So I realized I just can't get enough of Brokeback Mountain for I keep on writing about it, but this is just so damned frustrating. The woman who originally wrote the novel that the movie is based on has decided to inform us that those who vote on best picture are too conservative and don't pay attention to the real world. I'm going to say this once, movies are not good because they are controversial. They are good because they have a combination of story, directing, and acting (Controversial films can contain all three elements and thus be a good movie). I am sorry, but Brokeback Mountain was horribly directed. It was so fucking boring I couldn't finish it. And this is someone who loves Once Upon a Time in America. If I get bored with a movie, it's not good, period. Controversy has nothing to with quality for if it was, surely next year I should create a movie about a tortured priest who is torn between his vow of chasity and his love of fucking his bastard son in the ass. That should surely make headlines and if the Academy Awards doesn't give me a best picture I will compare it to the screwjob they gave Brokeback Mountain.

Oh and by the way, we already know that the the Academy Awards does not always make the right choice, here are a few obvious mistakes:

In 2002 both the Hours and the Pianist got beat by Chicago
In 2000 Almost Famous got screwed and not even nominated for best picture and we got to see a sleeper of a film, Gladiator.
In 1998, Saving Private Ryan was shafted by Shakespeare in Love
In 1997, any movie would have been better than Titanic
In 1995 Apollo 13 was blown out of the water from a mediocre Braveheart
and the list goes on.

Annie Proulx, I personally do not have anything against homosexuals, however your movie is not about homosexuality, it is merely for shock value. You are merely a Howard Stern of the novel, all shock and no substance. All the movie does it take an image that society has a preconceived notion about and you twist on that for shock. And the day that Howard Stern wins an award for his wholesome portrayal of women is the day I decide to become a cowboy and eat some pudding.

-Trevor