Originally posted by: Jaster Mareel
The movie isn't any different than something like TITANIC or ROMEO AND JULIET. It's a dramatic love story. The only difference is that it's between two guys instead of a guy and a girl. People have been writing, and watching dramatic love stories for hundreds of years. So why is this one all of a sudden BAD? Because it's about homosexuals? Sounds like homophobia DOES have something to do with it...
Besides, it's actually a good thing films like this are being made. People who are homophobic usually have very little knowledge of what they "disagree with." Movies like this help people become more aware, more tolerant and more open minded. If people just IGNORED homosexuality, then that wouldn't help prevent homophobia at all, would it?
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Homophobia has nothing to do with it. I simply have no interest in seeing a "gay cowboy movie" and see no reason for its existence. The first steps towards decriminalizing homosexuality in Canada were made under the rubric that "Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." The attitude now seems to be, "Let's rip the doors off the bedrooms and invite everybody in!"
Not my cuppa.
Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I wouldn't see it if it was gays or lesbians. Doesn't matter. I have no interest in seeing Buttf%@k Mountain.
I wouldn't see it if it was gays or lesbians. Doesn't matter. I have no interest in seeing Buttf%@k Mountain.
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Homophobia has nothing to do with it. I simply have no interest in seeing a "gay cowboy movie" and see no reason for its existence. The first steps towards decriminalizing homosexuality in Canada were made under the rubric that "Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." The attitude now seems to be, "Let's rip the doors off the bedrooms and invite everybody in!"
Not my cuppa.
The movie isn't any different than something like TITANIC or ROMEO AND JULIET. It's a dramatic love story. The only difference is that it's between two guys instead of a guy and a girl. People have been writing, and watching dramatic love stories for hundreds of years. So why is this one all of a sudden BAD? Because it's about homosexuals? Sounds like homophobia DOES have something to do with it...
Besides, it's actually a good thing films like this are being made. People who are homophobic usually have very little knowledge of what they "disagree with." Movies like this help people become more aware, more tolerant and more open minded. If people just IGNORED homosexuality, then that wouldn't help prevent homophobia at all, would it?
Who's to say Gundark didn't care to see Titanic or Romeo and Juliet either? Maybe "gay cowboys" isn't the issue for him. Leave the guy alone. He's allowed to voice his opinion just as anyone else. I don't care to see it either, and it's not because of homophopia, but because the film was in developmental hell since the script was written in 1997 (!) because nobody wanted to play a "gay cowboy". Now, Jake and Heath take it on, and they're getting heaps of praise and Oscar attention for "having the balls to be gay." I don't disagree that "it's actually a good thing that films like this are being made," as you say, but I don't think it's a big deal. It's just a movie.