Brokeback Mountain

yep, the title of this insert is the hackiest two words that ever were lobbed into the comedy world. i've always avoided any sort of humoring chuckle or even polite smile when someone attempted to make a joke that involved that title anywhere in it. just an immediate frown, scorning, piercing - the likes of which ...well, really i did nothing. but it's just a terrible joke to make. they titled the movie purposely to take away all of its power. like when someone is going around the group insulting everyone, and then they get to the asthmatic fat kid with dandruff and bloody gums and say, "too easy". what they're really saying is, "it's actually hard to think of something because it's already obvious to everyone." anyway, i was having a conversation with a guy. i was sitting in a chair next to an open door to my left. i couldn't see who was to my left as people kept popping in the room at weird intervals, but i don't think i would have answered differently if i had. we were talking about cowboy stuff, and the dude said, "oh yeah, like that movie." and i said "brokeback mountain? yeah, it was kind of like that except without the gay sex." (which was true) and then he said, "did you like the movie?" and i said, "yeah, until they started sexin each other. it was really pretty and..." and then i looked at his face, and he was looking to the other side of the door where a gay dude had popped in and said, "i guess i came in at the wrong time." like i was some bigot or something. just because i didn't like the setup to the movie, that makes me a scathing homophobe? i saw the movie. that in some sense, should give me a little credit in that regard. and as just a general movie watcher, it was a ludicrous love story - gay or straight. they go from barely saying hello to having violent tent sex? "they lived in a world where their love couldn't be accepted" yeah, they already did that. it's just romeo and juliet with a lame gay twist. the gay dude who was perturbed by my review hadn't even seen the movie. as a member of the gay community, he felt he couldn't support it. probably for the same reasons that i didn't like it. so everyone can agree that no one should ever talk about it. ever.