Check out what the fundies are saying about Brokeback Mountain...

[Initech]

'Brokeback' Crossing Sexual (Preference) Divide

Brokeback Mountain continued to surprise analysts over the weekend as the so-called gay cowboy love story emerged once again as the highest earner on a per-theater basis among films showing on more than 50 screens. Brokeback earned $13,599 per theater, far surpassing the $9,305 for King Kong and $8,225 for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Brokeback is currently showing in only 217 theaters, roughly 7 percent the number that are showing the two box-office leaders. Although some analysts have maintained that the film is unlikely to attract an audience among straight males, Jack Foley, Focus Features' distribution chief, told the Associated Press that the movie "delivered very strong growth in what is truly a highly unforgiving, competitive, cruel market at this Christmas period. ... It showed it has breadth beyond the gay community." Exhibitor Relations chief Paul Dergarabedian said that the studio was wisely limiting its release to major cities and slowly expanding it. "This is a film that builds through word of mouth and critical acclaim," he said. Brokeback is leading the pack among critics groups handing out best-picture awards. Thus far, conservative religious groups have been loath to mount an attack on it, concerned that doing so would further publicize the film. But in a review the Christian Film & Television Commission, which calls itself "a ministry dedicated to redeeming the values of the mass media according to biblical principles," calls the film "twisted, laughable, frustrating and boring neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda."

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-12-29/#2

So... can someone tell me how being gay equates to communism? :rofl:

[supernova]

1. Really. Someone ought tell

the Log Cabin Repblicans that they're supposed to be Marxists.

[Initech]

2. That's funny, especially when you consider that...

THEY mention Marx more than we do! In the six months that I've been here, I've never, not once seen any mention of Marx or communism. So that gets a big :wtf: from me.

[RevCheesehead]

3. I'm wondering who among them are frustrated.

Says a lot, doesn't it? :evilgrin:

[Initech]

4. Definately a lot of closet cases, arent there?

[RevCheesehead]

5. Have you seen pictures of Dobson and Tim Wildmon?

I see glad-eye.

[Initech]

6. Or maybe GLAAD-eye!

:evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

7. That's even better.

:7

[NMMNG]

8. I asked the same question

That is the second review in which I've seen Brokeback Mountain referred to as "neo-Marxist". It appears that the reich-wing refers to anything they don't like as neo-Marxist, regardless of whether it actually has anything to do with Marxism or not. :eyes:

[ragin_acadian]

9. apparently,

there is a specter haunting anything they don't like. :D

[NMMNG]

10. And anything they can't control

Especially anything they can't control.

[Goblinmonger]

11. Plus it is just wrong usage of the word

most neo-marxists thought that class, NOT gender, was still the main division in society. If they mean neo-marxist in the social movement sense, then they are again wrong. Neo-marxist movements aim to change actions first and then the mindset will come along with the actions. (Of course some of them believe that by watching the movie we will all turn into flaming queens.) So really, the "bomb and protest in front of abortion clinics" groups (read: fundies) are more neo-marxist than most of what THEY call neo-marxist. And who said irony isn't rich?

[AlienGirl]

12. OMG...that movie rocked beyond all rockness

Neo-Marxist? I didn't see any Marxism there, and I graduated from The Evergreen State College, so I can find Marxism in geometry! It was simply a beautiful tragic love story, like "Romeo and Juliet" without the suicide. It reminded me of the genre of Japanese theater that is about people falling in love, but choosing to fulfill a familial duty rather than run off together. It was beautiful and there was not a person in the theater who wasn't crying at the end...gay, straight, bi, or whatever, it's a profoundly moving, profoundly *human* story. I still choke up thinking about the ending. :cry:

Tucker

P.S. A lot of straight and bi women like to watch good-looking guys getting it on, too, and it doesn't disappoint on that level. :evilgrin: