<p>My mother and I went to the movies this week in the name of female bonding.&#0160; Let&#39;s play a little game, shall we?&#0160; I will present to you our options and you get to guess what movie we saw.&#0160; Fun!</p>

<p>Here&#39;s the marquee:</p>


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<p>Now, what movie would you guess that two women, one a young mother and the other a grandmother of two, would choose to watch on the one night they get to spend together after not seeing each other for six months?</p>

<p>If you guessed &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; then you would be wrong.&#0160; Not because of me - oh no.&#0160; I would have LOVED to see &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; because I can&#39;t get enough Jane Austen.&#0160; But no, we didn&#39;t see what I wanted to see, because I&#39;m a gracious daughter and my mother is a victim of the pre-Oscar hype machine.</p>

<p>Yep. Instead of a timeless and literate romantic comedy, we saw:</p>

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<p>Now that I have seen it I feel compelled to tell you that Brokeback Mountain is a very pretty movie.&#0160; Pretty, pretty, pretty.&#0160; Most scenes are postcard-worthy landscapes that are so beautiful, it almost makes you want to go to Wyoming.&#0160; The mountains, the streams, the sleet, the snow, the sheep - all are just breathtakingly beautiful.&#0160; The cinematographer should have a spot on his mantel ready for his well-deserved Oscar.&#0160; And that Jake Gyllenhaal?&#0160; So pretty.&#0160; Even sporting an early seventies &#39;stache, he is one pretty man.&#0160; Sign me up for his fan club!</p>

<p>Ah, but you want to know about the acting?&#0160; Well, I can&#39;t help you there, because I couldn&#39;t understand a word that was said.</p>

<p>&quot;Mumble, mumble!&quot;</p>

<p>&quot;grr..humm.ummmumble mumble.&#0160; Mumble?&quot;&#0160; &#0160;</p>

<p> The movie is a long series of postcards interrupted with &quot;mumble mumble&quot; and with a few <a href="http://DestinationDaniel.smugmug.com/photos/56764728-M.jpg">semi-audible</a> <a href="http://DestinationDaniel.smugmug.com/photos/56764750-M.jpg">lines</a> <a href="http://DestinationDaniel.smugmug.com/photos/56764716-M.jpg">thrown</a> in.&#0160; Maybe the audible lines were thrown in so that the movie could qualify for an English-language Oscar?&#0160; I don&#39;t know.&#0160; All I know is that 3 lines do not make The Most Important Movie Ever.&#0160; Call me crazy, but I need dialogue to stay engaged.&#0160; And I get that the weather is unpredictable at high altitudes, OK?&#0160; I don&#39;t need to see every raindrop, and watch snow and have Heath Ledger hold up some sleet right up to the camera to make the point.&#0160; I get it.</p>

<p>I have to admit that the ending was emotional, and that I ended up liking one of the characters.&#0160; But Heath Ledger was not it.&#0160; He looked constipated the entire movie.&#0160; If anything, his Stetson deserves the Oscar, because it gets more screen time than his face.&#0160; I thought Ennis the Penis was selfish.&#0160; And I felt so sorry for the wives.&#0160; That made me mad.&#0160; So, yes, the movie at least was able to make me FEEL and that counts for something.&#0160; But mostly, I felt bored.</p>

<p>Maybe the movie playing at the screen next door would have been more...I don&#39;t know...exciting?</p>

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<p>Except that my mother complained that they showed two men kissing in Brokeback.&#0160; Hello?&#0160; Next time, I&#39;m going to make sure she read the entire review before she gets to pick the movie.</p>
