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Title: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: Toadily on Mar 21, 2006, 04:34 PM
Hey which is your fav?  Or which do you feel represents the spirit of BBM and is most memorable to you?
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: pierralex on Mar 21, 2006, 04:57 PM
I voted "Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it".
I used to feel the same so many times in the past...
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Toadily on Mar 21, 2006, 05:03 PM
MIne is "it could be like this, just like this" cause i feel it's the spirit of BBM, Jack being romantic and hopeful and
Ennis then launching into this response.  But it's also so universal, we all want it to stay in that special place
and we just can't.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Lost_Girl on Mar 21, 2006, 05:05 PM
"If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it"

Because.. I think it's really beautiful and sad quote. And I don't know.. It's just something I really feel like for the movie and for the "real life"....
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: LuvJackNasty on Mar 21, 2006, 06:32 PM
I like all of the quotes, how could I not?  But I voted for "This is GD bitch of an unsatisfactory situation" I guess because I keep using it in conversation. Actually a lot of "BBM speak" is making it's way into my vocabulary but that's the one I use the most.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: leanne on Mar 21, 2006, 06:53 PM
It could be like this, just like this always"
 
Haven't a clue why I chose this to be honest. It's just one that makes me sad :-\
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Toadily on Mar 21, 2006, 06:55 PM
It could be like this, just like this always"
 
Haven't a clue why I chose this to be honest. It's just one that makes me sad :-\

I know what you mean, it's so sad cause it just can't be like that.  And we can all relate in some ways.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: chrissy323 on Mar 21, 2006, 07:00 PM
I voted for "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it"

It can be applied to so many things in life and so many things in the movie and related to it.

I'm surprised that it hasn't become more of a catch phrase.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: bram on Mar 21, 2006, 07:04 PM
I voted for "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it"

It can be applied to so many things in life and so many things in the movie and related to it.

I'm surprised that it hasn't become more of a catch phrase.

That's why I voted for it, too.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: chameau on Mar 21, 2006, 07:07 PM
Great idea Toadily!

Mine is

''Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"

I just recall the look on Jack's face and eyes when he says this...  :'( baw!
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Italian_Dude on Mar 21, 2006, 07:33 PM
riuscissi almeno a lasciarti!

I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU!
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Sunflower79 on Mar 21, 2006, 07:51 PM
i liked this one
"this is a goddamned bitch of an unsatisfactory situation
and
" I wish I knew how to quit you.."

there all good quotes :)
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: ethan on Mar 21, 2006, 10:57 PM
I voted for "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it"

Me too. It is so true for many situations in life.  :D
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Patriot1 on Mar 22, 2006, 01:03 AM
"Tell you what. . .truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it. . ."

because it is the only time Jack came so close to telling Ennis that he was in love with him. Ennis still doesn't know just how much Jack loves him. . .after 20 years.


Diana Ossana: "And then he goes up to Jack’s room and he finds his old shirt hanging tucked inside Jack’s, and he realizes how much that man loved him—how deeply he loved him from the get-go.


Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Krispera on Mar 22, 2006, 07:19 AM
My favourites..

" Jack Twist, Jack Nasty " Ohhhhh I like that, I don't know why, sounds good in my ears!!

and this one is heartbreaking

"Tell you what. . .truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it. . ."
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: keren_b on Mar 22, 2006, 09:08 AM
"Tell you what. . .truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it. . ."

because it is the only time Jack came so close to telling Ennis that he was in love with him. Ennis still doesn't know just how much Jack loves him. . .after 20 years.

and that's why I chose it too... it breaks my heart. it's the closest to saying "I love you".
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Stephen on Mar 22, 2006, 09:48 AM
Yes, Keren, that's mine,too: It incorporates both feelings of  the "If you can't fix it...." and the closest we come to "I love you":  "The truth is sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it" ...but I'm going to have to stand it, live with it, and somehow survive!  As Edith Wharton wrote: "The only thing sadder than death is Life"!
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Toadily on Mar 22, 2006, 11:32 AM
"truth is..."  pulls ahead!
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: *Froggy* on Mar 22, 2006, 11:34 AM
I voted for

"Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"
"I wish I knew how to quit you"
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Hanna on Mar 22, 2006, 03:20 PM
i voted for

this is a goddamned bitch of an unsatisfactiory situation.

i dont know, it's just the truth for ennis and jack, isn't it??
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: chameau on Mar 22, 2006, 05:04 PM
"Tell you what. . .truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it. . ."

because it is the only time Jack came so close to telling Ennis that he was in love with him. Ennis still doesn't know just how much Jack loves him. . .after 20 years.

and that's why I chose it too... it breaks my heart. it's the closest to saying "I love you".

It's the only time Jack wen't so close to say I love you.  :'( here I go again!
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: jackie62 on Mar 23, 2006, 07:13 AM
just saw movie again after 4 week gap

the " gotta stand it " speech from Ennis breaks my heart --- it looks like he 's about to cry and then jack touches his cheek --- it's like jack has "seen" the demons that haunt Ennis.

BUT  the most meaningful quote to me is still " Sometimes i miss you so much i can hardly stand it " .  Its the way he says it as well as the words --- 20 yrs of longing --- of half living and always the need for Ennis. No matter what else they both put in their lives , they're not alive unless they're together.  Normal day to day life is pretty much a sham ---- and what they feel for each other shows what could be poss in a different world. It's so cruel.

Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: *Froggy* on Mar 23, 2006, 07:31 AM
BUT  the most meaningful quote to me is still " Sometimes i miss you so much i can hardly stand it " .  Its the way he says it as well as the words --- 20 yrs of longing --- of half living and always the need for Ennis. No matter what else they both put in their lives , they're not alive unless they're together.  Normal day to day life is pretty much a sham ---- and what they feel for each other shows what could be poss in a different world. It's so cruel.

And also, it comes after Jack admitting he has something goin' with that Rancher's wife!...they both laugh...there's a pause and Jack comes up with that line...and at that point I sooo want Ennis to say something back...that he too misses Jack like mad, and wishes they could be like this ..always!!! and I cry!!!!

(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi45.imagethrust.com%2Fi%2F345065%2Ftellyouwhat.jpg&hash=28f4cd4a007aea397efb5d51834ab5cb25e9ac7f)
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: bram on Mar 23, 2006, 08:31 AM

BUT  the most meaningful quote to me is still " Sometimes i miss you so much i can hardly stand it " .  Its the way he says it as well as the words --- 20 yrs of longing --- of half living and always the need for Ennis. No matter what else they both put in their lives , they're not alive unless they're together.  Normal day to day life is pretty much a sham ---- and what they feel for each other shows what could be poss in a different world. It's so cruel.



Y'all are gonna make me cry talking about this quote so much. I haven't seen this movie in more than a month probably, and I have to stay on here for awhile each day and look at youtube for like twenty minutes to get my Brokback fix. I'm gonna cry my ass off when he says it after I buy the dvd.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: filazahies on Mar 23, 2006, 05:43 PM
For me "Nobody's business but ours", I love the way Jack says that but also it's like a premonition of what their love story is going to be.
And then "I wish I knew how to quit you", there's so much desperation in his voice, he probably sees the end is near. OMG he didn't know what an awful end :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: garymcd on Mar 28, 2006, 04:13 PM
am i allowed to add this one?

Ennis Del Mar: You're sleeping on your feet like a horse..
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: chameau on Mar 28, 2006, 04:19 PM
am i allowed to add this one?

Ennis Del Mar: You're sleeping on your feet like a horse..

I would like it because it's a really good one but, people who already voted cannot vote again.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Mars on Mar 28, 2006, 04:35 PM

"It could be like this, just like this always"
I like very much Jack's positive romanticism.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Allyce on Mar 28, 2006, 05:57 PM
"Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"     

 :'(
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: frances on Mar 28, 2006, 07:53 PM
BUT  the most meaningful quote to me is still " Sometimes i miss you so much i can hardly stand it " .  Its the way he says it as well as the words --- 20 yrs of longing --- of half living and always the need for Ennis. No matter what else they both put in their lives , they're not alive unless they're together.  Normal day to day life is pretty much a sham ---- and what they feel for each other shows what could be poss in a different world. It's so cruel.

And also, it comes after Jack admitting he has something goin' with that Rancher's wife!...they both laugh...there's a pause and Jack comes up with that line...and at that point I sooo want Ennis to say something back...that he too misses Jack like mad, and wishes they could be like this ..always!!! and I cry!!!!

(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi45.imagethrust.com%2Fi%2F345065%2Ftellyouwhat.jpg&hash=28f4cd4a007aea397efb5d51834ab5cb25e9ac7f)

Powerfull look between them?!?!

Anyway...my vote : "Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: n061857 on Mar 28, 2006, 08:08 PM
My favorite line in the maovie is, "It's because of you I"m like this - I"m nowhere, nothing."   Ennis's pain is palpable.  I completely fall to pieces evrytime I hear this line.  Also, this is the closest Ennis ever gets to professing his love.  This hits me as hard as Ennis finding the shirts.
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: mlrinoc on Mar 28, 2006, 08:16 PM

"Truth is.... sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it."

It's the look in his eyes as he says it that gets me.

Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: greenfrog on Dec 25, 2006, 02:18 AM
"Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"

 :\'(  :\'(  :\'(
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: Twisted on Dec 25, 2006, 01:57 PM
I love them all equally but this one gets me every time..

It could be like this, just like this, always..

And the way Jack says it.. So full of hope and wanting to be with his man forever.. :'(
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: NoReins on Dec 27, 2006, 12:05 PM
I love them all too...but, like Twisted, this one never fails to get to me

It could be like this, just like this, always...

One other line really does me in too and it's this

As long as we can ride it...ain't no reins on this one

I love that one because Ennis is all but saying that he's in love with Jack...that what he's feeling is stronger than anything he's ever felt, something that can't be controlled...and I really think that Jack understood that :\'( <^(
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: tpe on Dec 27, 2006, 12:11 PM
One other line really does me in too and it's this

As long as we can ride it...ain't no reins on this one

I love that one because Ennis is all but saying that he's in love with Jack...that what he's feeling is stronger than anything he's ever felt, something that can't be controlled...and I really think that Jack understood that :\'( <^(

I guessed this when I first saw your forum name, NoReins.  That was an intense moment for the two of them.

Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: NoReins on Dec 27, 2006, 12:17 PM
One other line really does me in too and it's this

As long as we can ride it...ain't no reins on this one

I love that one because Ennis is all but saying that he's in love with Jack...that what he's feeling is stronger than anything he's ever felt, something that can't be controlled...and I really think that Jack understood that :\'( <^(

I guessed this when I first saw your forum name, NoReins.  That was an intense moment for the two of them.



Aye, that probably was fairly obvious, huh? ;D
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: tpe on Dec 27, 2006, 12:42 PM
Aye, that probably was fairly obvious, huh? ;D

I never take anything for granted; most especially from you.  ;)

Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: welshwitch on Dec 27, 2006, 12:48 PM
For me it's always been "See you in the morning" at the end of the dozy embrace scene, because it makes me think how few mornings there have been when they could say this, and that there will never be any more.
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: tpe on Dec 27, 2006, 12:54 PM
My favorite quote is from the ss and is unfortunately not included explicitly in the movie: "Let be, let be."
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: aintfoolin on Dec 30, 2006, 12:30 AM
These are my fav quotes and AKA:
1. "Ive yet to have the opportunity" aka -I want the opportunity.... with you.( that look)
2." Aint no riens on this one"  "as long as we can ride it." aka -I can't help loving you, Could'nt if I tried.
3.Jack, I swear. aka- How could I not know sooner how much you really loved me. I'm sorry, and I'll try to live the rest of my life in honor of our love cause I loved you more than life itself.Oh yeah ,Thank you for the shirts lil darlin.( straightens  postcard).
4." Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" aka- With all I have, without your love, I'm nothing and I can't stand it anymore Ennis.I want you with me ALL the time.
5. "After all this time you aint found nobody else to marry?" ........ Are you kidding me?
5. Jack, I love you. ( yes he did say it in the closet with  the shirts) He finally says it.
6. All the words they said with their eyes. FNIT, SNIT, and the reunion scenes....Thanks.
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: hpv on Apr 20, 2007, 08:15 AM
These are my fav quotes and AKA:
1. "Ive yet to have the opportunity" aka -I want the opportunity.... with you.( that look)
2." Aint no riens on this one"  "as long as we can ride it." aka -I can't help loving you, Could'nt if I tried.
3.Jack, I swear. aka- How could I not know sooner how much you really loved me. I'm sorry, and I'll try to live the rest of my life in honor of our love cause I loved you more than life itself.Oh yeah ,Thank you for the shirts lil darlin.( straightens  postcard).
4." Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" aka- With all I have, without your love, I'm nothing and I can't stand it anymore Ennis.I want you with me ALL the time.
5. "After all this time you aint found nobody else to marry?" ........ Are you kidding me?
5. Jack, I love you. ( yes he did say it in the closet with  the shirts) He finally says it.
6. All the words they said with their eyes. FNIT, SNIT, and the reunion scenes....Thanks.
I just discovered this ...  ^*()
Anyway, I loved so much your post, it's like quoting my thoughts.....thank you  :^^)
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: lauren on Apr 24, 2007, 02:01 AM
my vote was more along the lines of 'i miss you so much' when they meet again after 4years. my tears go to overdrive and i started crying coz i can actually feel their pain. they waited 4years to see the person they they truly love. 4long, hard years....those little words aren't enough to portray how much they had wanted to be in each other's arms during the 4years they were apart. but a close one would be...'i wish i knew how to quit you'. it just goes on to show that jack loves ennis so much that he can't stop loving him even if he wanted to. so strong was his love for him....
Title: Re: Poll- YourFavorite Quote?
Post by: lamusica on Apr 24, 2007, 04:45 PM
"Truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it"

 :\'(  :\'(  :\'(

ditto, ditto, ditto :( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: tamlynn on May 19, 2007, 09:08 PM
The most profound quote for me was spoken in anger and despair by Cassie.  "Girls don't fall in love with fun."  But men do, Cassie.  Love is not about wearing shorts and needing attention.

what did she fall in love with?  She didn't even know him.  She may have wanted him, but love?  that's laughable.  love would never hurt Ennis.  She attacked him. 

She was so tortured and so serious.  If she had just listened to herself.  This was an important point of the whole movie to me, the contrast between man/woman love and man/man love.   Ennis and Jack had fun.  The movie portrayed women so truthfully as to what we really are to men.  Rarely are we fun. 

Cassie  needy
Alma   boring
Lureen   money driven
Mrs. Twist    lonely housekeeper
LaShawn    talk, talk, talk

Against this backdrop, Jack and Ennis lit up the screen with something magically delicious.

They had a relationship filled with amazing love, energy, humor and excitement.  And in that mix was fun.  They had fun... wrestling, skinny dipping, sharing, friendship, joking, laughing.  What a brilliant script.

Let's all have more fun!

I love you... just the way you are... and I want nothing from you, except for you to be you.

Tamlynn
Title: Re: Poll- Your Favorite Quote?
Post by: tpe on May 21, 2007, 07:57 AM
The most profound quote for me was spoken in anger and despair by Cassie.  "Girls don't fall in love with fun."  But men do, Cassie.  Love is not about wearing shorts and needing attention.

what did she fall in love with?  She didn't even know him.  She may have wanted him, but love?  that's laughable.  love would never hurt Ennis.  She attacked him. 

She was so tortured and so serious.  If she had just listened to herself.  This was an important point of the whole movie to me, the contrast between man/woman love and man/man love.   Ennis and Jack had fun.  The movie portrayed women so truthfully as to what we really are to men.  Rarely are we fun. 

Cassie  needy
Alma   boring
Lureen   money driven
Mrs. Twist    lonely housekeeper
LaShawn    talk, talk, talk

Against this backdrop, Jack and Ennis lit up the screen with something magically delicious.

They had a relationship filled with amazing love, energy, humor and excitement.  And in that mix was fun.  They had fun... wrestling, skinny dipping, sharing, friendship, joking, laughing.  What a brilliant script.

Let's all have more fun!

I love you... just the way you are... and I want nothing from you, except for you to be you.

Tamlynn

In their own way, I think Alma, the children, and Cassie loved Ennis.  They just couldn't understand th depth of his predicament -- having to struggle with himself and living the lie.

A for Cassie's quote: "Girls don't fall in love with fun", I think she meant that she never intended to just toy around with Ennis.  She had always wanted a serious bond with Ennis, and she was aghast that Ennis didn't recognize this.