Well it was all very pretty and the acting was great but - and feel free to call me uncouth - I don’t see what the fuss was about. There seems to be a lot of hype about Brokeback Mountain that probably stems from the fact two young Hollywood bucks “get it on”, as it were. Yes there’s a good measure of the victimisation and persecution of 1960’s rural America added into the mix along with a healthy dollop of self loathing and denial but the way the hype went regarding this film, you’d think this was untouched subject matter and that this was a groundbreaking movie touching on a taboo topic that had never been committed to celluloid before. Certainly, when it comes to gay cowboys there’s a bit of a scarcity of material, that much is true.

Still, I suppose I’m glad I saw Brokeback Mountain. It did seem to drag somewhat and it’s a little downbeat with all the homophobia and seventies (yes, it skips forward in period) texan stylings but Ang Lee did direct this marvellously and I should stress that the acting is uniformly superb although there’s one thing I will say and that is cowboys mumble a lot which means I have no idea what the hell they were speaking about for the first quarter of the film. Not too much of a problem as I reckon it was mostly about sheep (they weren’t cowboys, they were shepherds), beans soup and shagging.

I still think that if you want to watch a decent gay love story, you could do worse than check out the Coen Brothers’ “Miller’s Crossing“.