Title: What in the Heck is Wrong with Women? Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jul 4, 2010 Author:me Post Date:2010-07-04 10:27:59 by F.A. Hayek Fan Keywords:None Views:4618 Comments:133
Why in the hell do women voluntarily watch movies they know going to make them cry? I just don't understand it. My wife actually seeks out these kinds of movies.
However, despite this signigicant matter, my favorite movies are mob flicks. I especially loved Once Upon A Time in America. James Woods ends up in the trash truck all compacted. De Niro kicks butt!!
Mostly "action" flicks bore me to tears. Why do men want to watch them and make me cry? I don't know why men find them so enthralling. Most are just too cheesy to even bother with watching.
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
Good vs evil is a great plot. Timeless.
Independence Day was horrible though, imo. It was so bad it was funny. The president as a fighter pilot? Yeah. I don't know who it was that played him, but I can act better than he can.
#35. To: abraxas, Original_Intent, critter, turtle (#28)
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
Many of the great action flicks have wonderful plots. Take Soldier, Kirt Russel movie, for instance. They tried to make a better soldier by taking away his humanity. It was only by finding his humanity again that he became a better soldier. The soldiers that follow blind orders were the weak ones. Do I hear Promise keepers anyone?
Then there is Demolition Man. PC gone awry. Really funny movie.
Die Hard, rugged individualism not only is stronger but will win in the end. Independence Day, besides being a cheer leader for Americanism, it also had a individualist theme.
As for Rambo, well it fits today more than ever. The police tried to deny him the freedoms he fought for. They drew "first blood". He took em down.
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
It's a guy thing. Every real man wants, in his own mind and spirit, be able to do his duty, to stand in the face of overwhelming odds in defense of all that is good and right, and prevail. It is not even the accolades it's like the line in the old Western where the quiet Cowboy single handedly captures the Cattle Rustlers, wards off an Indian attack, collars the crooked Sheriff, and then shoots down four fingers of "Red Eye" without gasping. Then when confronted with being told by the pretty Cattle Baron heiress how wonderful he is, who has fallen madly in love with him, then wrings the brim of his hat, looks down and kicks the dust with the toe of his boot, looks up and bashfully and uncomfortably says: "Aw, shucks ma'am, twarn't nuthin'."
It's the same in reverse on "Chick Flicks". Why on earth would someone want to set through 2 boring schmaltzy hours of "Fried Green Tomatoes" or "Love Story". Yecccccccch!!!!!!!!
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
Men relate to the Spec Ops Community, where the prevailing philosophy is, "There are very few human problems that can't be solved with a sufficient charge of high explosives".
IF wimmen ruled the world they wouldn't make bombs that killed anybody. They'd just drop bombs that make you feel real bad for a while....
So, tell my why men voluntarily watch crap like Rambo, Independence Day and Die Hard..........uuuhhhhgggg. : ) Where's the plot?
There are plots there. Quite primal plots really, ones you can find throughout history, even back to (but not exclusive to) Beowulf.
There are only, I believe, 7 or 8 distinct *basic* plots you can write (you can write, fwiw, themes/variations on the basics which also are viewed as plots of course). The films you note, fall neatly into some of those categories (I had to google the exact terminology, been a while since I've had to officially recall them).
1. man vs. nature 2. man vs. man 3. man vs. the environment 4. man vs. machines/technology 5. man vs. the supernatural 6. man vs. self 7. man vs. god/religion
Rambo - man vs. man
Independence Day - man vs. machines/technology (or supernatural, depending on how you categorize aliens, but to me, aliens just mean "higher tech" in this context)