Brokeback Mountain

I watched Brokeback Mountain, the "gay cowboy movie" as everybody is calling it, and using to reference that one episode of South Park. I haven't really seen a lot of Ang Lee's work, but I didn't like the Hulk too much as it didn't really deliver on what I wanted to see from it. Going into 'Mountain with more insight on his background and such really helped. Lee's slower style really fit well with this story (which is more about forbidden love than being explicitly about gay cowboys) and works well. While a bit long, the movie meanders through a life of secret affairs wonderfully, giving lots of development and depth to the story. Jake Gyllenhaal (AKA Donnie Darko) is the best I've ever seen him in this movie. Same goes for Heath Ledger, but Gyllenhaal really shines.
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The Squid and The Whale

The Squid and The Whale, a movie from Wes-Anderson-collaborator Noah Baumbach.

The movie offers a funny look at how two brothers deal with their family's divorce. It's witty, it's funny, it's everything that I wanted from it and so much more. Most of the anticipation for this movie came from Baumbach's writing credit on "The Life Aquatic", which I was mostly disappointed with (but, I need to see it again). 'Squid has everything that I was looking for in 'Aquatic, witty dialogue, interesting characters, a rich environment that you just want to leap into and explore. I loved it. (Truncated from a regular post)
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