Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain, which most critics are calling the film of the year, starts tomorrow in Indianapolis.
Who wants to go? Not necessarily tomorrow, but sometime soonish?
Who wants to go? Not necessarily tomorrow, but sometime soonish?
As I said, the only reason the movie's budget is $14 million is because Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Lee, Schamus, McMurtry, and all of the other people involved with the film who normally would be paid multiple millions of dollars took massive pay cuts. On character driven pieces, it is often simply above-the-line costs which lead to inflated budgets. There's very little that's 'independent' about the budget or production of Brokeback Mountain - it's made by a major studio (Focus, a subsidiary of Universal) by a major-studio director with major-studio stars.
And you're right - most critics have no idea what they're talking about, falling over themselves to praise 'meaningful' shit like Crash and The Constant Gardener while hedging their bets on films that are actually embued with a powerful sense of cinematic presence like Hustle & Flow and War of the Worlds (to name two examples of films that got shat on by a significant percentage of the critical community).
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