Gay cowboys are boring....who knew?

What a ridiculous country we live in (and i guess i should include the U.S as well in this) I have been inundated with hype and rave reviews of this "brokeback mountain" how it's so amazing that they had the guts to make this film, and how it was so wrong to bar it from some theatres. " they're just predjudiced" i heard it said. What they (the conservative theatre owners, and anyone else with an anti-gay agenda) are in fact uninformed. I speak not so much of how gay people are part of our society and deserve rights and freedoms equal to all peoples (which i believe they do), but more to do with the following peice of info that seemed to escape all the accolade & confetti throwing critics out there (save the academy, but i'll get to that later) This movie was dull as a ritalin fueled school day, perhaps worse. Okay i get it, two guys get jobs herding sheep on a mountain, have sex with the only available partner.....(i wonder if the next big movie will be about a man and his passion for a sheep)anyway, they love each other seceretly their entire lives and the movie is pretty much about the hurtin' and hiding (good title for a gay country song?) they do their entire lives. The plot is thin, the characters are one dimensional and pretty much the only thing i hadnt seen in a movie before was Randy quaid not being funny. Long story short I applaud the effort, i think it's important that gay themes are as regular and accepted as any other movie, but do it well, don't allow the plot to hang on two well known male actors doing the nasty to each other. In reality the theatre owners who objected to the film didn't have to bar the film, people would have just seen it and told their friends how much it sucked. My wife agrees with me on this point, the actors didn't really seem to have a whole lot of chemistry, the kissing seemed awkward, and contrived. While i respect both the actors , i didn't feel for the characters. The academy (i said i'd get back to them)seemed to feel the same, much to the chagrin of the author who exhibited a fine example of sour grapes about the film not winning. i didnt see Crash, but it had to be better than this.