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

[chapeaugris]

I only managed to see it twice in the cinema, as it was playing 90 minutes away. I was a wreck after those viewings because they churned up a lot of stuff from my adult past. I acquired the dvd recently and just watched it for the first time at home the other night. We don't have a dvd player for the TV but watch films on our laptops. (My husband, who has yet to see it, chose to take a long bath that night but I couldn't wait any longer.) I lounged on the bed with the computer on my lap and it felt very strange to be so... intimate with that film, to be actually holding it, with the screen just inches from my face. Something about that way of experiencing the story must have been what stirred up an older, buried memory hours later, when I couldn't  sleep -- 12 year old me, in my parents bedroom, in their closet, stroking my mother's clothes the day after she died.

[DEO]

I lost (precise) track somewhere in the mid-40s, but as of now, I estimate safely 80, and perhaps 85.  And that's only theater screenings; I don't currently own a DVD player, although BBM singlehandedly has bumped that (and an entire, top-notch home theater system) to near the top of my near-term spending priority list.

[Elevation]

^ 80 times?    

Well, I've "only" seen it 7 times at a theater; once alone and six times with different friends.
On dvd... well, through and through probably just once or twice, but "selected chapters" --- well, now we're talking 80 times!
 

[jimspain]

Once. But as Jack and Ennis showed us...that's all it takes to fall in love.

[mcnell1120]

I've finally gone a whole week without putting the DVD in the player. I'm not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing, but I think it indicates that I've finally resolved a lot of things in my head that were inspired by the film after: three times on the big screen, a dozen full viewings of the DVD and probably 100 individual scenes watched on the DVD (again, trying to resolve something that was gnawing at my psyche about the film).

Hmmm..interesting...I saw the movie 8 times in the theater. Five were by myself. SInce I bought the DVD...I can not watch the whole movie in it's entirety...I thought I resolved alot of issue..and I have...but what now?

Nellie

Hey Nellie! I just respondes to that shirt issue post on an other thread!
I was wondering, you coudn't watch the movie in it's entirety because you couldn't bare the pain of it?
I know that when I bring myself to watch it again I sort of have to prepare myself for the worst...

You're awfully close to 6000 posts! Wow! What a sweet poster girl

I just read this post...ha ha ha ha...look at my post count now...LMAO... WHEW !!!!!...and you people keep saying you are all obsessed!!  hmmmmm..............................*scratches head*

[sfericsf]

With the Castro Theatre showings this week, I'm now up to 43 theatrical viewings.   

[Philo]

The Castro showing made 29 theatrical viewings for me.  I need just one more to break into that next category on the poll....

[melissasjack]

hey Y'all
I watched it for the first time on May 23rd.
I watched it for the second time on May 23rd, too.
Then I watched it every day for the next 3 weeks.
i watched it a week after those 3, and I watched it again last night...
I'm plannin on another viewing tonight, anyone care to join me?
 

[marakeshsparrow]

Sigh...I remember the first time I saw Brokeback...is it sad that that was one of the best days of my life???

It was December 29th.  9:30pm showing at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI.  My friend and I were two of the six people in the theatre.  It was fantastic.

It's wierd but I still can recall how I felt at different times during the screening.  I wasn't being very serious the whole time, didn't know what to expect, made a couple of jokes in the beginning, ended up choking on VERY salty popcorn because I had nothing to drink, and just happened to be wearing shoes that fit perfectly on top of the armrests from the chairs in front of me.

Eventually I was sucked in, and I've never been the same since.  I returned to that theatre six more times (and snuck in for the last five minutes after seeing Capote one day).  Sometimes with friends, sometimes alone when no one else knew where I was (I'd gotten to the point of HIDING my addiction).  Man, those few weeks, leading up the oscars and then up the the date BBM was released on DVD were some of the best months of my life.  Fantastic.  Amen.

[Casper]

One time only.  I want to forever share that memory on the big screen. 

[jack]

at the request of the management...

Pete just put up a poll at http://davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=12326.0 so we can find out approximately how many books we need to have printed in the first run.
thank you...

[malli]

Since renting the film two weeks ago (and buying it one week ago) approximately 16 times. And yes, I feel nuts.

[BayCityJohn]

Since renting the film two weeks ago (and buying it one week ago) approximately 16 times. And yes, I feel nuts.

Welcome to the nut house Malli.

I saw Brokeback Mountain 28 times on the big screen, and 15 times on DVD.

The last time was at the BBQ in Texas.

[andy]

15 times at the movies, 3 times at home on dvd and once on an airplane. My poor friends just don't get me LOL

[eocs]

     I saw the film twice in the theater.  I watched it almost daily after I got the DVD but it was so depressing sometimes.  Over time I watch only the parts of the movie that are happy to me such as all of the Brokeback scenes,the reunion scene  fishing trips and the oh so beautiful dozy embrace. Occasionally I will watch the scenes at Jack's parent's house just to see Heath Ledger's performance and his interaction with Roberta Maxwell, (Jack's Mother).  I am in love with Ledger's Ennis and find his face and eyes to be endlessly fascinating.  He is like a little boy you want to comfort.  The film in total is eye candy in its sheer visual beauty.  The music touches my soul.  I have forced myself to take a month long break from the film and music to experience a non-Brokeback period of time and it has been hard.  I look forward to coming back to Brokeback Mountain after my fast but more in touch with the day to day world.