A Sad Announcement To Us All - We Are Losing Our Message Boards...
About 11 years ago, I found myself finally coming back to some semblance of awakening after suffering through the worst, most life-altering experience of losing my brother. He was my best friend and we really shared a wonderful bond our whole lives. His death rocked my world off its axis, and I feel like I was "out of it" for years. The enormity of the grief was nothing I had ever experienced, and all the things I found comfort and pleasure in ceased to matter. I merely existed... for a long time.
So, when, in the early Winter months of 2006, I felt a flutter of life inside because I had heard of this film, "Brokeback Mountain", and it piqued my interest, I was hopeful. I had seen the coming attractions being advertised on television, I felt drawn to it somehow. I wasn't sure why, and I didn't recognize the young stars in it, but I felt a pull I could not shake, so my plan was to finally do something fun again. Go to the movies. I would go see this film.
Somehow, life must have derailed me for several months, and I missed the cinema screenings of Brokeback. I was disappointed. Then, sometime in May 2006, I subscribed to this new movie service, Netflix. My first rental was "Walk the Line". It was good, and the Netflix service seemed to me to be a great way to catch up on so many movies I had missed. So I sent "Walk the Line" back after watching, and quickly remembered that I had wanted to see "Brokeback Mountain", so that was my second pick.
I honestly don't know what happened after that. I watched. I was inexplicably drawn to these characters. I cried, and I yearned to get closer to what they themselves could not seem to find together. So I kept the DVD for a few days and watched it again. And again. And even more still.... I finally realized I needed to send it back, so I did, and I went out to Target in search of the DVD. I found it, bought it, and watched several more times. I could not stop watching it. I thought I was going crazy.
Finally, I decided to see if it was me or were there possibly more people out there who felt as I did. I finally found IMDb and these boards, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I met many wonderful people here and we talked and shared and discussed and posed our questions and worked through it all together. It was wonderful, and I didn't feel, well, TOO crazy anymore. LOL! I felt included and understood and euphoric to have been part of the experience of Brokeback Mountain.
These Message Boards did that for me. And now, they are to be no more. It makes me very sad to prepare to grieve once more, this time for a group of wonderful, special people I met here.
Today, I signed a Petition which is going here to save these Message Boards from being deleted forever. If you would like to help us keep these Boards, and keep a wonderful community of people coming together and discussing films, tv, actors, etc., please sign the petition. It would be a shame to lose such a wonderful outlet for everyone...
Thanks, and goodbye to all those I met here. Just in case we never get to discuss here again.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#
Daphne
...Nice to know ya, Ennis del Mar...