The point none of these posts has managed to address is the form this opera will take - knowing the music of Charles Wourinen, I can only say that this will be one challenging piece for anyone who encounters it - those boys may have been gay, but they were still good ol’ boys—setting the story and characters in the abstract, atonal musical language of Mr. Wourinen, a composer so committed to his academic austerity, there’s little chance he’ll change it - this will be one surrealistic bull ride, you can bet your bottom dollar - could make for good art (remains to be seen), but will certainly bomb at the box office - fine art usually does anyway unless it’s collectible - nevertheless this one’s got a snowball’s chance - however, no doubt massive grant funding is already secured.

Con Yankee and Paul Easton, your bigotry is showing.  You might call it personal opinion, but most of us see it for what it is - irrational hatred and prejudice.  Without the blindness of bigotry, you would be able to appreciate the artistry of the movie.  The acting was excellent, the directing was fabulous, and the plot wasn’t in any way thin unless you can’t appreciate subtlety - or if you missed the point of the movie entirely, which apparently Con Yankee did if he could even think of it as comedy.  Con Yankee, you just go watch that grass grow if that’s all your brain can handle.

So there is no room for personal opinion with out the attacks from the the defenders of PC.  This is like Hillary’s loss blamed on sexism.

IMHO it was a lousy movie, The actors were unbelievable, and the plot was thin.

Come on critics is this movie up to the standards of “Boys in the Band” The series “Queer as folk” or “The Band played on?”

Hey Conservative Yankee: take some Ex Lax; it might change your life.

This is as interesting as the remake of the Brady Bunch. Brokeback Mountain was possibly the worst movie I ever paid to see.

Bland, uninteresting, wandering, without adult plot. If I was still in Junior High School, I could have enjoyed it as comedy. If this is the best depiction of life as a gay cowboy, I’d rather see an opera about growing grass in Marin County.