I’m so excited to read his book. Love the hell out of his work, and he seems like a great dude.
ProperPossibility378 on
Yes, but I think romcoms were actually more toxic than action. They lifted up the ‘faint heart never won fair lady’ (copyright Peep Show) ideal where acting like a stalker inevitably gets you your partner of choice.
CountdownMoss on
I’m not sure I totally agree…
MacGyver, Columbo, Knight Rider, Starman and Quantum Leap all pretty much tried to solve conflict with as little violence as possible.
Short circuit, Flight of the Navigator, the Princes Bride if you want to go the movie route.
Icy_Host_2043 on
I agree, mostly because men thinks that these characters are real and considered role models.
LeviHolden on
Rambo, Rocky, G.I. Joe, Batman/Superman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all come to mind.
cadmiumhoney on
I enjoyed the characters he plays (in his shows) when I began to see them from a parody or mockery POV. I am pleasantly surprised when he’s able to make them both brash/meatheaded and vulnerable.
riegspsych325 on
McBride is right on the money, here. The OG Predator is a Top 10 movie for me (this sub knows I’ve talked about Badlands all last fall) I grew up with it and it still holds up great. But it is wild to see how many people miss the fact that it was a *fantastic* breakdown of 80’s machismo and was an antitheses to the Big Action Hero
First act sets up Dutch and his men as more-than-capable badasses that can shoot their way to get the job done. But as soon as the Predator kills Hawkins, it all begins to unravel, and wonderfully so. Billy admits he’s afraid, Mac begins to lose it after Blaine gets killed, Dillon says enforcer to learn he’s as expendable as the rest, etc. No more one liners, glorious final stands, or
And just look at Dutch in the final moments of the movie; he’s almost a husk of who he was at the start. He’s bloody, covered in ash, lost all his men and is absolutely shellshocked on that helicopter ride back to base. He’s didn’t relish in victory, didn’t “get the girl”, or was heralded by his superiors. He merely **survived** and was left very damaged and scarred in several facets
Not too many action movies were (or still are) willing to let its hero be left alive like that. Almost 40 years later and Predator still has something to teach its viewers
LipstickCoverMagnet on
Shoutout to the Predator, a vagina-mouthed feminist that killed 90% of the macho assholes that came after it
CryptographerMean872 on
US public education also reinforces a western imperialist mindset
Maester_Bates on
And now they’re learning the wrong lessons from social media.
Icy_Barista on
Anyone have a no paywall link?
TJ_McWeaksauce on
Indiana Jones and all them WWII movies also taught us that nazis were evil fascism is bad, but somehow a lot of today’s Americans missed that lesson.
b2walton on
Kind of love that he’s writing GI Joe with this mentality
14 Comments
I’m so excited to read his book. Love the hell out of his work, and he seems like a great dude.
Yes, but I think romcoms were actually more toxic than action. They lifted up the ‘faint heart never won fair lady’ (copyright Peep Show) ideal where acting like a stalker inevitably gets you your partner of choice.
I’m not sure I totally agree…
MacGyver, Columbo, Knight Rider, Starman and Quantum Leap all pretty much tried to solve conflict with as little violence as possible.
Short circuit, Flight of the Navigator, the Princes Bride if you want to go the movie route.
I agree, mostly because men thinks that these characters are real and considered role models.
Rambo, Rocky, G.I. Joe, Batman/Superman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all come to mind.
I enjoyed the characters he plays (in his shows) when I began to see them from a parody or mockery POV. I am pleasantly surprised when he’s able to make them both brash/meatheaded and vulnerable.
McBride is right on the money, here. The OG Predator is a Top 10 movie for me (this sub knows I’ve talked about Badlands all last fall) I grew up with it and it still holds up great. But it is wild to see how many people miss the fact that it was a *fantastic* breakdown of 80’s machismo and was an antitheses to the Big Action Hero
First act sets up Dutch and his men as more-than-capable badasses that can shoot their way to get the job done. But as soon as the Predator kills Hawkins, it all begins to unravel, and wonderfully so. Billy admits he’s afraid, Mac begins to lose it after Blaine gets killed, Dillon says enforcer to learn he’s as expendable as the rest, etc. No more one liners, glorious final stands, or
And just look at Dutch in the final moments of the movie; he’s almost a husk of who he was at the start. He’s bloody, covered in ash, lost all his men and is absolutely shellshocked on that helicopter ride back to base. He’s didn’t relish in victory, didn’t “get the girl”, or was heralded by his superiors. He merely **survived** and was left very damaged and scarred in several facets
Not too many action movies were (or still are) willing to let its hero be left alive like that. Almost 40 years later and Predator still has something to teach its viewers
Shoutout to the Predator, a vagina-mouthed feminist that killed 90% of the macho assholes that came after it
US public education also reinforces a western imperialist mindset
And now they’re learning the wrong lessons from social media.
Anyone have a no paywall link?
Indiana Jones and all them WWII movies also taught us that nazis were evil fascism is bad, but somehow a lot of today’s Americans missed that lesson.
Kind of love that he’s writing GI Joe with this mentality
file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/00/00/2FE1E835-0361-4C79-B444-8F2E56F2CC80/tmp.gif