Quinquireme: Gay Cowboy Movie: A Very Brief Review

Monday, January 16, 2006

Gay Cowboy Movie: A Very Brief Review

Why did no one warn me that the gay cowboy movie was going to be that sad?

Ohhhhhh.

16 comments:

Betty said...: Well we did consider going to see it at the weekend but slumped into apathy and the usual "it'll be on the telly/out on DVD soon enough anyway (probably due to SAD).

Meanwhile, is the evil Blogger messing up people's templates again as your sidebar has moved right under the text (or is is just my computer)?; January 16, 2006 1:10 PM
surly girl said...: i am going to see that soon. i can't WAIT. tell me it was gorgeous tho - i demand that it be gorgeous.; January 16, 2006 1:40 PM
patroclus said...: Oh, I really recommend that *everyone* sees it. It's really beautifully filmed, and Jake whatsisname is just lovely, and it's so, so terribly sad.; January 16, 2006 1:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Chick flick, then. The word is that Gylenhaal is a pain.; January 16, 2006 2:15 PM
Tabby Rabbit said...: Surly - it is gorgeous.

Don't wear any mascara when you go to see it though - I looked like Alice Cooper when I emerged...; January 16, 2006 2:54 PM
MinCat said...: patpatpat...i shant see it then cos i cried my way through love actually and seabiscuit.; January 16, 2006 5:16 PM
patroclus said...: I cried all the way through Love, Actually too, but not for the reasons that R. Curtis intended.

With this one you just have to accept the fact that it's going to be very sad and just go with it. It's cathartic. No, really.; January 16, 2006 5:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Am I alone in thinking that 'Gay Cowboy Movie' was simply an extended reference from That Girl From 'Dawson's Creek' to That Other Girl From 'Dawson's Creek' as to how the rest of her life is going to be?; January 16, 2006 5:32 PM
Kyahgirl said...: lots of mixed reviews on this one. I heard on the news that its up for several Golden Globe awards.; January 16, 2006 5:46 PM
LC said...: Did the gay cowboys shoot lasers out of their eyes? Huh?; January 16, 2006 9:09 PM
patroclus said...: Laser darts of burning love, LC.; January 16, 2006 9:13 PM
frangelita said...: Come now, surely you knew a film about gay cowboys was unlikely to have a happy ending? Am still waiting to see it, along with Gyllenhaal's other effort, war movie Jarhead. Hmm, mixed bag.; January 16, 2006 10:17 PM
cello said...: Whoops, sorry about lack of warning. It is bleak but exquisitely so. I didn't cry, though I felt very wrung out - and quite angry.
Cried at Crash, but it's not nearly so good. Tears are not a reliable indicator of quality.; January 16, 2006 11:05 PM
Tabby Rabbit said...: >>Tears are not a reliable indicator of quality>>

Too true.

Saying that I've cried over McDonald's adverts.; January 17, 2006 8:08 AM
Unknown said...: I loved it. The movie that is. Very sad, but almost (not quite) ruined by the very final scene.

I saw Breakfast on Pluto yesterday - that's an excellent film. In fact, I'd say it was my favourite Irish-transvestite-1970s-terrorist movie EVER. After the Crying Game.; January 17, 2006 12:30 PM
ScroobiousScrivener said...: Very much looking forward to the movie. Expecting floods of tears.

I hope it'll be half as good as my favourite gay cowboy book, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. But that's funny, as well as sad.; January 18, 2006 9:20 AM