Brokeback Mountain

Pros: The acting, the cinematography, setting, strong story, no spoon feeding of story
Cons: none

Brokeback Mountain opens in 1963 Wyoming as Jack and Enos first come across each other. They have both been hired to “Cowboy” sheep across Wyoming for the season. It’s not the easiest job as they have to deal with the elements of nature, coyotes that ...

Pros: acting, cinematography, music, story, subtlety
Cons: a bit too long and tasteful

One October afternoon in 1997, I settled down with the latest issue of the New Yorker and started reading a story by Annie Proulx, whose novel The Shipping News had been both a best-seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. Stories about the ...

Pros: Excellent performances, script, Lee's direction
Cons: I felt more for the families than for the men themselves

Nearly thirty years ago, Billy Joel recorded a song called "The Stranger." It talks about the faces "we show ourselves when everyone has gone." Those words are apt in describing the men at the heart of Brokeback Mountain, whose relationship spans ...

Pros: cast; first part; scenery
Cons: needed more focus for me; ending

The following dialogue in Brokeback Mountain towards the end was the most memorable and helpful one for me: Cassie Cartwright: [on the verge of tears] I don't get you, Ennis del Mar. Ennis del Mar: I'm sorry. [he pauses] Ennis del Mar: ...

Pros: Acting was outstanding in this film. Cinematography was breathtaking.
Cons: The story moved rather slowly in the first part of the film.

I finally saw it, the movie that all the fuss is about. I know it's already been reviewed countless times, I know it's been written about, I know it did well at the Academy Awards, but I just wanted to add my two cents to the mix (probably the sum I will ...

Pros: You have to see this movie about two people in love.
Cons: none in my opinion.

A (female) friend and I scheduled a time when we wanted to go see Brokeback Mountain. I had wanted to see it, but none of the men in my life seemed very interested. I was looking forward to it, but didn't really know what to expect in terms of ...

Pros: Heath Ledger; Ang Lee's Directing Expertise; Scenery
Cons: Moves a tad slow and it's a tad long

Hollywood love stories are a dime a dozen and each year can be counted on to produce multitudes of serious romances and romantic comedies. In most every instance, these love stories are comprised of the traditional man/woman couple with little deviation ...

Pros: great cast, cinematography, direction, music, scenery, DVD bonus features
Cons: a little too long

The movie "Brokeback Mountain" may have been passed over for the dross of "Crash" by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters who refused to see it (Ernest Borgnine and Tony Curtis are two who are on record as refusing to see it; the Academy ...

Pros: strong performances from leads, excellent cinematography and score
Cons: relationship isn't really developed much beyond the physical, pretty depressing overall

I can recall few movies that have gotten quite as much hype as Brokeback Mountain. As the 2006 Academy Awards approached, it seemed that was all I heard about, so much so that I was surprised not to see it awarded Best Picture. Of course, ...

Pros: Acting, scenery, story
Cons: none

Simply put, Brokeback Mountain is a standard star-crossed love story. Romeo and Juliet belonged to warring houses; Ennis Delmar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) belong to the same gender. But like a powerful haiku, the simplicity belies ...

Pros: well-crafted script, effective direction, good character development
Cons: lumbering pace, accoustic guitar torture, may be too explicit for some

Brokeback Mountain is clearly the most controversial film of 2005, though many will tell you it's "much ado about nothing." What exactly it is depends on your point of view. To some, it's an exploitational experiment in Hollywood liberalism; to others ...

Pros: Lee's Direction, Script, Location, Look, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Throughout the world of gay cinema in independent films, the subject of homosexuality has been explored throughout whether in its anarchistic view of Gregg Araki, the Douglas Sirk setting of Todd Haynes, or to the elliptical, harrowing viewpoint of ...

Pros: Artfully directed; supremely acted.
Cons: Nothing really.

Let me preface this review by stating that watching two men make out makes me, well, squeamish, but that does not make me homophobic, I am anything but, but it does make me 100% heterosexual. There is no wiggle room in my sexual preference library; I am ...

Pros: Story, direction, acting, music, cinematography, editing...
Cons: Hardly any.

Several reviews of director Ang Lee’s superb Brokeback Mountain have sought to make clear that, despite being about gay cowboys, this is a love story transcending sexual orientation. I agree, but for so many to ring this note smacks of some ...

Pros: Beautifully photographed and uniformly well acted.
Cons: Necessarily slow pace.

The lady sitting next to me kept nudging her friend. "I think it's moving too slow." Five minutes later. "It's moving really slow, don't you think?" Five minutes later. "It's moving a little too slow." Five minutes later. "It's moving too ...