Interesting. You feel no need to see the movie, but you feel a need to blog about feeling no need to see the movie.

Care to spend time listing all the ice cream flavors you have no need to taste?

lol, Kip. clever.

Ross, he's got a point. If this movie doesn't interest you, one way or another, why blog about it? My guess, just a guess, is that you are digging in your heels because you're intersted in what all the fuss is about but you resent practically everyone in the world telling you that you should see this movie, and that pisses you off, particularly because people call you homophobic for saying you don't want to see it. But you want to see it. You're curious. It's obvious. It's ok. And I can almost guarantee you that you'll come out the other end (ha ha) a little bit cleaner, a little bit more tolerant, a little bit happier to be alive. That might be asking a lot of a movie, but hell, even for the possibility, I'd say that's worth $10. Underworld or even Narnia aren't able to offer the same kind of substance.

Oh, and about being squeamish about watching two men kiss or have sex? Boo hoo. That'll go away.

Well, I hope you change your mind. The movie's top drawer.

Yup I'm close minded.

I have a gay friend. I have a deaf friend. I have a blind friend.

The gay friend is the only one who thinks being gay is not a dysfunction. There's no reasoning with her.

We evolved hearing so we could hear the animals in the wild, communicate, hear other sounds and generally survive better.

We evolved sight so we could see attackers, catch food, generally see things and survive better.

We evolved heterosexual attraction so we would breed and propagate and generally allow us to survive better.

There's nothing morally wrong with being blind, deaf, or attracted to the same gender. But is sure is funny to suggest they're not objective dysfunctions.

Ross, I don't plan to see the movie. I don't care to see two guys kiss either. It give me the willies too. I agree with you. I think the Hollywood crowd is trying to shove their values down our throats.

"I believe the movie received more oscar nominations than any other film because Hollywood is tweaking our noses and saying "Look how cool and open-minded we are!"

Your comment started me thinking about how the human belief system works and why changing it is so difficult. People tend to search for information that supports their opinions rather than creates or adjusts them. Environmentalists cherry pick reports showing melting ice caps and rising city temperatures “confirming” their claims of global warming. Liberals pick out specific comments by President Bush to reinforce their thinking that Bush is a war-mongering fascist. Religious zealots look for “acts of God” to confirm their faith in a higher power controlling the actions of man. It is true that every day living requires that we make judgments based on our previous experiences and observations, but often we skip the facts and rely too heavily on the past. How can we expect to learn and grow if we prejudge and dismiss ideas without researching them? How can we convince others to open their minds to new concepts if we are unwilling to do the same? None of this means to say your comments on Hollywood’s motivation necessarily miss the mark. Hollywood has a reputation for tweaking their noses at the rest of the population. However, the next time you hear an environmentalist, liberal, or zealot making a statement on an issue they did not spend the time to fully investigate, have no doubt they have convinced themselves of their own accuracy.