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February 23, 2006 10:31am by David Farrar

Brokeback Mountain in Lego

Heh Boing Boing has a lego model of Brokeback Mountain 🙂

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Craig Ranapia

OK, has anyone actually seen ‘Borkeback Mountain’? Good but way over-rated, IMO, and if you take away the gay angle you’re left with little more than the kind of well-wrought melodrama Hollywood used to do in it’s sleep. Admittedly, I’d rather shag Heath Ledger than Trevor Howard – but that doesn’t mean Brokeback Mountain was a better movie than Brief Encounter, that glorious hymn to keeping your upper lip stiffer than everything else. 🙂
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February 23, 2006 11:21am
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Craig, often enough these days it’s good enough to do a fair impression of that kind of epic melodrama. As long as it has a point of interest beyond just retro revisionism I’m all in favour of keeping old forms alive in a well-executed, modern way.

And I thought the gay angle was a good thing. It gave the movie a point of differentiation, something that made it a movie that could not have been made during the era when Hollywood was making such movies.

Personally I thought Brokeback was rather good. Although if you’re looking for an entertaining comedy take on it I preferred this to DPF’s lego…

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3590&p=7
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February 23, 2006 11:35am
Brian Smaller

When I first heard about this film I thought it was set in the Old West – then there wouldn’t have been any problems. The good old fashioned 19th Century cowboys had an institution called the batchelor marraige, mainly because there were no women around. Perhaps the movie should have been called Bareback Mountain.
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February 23, 2006 11:35am
gd

mummy Why is that man standing so close behind that other man.And Mummy why does the man in front have a big grin on his face
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February 23, 2006 12:14pm
Craig Ranapia

gd:

I think the question I’d be asking anyone who’d take a child to this M rated movie is: “What are you huffing, you stupid bitch?” And nobody smiles much, for any reason. My God, gay is the last adjective that comes to mind and anyone who could get a prurient thrill from THAT (brief and nowhere near as explicit as you might think) sex scene, in the context of the whole film, needs help. Fast.
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February 23, 2006 12:26pm
gd

Sorry Craig I was referring to the model not the movie Please accept my apologies lame sense of humour and all that
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February 23, 2006 12:31pm
Craig Ranapia

gd:

No, please accept MY apology for being so dull and humourless it’s just been a pretty bad year for those of us who’d like a ceasefire in the so-called ‘culture wars’. In a weird way, the tide of socio-political b.s. that sloshed around Brokeback Mountain from all angles has seen it over-rated for all the wrong reasons, while obscuring it’s modest but genuine strengths. That’s a shame, IMO.
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February 23, 2006 6:10pm
Clint

It was indeed a very dull film. I preferred this version of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfODSPIYwpQ

Brokeback… to the Future. Brilliant!
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February 23, 2006 11:48pm
Dim

It seems unjust that Brokeback Mountain is getting all the fuss, while the other ‘gay’ Oscar movie – Capote – languishes in obscurity. There were only six or seven people in the cinema with me last night. And it’s really fucking good.
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February 24, 2006 11:27am

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