Favorite Guy Movie

[JSZ]

I never said that being a guy was sexist. I don't even know where you got that from. I am going to state this quite clearly: I AM AGAINST THE CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN FILMS AS "GUY MOVIES", BECAUSE SUCH A CLASSIFICATION IS SEXIST.

How about Movies That Guys Prefer? Is that better? No doubt, this is what the OP meant.

[frodo82801]

How about Movies That Guys Prefer? Is that better? No doubt, this is what the OP meant.

I meant "Guy movies," the kind that have stuff blowing up, macho hero types, etc. There's nothing wrong with guy stuff. I have no idea how the idea of a "guy movie" is sexist. It doesn't compute.

[JSZ]

I meant "Guy movies," the kind that have stuff blowing up, macho hero types, etc. There's nothing wrong with guy stuff. I have no idea how the idea of a "guy movie" is sexist. It doesn't compute.I hear you.

[mbtcforJesus]

I meant "Guy movies," the kind that have stuff blowing up, macho hero types, etc. There's nothing wrong with guy stuff. I have no idea how the idea of a "guy movie" is sexist. It doesn't compute.

Very true. I was watching the AFC and NFC Champioship games over a friends house yesterday when I 'teased' the women. I said, "We ought to get together one night and rent a move. How about Dirty Harry?" The neighbor wife said what's that? When I told her it's a Clint Eastwood flick she and my wife declined the offer vehemently. :lol2

[Jaybird74]

No, because it presents the same problem, by throwing all guys into one category, which is ridiculous. Guys have incredible variety in their movie tastes. If you're going to be using this classification system, then you'd better provide some decisive evidence to prove that guys, as a whole, have preferred any movie in history.



The classification system is sexist because it classifies people purely on the basis of their sex in an area where the person's sex has no conclusive impact.

To put it simply, how do films with explosions, macho hero types, etc. qualify as "guy movies"? You have presented no conclusive evidence to back up that view. In fact, the films you seem to be referring are generally just referred to as action films. There is actually a proper genre for that, so you don't need to come up with baseless classifications.


Dude, seriously - have you drank the feminist Kool-aid in GALLONS, because that sounds like something someone (usually a borderline-misandrous female) post-1988-graduation-from-highschool would quote from some gender-studies class at any college within the boundaries of the state of California. My intention is not one of cruelty - but of pure consternation at the possible derailing of a perfectly enjoyable (and somewhat simple) thread by the use of such unnecessary legal-ese and gender-fluidity, basically based on some feminist, misandrous, leftist-Marxist-socialist bunk.

On Topic: Favorite movie: BLADE RUNNER. Other favorites: The Third Man; Sean Connery in any 007 movie made before his return after Roger Moore; On Her Majesty's Secret Service (good 007 movie - I don't care what others say); any Bogey-and-Baby (Lauren Bacall) movie - but preferably To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Key Largo; Steve McQueen movies - the original "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Bullitt", "The Great Escape", "Sand Pebbles";

[SumSam]

Found a single article published on "Differential movie-viewing behavior of male and female viewers" in the Journal of Personality (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1958.tb01584.x), Volume 26 Issue 2 June 1958.

It requires a paid subscription access, though.

[JSZ]

No, because it presents the same problem, by throwing all guys into one category, which is ridiculous. Guys have incredible variety in their movie tastes. If you're going to be using this classification system, then you'd better provide some decisive evidence to prove that guys, as a whole, have preferred any movie in history.
I would bet serious money that if I asked a bunch of men whether they preferred to watch either, for example, Conan The Barbarian or Fried Green Tomatoes they would all opt for Conan. That is not to say that women can't watch and enjoy Conan or that men can't watch and enjoy, as I did, Fried Green Tomatoes. There is nothing sexist in identifying movies as "guy movies" or "chick flicks." All one has to do is observe human nature.

We are not all the same, men and women! Amongst men there are some valid generalities, concerning preference, that can be made. The same can be said about women. Those general preferences seldom overlap. Not that they never do but in my experience it is rare.

[mbtcforJesus]

I would bet serious money that if I asked a bunch of men whether they preferred to watch either, for example, Conan The Barbarian or Fried Green Tomatoes they would all opt for Conan. That is not to say that women can't watch and enjoy Conan or that men can't watch and enjoy, as I did, Fried Green Tomatoes. There is nothing sexist in identifying movies as "guy movies" or "chick flicks." All one has to do is observe human nature.

We are not all the same, men and women! Amongst men there are some valid generalities, concerning preference, that can be made. The same can be said about women. Those general preferences seldom overlap. Not that they never do but in my experience it is rare.

Thank you JSZ and Jaybird for telling it like it is. This is a good thread. It doesn't need to be weighted down with arguing over what's considered a guy movie and what's not.

AceAttorney, have you considered starting a different thread with the types of movies you like instead of telling us how wrong we are for calling shoot em up, blow-up, adventure type movies, guy movies? What's your point already? You're not going to convince us otherwise so just drop it and move on.

[mbtcforJesus]

I know it's been mentioned earlier but I really enjoyed Rambo I and enjoy seeing it on TV from time to time. I love the way he gets the sheriff and the local police back for the way they treated him. :)

[CJ65]

The Man Who would be King
At the very end, out of ammo and surrounded:
" Peachy, I'm heartily ashamed for gettin' you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein' so bleedin' high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?"

"That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance."

"Everything's all right then."

A Man for All Seasons ( the Paul Schofield version)
"I am commanded by the king to be brief, and since I am the king's obedient subject, brief I will be. I die His Majesty's good servant, but God's first."

Flight of the Phoenix ( The original )

Just the first three that came to mind.....