BBM General Discussion 2

[gnash]

I found another reaction about a year old.

It's about 50 minutes long, and the channel is named Popcorn Roulette.  There are a few different reactors, and Jonathan is reacting to Brokeback Mountain.

Off topic, he's a hottie, but I don't know anything about him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7zAWmyl4M

That was cool. Thanks for posting.

I’d love to see more first time reactions
to BBM now that’s it’s been 20 years.

[gattaca]

^ I listened to his reactions as I could hear the film segment in the background while driving and knew what he was viewing at all times.  (As I'm sure anyone reading UBF can do!)  This reviewer's reactions seem genuine though I'd like more of them to have been in the YT version vs Patreon. He got most things right and his comments were usually dead-on. He did miss the reversed shirts in the end or maybe it was not in the YT rendering. Some of the comments are touching.   

It's really nice to see some "fresh" perspectives... this guy looks like he might been an infant or just a thought when the film was released.  Same comment for the two guys "reactions" you posted above this...  Nice to hear that generations take.  There is some hope remaining in the world.

Chuck, you are right! Quite so!        V.   

[CellarDweller115]

Brokeback Mountain (2005) with Ang Lee at MSPIFF 44: Putting the camera in the center of your heart

Erik Larson, Life Reporter - April 15, 2025


“Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together, fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that, that’s all we got boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on, and then you ask me about México and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get.”

This is the final film to be a part of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s (MSPIFF) tribute to the two time Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (who also made 2012’s “Life of Pi” and the 2000 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) where Lee was able to introduce a screening of his legendary 2005 masterpiece “Brokeback Mountain.”

The plot starts in 1963 and follows two cowboys in rural Wyoming named Ennis Del Mar (played by the late Heath Ledger, who won an Oscar for 2008’s “The Dark Knight”) and Jack Twist (played by Jake Gyllenhaal, star of 2007’s “Zodiac”) who begin working as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain throughout the summer. Jack and Ennis begin spending time with each other to pass the time, and soon fall in love. But because homosexuality was criminalized at the time, they went their separate ways after the season ended.


https://hamlineoracle.com/14233/life/arts-entertainment/brokeback-mountain-2005-with-ang-lee-at-mspiff-44-putting-the-camera-in-the-ce/

[B.W.]

I found another reaction about a year old.

It's about 50 minutes long, and the channel is named Popcorn Roulette.  There are a few different reactors, and Jonathan is reacting to Brokeback Mountain.

Off topic, he's a hottie, but I don't know anything about him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7zAWmyl4M

Great review./reaction video. And yes, the host is very cute. I like that moustache.

[B.W.]

Brokeback Mountain (2005) with Ang Lee at MSPIFF 44: Putting the camera in the center of your heart

Erik Larson, Life Reporter - April 15, 2025


“Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together, fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that, that’s all we got boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on, and then you ask me about México and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get.”

This is the final film to be a part of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s (MSPIFF) tribute to the two time Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (who also made 2012’s “Life of Pi” and the 2000 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) where Lee was able to introduce a screening of his legendary 2005 masterpiece “Brokeback Mountain.”

The plot starts in 1963 and follows two cowboys in rural Wyoming named Ennis Del Mar (played by the late Heath Ledger, who won an Oscar for 2008’s “The Dark Knight”) and Jack Twist (played by Jake Gyllenhaal, star of 2007’s “Zodiac”) who begin working as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain throughout the summer. Jack and Ennis begin spending time with each other to pass the time, and soon fall in love. But because homosexuality was criminalized at the time, they went their separate ways after the season ended.


https://hamlineoracle.com/14233/life/arts-entertainment/brokeback-mountain-2005-with-ang-lee-at-mspiff-44-putting-the-camera-in-the-ce/

I can't help but wonder about young aduts who may have been only babies or who may not have been born in 2005 when the film came out in theaters. At the end of this year, it will be the 20th anniversary of the film's theatrical release. Damn. Where did the time go?

[Lyle (Mooska)]

What you waitin' for, cowboy?

Brokeback Mountain Returns to Theaters
Focus Features announced today the exciting return of Brokeback Mountain to
theaters across the US in celebration of the film’s 20th anniversary.

Beginning in June with special showings June 22nd and 25th, Brokeback Mountain
will be re-released for a limited engagement.


WATCH THE OFFICIAL 20th Anniversary Trailer HERE.

ABOUT BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director, Brokeback Mountain is a
sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo
cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection.
 
The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the
endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally
charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one
of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).

[CellarDweller115]

I was wondering if they were going to do something like this!

[killersmom]

I just bought 2 tickets for the 4 pm showing on Sunday June 22, 2025 at the theater here in Albuquerque. I don't have anyone to go with, but bought an extra ticket just in case.

I don't know how I'll be seeing it on the big screen again. It will be just like when it came out originally when I went to see it in San Antonio, TX  in January 2006, by myself.

It was only showing at one theater in San Antonio on one screen. So.many people showed up to buy tickets that they opened up a second screen, and showed the movie simultaneously on the second screen.

After that first weekend, the movie was shown in 5 different theaters in San Antonio, and most of the showings were sold out.

[Marz]

Is it wishful thinking that they will do this in the UK too? I’d love to see it in the cinema, although I will be a wreck!

[killersmom]

Hi Marz.
I've been looking on the different sites and haven't seen anything so far, but I'll keep looking.

[Marz]

Aww thank you Auntie that’s lovely of you
This has made me realise that I have never seen it on the big screen! (Please don’t ban me from the forum! )

[killersmom]

Aww thank you Auntie that’s lovely of you
This has made me realise that I have never seen it on the big screen! (Please don’t ban me from the forum! )

WOW, really.

Yeah, I guess this makes sense that so many of the younger folks or late to the party people have never seen it on the big screen as l,once the years passed, it was not ever shown in the theaters again. I hope that this encourages people who have not ever seen it on the big screen will go see it. It is a totally different experience!

[Marz]

I first saw it in November 2007, so it had been out 2 years at that point but I think that was my time to see it. I wasn’t ready before.
Yes I hope it encourages people too

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I got to see it at the AMPAS Museum's 1,000 seat theater in January last year. It was heavily attended and judging from the age of the people there, most of them could not possibly have seen it in a theater before. People in their 20s-30s. I was trying to remember when I saw it in a theater before that? It was probably at the Autry Museum Theater when they displayed the shirts there for the 5th Anniversary of the film in December 2010. A lot of forum members participated in that.

[killersmom]

I got to see it at the AMPAS Museum's 1,000 seat theater in January last year. It was heavily attended and judging from the age of the people there, most of them could not possibly have seen it in a theater before. People in their 20s-30s. I was trying to remember when I saw it in a theater before that? It was probably at the Autry Museum Theater when they displayed the shirts there for the 5th Anniversary of the film in December 2010. A lot of forum members participated in that.

Yes, I was there, Jimmy, Fritz, John Trudell. Diana Ossana. I'd have to go back and look at the pics to see who else was there.