Frequent Flyer Program: How many times have you gone to Brokeback?

[Pierre]

Looks like the NYC members are getting together for a viewing on Sunday at 3ish in the afternoon, so that will be viewing #8 for me.

hey can you let me know when i think i'll bring some people myself i know 2 people who need to go and see the film

[conny]

i have seen it three times on the big screen in the theatre with 3 diffenrent friends,and saw it 3 times at home.
watching it at home gives me the opprtunaty to cry whenever i want.
i love to see it on the big screen,but than i have to hold my emtions back and i`ve done that too long.

[BayCityJohn]

OMG I am losing it.

I did a double-header today. # 22 and # 23.

I noticed something tonight that I never saw before.
The postmark on the first postcard was September 1967, and Jack's message said he was coming through on the 24th. My birthday is September 24. I turned 11 the day of their reunion. Happy Birthday to me!

[fishinbuddy]

#32 was a melancholoy experience. 3 in the theatre. I had watched the slomo dozy embrace on the intenet just before going, and it set me in the tone. All I could think of every time I looked at Jack was how this dear sweet boy would be cheated by life, robbed of his dream, and cruelly murdered early. Every thing he said and did only made me sadder. I just wanted Ennis to squeeze him tighly and never let him go. I guess it just shows how your mindset going in affects what you focus on. I just kept thinking, "poor Jack, poor Jack." And then Ennis is left with the shirts and the memories and the regret. More than I could bear. I had to sit til the credits ran out, something I haven't done before, in order to recover and compose myself. Of course those last pieces of music didn't help any. I just feel like I've lost my best friend again.

[Philo]

#25 today.  Until Wednesday or Thursday, I wasn't even sure it would stay another week.  Interestingly, I cried at different points this time.

[Poohbunn]

#25 today.  Until Wednesday or Thursday, I wasn't even sure it would stay another week.  Interestingly, I cried at different points this time.

That's interesting.  I can't say I cry at different points, but I START crying at different points.  Once I start I can't stop.  Today is #7, and Sunday will be #8.

[pwday]

I  cry at different times in different viewings, too.   One time I have cried each of the seven times I have seen it, though, and I am not sure exactly why, is when Jack yells at his father-in-law on Thanksgiving. "Now sit down you son of a bitch..."   I suppose it could be that I am happy for him finding his voice, and that it says a lot about his character; who he is.   There is also a rawness and honesty about that scene. 

Still, I haven't quite put my finger on why I react to it the way I do.  There is more to it than that.   

[desertstarlover]

I am embarrassed to say only 10 times, but I am afraid to go again, afraid I will fall apart for good.

[MellorSJ]

Number 12 for me last Wednesday, in Wellington NZ.  Owing to truly horrible flight schedules between SYD and WLG I saw it at 15:45 with about 40 people.  They were almost completely silent; half left as soon as the credits started.

I had researched times before I left, but found the cinema almost by accident.  There was not a single poster for BBM.  I don't know why not.

My reaction was more clinical this time around.  I knew what was coming, and it seemed ever more perfect.  I've never really cried (too repressed ), but I've wiped away a lot of water from my eyes...  This time, when the white van/crow scene came up (after the divorce), I just lost it.  Managed to control myself shortly thereafter, but it's then that you just know it's never going to happen, it's all down hill from here, and that those bastards with their tire irons, even when metaphorical, had done their dirty deed again.

So many lives ruined.  Jack's; Ennis's; Alma's; their kids, who had a wonderful and loving father, but it has to hurt to see your father wither like that; even our boys' fathers, deluxe a**holes, the pair of 'em, but it can't be fun to carry around that much hate.  And for what? Some twisted view of 'morality'?

I intend to see it again in Japan April 10th week.  Gotta catch up with that guy who saw it in four countries.. 

-- stephen

[Jack Nasty]

Well, I am still holding at a paltry 10. It is my birthday tomorrow so I might go see it again.  I suppose that would be a good gift! 

[Poohbunn]

The last time I tried to call him, his phone had been disconnected. I heard from a friend a few months later that Alan died. He said he heard it from a friend but wasn't sure since he never saw an obituary.I didn't know where his parents had moved to, and by that time all of his friends that I knew where dead or moved away.

In 1995 I typed his name on some internet search and an address and phone number popped up. It was a listing in Hersey, MI.  I remembered that his parents had a summer place there. So I called hoping. Alan's mother answered. She told me that Alan did die in 1989 from cancer. I remember very clearly when she said "he was just 39 years old".

I still have a jacket hanging in my closet that Alan gave me to wear one night.

As Jack would say "That's hard."   It must be so very painful. I hope the movie and this forum help you to see that you aren't alone in your suffering.  People are suffering with you.

Big hugs of comfort.. Pooh

[Poohbunn]

I am embarrassed to say only 10 times, but I am afraid to go again, afraid I will fall apart for good.

That happened to me after # 6.  I still feel like I'm walking around in the middle of a nightmare, but I'm getting used to it.  Brokeback is such a part of me now, I know that I have been altered permanently.

# 7 was last night and tomorrow is # 8.

[Choices]

I've seen the film three times in the theatre and my favourite scences a hundred times on my.tube.com. (I MUST HAVE THE DVD) The last time I saw the film it was absolutely perfect. There weren't many people there because I went in in the afternoon and when I stepped out in the warm brigth sunlight I recognize how beautiful the streets, trees were. It was as if I had slowed down and everything around me was moving very fast and I was able to notice every single detail. Sometimes I think, we are moving so fast and our brains are so stuffed with things that have to do with work, money or society that we aren't able to see clearly the things we really love and care for. Amazing stuff this film - just like a drug.
(by the way I'm german - so sorry for the english)

[IMJackNasty]

I will make my 12th Pilgrimage by Monday. I'm working all weekend but I am off all week and the Regal near King of Prussia, PA is running it 4 times a day at least until Thursday. I hope I get the theater to myself this time...I want to be selfish and have Jack and Ennis all to myself!

I have a feeling that Focus will take it out completely when their English Channel movie comes out in April. Lord knows I know the damn previews by heart as well. I feel as if I already saw "Thank You For Smoking" already.......

[Joetheone]

Finally updated my vote since now it is 38 and going for 39th tonight and one more week in our local theater so I'm sure it will pass 40 so I guess we need to ad another line to this voting.  I know it is crazy but I just cannot stop going.  Joe