Well, I saw it in the theatre, and I'll be happy to talk to you about it, because it's not like there are that many people to talk to about it in Montana. But I'm drunk and I have to be at Target in 6 hours, so another time :)
See, I just don't know what I think of it yet....that's why I wanted someone to talk to about it. I didn't dislike it, although I find the ending so...I don't know. Pointless? Jack just...dies. In an accident. Far away from Ennis. Without them resolving anything. Just...*shrugs* There were a lot of things I liked about it and a lot of things I disliked about it *coughAnneHathawaycough*. I just judgement is just up in the air.
I guess I came into it thinking it would actually be some sort of statement about the taboo of homosexuality and society's unacceptance or whatever, what all of the hype seemed to circle around. I didn't think it touched upon that at all, and it basically showed the two guys were sleazeballs because they were cheating on their wives. If they really truly were meant to be together, they should have manned up to their wrongdoings, divorced, and been together legitamately, not just had affairs year after year. I really had no sympathy for them at all.
Plus, taking a ten page short story and turning it into a movie that is 2+ hours, it is going to be slow moving, and that did not help it at all.
I agree with you about the ending, as well. It just sort of popped out of nowhere, no foreshadowing, no resolution, it seemed like the writers needed to end the movie somehow and decided they'd better kill one of them off.
Well, in the 1960s middle-America, it wasn't necessarily feasible or safe for two men to live together alone. I can understand their fears, especially Ennis', considering what he saw as a kid. I saw it not as them just being sleazeballs cheating on their wives, rather that they really loved each other but couldn't freely admit it because of how they were raised and the society they lived in. Mostly, I saw Jack as the one who was really in love with Ennis, willing to take the chance on being together, but since Ennis wouldn't, he was willing to put up with only seeing him a few times a year. Yeah, the honest thing to do would be to leave their wives and be together, but that's not an easy decision to make. They both tried to fit into the molds society expected of them, and let's face it, they both failed. Ennis was a lousy husband and ended up getting divorced, Jack ended up cheating on his wife with other people even besides Ennis. Eh, I don't know. I'm still up in the air about it.
I liked the movie, though I thought it was a bit slow. I finished it last night and had to watch it in parts to avoid losing interest. The concept was really good, it just drug. I still cried at the end.
Yeah, it is slow and sort of quiet and bleak...but I don't think those parts really bothered me. Of course, I have a ridiculous amount of patience with movies. When I saw the first LOTR, everyone I went with was like, "Great movie, but man, I kept checking my watch, it was so long." I, on the other hand, was surprised when the credits rolled, because I thought it was going to keep going. I'm weird like that.
So the fact that I thought King Kong was waaaaay too long says a lot.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfODSPIYwpQ
I enjoyed both Brokeback Mountain and Back to the Future. Please feel free to discuss either of these movies with me. :)
(Admittedly, though, I saw Brokeback in theaters, so it's not as fresh in my mind... but I still have commentary in general.)
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...and the Loved Ones are awesome.
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I didn't dislike it, although I find the ending so...I don't know. Pointless? Jack just...dies. In an accident. Far away from Ennis. Without them resolving anything. Just...*shrugs*
There were a lot of things I liked about it and a lot of things I disliked about it *coughAnneHathawaycough*. I just judgement is just up in the air.
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Plus, taking a ten page short story and turning it into a movie that is 2+ hours, it is going to be slow moving, and that did not help it at all.
I agree with you about the ending, as well. It just sort of popped out of nowhere, no foreshadowing, no resolution, it seemed like the writers needed to end the movie somehow and decided they'd better kill one of them off.
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I saw it not as them just being sleazeballs cheating on their wives, rather that they really loved each other but couldn't freely admit it because of how they were raised and the society they lived in. Mostly, I saw Jack as the one who was really in love with Ennis, willing to take the chance on being together, but since Ennis wouldn't, he was willing to put up with only seeing him a few times a year. Yeah, the honest thing to do would be to leave their wives and be together, but that's not an easy decision to make. They both tried to fit into the molds society expected of them, and let's face it, they both failed. Ennis was a lousy husband and ended up getting divorced, Jack ended up cheating on his wife with other people even besides Ennis.
Eh, I don't know. I'm still up in the air about it.
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So the fact that I thought King Kong was waaaaay too long says a lot.
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