Heath Ledger who?
There's a movie doing the rounds at the moment called Brokeback Mountain. You couldn't get me into a cinema to watch this turkey at the point of a gun. Not only is it based on a story by Annie Proulx who inflicted 'The Shipping News' on an unsuspecting world, but the screenplay is by Larry 'Lonesome Dove' McMurtry.
Be that as it may, I don't really understand why people are getting all het up about it. Apparently the movie is about a couple of bum-punching cow-punchers. So now it isn't going to be shown in Rockhampton or Townsville. Rocky, just like people who are called Rocky, is a primitive organism with a fifties outlook on life. It is also the beef capital of Australia. However, as far as I know, it does not have all that many ringers or stockmen within its environs. Not that it would make much difference if it did; the boys would be down at Lee Kernaghan's pub riding bulls or at the Criterion chasing skirt and probably wouldn't even notice the movie drift by.
Be that as it may, I don't really understand why people are getting all het up about it. Apparently the movie is about a couple of bum-punching cow-punchers. So now it isn't going to be shown in Rockhampton or Townsville. Rocky, just like people who are called Rocky, is a primitive organism with a fifties outlook on life. It is also the beef capital of Australia. However, as far as I know, it does not have all that many ringers or stockmen within its environs. Not that it would make much difference if it did; the boys would be down at Lee Kernaghan's pub riding bulls or at the Criterion chasing skirt and probably wouldn't even notice the movie drift by.
Townsville is even more baffling. I like Townsville. In fact, I wouldn't mind living in Townsville. Dunno 'bout the humidity in summer, be alright if you were near the beach I expect. Anyway, I would have thought that a thriving university/tourist town would have been sophistimicated enough to put up with a couple of gay cowboys. Apparently not.
Personally, I suspect that the scrapping of Townsville and Rocky, along with similar ocurrences in the You Ess, eh, to be nothing more than publicity stunts by the distributors, much like the EMS crews stationed outside movie houses screening 'The Exorcist' in the seventies.
And I'm always right. Even when I'm wrong.
posted by Dirk at 9:52 am
7 Comments:
Some day I'll blog about all the queer cowboys in Paulden, Arizona....
This thing is gonna flop, just like the rest of the art-house movies in Australia. All the hype in the world isn't going to get the majority of Australians to watch this. For a start, it's a LOVE STORY, thereby eliminating 50% of the viewing public. Secondly, it's about homosexual love, probably cutting about another 25%.
I hope they choke on their own propoganda. I mean that both in a literal and figurative sense.
hehehe... you KNOW that I'll be seeing it. In fact, I've been looking forward to it. But then again, I've loved E. Annie Proulx since I first read her all those years ago.
But I'm sure, Dirk, that you would expect nothing less of me ;)
From the young feller who runs the major cinema in Townsville (via channel 9 news) some cinemas do not get a copy of all movies.
Apparently this is common, but only gets noticed when the movie is controversial.
Of course after another cinema is finished with showing the movie, presumably the film could be loaned/sold to those cinemas which missed out? (Although showing a movie which was shown weeks ago elsewhere is apparently a great way to ensure empty seats)
Personally, I want to see the Wyoming scenery, even though it will be ruined by heath ledgers ugly mug and the... er.. 'storyline')
Ranger,
is that where the guy in the Village People comes from?
CB,
sounds like 'The Bridges of Madison County' but 'cept with two blokes.
Hooch,
is this an official 'chick flick' endorsement?
There's an ad on the telly for an undisclosed product which has the following lins scroll across the screen:
Why can't chick flicks go like this -
Guy meets girl
Guy gets girl
Guy watches sport on TV
Girl fetches snacks?
Steve,
Heath Ledger = disposable ornament.
Now Dirk, surely you know me well enough now to know that I do not see 'chick flicks'.
And if there's sport on the telly, you're gonna starve or self serve, because I'm there for the duration.
But it probably does get the inner-city-lefty-wanker endorsement from me.
No way can you be an inner city lefty wanker and watch sport - its a triumphalist celebration of the elite at the expense of the huddled masses.
So make me a sandwich ;-)
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