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Sarah is going out of town for about a week. The video store has a 4 movies for 4 days for 4 dollars deal. What movies that Sarah wouldn't want to see should I check out?
Lately I've been enjoying '70's John Carpenter films (Attack on Precinct 13, Escape from NY, The Thing). I also like zombie movies.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

COMMANDO. ruthless killing spree at the end is one of the great movie moments of all time.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone are your friends during these halcyon days.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not huge on Westerns. But I probably should see at least one more Leone (I saw Good, Bad, and Ugly a while ago and enjoyed it).

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

see The Wild Bunch now, thank me later.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cockfighter with Warren Oates, in fact, anything with Warren Oates.

― hexxy, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear! absolutely OTM.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That watch costs more than you car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy, I don't give a shit. Good father, fuck you. Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here, close. You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?
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― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sand bagged me on Bluestar huh? Thought you could teach the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog huh? Well let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right underneath your feet. Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there dicking someone like Darien? Naw... you'd still be cold calling widows and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock. I took you in... a NOBODY. I opened the doors for you... showed you how the system works... the value of information... how to get it. Fulham oil, Brant resources, geodynamics and this is how you fucking pay me back you cockroach. I gave you Darien. I gave you your manhood I gave you everything. You could've been one of the great ones buddy. I look at you and see myself... WHY?
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― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

warren oates isn't really so macho. he's great, but not really so macho. he's sort of post-macho.

NA what you need to see is shit with erroll flynn, like objective, burma! or gentleman jim. thank me later.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Pressure? Let me just say that Rambo is the best combat vet I've ever seen. A pure fighting machine with only a desire - to win a war that someone else lost. And if winning means he has to die - he'll die. No fear, no regrets. And one more thing, what you choose to call hell, he calls home.
http://www.cyberkino.de/entertainment/kino/101/101671b2.jpg

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

god the rambo movies are so dreary.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia also

The Getaway will really do the trick.

oh and Bullitt, definitely.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

actually all the suggestions are pretty OTM. But really, look for Two-Lane Blacktop. Macho James Taylor, also Dennis Wilson for corny indie requirements.

xpost the first Rambo movie is dreary, because it's set in the PAC-NW!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Just look at this poster!

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/554.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

MACHO MANLY BRIT STYLE (used to not be a contradiction in terms, woe how the Empire has fallen):

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Roadhouse?

And what ever happened to the NYC plan to go see the stage production of the same title?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I saw you, I hated your guts. I think I even hated you before I met you. I hated you on TV. I hated you in Vietnam. You want to know what's destroying this country? It's not booze. It's not drugs. It's TV. It's media. It's people lie you. It's vampires. I hate the way you make your living sticking microphones in people's faces. You lie every night at 6:00. I hate the way you kill real feelings. I hate everything that you stand for. Most of all, I hate rich kids and I hate this place. So why do I want to fuck you so bad?
http://www.cityonfire.com/yotd/images/thumbs/press05.jpg
You're right, I'm Wrong. Sorry. I'd like to be a nice man. I would. I just don't know how to be nice.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

search: Lee Marvin

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

If you have any interest in watching a grody Mickey Rourke run around Chinatown screaming "IT'S VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN!" you must see Year Of The Dragon as soon as possible.

http://www.cityonfire.com/yotd/images/thumbs/press03.jpg

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oliver Stone script + Michael Cimino direction + Mickey Rourke lead = TITANIUM BALLS

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"two-lane blacktop" is like the epitome of post-macho! c'mon, warren oates FALLS ASLEEP while changing a license plate. that's not very badass.

although it is awesome and nick will like it.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

is post-macho anything like borecore?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www2.drnoir.com:9008/pictures/BCombo.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

make sure to make a campfire in your livingroom and eat nothing but dirt

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

postmacho is/in fiction
postmacho is a convoluted term
postmacho is right
postmacho is rotting our social fabric
postmacho is our destiny?
postmacho is "a loathing for 'bourgeois values'
postmacho is a complicated term
postmacho is right after all
postmacho is considered something of a spent force in certain circles
postmacho is the rise of political correctness and the attempt to purge dissenting opinion from the ranks of the academic
postmacho is something which evolved after 1968
postmacho is rotting our social fabric by charles w
postmacho is usually only relevant in areas of study at university
postmacho is used in a confusing variety of ways
postmacho is progressive
postmacho is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific
postmacho is frequently used to explain contemporary culture—but what exactly does it mean?
postmacho is anti
postmacho is a confession of modesty
postmacho is skeptical of certainty
postmacho is all about
postmacho is the opposite of macho
postmacho is fascinated with the current
postmacho is not content with straightforward mediocrity
postmacho is partly a new language
postmacho is frequently used to explain contemporary culture
postmacho is the foolishness that
postmacho is dead
postmacho is generally viewed as a critique of macho
postmacho is about and
postmacho is most likely the most important
postmacho is the idea of the collapse of grand narratives
postmacho is all about process
postmacho is a sharp contrast to this description of macho
postmacho is quite difficult to define and categorize in terms of traditional generic guidelines
postmacho is wrong to oppose conceptual models
postmacho is that although much contemporary cultural analysis of such issues takes place in the mode of representation
postmacho is subjectivism
postmacho is all around
postmacho is that it is easy to conclude from it that there are not reliable and usable facts
postmacho is that it is hard to define
postmacho is notoriously difficult to define
postmacho is something that can be discovered and contained and that through this process we will find
postmacho is a move beyond the limitations of reductionism and rational analysis—beyond rationality
postmacho is a bit difficult to define
postmacho is epistemological relativism
postmacho is not a term that appeared in our vocabulary from nowhere
postmacho is one of the most unusual and definition
postmacho is its
postmacho is like the loch ness monster
postmacho is the application of the scientific process of dissection onto abstract and non
postmacho is differentiated from other cultural forms by its emphasis on fragmentation
postmacho is our destiny? i
postmacho is a politicization
postmacho is
postmacho is the relational warmth that is occurring nowadays among many who embrace this
postmacho is both description and explanation of the conditions prevailing in the modern industrialised world
postmacho is pragmatism; we find ways of accommodating ourselves to the debased norm
postmacho is about putting "focus on the carpenter
postmacho is not what you think
postmacho is a hospital where the beds must remain empty
postmacho is a term which attempts to describe the condition of contemporary society coming to grips with the failings of modernity
postmacho is a reaction to a movement that came before it
postmacho is perhaps the most significant trend facing the church today
postmacho is moving that pace to exponential levels
postmacho is againist modernity and progress
postmacho is still a
postmacho is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good
postmacho is one of the most dangerous movements of the century for christians
postmacho is not something that people accept after careful thought
postmacho is now a declining influence in philosophy and science
postmacho is a way of thinking that so far has eluded precise definition
postmacho is found in the ideology of bio
postmacho is defined as an attack on the 'myth' of modernity
postmacho is limited to fiction by white males from first
postmacho is a cool response to the triumph of modern technology and science
postmacho is about truth
postmacho is the cultural worldview that now penetrates and owns our society

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Postmacho !!!!!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

two words: Full Contact

http://www.fantastikasia.net/img/dossier/interne/full_contact.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Under Seige 2

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, we already answered your question!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Postmacho is NOTHING against KUMITE!!!!!

http://www.uwe.peterson.claranet.de/private/moviefaces/actor/v/jcvd_bloodsport03.jpg

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

actually Bloodsport might be taking macho a bit too far.

http://www.uwe.peterson.claranet.de/private/moviefaces/actor/v/jcvd_bloodsport04.jpg

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I am hard to kill
You think I'm dead, but I'm not
Time for vengeance

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― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Another one of Olivers Stone's "Conan the Barbarian", directed by John Milius, the guy that wrote the screenplay to Apocalypse Now.

"High Plains Drifter", Clint rapes, kills and paints the town red (literally). Oh yeah, he may be the devil or at least a deadman's ghost.

"They Live" the fist fight scene in the alley with Rowdy Roddy Piper is one of best.

"Hard Boiled" is also bad ass. The gun fight in the market is one of the most wicked things ever filmed.

"The Deer Hunter"...criminy, it doesn't get much more macho that this one. You have hunting, war, drinking, and Russian Roulette.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

also man-hugs, crying, and meryl streep!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/21/contents/walken_king_ny.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

postmacho is something which evolved after 1968

more pre-'68 action movies, please.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica: Cunning stunts.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www2.drnoir.com:9008/pictures/BigHeatlobby.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Austrian 80's comedy Müllers Büro!

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps a little film called

Evening in Byzantium

http://www.eringray.com/images/jpgs/Slapped-by-Glenn-Ford-640.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

gear is that walken picture upthread from ALL TIME CLASSIC MCBAIN?

http://home.iprimus.com.au/panopticon1/deadzone/mcb2mig.jpg

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that pics from King Of New York and McBain isn't as good as Dogs of War, the OTHER film about Christopher Walken leading a group of mercenaries in overthrowing a military dictator.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0124/taubin.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Widmark to thread!!! See: Pickup on South Street (&, by proxy, but not as an afterthought, just about anything by SAM FULLER) (Underworld USA)!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Edmund O'Brien to thread as well.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit theres another walken mercenary movie? but does it have one of his cohorts wearing a wrestlemania hat? hmm? does it have louis guzman in it? HMM??

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I obviously only see pussy movies as I've never seen a SINGLE MOVIE mentioned in this thread!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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omg 'produced by john milius'

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

john milius is the patron saint of this thread

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No porn suggestions? I'm shocked.

Go for:
Once Upon A Time In The West
Straw Dogs
The Wild Bunch
Cool Hand Luke

Alternate choice: rent the DVDs of Dawson's Creek and/or My So-Called Life and watch them without having to fear jokes about your masculinity.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

NA, let's go see before sunset! it'll be romantic! what, why are you backing away from me slowly?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band + Mondo Cane = The Deer Hunter

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

see The Wild Bunch now, thank me later.

Word. I didn't even read any of this...Brain just said "lock thread" and I did.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha daddino were you just watching the deer hunter on hbo? i watched a little of it and flipped to lebowski

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, answer me this: all the male leads are REALLY OLD, like 35yo and shit, and judging from everyone's haircuts in the beginning of the movie, this is all taking place in the mid-to-late-seventies, right? And yet they're all being shipped to 'Nam. WE HAVE A VERISIMILITUDE PROBLEM, CIMINO.

Speaking of which...is it not really really creepy that the bravest, most manly-man and least-damaged character has the same first name as the auteurist director? Sure, Michael's a common name, but couldn't he have named him "Roger" or "Carl" or "Bud" or just anything else without that bitter tinge of artistic narcissicism?

"Oh, he's good in anything.": George Dzundza.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

worst john cazale flick ever!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The points in the movie where nothing much seems to be happening, just the static drift of boozing, carousing, hunting, fighting and awkward romance -- that stuff is great, yo. But it's like someone thought that was too insubtantial to support a movie so in comes Vietnam and Russian Roulette as an existential motif. Fuck that. Hell, I swear I had so little clue as to what Walken was doing in the latter half of the film -- can one plausibly live on Russian Roulette earnings for very long? -- that I seriously entertained the notion that he was staying with the French guy as a male ho.

And this movie is where I suddenly realized that the end of DJ Koze's All People Is My Friends IS NOT REALLY a quasi-surreptitious recording of German microhaus dudes singing Frankie Valli, playing pool, and uh talking shit in English, as I hallucinatorily surmised.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh GOD. The IMDB says Cimino wanted to do an adaptation of The Fountainhead (and I could see that coming when I saw he studied architecture at the top of his bio, oy, the self-parody) and was originally tapped to do Footloose!!!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yeah i haven't seen this movie in forever - i only caught one scene tonight before flipping (the improbable to say the least scene with russian roulette leading into rambo style BREAKOUT deniro leads). i remember liking the stuff before the war and the hunting afterwards with cazale acting like an asshole ALOT more than anything else in it; he shoulda just had that, had nam be this unspoken ghost so that the viewer woulda been wondering 'jesus christ - just wtf happened over there?', the old 'it's scarier if you don't show the ghost' routine.

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I was thinking about the 'it's scarier if you don't show the ghost' adage as I refused to even peek at the cold hard Hollywood reality of guys shooting themselves in the head, with blood pouring out of their skulls like melted ice water from a Thermos cooler (OK, so I peeked a little).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

he shoulda just had that, had nam be this unspoken ghost so that the viewer woulda been wondering 'jesus christ - just wtf happened over there?', the old 'it's scarier if you don't show the ghost' routine.

Looking through the imdb.com, it doesn't seem like there were too many major Hollywood films prior to '77, '78 or so that based its subject matter primarily on the veteran's experience in and/or out of the Vietnam war (the annoying Coming Home in 1978; Apocalypse Now finally comes out in '79), so I'm guessing if you're coked-out and ballsy enough in that era to make Vietnam your subject, you're probably going to want to grab the brass ring and "go to" Vietnam (technically Thailand in this case, of course). Making Vietnam the ghost you never see might make for a better film, but it just wouldn't supply a director the ego-stroke he'd get from catharsizing the national conscience via wartime atrocities.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

PAPILLON

― peronista (peronista), Sunday, 29 May 2005 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630531036X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Get one Jerry Bruckheimer.

The Dirty Dozen, btw, is an awesome movie- it's my third favorite WWII movie after The Great Escape and The Guns of Navarone. The Enemy Below is another excellent WWII movie, that focuses on one boat and one submarine... it's weird, it's all a character study, but it's an excellent war movie. The don't make movies like that anymore yadda yadda. (Band of Brothers, but that's not a movie- it's a good one to rent if you haven't seen it, though.)

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hard Boiled!

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the first Predator movie.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Watched The Professionals (1966) last night. It was pretty macho. Watched The Expendables last week. It was macho too. It seems like really macho movies have to have something off about them. Like The Expendables, by virtue of its macho-ness, didn't inhabit the same non-reality as other movies. The guys hung around a motorcycle shop all day throwing knives at a dartboard, and when they weren't bro-ing out there, they were flying to different places shooting people for money. The movie was just off. Somebody should've hired a good writer to write one-liners for eveyone in The Expendables. There were about three one liners in the entire movie and none of them were very good.

These movies are about man codes. They're written from the perspective of someone who believes in man codes. Man loyalty. Bro code. Bros before hos. Honor. Integrity. Things like that. The Professionals seemed like it sucked, but I mostly read ilx and texted while it was playing, so I'm not sure. It was still about five times better than The Expendables. Both movies are about mercenaries!

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

The definition could mean different things. For me, it'd be The Hustler, Hud, California Split, The Long Goodbye, things like that (i.e., not John Milius or Sylvester Stallone films).

― clemenza, Monday, 28 March 2011 02:04 (fifteen years ago)

The Long Goodbye is cool. I should try to find California Split to watch.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

Cool, the library has it.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

Vanishing Point ftw

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

if you are interested in action heroes of the body-oil-&-greasepaint variety, this is a fantastic reference guide: http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/3759/the-ruthless-guide-to-80s-action/

― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Monday, 28 March 2011 04:10 (fifteen years ago)

RFd: Accident

― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Monday, 28 March 2011 05:32 (fifteen years ago)

Losey and Bogarde swoon

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 05:45 (fifteen years ago)

California Split was devastating. The last 20 minutes gave me nonstop anxiety.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

Point effing Break!

I'm desperate to see California Split - the ICA are showing it as part of this Institute of Psychoanalysis collaboration, but it's £18!

― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:45 (fifteen years ago)

You guys like a lotta macho homoeroticism

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

Doesn't everybody?

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

Mikey and Nicky
Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden

On the Losey-Bogarde tip, The Servant

Pineapple Express? That's more bro than macho. Machbro.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, California Split was a romance with a weepy ending.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

How about a viewing party of 300 at my place where we can all "grease up"?

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe we should start a thread called: "straight men in movies who are in love with each other."

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

there's already a thread for every buddy movie ever I thought

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

That sounds gay, morbs.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

xp point taken, although there's a big difference between the attachment between two men in a movie like The Servant and a movie like 48 Hours.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

"straight" men! xxxp

I am reading a book about the Old Hollywood studio factories, and some MGM story exec is quoted as saying Irving Thalberg thought every movie HAD to be a love story, and it wasn't required that the two principals be of different sexes.

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

I like that idea. It'll change how I look at movies, maybe, at least in the next week or so. Is the book good?

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

the arc of the relationship between the two main characters in most buddy movies and most rom coms is near identical

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

yes, it's The Genius of the System. xp

I've mentioned elsewhere the flying dragon movie where Bale and McConaughey are frequently shirtless and covered in dirt and grease, and they look like they're about to ball each other for the entire running time. LOVE IT

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

But romcoms suck, amirite? I wanna watch MACHO MOVIES.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

best gay buddy-cop action comedy ever:

http://www.youpolonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Tango_and_cash_021989.jpg

― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

Cruising

― omar little, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

People were talking about Extreme Prejudice on the Walter Hill thread the other day. Good movie and dripping with manliness. Also White Sands with Willem Dafoe and pre-boxing Mickey Rourke going toe to toe. Oh and Nighthawks I think tho I seem to remember a lady terrorist in there.

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

The Stuntman and especially Freebie and the Bean

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

Stuntman otm!

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

Freebie and the Bean is Richard Rush too. A total cartoon of a buddy cop movie, and kind of dark. Biggest drawback is the villain is a queeny, bitchy crossdressing homosexual, unless that's some kind of sly commentary on James Caan and Alan Arkin's friendship. Probably not.

― bamcquern, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

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