Brokeback Mountain – Why I don’t need to see this movie

You’ve probably seen some kind of hype surrounding the movie Brokeback Mountain and if you’re like most Americans, you don’t want to see it. I know I don’t. The thing that gets me is that I shouldn’t need to justify my response, but for some reason, I do. My wife doesn’t like football and I accept that. I don’t keep trying to change her mind by accusing her of being football-phobic, narrow-minded, or one of “those” people. I don’t want to watch the cowboy love story and that’s it. If it were a story about a guy and girl, I still wouldn’t watch it but that’s not what Hollywood wants to hear. Actors, Hollywood morons, liberal whiners and the like just can’t accept that. Did anyone ever consider that most of the backlash against this movie just might be because people are tired of having liberal causes shoved in their faces every ten minutes? There are hundreds of small-market movies that come out every year without any buzz at all and no one complains. King Kong is showing in 2,300 theaters while Brokeback Mountain is in 600 but it still gets a national ad campaign? Why, so some dingbat left-coast moviemakers can impress everyone with how “open minded” they are? Stop pretending movies are anything but entertainment, Hollywood; nobody’s buying what you’re selling.