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If I were gay, I'd get off on making straight men blush.
Kelvyquayo, Eater of Souls wrote:
If I were gay, I'd get off on making straight men blush.
Exactly. ^_^
Duke Youshutup wrote:
If I were gay, I would use my sexuality to compensate for other aspects of my personality which identify me as really a rather banal, close-minded, uninteresting person.
so waht do you use instead?
Kelvyquayo, Eater of Souls wrote:
Duke Youshutup wrote:
If I were gay, I would use my sexuality to compensate for other aspects of my personality which identify me as really a rather banal, close-minded, uninteresting person.
so waht do you use instead?
Teen angst?
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
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Posted: Feb 17 2006 at 3:11 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Spoken like a bigot trying to console himself.
shadowrelm wrote:
just my openion.
Bigot. Homophobe. Chronically poor speller.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
facking hippies
For those of you with strong googlefu, the short story is available in a few places online; it's a good read whether or not you've seen the movie if you can get past the ZRO BUTTSECKS O M G.
I really dug this movie, but I have always liked the way Ang Lee tackles difficult love stories; it's a common theme in his films and he handles them with aplomb. The OP is correct about the brutality of the initial sex scene (can't be called a love scene). It's abrupt and violent, like one might imagine prison sex to be, just without the knives and catcalls. There are a lot of good parallels that can be drawn here to anyone who wants something that they can't really have, for whatever reason -- monetary, religious, societal, etc. -- and as someone else said, it's the what ifs that really get you. What could these men have been if their desires hadn't been stymied? How could their lives have been different?
What I really liked was the visual approach, though. For those who haven't seen it, the two fellas exchange postcards to schedule their rendezvous... and that's mirrored by these frozen shots of the landscape, like the camera just hovers on this one spot for just a moment, and then on this one... there aren't a lot of long pans like you'd see in a lot of films in which the landscape is important. I mean, there are a few, but those very focused shots are the ones that stuck with me, because they're like the postcards. Neat visual trick.
I really dug this movie, but I have always liked the way Ang Lee tackles difficult love stories; it's a common theme in his films and he handles them with aplomb. The OP is correct about the brutality of the initial sex scene (can't be called a love scene). It's abrupt and violent, like one might imagine prison sex to be, just without the knives and catcalls. There are a lot of good parallels that can be drawn here to anyone who wants something that they can't really have, for whatever reason -- monetary, religious, societal, etc. -- and as someone else said, it's the what ifs that really get you. What could these men have been if their desires hadn't been stymied? How could their lives have been different?
What I really liked was the visual approach, though. For those who haven't seen it, the two fellas exchange postcards to schedule their rendezvous... and that's mirrored by these frozen shots of the landscape, like the camera just hovers on this one spot for just a moment, and then on this one... there aren't a lot of long pans like you'd see in a lot of films in which the landscape is important. I mean, there are a few, but those very focused shots are the ones that stuck with me, because they're like the postcards. Neat visual trick.
shadowrelm wrote:
we are all biggots to one extent or another. all of us. the best anyone can hope for is tollarance.
yes, i think homosexuality is a freak of nature. yes, i do not want to see two men holding hands and sucking face anywhere, at any time. ever.
but, ill show enough respect for other peoples beliefs to not jump up and shout ****** ******, if they show enough respect for my beliefs to not rub it in my face every chance they get.
want to make a film about two closet ****,s? ok with me, i can choose not to see it. want to have gay day at disney world? fine, just annonce it far enough in advance so i dont take my kids to see mickey taking it up the ***** ok with me.
but am i liberal enough to sit and have a conversation with two men holding hands and talking about a new bedspread? i would sooner get a gob changing bed pans in a retirement home. at least i would be getting paid to have my stomach churned.
live and let live. just dont rub it in my face, and dont try to force your beliefs on me or my familey and we will get along just fine.
biggot? yep. just like you and every one else. it is all about differant levels of tollarance. race means nothing to me, but watching two men act like women is.....just wrong on a very basic level. just cant accept it any more than i can accept a herroin addict shooting up in my yard.
just my openion.
yes, i think homosexuality is a freak of nature. yes, i do not want to see two men holding hands and sucking face anywhere, at any time. ever.
but, ill show enough respect for other peoples beliefs to not jump up and shout ****** ******, if they show enough respect for my beliefs to not rub it in my face every chance they get.
want to make a film about two closet ****,s? ok with me, i can choose not to see it. want to have gay day at disney world? fine, just annonce it far enough in advance so i dont take my kids to see mickey taking it up the ***** ok with me.
but am i liberal enough to sit and have a conversation with two men holding hands and talking about a new bedspread? i would sooner get a gob changing bed pans in a retirement home. at least i would be getting paid to have my stomach churned.
live and let live. just dont rub it in my face, and dont try to force your beliefs on me or my familey and we will get along just fine.
biggot? yep. just like you and every one else. it is all about differant levels of tollarance. race means nothing to me, but watching two men act like women is.....just wrong on a very basic level. just cant accept it any more than i can accept a herroin addict shooting up in my yard.
just my openion.
^^^
Moral Majority working for you.
shadowrealm wrote:
live and let live. just dont rub it in my face, and dont try to force your beliefs on me or my familey and we will get along just fine.
quoted for double standardness.
I'll stop kissing my boyfriend in public if you can get every hetero couple on the planet to do the same. Stop rubbing your heterosexuality in my face!
Will I watch it? lets see...
Explosions? Probably not.
Brutal fist fights? Didn't look like an SM flick during any preveiw I saw.
Any Gun play? Not the kind one would expect from a CowBoy flick.
Car chases ending in brutal highway crashes? Apperently lots of ramming from behind, unfortunatly none of it involving cars.
CowBoys? Sweeeeet! CowBoy flicks reigned supreme in my childhood.
Gay CowBoys? Don't care
Do they kick some ***? Probably not.
So it's basically a Romance movie? I'll pass thanks, sounds like a good way to cure any insomnia I might be suffering.
Explosions? Probably not.
Brutal fist fights? Didn't look like an SM flick during any preveiw I saw.
Any Gun play? Not the kind one would expect from a CowBoy flick.
Car chases ending in brutal highway crashes? Apperently lots of ramming from behind, unfortunatly none of it involving cars.
CowBoys? Sweeeeet! CowBoy flicks reigned supreme in my childhood.
Gay CowBoys? Don't care
Do they kick some ***? Probably not.
So it's basically a Romance movie? I'll pass thanks, sounds like a good way to cure any insomnia I might be suffering.
Explosions? Probably not.
Oh there are explosions, they all happen inside pants though.
Brutal fist fights? Didn't look like an SM flick during any preveiw I saw.
There is actually some punches thrown. Heath lays the beat down to some guff talking hooligans.
Any Gun play? Not the kind one would expect from a CowBoy flick.
There is a rifle and they shoot at a coyote.
Car chases ending in brutal highway crashes? Apperently lots of ramming from behind, unfortunatly none of it involving cars.
There is a sex scene in a car. Guy on Girl. Bewbs are visable.
CowBoys? Sweeeeet! CowBoy flicks reigned supreme in my childhood.
Cowboys alright, the rough rugged men of legend. Only they love other men.
Do they kick some ***? Probably not.
Heath as mentioned lays down on a beat down. Jake lays a verbal smack down on someone that tries to tell him what to do in "his" house.
Oh there are explosions, they all happen inside pants though.
Brutal fist fights? Didn't look like an SM flick during any preveiw I saw.
There is actually some punches thrown. Heath lays the beat down to some guff talking hooligans.
Any Gun play? Not the kind one would expect from a CowBoy flick.
There is a rifle and they shoot at a coyote.
Car chases ending in brutal highway crashes? Apperently lots of ramming from behind, unfortunatly none of it involving cars.
There is a sex scene in a car. Guy on Girl. Bewbs are visable.
CowBoys? Sweeeeet! CowBoy flicks reigned supreme in my childhood.
Cowboys alright, the rough rugged men of legend. Only they love other men.
Do they kick some ***? Probably not.
Heath as mentioned lays down on a beat down. Jake lays a verbal smack down on someone that tries to tell him what to do in "his" house.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
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There is actually some punches thrown. Heath lays the beat down to some guff talking hooligans.
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There is a rifle and they shoot at a coyote.
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Heath as mentioned lays down on a beat down. Jake lays a verbal smack down on someone that tries to tell him what to do in "his" house
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Cowboys alright, the rough rugged men of legend.
Now if they had gone with that for a trailer I'd run to the theater with visions of John and Clint in my head and gladly plunked down the $$ to watch.
Course I'd of been damn pissed when I figured out I was watching some lovey dovey vomit.
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I'll stop kissing my boyfriend in public if you can get every hetero couple on the planet to do the same.
Every hetero couple on the planet kisses your boyfriend in public?
How do you feel about that?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I'm waiting for the reality TV spinoff.
"Will Kansas City Slim get the rose... or the rosebud?"
"Will Kansas City Slim get the rose... or the rosebud?"
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You know it.
How you doin?
Funniest thing. Ever.
On topic, I totally agree with you. I was surprised by how much I liked this movie, especially after I thought prior to watching it that I would hate it.
/necro
Saw this last week. It was good. Better than "Racism is Bad!" Crash.
For the visceral among you, there's more female nudity than male, and it's of the Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway variety.
And it's not a "cowboy movie" in the sense we all think of, because it's set in 1963-1983, rather than 1885.
It doesn't proselytize or oversimplify.
The music is good (the main theme is fun to play on guitar). Visually, it's very beautiful and very stark (kind of like Wyoming).
The only thing that bothered me was the hasty segue from "2 buds camping" to "sex in a tent." Although I guess if you assume that they had latent homosexual tendencies already, it doesn't seem as farfetched.
Saw this last week. It was good. Better than "Racism is Bad!" Crash.
For the visceral among you, there's more female nudity than male, and it's of the Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway variety.
And it's not a "cowboy movie" in the sense we all think of, because it's set in 1963-1983, rather than 1885.
It doesn't proselytize or oversimplify.
The music is good (the main theme is fun to play on guitar). Visually, it's very beautiful and very stark (kind of like Wyoming).
The only thing that bothered me was the hasty segue from "2 buds camping" to "sex in a tent." Although I guess if you assume that they had latent homosexual tendencies already, it doesn't seem as farfetched.
I thought about watching it. But I really can't find a reason. I'm not a fan of the drama genre and quite frankly, two men making out is gross in my opinion.
Two girls on the other hand is hot. Don't ask me why it's like that, but I'm guessing it has something to do with basic instincts (the more the merrier).
I haven't really met a woman who thought male gay sex was hot.
Edit: Ew ma gawd, I speel awsum
Edited, Wed Apr 5 10:06:19 2006 by Mazra
Two girls on the other hand is hot. Don't ask me why it's like that, but I'm guessing it has something to do with basic instincts (the more the merrier).
I haven't really met a woman who thought male gay sex was hot.
Edit: Ew ma gawd, I speel awsum
Edited, Wed Apr 5 10:06:19 2006 by Mazra
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
trickybeck wrote:
Better than "Racism is Bad!" Crash.
Crash was so obvious. So tired, overdone and bloody obvious.
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Visually, it's very beautiful and very stark (kind of like Wyoming).
It's home.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.............
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Yeah I don't have any real moral qualms with the movie or anything (My mom insists its the liberal media trying to convert our men to gayness). I do find it to be pretty unpalatable, though. Then add to that that I'm mostly just an action/thriller buff as far as movies go, and you've just about killed any reason I have to see it. Guess I'm in the same boat as Mazra.
Crash was so obvious. So tired, overdone and bloody obvious.
Arg...I have to vent about that one too. I was coerced into seeing it by my ex-girlfriend. She absolutely loved the movie simply because it hammered, as tricky said, "racism is bad!" into your head. I couldn't say anything at the time (because she would have been mad at me for the next two weeks as a result) but I thought it was trite and unintelligent, with shallow and unbelievably overblown characters.
We had a mildly interesting conversation about the arab shop owner (the ex is lebanese), because I thought he was a jackass and my ex had sympathy for him as a foreigner. But then she got pissed at me for not agreeing, and that was the end of that.
Stupid movie. And didn't it win best picture or something? I knew there was a reason why I didn't watch award shows.
Edited, Wed Apr 5 11:27:21 2006 by Eske
tare wrote:
trickybeck wrote:
Better than "Racism is Bad!" Crash.
Crash was so obvious. So tired, overdone and bloody obvious.
Arg...I have to vent about that one too. I was coerced into seeing it by my ex-girlfriend. She absolutely loved the movie simply because it hammered, as tricky said, "racism is bad!" into your head. I couldn't say anything at the time (because she would have been mad at me for the next two weeks as a result) but I thought it was trite and unintelligent, with shallow and unbelievably overblown characters.
We had a mildly interesting conversation about the arab shop owner (the ex is lebanese), because I thought he was a jackass and my ex had sympathy for him as a foreigner. But then she got pissed at me for not agreeing, and that was the end of that.
Stupid movie. And didn't it win best picture or something? I knew there was a reason why I didn't watch award shows.
Edited, Wed Apr 5 11:27:21 2006 by Eske
Tare wrote:
Crash was so obvious. So tired, overdone and bloody obvious.
If you're talking about this crash you are one freakidy freak, and I love you.
Edited, Wed Apr 5 11:22:06 2006 by Barkingturtle
Eske wrote:
Guess I'm in the same boat as Mazra.
Is it Big Gay Al's boat?
Stan: Wow, all the animals seem happy here.
Big Gay Al: Of course they are, silly buns!
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Tare wrote:
Eske wrote:
Guess I'm in the same boat as Mazra.
Is it Big Gay Al's boat?
Stan: Wow, all the animals seem happy here.
Big Gay Al: Of course they are, silly buns!
I KNEW that one was coming! :P
EDIT: worst 800th post ever? perhaps.
Edited, Wed Apr 5 11:29:57 2006 by Eske
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