Update

[jayes_musings]

Meant to post this earlier.

A while back I posted how AAFES who run the base theaters were refusing to show Brokeback Mountain. And quite true, they never did show it. But lo and behold, now that it's out on DVD, the BX...which is run by AAFES...is stocking the movie. And better still, when I went in there, they were nearly all out!

Yes, I got a copy.

Sorry, hmpf but this way works out cheaper and, given how this month is, easier than getting over to Frankfurt to see it. As it is, I won't be able to watch it until I get back from Italy.

Comments

[ladyofbrileith.livejournal.com]

The BX carried it?? Wow. I mean, the main reason I didn't finally go JAG was the military's position on gays, so. I figured they wouldn't play it or carry it.

I didn't even think to ask mom if she could get it on Ft. Hood, 'cause, well. Sadly the parental units agree with the military.

[simplyjaye.livejournal.com]

Yep, I was so surprised to see it there, after they specifically didn't show it because of the military's stance on gays. But AAFES are a bunch of hypocrits and they stand to make a better profit from the DVDs than selling theater tickets.

Now I'm just waiting to see the flood of letters to the Stars and Stripes newspaper complaining how selling the DVDs is so against military policy and will no doubt corrupt all the heterosexual soldiers/airmen/sailors/marines.

You made the right choice to stay away from JAG.

[ladyofbrileith.livejournal.com]

That's...hypocritical, yeah, but at least it's being sold where those overseas can see it now, if they choose. I'm still in shock about that.

*wry smile* Oh yeah, I'm sure that'll come out,too. Letters of protest and of ignorance, as if a film could change your sexual orientation.

I think that more and more everyday.

[shadowspin.livejournal.com]

Yay! *whispers* I'm still 'receiving' it from a friend - the pains of a dialup account. I've been so tempted to watch what I've already received, but am waiting to watch it all in one go. When you get the time/chance gimme a yell and maybe we can watch it together?! *g*

[simplyjaye.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! And that is a great idea! We'll have to do that! *g*

[shadowspin.livejournal.com]

*g* Great way to watch a movie with people you can't be in the same theatre with! Have had a few terrific 'synchronised DVD sessions'!

[simplyjaye.livejournal.com]

Never done it before. It sounds like fun!

[shadowspin.livejournal.com]

It is indeed - first started doing in many years ago with the CD of a dance show a bunch of us were fans of and met through online. We had the 'Storyteller's Room' as a chat room and would rock in there! Organise a time to all be online, have the CD (that one of the guys made for all of us from the video instead of just the original CD of the soundtrack) and would countdown to start it all at the same time. It was brilliant! Seriously! One day there were 15 of us all in there at the one time, and it rocked! 8 different countries were represented. From memory (and this is back in 1997!) there was Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, US, England, Germany, Portugal and Canada. So literally right around the globe all listening to the same thing and bopping along to it for the 'whole show'. We ended up all getting together in Ireland to watch it live - 120 of us. Amazing, as it was the first time many of us actually met face to face after being friends for over two years in some instances.

Ah, them were the days!

[itsmybrain2.livejournal.com]

Very odd that they did not run it and now renting or selling it. I guess they figure 'in one's own privacy of their home" and all.. Isn't the military an extension of the 'People'? Don't we still have free speech in this country? *blah blah* Yeah I know, that does not matter one bit on base. *lol*

Anyway so you're going to finally see Broken Butt Mountain… as I call it. Frankly, I think there was entirely too much hype about this. Maybe I'm just desensitized to queerness. *chuckles*

Enjoy the movie.