Posted on 03/26/2025 12:10:32 PM PDT by grundle
Why young men love the old school masculinity of James Bond and The Godfather over modern Hollywood.
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“Paths of Glory”
“Sgt York”
“The Best Years of our Lives”
“Casablanca”
“The Maltese Falcon”
to name a few
Westerns and any movie prior to 1960.
Not gonna’ watch the YouTube presentation with concomitant ads. Unimportant topic.
“They Died with Their Boots On”
“Captain Blood”
“Adventures of Robin Hood”
“She Wore A Yellow Ribbon”
“Fort Apache”
“Tombstone”
Now you are talking!
Godfather? James Bond? ok...but not “old movies” LOL
Gone with The Wind
African Queen
Bells of St, Mary’s
How Green Was My Valley
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
When men were men and women appreciated it...
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Mysterious Island
Jason and the Argonauts
One Million Years B.C.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Clash of the Titans
OK, maybe you see a theme with Ray Harryhausen and his stop motion animation in all these classic heroic adventure movies I grew up on.
Men were men, damsels were in distress, and beasts needed slaying. 10/10 will always watch again.
Because young men like being men. Old men do also. The small percentage of men who do not like being men are mentally ill. It’s that simple.
Throw in the Doug McClure movies. The Land That Time Forgot, etc.
I couldn’t have said it better.
And women were women.
Had a friend about 5 years younger than me watch It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World with a guy another 10 years younger. He said he really enjoyed it.
But the kicker was, he didn’t recognize any of the actors in it!!!
Modern Hollywood is making movies for the international audience, not for America.
They make lowest common denominator material that will get an audience anywhere on the globe.
Losing your national culture is just one more aspect of the globalism embraced by business and political elites.
He was referring to the Connery Bond movies. Godfather came out in 1972. That’s over 50 years ago. Its old.
Thats funny. I saw it decades ago and of course knew them all.
Magnificent Seven
Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
The Devils Brigade
Casablanca
Five weeks In A Balloon also. I recently watched most of these on youtube. Youtube has got a lot of really good movies now.
Just watched that one recently.
The Big Country
The Searchers
The Quiet Man
The Tin Star
Home From The Hill
El Cid
Shane
Battle Cry
The Horse Soldiers
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