Maybe their intent was to get the audience to think about how the movie applied to their own lives. Do you like bars? Would you like to someday own a bar?

OMG SO BORING.

Oh, that's too bad. I thought Ralph Fiennes as a blind gay diplomat in Shanghai would be interesting to watch, even though I don't like the actress who plays the countess very much--Vanessa Redgrave's daughter, I think. Not the one on Nip/Tuck, the other one.

Fiennes With A Bad American Accent: I do enjoy this...establishment.
Random Japanese Guy: Yes, I too find...pleasure...in these...establishments.
FWABAA: I often think that someday, I'd like to open my own...establishment. The...bar of my dreams.
RJG: If I return to this place in one year's time, I would very much like to visit this...bar of your dreams.

And then we cut to one year later, and Ralph has opened his bar, and the Japanese guy comes in and is like, "Dude, nice bar." And that's the ENTIRE payoff.

[eta: And, okay, there's another plot about Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson not admitting they love each other until the end of the movie. When they get together finally, it's like, "Oh right, we're supposed to be the romantic leads. The movie's almost over, so I guess we'd better hook up?"]

Bwah!

Har. The pause before each utterance of establishment makes me think the place in question is a bordello or something. Which, it looks like, might have made for a more lively movie.

Where are you going with that?

Just the repeated assertion in the press for Brokeback Mountain that it's unprecedented in its raw depiction of Gay Love. Though I suppose their qualifier is "in a major movie."

Kalshane - did you notice who played Chun Li? Yup, Jackie himself. That scene by itself could've made that drinking game interesting.

It's kind of hard to miss. I was of the impression that half the point of the scene was to showcase the absurdity of Jackie in a Chun Li outfit.

Do you like bars? Would you like to someday own a bar?

Do you like beans? Do you like George Wendt? Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans? t /Animaniacs

Steven Frears? "The Committments", right? Lifetime pass. LOVE that movie. Liked Deadwood quite a bit for not being into Westerns, but I found myself missing a. colors and b. sentences without "cocksucker" but they both seemed like the right choice...don't get me wrong. And I have liked David Milch since "Blue" or probably Hill Street(although not quite in a "trust in Joss" way...that's just for Mr. Sweden and David Simon and even he got talked into that Falsone thing, so...)

The Commitments is by Alan Parker, I think. He hasn't made anything really notable since, more's the pity. I do love Angel Heart though, one of his earlier films, with Robert DeNiro hamming it up as Satan.

Stephen Frears did the Malkovich/Close version of Dangerous Liaisons, and more recently, High Fidelity and Dirty Pretty Things. I like his work a lot.

Though I suppose their qualifier is "in a major movie."

And American. I think that's big too.

There are a lot of gay movies out there -- it's profile that's the thing.