Brokeback Mountain

Highly overrated. The scenery is beautiful, the acting good and the story ok. Ang Lee has done much better work, especially in “Ride With the Devil” which is a much better twist on the western. Ang Lee’s strength is being able to do any genre as if he only works in that genre. How else can the man make both “Sense and Sensibility” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? The performances are fine but the actors do not age well and look cheesy by the end. Probably works better as a short story than as a full length feature.
Favorite moment: Ennis in front of the back drop of fireworks after he bullied some bikers who annoyed him.
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