Brokeback Mountain

I thought that Brokeback Mountain would have been a good movie and book if they didn't go through all the detail.  I thought that the story was a good idea but then when you would see or read the graphic parts, I felt like it distracted me from the actual movie.  I thought those parts were just hard to go through and be able to continue.  At some parts, I felt like just stop reading.

I thought the movie was easier to watch than the book because in the disturbing scenes you could just look away and start watching when it was over, but for the book you had to read through it.  I thought that the movie was good because at times, I felt pity for the characters.  I thought that the movie did a good job at visualizing some of the things that were hard to comprehend in the short story, for example, the description of all the characters.  While I was reading, I felt it was hard to visualize what the characters looked like.

I liked it how in the movie, they showed you what you don't see in story, like how Jack and Lureen met, instead of jack just telling Ennis the story of how they met.  I also liked how they showed more of Jacks life in the movie than in the original story.  The one thing that I thought was odd though was in the story when Lureen told Ennis that Jack died, she just said that he was fixing a tire off his truck and it exploded and it killed him, and in the movie they explained the tire blowing up as well as showing him getting beat up by some guys.  I feel that that is the only deviation from the story in the movie.

Overall I thought that the movie and story was a good, I liked it but I think it would have been better if it wasn't so graphic.