thought about it, I think it reminds me of how I felt when I watched Boys Don't Cry, that kind of not sure how to feel about the movie topic actors whatever similar to that Hilary Swank first Oscar performance. Although Boys Don't Cry all in all was a far nastier uglier movie than Brokeback...
By the end of the movie today, I walked out of the theatre and tried to think if there was anything bad about it - trying, in my own way, not to be lured into easy praise by what I have heard from the critics and awards and such. And I realised there wasn't anything bad I could find about the movie at all. Powerfully acted, well directed - the cinematographers should get a damned Oscar of the Decade for what they did LOL.
It's a bit slow to get going, and it doesn't grab you by the scruff of the neck, but by the end of it you come out thinking it was a very enjoyable movie. And that's all that you can hope for.
Felt a similar detachment to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon when I saw that as well - not by the scruff of the neck and beautiful cinematography. Though I enjoyed Brokeback far more, detachment and all...
Pauly
Anywaysssss - onto better topics methinks. I caught Brokeback Mountain today. Is a very good movie, though it doesn't grab you by the collar and capture your attention that way. Thought it was just a good campaign for Wyoming tourism before the plot finally started to sink in. It builds slowly, though not too slowly thank goodness, weaves a great story around you, though again, not in that all immersive way most movies seem to nowadays, and gently leads you to the end. There are twists and turns of course, some rather big, but the movie is just set at a slower pace than 'wham bam bam', as it were.
It's more a relationship movie than a gay movie or a cowboy movie - just had a thought about it, I think it reminds me of how I felt when I watched Boys Don't Cry, that kind of not sure how to feel about the movie topic actors whatever similar to that Hilary Swank first Oscar performance. Although Boys Don't Cry all in all was a far nastier uglier movie than Brokeback...
By the end of the movie today, I walked out of the theatre and tried to think if there was anything bad about it - trying, in my own way, not to be lured into easy praise by what I have heard from the critics and awards and such. And I realised there wasn't anything bad I could find about the movie at all. Powerfully acted, well directed - the cinematographers should get a damned Oscar of the Decade for what they did LOL.
It's a bit slow to get going, and it doesn't grab you by the scruff of the neck, but by the end of it you come out thinking it was a very enjoyable movie. And that's all that you can hope for.
Felt a similar detachment to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon when I saw that as well - not by the scruff of the neck and beautiful cinematography. Though I enjoyed Brokeback far more, detachment and all...
Pauly
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