As a male, do you sometimes just crave a movie that's all style, no substance?

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

i know what you mean..

cut throat island..was the last time that happend..i started refusing after that.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

heh.

I saw Reloaded twice as well, but I liked that.

But The original Matrix never ceases to amaze me.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

thats a lot of birthdays.

 

[Motown Marvel]

Exactly, look at Snakes on a Plane. Style, action, tons of fun...but also great characters, funny, plenty of substance.

A "fun movie" isn't an excuse for a bad movie.

i actually thought SOAP was utter s#!t. the enjoyment of the film went no farther than the title itself.

 

[OtepApe]

Sometimes I feel like sitting down to watch a movie and just pop my brain to one side to just have some pure entertainment.

Commando is probably my favourite movie to do this to.

 

[Max J Power]

Sometimes. I especially like the ones that are so ridiculous that they're funny, like 70s martial arts movies, for example.

 

[Catman]

It depends on the movie really. Movies are art but they are also entertainment. So, I have nothing against mindless entertainment as long they are well. . .entertaining. lol. There are A LOT of movies out there that are mindless but not entertaining at all. Those I hate. Then, there's stuff like Commando with Schwarzenegger that is mindless but highly entertaining. I think the `80s was the best decade for mindless entertainment. And, the `90s weren't bad either. But, lately you just get a lot of mindless films that have no entertainment what-so-ever. Which is why you get a lot of film buffs and critics who complain.

 

[The Chairman]

It depends on the movie really. Movies are art but they are also entertainment. So, I have nothing against mindless entertainment as long they are well. . .entertaining. lol. There are A LOT of movies out there that are mindless but not entertaining at all. Those I hate. Then, there's stuff like Commando with Schwarzenegger that is mindless but highly entertaining. I think the `80s was the best decade for mindless entertainment. And, the `90s weren't bad either. But, lately you just get a lot of mindless films that have no entertainment what-so-ever. Which is why you get a lot of film buffs and critics who complain.

Completely agree. with you on that note.

 

[JLBats]

I absolutely love, love, love the Bond films, and tons of '80s action.

When it comes to sitting down and watching something? Yeah, I'll probably stick in Vertigo or Double Indemnity. But when I'm watching a movie with friends, give me the loud, the bombastic, the blood soaked. Give me surround sound.

I want to hear every explosion-y nuance.

 

[The Chairman]

I absolutely love, love, love the Bond films, and tons of '80s action.

When it comes to sitting down and watching something? Yeah, I'll probably stick in Vertigo or Double Indemnity. But when I'm watching a movie with friends, give me the loud, the bombastic, the blood soaked. Give me surround sound.

I want to hear every explosion-y nuance.

I agree.

I myself think the 1980s' were the best era for action movies. I may be alone in thinking this, but I loved how a lot of the characters (Indy, Ripley, Rambo, John McClane), were fleshed out, realistic believable characters instead of the marble mouthed Vin Diesel types we have today. I consider films like Die Hard, the Indy films T1 & T2 (well, that was the '90s') and Aliens to be some of the best films ever made. They actually managed to bring the genre integrity.

Oh, and I love Bond as well. As a kid, my three idols of film were Bond, Indy and Batman.

 

[JLBats]

I agree.

I myself think the 1980s' were the best era for action movies. I may be alone in thinking this, but I loved how a lot of the characters (Indy, Ripley, Rambo, John McClane), were fleshed out, realistic believable characters instead of the marble mouthed Vin Diesel types we have today. I consider films like Die Hard, the Indy films T1 & T2 (well, that was the '90s') and Aliens to be some of the best films ever made. They actually managed to bring the genre integrity.

Oh, and I love Bond as well. As a kid, my three idols of film were Bond, Indy and Batman.

To me, it's not the integrity of the thing. It's that today, they aim for cool and hit this kinda lame area where it's like " I don't get it, this guy is supposed to be COOL?!"

The nice thing about Indy and Bond are that they feel effortless. Today, it feels like a boardroom is throwing around buzzwords to create the films.

And all we get is fountains of lame.

 

[The Chairman]

To me, it's not the integrity of the thing. It's that today, they aim for cool and hit this kinda lame area where it's like " I don't get it, this guy is supposed to be COOL?!"

The nice thing about Indy and Bond are that they feel effortless. Today, it feels like a boardroom is throwing around buzzwords to create the films.

And all we get is fountains of lame.

Oh, I agree completely. They strive to hard these days. The last big, dumb action movie I really enjoyed was probably Deep Blue Sea. (Snakes On A Plane sucked. Yeah, I said it).

Cool is a thing of the past these days. When I think cool, I think Connery, Nicholson, Mitchum, Bogart, etc. We don't have guys like that these days.

 

[Warhammer]

Yep, you better believe I sometimes enjoy "All Style, No Substance" movies.

 

[Warhammer]

Sometimes I feel like sitting down to watch a movie and just pop my brain to one side to just have some pure entertainment.

Commando is probably my favourite movie to do this to.

Oh yeah.
I love Commando.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Commando rocks hard. I could watch that movie once a day, every day and not get board. Just Arnie killing people for 90 minutes.

 

[The Chairman]

Commando rocks hard. I could watch that movie once a day, every day and not get board. Just Arnie killing people for 90 minutes.

That's what most Arnie movies are. Except for Jingle All The Way. And even that managed to throw in one explosion.

 

[JLBats]

Cool is a thing of the past these days. When I think cool, I think Connery, Nicholson, Mitchum, Bogart, etc. We don't have guys like that these days.

Bingo. To me, those guys, along with Harrison Ford, all just exuded masculinity. Today, they try so hard with the macho thing that it goes in a completely different direction and becomes... sort of homoerotic

Smells like effort. Badly.

 

[OtepApe]

That's what most Arnie movies are. Except for Jingle All The Way. And even that managed to throw in one explosion.

Don't forget...

 

[ToddIsDead]

Don't forget...

A true classic.

 

[Manic]

Never saw Junior, although I'm sure there was an explosion of some type in that movie...

 

[OtepApe]

Possibly my brain exploding from watching this movie..

 

[The Chairman]

Bingo. To me, those guys, along with Harrison Ford, all just exuded masculinity. Today, they try so hard with the macho thing that it goes in a completely different direction and becomes... sort of homoerotic

Smells like effort. Badly.

I completely agree. Those guys managed to come off as genuinely macho without even trying. Heck, most of them weren't even that tough build-wise (muscle, height, except Connery who was a bodybuilder). But what they lacked in those department they made up with presence, something none of today's action stars have at all. Heck, most regular actors lack it.

 

[Movies205]

Depends... I'd argue that Bad Boys 2 did have some substance... It had two characters that had various problems, there was Marcus Burnett who's dealing with the fear of dying and not being there for his family, and then there's Mike Lowry who doesn't want lose his partner. And it all leads to that awesome end sequence through cuba. So no, I don't really like a movie with no substance there needs to be somethign or else the action become meaningless. What I think is more approriate is that just because the depth of the movie isn't earth shattering nor am I going come out of it with a different view on something doesn't make it bad. Even the movie Crank had something for me to chew on. The characters and etc need to be there but yeah definately it's really annoying to deal with a bunch of noobs who act elitest because they manage to see a couple of kubrick films and donnie darko.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I admit that a lot of times I do need a movie, like a Bad Boys 2 to balance out with something like a Cuaron's Children of Men. I feel some film buffs have become so "namby-pamby" that they dismiss a movie that has a lot of action as opposed to one that has more drama. Granted, I do enjoy some depth and drama on occasion, but that Y chromosome urges me to go see something that critics have bashed, but is so over the top with action and machismo I can't help but be enthralled. The guys know what I'm talkin' about. Or do they?:meow:

I really can't get any enjoyment out of such movies. I get satisfaction out of the three act structure, well crafted characters, storylines that resolve properly, etc. I've tried hard to like Van Helsing, Rambo III, etc, but I can't.

 

[hippy fascist]

ong bak was the classic example of this. AWESOMELY MALE!