WFMU’s Mark Allen, commenting on “Brokeback Mountain” without once refering to Peyton Manning.
In their first encounter in the tent, with all the spastic pushing, slap-punching, violent face-butting and pants-ripping, Ledger and Gyllenhaal display the intimacy of a pair of drunken paraplegics fighting over the last belt buckle at a Western Wear closing sale. With the way these scenes have been pointlessly debated in salivating gay blogs for their poignancy or daring (nope!), I can’t imagine the horrors these images might have on impressionable gay adolescents anticipating their first dates. But hey, what’s a virgin gay sex experience without Keystone Kops-style faux-rape anyway?
It does seems as though Ang Lee has finally fulfilled the promise shown in the Party Posse’s “Drop Da Bomb” video.
at least one can hope that the word ‘genius’ doesn’t get used anymore in sentences featuring “ang lee” – the trailer is absolutely stunning. I think the subtitle of the film is something like ‘marlboro man – a life’
Gosh, that sure sounds a lot like my first time… Maybe the writer just doesn’t know a good time when he sees one!
your first time fighting over a belt buckle at a Western Wear closing sale?