brokeback mountain.. beware, this is somewhat of a spoiler.

so the opportunity to see brokeback mountain arose yesterday and of course, i jumped.

this movie illustrates perfectly one of the reasons i like to see movies as soon as they come out. movies that garner a lot of hype, never live up to it, in my opinion!! i have heard nothing but praise about this movie. its getting all these oscar nods, its controversial, blah blah blah.. i tried hard to see why heath ledger was getting nominated. but by the end of the movie, i've decided he's not going to get it.. you need to really pay attention to be able to understand what either of them are saying. they speak in this cowboy accent and they kind of mumble. heath talks like he has a wad of chew in his mouth at all times.. i had talked about this movie earlier in the week with a couple of girl friends and how it took place in wyoming, and there was that story a while back about the gay guy that was beat and left to die on a fence post in laramie... so, the entire movie i kept waiting for heath ledgers character to be accosted and beat to death. and it never happened. there were definitely some memorable quotes from the movie though that i think will stay with me for a long time.

what will make this movie memorable for me is who i went with. seeing a movie with fjk is pretty hilarious. let me give some examples. first off, we meet in harvard square. i get to harvard square, buy our tickets, and head over to the border cafe. i mistakenly thought we were meeting at the restaurant. so i'm waiting outside for close to 40 minutes, talking on the phone. let me remind you that fjk doesn't have a cell phone and takes public transportation, i am used to waiting sometimes, plus i was on the phone, so i thought nothing of it.. so at 9 i see her coming down the street. she had been waiting a block away for the last 40 minutes.. we must have just missed each other.. now we only have 30 minutes before the movie starts to sit down and eat at the border cafe. good thing mexicans work fast. we had our food in about 6 minutes flat. :) fjk suggested we get it to go and hide it in our bags and eat it in the theater. i can just see myself jamming my enchiladas and guacamole in my little purse. hee hee.

once the movie started i got a time update about every 45 minutes... the movie was supposed to be 2 hours and 35 minutes, so after the fist update i thought, oh god. she's gonna walk out! she stuck it out like a trooper.

there were some intense scenes and some scenes on the sadder side. both of which were HYSTERICAL to fjk... giggling most definitely, almost laughing out loud. i still can't figure out that part. But we all know that laughter is contagious. So I had to laugh too…

overall, the movie was "eh...", the company was 5 stars, 2 thumbs up!!