Brokeback Mountain

We have been going to too many movies lately. In the last month or so, we’ve seen four: Grandma’s Boy, The Producers, Last Holiday, and Brokeback Mountain. Yep, BBM came to Green Bay so we drove up there on Tuesday to go check what all the buzz was about. It’s a good movie. Not the kind of movie I generally see, but this was my idea and Adam agreed to come along. It’s a beautiful film artistically speaking - lots of shots of mountains and wide open spaces in Wyoming (or wherever they shot the movie.) No particularly gratuitous sex shots or anything like that. I wasn’t too impressed with most of the acting. None of the leads are favorites of mine and Heath Ledger has always just bugged me anyway so I guess that was to be expected. It has a good chance to win the best picture Oscar and if it did, I wouldn’t complain. Everyone knows the story and I suppose I had more back story than most since I read the short story prior to viewing the film. It was interesting to see the translation to the big screen.