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Jan. 11th, 2006 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshaymin"Brokeback Mountain" was a waste of my 3 hours. But go figure, critics like it. They always loved melodrama while sniffing their noses at quality comedies anyway. Doesn't help Mom & I had to move around to other seats twice in the beginning of the movie because of annoying, giggling fangirls behind us. Yuck. (Mustkillthemandtwisttheirthroats)
If it's not sappy icky stereotypical Girly*Uke & his Knightly*Seme, it's gotta be OMG TRAGEDY: two men are gay and cause family drama because they cheat on their wives so they can meet each other in secret 'cause THE WORLD CAN'T ACCEPT THEM BEING GAY OMG (and hey, they later divorce too) and they drink in bars & smoke and such, and ooooooooooooh! let's have persecutors kill off one of the lovers 'CAUSE HE'S GAY OH NOES so we can have the other lover angst!!1 (Oh, and some random guy got raped and died by castration) GAY BRINGS NOTHING BUT TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES, AND YOU CAN NEVER HAVE A NORMAL, DRAMA-FREE RELATIONSHIP IF YOU'RE BOTH GAY. Oh, and if it's two guys, you got to have sex--like, total neccesity. Otherwise, it doesn't count. It's all gay men think about anyway, the things between their legs and all. *cough*
Why can't we see them as people instead of their orientation? Here, I was hoping to root for the characters, to cheer for them as the relationship growed, hold my breath when things get rocky, sigh happily at the peaceful times between them... but noooooooooooo. Gotta be tragedy and sex. For once, I'd like to see stuff where *GASP* it's perfectly normal for you to like people of the same sex, and that the couple's entire problems don't revolve around them being gay. That *GASP* being gay has nothing to do with your finiancial problems and that your puppy kicked the bucket and you dropped your copy of Twilight Princess in the street and heard the disc crack as a steamroller crushes it over. That you know... two men, two women? They can have *GASP* perfectly normal non-dysfunctional relationships and the most drama they have is fighting who gets a turn with the DVD picking tonight.
I mean, dude. I've put up with the beginning fine, but the rest... UGH. I know it's a drama movie, I shouldn't expect Superpower Marvel Action/Adventure TM, but it's quite something that I'm constantly slumping in my chair being all "Okay... END already!" and wondering how much fun my brother's having at Narnia. Now, I'll be hit for this. Call me a shallow child who wants to keep herself sheltered & cuddly: but I watch the movies to escape reality, not get to another. I already know about the tragedies surrounding life, I don't need to be preached about 'em again when all I have to do is wander around IRL or tune to the News on television. Movies can give me tragedy, but they can give me Faith in Humanity too. :/
I swear, do I have to do ALL the dirty work in writing nowadays? Talking to Dad on his cell phone here, he's telling me I'd make some good screenplays. "Well... at least society is getting better for gay people."
For a less bitter, possibly less-biased view, here's Mom: "Well, the beginning was nice, with the beautiful scenery of the mountains and all, wanting me to go back again... but the relationship felt so rushed, when the rest of the movie itself drags on and on...! I understand people DO jump each other in real life and all, but there was hardly any development between them in the beginning... especially when they could've used that extra time in the movie to help us get to know them better, but here I am, thinking the movie was about to end... and again... and again..."
Huh. That's gotta be something if Mom agreed with me the length was excruciatingly overkill.
Ironically enough, I recieved another flame for my Parody*Sonadow over at FicWad. Made me giggle, at least.
Narnia's gonna be 1000000000000000000000000000x more awesome.
If it's not sappy icky stereotypical Girly*Uke & his Knightly*Seme, it's gotta be OMG TRAGEDY: two men are gay and cause family drama because they cheat on their wives so they can meet each other in secret 'cause THE WORLD CAN'T ACCEPT THEM BEING GAY OMG (and hey, they later divorce too) and they drink in bars & smoke and such, and ooooooooooooh! let's have persecutors kill off one of the lovers 'CAUSE HE'S GAY OH NOES so we can have the other lover angst!!1 (Oh, and some random guy got raped and died by castration) GAY BRINGS NOTHING BUT TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES, AND YOU CAN NEVER HAVE A NORMAL, DRAMA-FREE RELATIONSHIP IF YOU'RE BOTH GAY. Oh, and if it's two guys, you got to have sex--like, total neccesity. Otherwise, it doesn't count. It's all gay men think about anyway, the things between their legs and all. *cough*
Why can't we see them as people instead of their orientation? Here, I was hoping to root for the characters, to cheer for them as the relationship growed, hold my breath when things get rocky, sigh happily at the peaceful times between them... but noooooooooooo. Gotta be tragedy and sex. For once, I'd like to see stuff where *GASP* it's perfectly normal for you to like people of the same sex, and that the couple's entire problems don't revolve around them being gay. That *GASP* being gay has nothing to do with your finiancial problems and that your puppy kicked the bucket and you dropped your copy of Twilight Princess in the street and heard the disc crack as a steamroller crushes it over. That you know... two men, two women? They can have *GASP* perfectly normal non-dysfunctional relationships and the most drama they have is fighting who gets a turn with the DVD picking tonight.
I mean, dude. I've put up with the beginning fine, but the rest... UGH. I know it's a drama movie, I shouldn't expect Superpower Marvel Action/Adventure TM, but it's quite something that I'm constantly slumping in my chair being all "Okay... END already!" and wondering how much fun my brother's having at Narnia. Now, I'll be hit for this. Call me a shallow child who wants to keep herself sheltered & cuddly: but I watch the movies to escape reality, not get to another. I already know about the tragedies surrounding life, I don't need to be preached about 'em again when all I have to do is wander around IRL or tune to the News on television. Movies can give me tragedy, but they can give me Faith in Humanity too. :/
I swear, do I have to do ALL the dirty work in writing nowadays? Talking to Dad on his cell phone here, he's telling me I'd make some good screenplays. "Well... at least society is getting better for gay people."
For a less bitter, possibly less-biased view, here's Mom: "Well, the beginning was nice, with the beautiful scenery of the mountains and all, wanting me to go back again... but the relationship felt so rushed, when the rest of the movie itself drags on and on...! I understand people DO jump each other in real life and all, but there was hardly any development between them in the beginning... especially when they could've used that extra time in the movie to help us get to know them better, but here I am, thinking the movie was about to end... and again... and again..."
Huh. That's gotta be something if Mom agreed with me the length was excruciatingly overkill.
Ironically enough, I recieved another flame for my Parody*Sonadow over at FicWad. Made me giggle, at least.
Narnia's gonna be 1000000000000000000000000000x more awesome.
