“Paths of Glory”
“Sgt York”
“The Best Years of our Lives”
“Casablanca”
“The Maltese Falcon”
to name a few
Not gonna’ watch the YouTube presentation with concomitant ads. Unimportant topic.
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.
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.
Magnificent Seven
Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
The Devils Brigade
Casablanca
The Big Country
The Searchers
The Quiet Man
The Tin Star
Home From The Hill
El Cid
Shane
Battle Cry
The Horse Soldiers
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.
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.
Poseidon Adventure (the original, not the travesty of a remake)
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.
Force 10 from Navarone.
The Dirty Dozen.
-PJ
W.C. Fields
The Bank Dick
You Can’t cheat an Honest Man
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.
Bumping for later to add to my playlist...
Hopefully, someone out there with an extensive knowledge of movies will submit a list of “Tampon Walz” movies. You know, ones which portray the male star as a dumb-*ssed wimp.
I got the complete box set of the “Classic Monsters”. Great stuff