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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Did a movie day with grandsons and son in law.
Watched The Cowboys .
It shows boys becoming men.
Good stuff. Next thing is we will drive to the John Wayne museum close to us.
I could never get into that movie. It was a cameo fest of all proportions. Seemed like every actor in Hollywood at that time made an appearance.
Because they like stories in which men are real men, women are real women, you can tell the difference, and the women come to love the man’s masculine virtues.
Even in those rare movies where the men are women — “Tootsie,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Some Like It Hot” — the cross-dressing played for laughs.
Probably for the more mature women and men, Even though the films were considered a bit over the top when they were made, they are far better than what is made today. Everything today appeals to 12 year olds.
I recently saw Casablanca for the first time in my life and I really enjoyed it, and while Rick doesn’t exactly fit this narrator’s thesis about not having vulnerabilities (because he did; heart break, cynicism and alcohol), he was definitely a cool customer, decisive and willing to take action, and would hold his cards close to his vest. IE: he didn’t spend the whole movie broken and whining about it.
Poseidon Adventure (the original, not the travesty of a remake)
Pshaw! OLD??
The ones others listed...THOSE are old...50 yrs old...heck they were all in color too!
Sheesh!
j/k
And two of the BEST movies ever made:
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Fastest Gun Alive
Instead of listing all of the great MEN & Women in these movies, I will let those of you who do not know or remember, I will let you discover for yourselves.
I watched that movie on a ship traveling between San Francisco and Honolulu. I turned 5 during the trip. August 1961.
Force 10 from Navarone.
The Dirty Dozen.
-PJ
Loved that movie. Great quotes and slapstick action.
From the Jonathan Winters character: “Everybody has to pay taxes!- Even businessmen, that rob and steal and cheat from people everyday, even they have to pay taxes!”
3:10 to Yuma, 1957 version.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Guadalcanal Diary
Destination Tokyo
W.C. Fields
The Bank Dick
You Can’t cheat an Honest Man
Because there are no 85 pound women in tight leather kicking and elbowing every guy down, over and over like a chinese movie. Gak!!!
High Noon
A great post and link. Thanks.
My kid was about ten years old when I put Buster Keaton’s silent film The General on. He groused about it at first, but once he began watching it loved it. We had a great time laughing together at that great film. It’s a good memory for me, seeing how much he enjoyed it.
He was even more impressed when I told him Keaton did all of his own stunts, WAY before CGI.
“It’s a Gift” was always one my favorites. Hilarious film.
Bumping for later to add to my playlist...
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