If you think that the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant for teens, then you're an idiot. If you're saying that the character of Blondie might appeal to teens more than adults, that's something else.
Back to your original question, there are many "men" movies for grownups, as you so eloquently put it, that the woke generation, due its natural stupidity, mistakes and classifies as misogynist, film-bro chauvinism displaying toxic masculinity.
Most of the films by Kubrick, Scorsese, John Ford, Kurosawa, Coen Brothers, Coppola, Jean-Pierre Melville, Boorman, Michael Mann, Herzog, Sergio Leone, Peckinpah, Alan Parker, John Huston, Gilroy, George Roy Hill, etc. would fall in this category though for different reasons.
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Heisenberg (6313)
4 years ago
Yeah, right....most of this stuff is sophomoric.
I love all of them, but they DO NOT make movies for men. Their movies are for everybody, mostly teens.
Coen? No country maybe, even that one is not very manly as a whole. Kubrick is a total teen filmmaker, again I love him but don't tell me his movies are made for men. Herzog is close but still, too philosophical and symbolic to qualify.
Boorman, I guess you are talkin of men under the influence...Leone is for kids, Peckinpah not far off from Leone, Roy Hill even more so.... I guess I'm not making my point clear, I understand it's subtle and I'm not very eloquent, but this list totally doesn not qualify as men movies list.
BTW, I appreciate the effort and the great list of filmmakers you wrote, I love pretty much all of them and their movies, but it's not what I meant. Thanks anyway bro!
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pacersoldaway (47)
4 years ago
I guess it's a matter of opinion, that's why I said "for different reasons". For example, Apocalypse Now is a man's film in my opinion.
Just one question for you though -- how is Kubrick a teen filmmaker? Yes, teens love A Clockwork Orange and Space Odyssey, but they're not teen movies. ACO is a serious film and more sophisticated than anything Heat offers. Just because ACO is stylized and dystopian, doesn't mean it's a teen movie. Don't get me wrong I love Heat, but at the end of the day it's a simple heist film, and a stylized one too, with plenty of (maybe a little too much) melodrama.
Are you looking for genre flicks with certain a dose of "realism" -- something like Michael Clayton, Mississippi Burning, or Mean Streets?
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Heisenberg (6313)
4 years ago
Yes! Mississippi Burning does qualify, great pick!
Micheal Clayton probably not. Mean Street is quite juvinile, like goodfellas and most Scorsese. Kubrick also is. Why you ask?
His perspective and his movies are as curious, amazed, excited and entertained by their own brilliance as young men are. No real man would share such a flamboyant and still undergoing quest: he, the real man, is done searching, and is just dealing with reality and his place in it, and he knows what that place is and he accepts it.
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