brokeback

we caught brokeback mountain last night. (final tally: 8 nights, 6 films. not too shabby. even better, all of them were good!)

it’s the gay cowboy movie, if you haven’t been paying attention.

how is it? it’s fantastic.

this may be the best thing i’ve seen all year. it’s directed by ang lee, and it’s his return to form. ang lee not of crouching tiger, but ang lee of the ice storm. certainly not the confused ang lee of the hulk.

brokeback is so beautiful, so delicate, so wonderful, it really makes you glad that movies even exist. it manages to convey such a sense of wonderful doomed romance, yet without any heavy-handed melodramatic tricks that syriana was so dutifully trying to avoid. the fact that it has gay cowobys is really almost incidental. it’s just a wonderful story.

really fantastic.

go see it. unless you’re too scared to see a gay cowboy movie. are you too much of a pussy to see a gay cowboy movie? because that’s the kind of people gay cowboys prey on.

Posted at December 29, 2005 11:28 PM