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by TheDenizen
Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:47 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The 5 Manliest and 5 Girliest of Your Favorites
Replies: 36
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Re: The 5 Manliest and 5 Girliest of Your Favorites

Cool topic, nice bump! The "masculinity" or femininity" of a film is kinda arbitrary, but I think we can all agree that something like Commando is more manly than something like Bridget Jones' Diary.

5 Manliest films:
Conan the Barbarian - Conan is all manly, a deadly combination of beefcake and extreme violence. The only female characters (other than the love interest who spends most of her time fighting) are whores and half naked priestesses. (T10)

Hard Boiled - Hardcore two fisted gun violence on an epic scale. (T10)

The Wild Bunch - A manly movie about manly men doing man stuff like blowing up trains and killing Mexicans. Again, the only female characters are prostitutes. (T10)

The Seven Samurai - Seven great warriors protect a small farming village from bandits...there's a handful of minor female characters (mainly villagers), but this one is all about the tough guys. Toshiro Mifune is practically bubbling over with testosterone and macho swagger. (T10)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - A lot of spaghetti westerns could fit in this category, and the only one I liked better than TGTBATU is Once Upon a Time in the West...and that one had female protagonist (Claudia Cardinale) who was fairly central to the plot. TGTBATU is all tough, ugly men shooting each other over money. (T10)

5 Girliest films:
Heathers - Viciously black comedy about a catty clique of bitchy but popular high school girls. Not really "girly", but it's narrated by a neurotic female protagonist and most of the main cast are women. (T10)

Amelie - I wanted to hate this movie before I watched it, but I melted after about 20 minutes. Set in a sanitized, sugar-pop version of Paris, fairytale romance has never seemed less lame. (T9)

Raging Phoenix - A bit of a stretch to include this violent martial arts film, but both the hero and the main villain are females, the plot concerns the kidnapping of women for nefarious purposes, and there's not really any exploitation involved (unlike a lot of female-led action films). (T9)

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - Again, not a girly film per se but it's all about girl power. Tough, sassy broads who drive fast and live hard and don't need any men to get in their way. (T9)

Linda Linda Linda - Teenage girls form a cover band and play punk songs. Nicely captures the awkward, growing experiences of highschool in general and young females in particular. (T8)

I was kinda reaching on some of these girly films...it's not the sort of stuff I usually watch at all. It even rarer when I actually like those types of films.