MattyMatt Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 7:46pm

Is it funny to call Jake's character "Donnie Dicko"?

Matt Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 1:58pm

I actually ran this film while working at the Telluride Film Festival (in September '05) and immediately tagged it "Bareback Mount 'Em"...

AXs3 Monday, December 12, 2005 at 4:47pm

Oh come on, grow up. Don't take offense. Its a play on words and I find Bareback Mountain pretty funny. Who cares if its obvious? The only person that would be most likely to not like it or find it funny is a homosexual with a poor attitude and no sense of humor.

My fiance's uncle is gay and he finds it hilarious too.

Jamison Monday, December 12, 2005 at 7:16pm

ASx3,

You are so right, unprotected sex is, like, the fucking funniest thing ever!

Face it, the joke was old well before the film's release. If you still find it amusing, I'm guessing you find fart jokes funny as well.

Kniwt Monday, December 12, 2005 at 10:27pm

Yeah, well, "Bareback Mountain" is indeed a rather lame excuse for a joke, but c'mon -- surely Annie Proulx was well aware of the wordplay back in 1997 when she wrote the short story. (Indeed, I seem to recall news stories from the time saying that "barebacking" had recently been on the upswing.) I've been trying to find any interviews with Proulx where the subject came up, but I've not found any.

Despite the numbingly obvious wordplay, I, too, personally find "Bareback Mountain" in bad taste and potentially dangerous in how its use might numb gay men to the possible consequences of same.

But hey -- fart jokes *are* funny!

MattyMatt Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 3:10pm

I table a motion that ASx3's fiance's uncle be stripped of his duties as arbiter of all homosexual humor.

Ben Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 4:10pm

There's a sequel due out next year set in 2003....it's called "Bug Chasher Mountain".

Del Mar Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 5:32pm

Homo On The Range?

lessthanme Friday, December 16, 2005 at 12:51am

I thought the movie was a masterpiece. But these sad people who make condescending cracks about the movie name are just plain sick. I've heard Butthole Mountain, Backside Mountain, Anal Andes Mountain, Blumpkin Mountain and Blowboy Mountain.

mike Friday, December 16, 2005 at 10:32am

Well I heard about the movie about 2 days ago and bareback instead of brokeback was the first thing i thought of, got a quick laugh out of it.

I am so sick of the prissy fags taking offense to stupid things, yes im gay, i've never been with a girl, but im not one of those prissy fags, just got back today from camping 4x4ing and exploring abandoned mines out here in the desert. I believe people more aware of HIV these days, and know that barebacking is not an option. Lighten up!

Jamison Friday, December 16, 2005 at 12:19pm

Why has this become a pissing match over who's more butch and weather taking offense at the word bareback makes you a sissy?

I don't find barebacking funny, but that wasn't the point until (straight person) ASx3, made that an issue. And yes I had a really pissy response, but I don't really care.

My problem is all the people taking about "Bareback Mountain" with the emphasis on the first word as though they came up with the joke and I've never heard it before. That's why I called for another joke.

edna Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1:57am

How about "Broke My Back Mounting"?

Obviously he did not do his core exercises like a good boy.

I have yet to see this movie. Have heard good things about it so far. Oscar material?

keyborn Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 9:45am

Thanks, Mike, I'm tired of those prissy, humorless fags too. So how about that camping trip? Who were you with in the abandoned mines? Was he someone you knew or just met dropping off the sheep at school? What exactly...

Giovannone Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1:20pm

How about Bumfuck Mountain?

Jamison Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 7:29am

I'm disappointed how few people actually tried to come up with something creative or funny and instead wanted to get political about the word bareback. Someone left a comment (removed because it contained a fake name and e-mail) saying:

"You're a dick. It's funny, deal with it. It's a movie about homosexual cowbots..it works. Because it seems "easy" in your mind does not make it stupid."

The bareback joke is as funny as a fart joke, if you think it's funny or you believe yourself witty for using it, leave right now because this site is not for you. Anyone left is still invited to come up with a better joke on the movies title.

Kevin Monday, December 19, 2005 at 10:01am

How about Humpback Mountain?

Jamison Monday, December 19, 2005 at 10:25am

I think that's my favorite so far. I don't know when the last time I heard the word "hump" was. It's got a nice retro feel.

jim smith Monday, December 19, 2005 at 1:37pm

Yeah, it's an obvious pun, but it hits the nail on the head, so it'll take on a life of its own. The only thing most straight guys remember about "Deliverance" was Ned Beatty's character getting his stool pushed in by the Mountain Man...Brokeback Mountain will suffer the same fate, no matter how many tickets or DVD's they sell. I only hope there's a scene in it where they eat pudding...then Trey and Matt can sue them for infringement.

--js--

mattymatt Monday, December 19, 2005 at 2:13pm

oh how i wish the movie was actually about "cowbots" as that one guy misstyped! THAT i would go see.
now, if you'll excuse me, i have to go 4x4ing through the desert and explore old abandoned mine shafts. i'm telling you this because i think i'm incredibly fascinating and i'm sure that everyone cares.

Brian Monday, December 19, 2005 at 4:48pm

It also proves how masculine and manly you are!

I guess I'm one of those prissy fags who doesn't need to prove I'm better than him with my athleticism, but I'm also not offended by anyone who says bareback mountain, I just think anyone who says it is really, really lame.

I guess that does make me offended at bad humor.

Robert Slagle Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 1:43pm

For the most part, I agree with Jim Smith. Unfortunately, when mainstream America views images of a homoerotic nature they find it a bit humorous. They do not take it seriously. It is still "odd" to most of them.

If barebacking was mainly associated with hetero sexuality, would it still generate these types of responses? Both men and women have buttholes and can both be "barebacked". And I am sure there is alot of it going on in the bedrooms of "straight" America. If this movie were about a hetero couple engaging in anal sex, all the straight guys would get turned on, the women would flinch, gay men would fantasize about the leading man, and no one would ever refer to the film as "Bareback" Mountain.

I absolutely loved the film. I love the play on words "Bareback" Mountain. I can't wait till the porno version is released. As a gay man, I am not offended by it or find it juvenille. It is what it is. I think it is great people are talking about it.

how about... "Break-My-Ass-In Mountain".
(With Jake...ANY DAY!)

peace, Robert

srfntrf Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 9:55am

I'm gay and I saw B***eback, liked it, thought it could have been cut by 30 minutes. 86 the barmaid episode and about 80% of the scenes with the guys' respective straight families. Also thought Gyllenhaal should have gotten much more recognition for his acting--he told a lot of the story through simple facial expressions. Ledger was fine, but he really just had to act closed down, and I don't think that was as hard as being the lovestruck guy that Jack was.

Anyone remember the "Murphy Brown" flap? Back when the former United States still had Constitutional rule, reality-challenged Veep Dan Quayle argued that the idea of a fictional character being a single parent was damaging to social values and would lead to an epidemic of teen pregnancy. Flash forward to now, during the early years of the Republic of Gilead, and we have someone arguing that an admittedly puerile play on words will cause an increase in HIV infections.

The bareback joke is silly, but who the heck appointed the joke police to say stop?

The characters referred to are FICTIONAL, and the context in which they lived had no notion of safe sex, so it is believable they would screw without protection. AND THEY DID!

Humor is inevitably based on cruelty--Nabokov said that humor is the synthesis of cruelty and credulity. He was right. He was also funny.

The cruelty implicit in any good humor is, indeed, intended to be wielded as a double-edged sword. As with all dangerous weapons, it should be kept out of the hands of children and idiots.

BTW--teen pregnancy has been in decline for some time. It seems real teens have learned somehow to avoid the overwhelming temptation to follow the lead of fictional characters and make up their own minds. You have to hope that gay men deciding whether or not to use a condom will exercise the same amount of rigor in sorting things out.

snfenoc Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 12:54am

Regarding a more clever joke for Bareb... uh, Brokeback Mountain:
How about, "Ebert and Roeper gave it two fists up"?

Kniwt Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 12:17am

OK, at the risk of breathing new life into this thread gone bad, it looks like Letterman has assembled the canonical list of Brokeback wordplay. Not a fart joke in the lot.

link

"Top Ten Rejected Titles For 'Brokeback Mountain'"

10. "Not-That-There's-Anything-Wrong-With-That Mountain"
- Stephen F.

9. "How The West Was Hung"
- Mike K., Lincoln, NE

8. "Little Bathhouse on the Prairie"
- John T., Monroe, OH

7. "For a Few Dollars More We Can Make It a Threesome"
- Tom W., Richmond, VA

6. "Go West, Young Man...Now South..A Little More To The South... Oh God, Yes! Right There!"
- J K., New York, NY

5. "Clint Eastwood's Nightmare"
- Clinton F., Columbus, IN

4. "The Good, The Bad and The Fabulous!"
- Jonathan B., Santa Monica, CA

3. "Broke My Back Mounting Him"
- Joe T., Pennington, NJ

2. "Oklahomo"
- Robert H., Huntingdon, PA

1. "Fun With Dick In James"
- Ray H., Drexel Hill, PA

Source: CBS.com/lateshow