<![CDATA[A Sad Announcement To Us All - We Are Losing Our Message Boards…]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Brokeback Mountain

daphne7661 — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 03:17 PM)

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

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Sam, I just sent you a Private Message with a response to your query, ok?
Daphne
Nice to know ya, Ennis del Mar

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Hi Daphne, Can you help me please, I've forgotten how to send a 'secret message'., and wish to maintain contact with latjoreme, and others, if they are willing, by email!
thanks
Sam
Best Wishes
Sam
"Jack leaned against the steady heartbeat".

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She'll be happy to hear from you! 🙂

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Oh! Marie! I must write to her Thank you for reminding me
Daphne
Nice to know ya, Ennis del Mar

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Thanks, Daphne and Rontrigger! Wonderful to hear from both of you, and let's definitely keep in touch. I know other old-time Brokies feel the same. For example, I just talked to Marie last night (on Facebook).

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Hello, Daphneit's always wonderful to see you, but it's sad that it won't be here any more.
Longoverdue (I now remember "Latjoreme" as well!) is going to help me keep in touch with fellow Brokies. Please feel free to check out the thread I started entitled "And now, the end is near" It explains my first attraction to BBMyou probably have read that story before, but I'm sure that was years ago.
Hope some other long-lost friends will drop by before Feb. 20.
"You can't have Ennis without Jack."Annie Proulx

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Oh my goodness! Latjoreme!!! Yes, I remember you! And was your other user name "Ineedcrayons"??
It's been awhile! So glad to see you! Clancy left quite some time ago. The integrity of this board was driven down and he had enough! Many of us had. But there are still a few of us who check in from time to time. Now, it will only be a little while longer! Very sad. It holds many wonderful loving and happy memories for me and many others I'm sure.
I am not on Facebook but I can PM you and perhaps we can keep in touch. I will be doing the same with the few remaining original Brokies anyway. Those were the days my friend! It was a wonderful time. Just magical.
Daphne
Nice to know ya, Ennis del Mar

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Hi Daphne,
I just heard the news on Facebook. I'm pretty sure I remember you I was one of the original Brokies starting in January '06, back in the lively days of Clancypants, etc.
I can't remember my username from then in fact, I changed it a few years ago and couldn't even remember that one. Maybe latjoreme?
Anyway, are you on Facebook? If you want to you can PM me, and I could invite you to a secret FB page of Brokies, any of whom who date back to those days.
There's also a website created by Brokies, but it's not very heavily visited anymore.
Let me know if you'd like further help. If not, it's been nice seeing you!
latjoreme (??)

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