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Jan. 7th, 2006 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlIs not putting "I cried all the way home" under a cut considered a spoiler?
Oh my God. If Heath Ledger doesn't win Best Actor, consider him utterly robbed.
I'd been frantically avoiding/scrolling past anything about BBM because I didn't want to be spoiled for the movie stuff or be making comparisons between the movie and story before I got to see it. Didn't re-read the story, either.
I really, really wanted to tap into the whole THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT GAY COWBOYS thing, but I just couldn't. It's so much more than that.
It was...awe-inspiring. Breathtaking. SO WELL ACTED. This movie could have easily been shit had any of the main cast blown their part. Jack looking just a little too long and Ennis not looking at all. Michelle Williams did that blank-eyed thing she always does, but it worked out perfectly here. Anne Hathaway was *eh*, but she did the Dallas-inspired Texan daddy's girl very well. Her hair was a character unto itself.
I didn't get upset at the scenes I thought I would. Hate-based violence really gets to me, though, and when Ennis found those two shirts...devastating.
Ennis' girls, too, made me feel a bit teary - you always think your daddy is the best daddy in the world, no matter what.
I was sitting next to a 19-year-old flamer who was an ass - I guess he had a great coming-out, his parents accepted the news with flowers. He seems to be unaware that people still get killed for being gay. Not everyone is free to prance around and talk through their nose. Jerk.
Stereotype alert:
I have to say that watching a movie with gay men is worse than being in a theatre with black men. There are a thousand whispered conversations going on, none of which you can hear, but which effectively drown out the movie as quickly as shouting commentary at the screen. Happily, however, the whispering died down about fifteen minutes in.
So, those of you who've seen it, what did you think?
I'm picking up these icons as soon as I make room for them.
This story/movie is one of those that will blindside you with a thought that just kills you...
I wonder if Ennis' story about the dead man he saw when he was young flashed through Jack's mind in his final moments, and if it ended up like this anyway, did he (Jack) feel cheated? Regretful?
Oh, yeah, I'm bawling like a baby right now.
Oh my God. If Heath Ledger doesn't win Best Actor, consider him utterly robbed.
I'd been frantically avoiding/scrolling past anything about BBM because I didn't want to be spoiled for the movie stuff or be making comparisons between the movie and story before I got to see it. Didn't re-read the story, either.
I really, really wanted to tap into the whole THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT GAY COWBOYS thing, but I just couldn't. It's so much more than that.
It was...awe-inspiring. Breathtaking. SO WELL ACTED. This movie could have easily been shit had any of the main cast blown their part. Jack looking just a little too long and Ennis not looking at all. Michelle Williams did that blank-eyed thing she always does, but it worked out perfectly here. Anne Hathaway was *eh*, but she did the Dallas-inspired Texan daddy's girl very well. Her hair was a character unto itself.
I didn't get upset at the scenes I thought I would. Hate-based violence really gets to me, though, and when Ennis found those two shirts...devastating.
Ennis' girls, too, made me feel a bit teary - you always think your daddy is the best daddy in the world, no matter what.
I was sitting next to a 19-year-old flamer who was an ass - I guess he had a great coming-out, his parents accepted the news with flowers. He seems to be unaware that people still get killed for being gay. Not everyone is free to prance around and talk through their nose. Jerk.
Stereotype alert:
I have to say that watching a movie with gay men is worse than being in a theatre with black men. There are a thousand whispered conversations going on, none of which you can hear, but which effectively drown out the movie as quickly as shouting commentary at the screen. Happily, however, the whispering died down about fifteen minutes in.
So, those of you who've seen it, what did you think?
I'm picking up these icons as soon as I make room for them.
This story/movie is one of those that will blindside you with a thought that just kills you...
I wonder if Ennis' story about the dead man he saw when he was young flashed through Jack's mind in his final moments, and if it ended up like this anyway, did he (Jack) feel cheated? Regretful?
Oh, yeah, I'm bawling like a baby right now.
