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Brokeback Mountain was hugely disappointing.

I went to go see what is being touted as the great movie of this year and walked out feeling like I'd just had a visit from a succubus.

The premise of the film (and the short story upon which it is based) is fantastic. Choose one walk of American life that would denounce gays more than any, and right after "Bible-thumping Southern Baptist," you'd probably think "Cowboy." From the Marlboro Man to John Wayne, no other American social label screams "No Gays Allowed" quite like the cattle-ropin', cigarette smokin', whisky drinkin', denim-wearin' cowpoke. Amazingly, the movie succeeded in avoiding  virtually all gay stereotypes (except butt-sex), and kept Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhall) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), two freelance ranchers in Oregon, about as manly as any good ol' boy could hope for. 

Enter the problems: All in all, there was probably about a half hour of useful dialogue. Stretch this out over 2 hours and 14 minutes of film, and well, needless to say, I felt somewhat let down. The long silences that director Ang Lee made such phenomenal use of in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were simply awkward and painful when placed into this faux-love-story context.

Like I mentioned earlier, there was about a half hour of useful dialogue. This is because most scenes after the initiation sex were either Ennis' wife pretending not to know that her husband is in love with his fishing buddy or Jack asking Ennis to start a ranch with him and Ennis summarily shooting the idea down. Nowhere was there reference to Ennis and Jack's actual emotions towards eachother (save a couple of heated pre-coital moments), only their attitudes towards the closed-minded world of rural Oregon.  Throw in a few scenes of Ennis getting drunk and trying to get back into the closet, and well, there's the movie. Some love story.