Help: Name a movie that'd be the antithesis to SEX AND THE CITY

[DerekG]

My best friend is in a serious relationship with a woman who is obsessed with the HBO program. She watches them constantly, and anticipates the upcoming movie with the same fervor I did the Star Wars prequels. He loves her, but like myself and the majority of men, he’d just as soon drink goat urine than expose himself to that.

He looks to me to provide him with alternatives—soul cleansings, if you will. Good friend that I am, I’m set out to oblige him. Right now, I’ve got THE MISSION. It’s a Robert DeNiro/Jeremy Irons film about Jesuit priests defending a South American tribe from imperialists. Hell, could you imagine anything more different?

Any suggestions?

[Deja Q]

1. Romeo and Juliet?

:hide:

[jobycom]

33. Maybe Hamlet.

I've often watched Sex and the City and muttered "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageously bad writing, or to take arms against a sea of trouble and by jumping out my goddamn fourth floor window, end them."

[JVS]

2. Taxi Driver

[ironflange]

21. Yeah, Taxi Driver

That's what immediately jumped into my head. Great, great flick.

[JVS]

35. But not this version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UaVUPsLsM
;-)

[AlCzervik]

3. Full metal jacket.

[JVS]

5. Patton

[EFerrari]

4. So we need a movie where women have no sex.

Hmmm.

Like Water for Chocolate almost does it. That daughter wasn't supposed to have sex.

What about Peter Pan?

lol

[Deja Q]

6. Or Star Trek - The Motion Picture,,,

Mind you, Kirk seems hot to trot for Ilia...

[sasquatch]

7. Boondock Saints

[Catshrink]

8. Shrek

I don't think Fiona cares about shoes.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Glengarry Glen Ross.

Doesn't even have any women in it.

[DerekG]

10. Imagine Blake sitting down with the SatC women

"I mean, women are entitled to orgasms too, right?"

"Like I give a fuck, Bradshaw!"

[fujiyama]

13. I love that movie!

What a cast.

[Critters2]

19. I hated that movie.

There, I said it.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. Why?

:hide:

[Critters2]

26. It's depressing!! Could it have at least stopped raining for a few

effing minutes?!! God, I get depressed just thinking about it.


But hey, someone must've liked it. People are allowed to like stupid stuff, err, I mean, disagree with me :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. John Carpenter's The Thing

No women at all, totally nihilistic, and everyone dies paranoid and alone. Plus, it's really fucking gross.

[jobycom]

34. The computer chess game is a female voice.

But of course Kurt Russel kills her first.

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Kills her by electrocuting her with cheap blended scotch

:7

[EstimatedProphet]

12. The Guns of Navarrone

[quiet.american]

14. The Godfather.

That should do it. Have never met a guy who didn't worship this movie. (Along with the Die Hard series). (You can tell I'm not a guy, can't you?) :)

[Critters2]

20. I'm not a guy, and I worship this movie,

and II. III, not so much.

[quiet.american]

38. Great -- but still haven't met a *guy* who doesn't worship this movie. :) n/t

[ironflange]

23. "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

15. Winter Light (Gustav Bergmann) Actually most everything by

Bergmann.

[Critters2]

24. Gustav Bergmann, the philosopher?

Or did you mean Ingmar Bergman, the film maker...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2f0nfrgaK4

[Hardrada]

40. LOL! I fucked up!!

I guess he'd have made some dry movies too (Gustav B.). I had one for a department head and one whose flicks I watched avidly.

[Critters2]

46. You studied under Bergmann at Iowa? nt

[Hardrada]

48. Yes. He was an exile from Vienna you know.

And was at the U of Iowa.

[Critters2]

54. I know. The U of I has had some pretty impressive faculty at times--

Bergmann, Van Allen, and others. You were fortunate to be able to study under him. A great thinker.

But as a filmmaker...meh. :)

[Hardrada]

60. At the same time we also had Kurt Vonnegut in the U of I

Writer's Workshop. And other luminaries in due course.

[mitchum]

16. "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"...Carrie better watch out!

[idgiehkt]

17. Silkwood

Woman has a life, works hard, doesn't whine incessantly, makes mistakes that are HER FAULT, which produce REAL CONSEQUENCES (losing her kids), woman is confronted with real moral dilemna, woman does the right thing and pays for it with her life.

A truer antithesis in the same gender you won't find...Norma Rae is similar. I guess when I examine my motives I am suggesting this more as an intervention for the woman than for her boyfriend. As far as guy movies go, I am not familiar with that genre at all but I really like Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman.

[Aristus]

18. "Abstinence In The Countryside"?

:shrug:

[idgiehkt]

28. roflmao

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

otherwise known as "The Sound of Music". :)

[Aristus]

31. That's good!

:spray:

[Drum]

25. The Scarlet Letter. nt

[philosophie_en_rose]

27. Fight Club.

:hi:

[DS1]

29. Is this for real?

Alien
Terminator2
The Thing
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
Major League
Gattaca
Tango and Cash
Rush Hour
Rambo III
Driving Miss Daisy
Throw Momma from the Train
Batman II
Happy Feet
300
1408
Spiderman 3
Sin City

goddamn, if you can't think of 10 movies that aren't 'sex in the city', you suck

[jobycom]

32. Geeze. A list?

Say goodbye to your Slacker Card!

[DerekG]

42. I did it hoping for thoughtful suggestions like SILKWOOD

I'm trying to negate the effects SatC might have on my poor friend; exposing him to macho bullshit like 300 or Tango and Cash won't help.

[Dark]

30. The Matrix (NOT the sequels)

Plenty of action and no sex or "sophisticated" humor.

[Initech]

36. Bad Santa

[Beausoir]

37. The Sound Of Music.

[lligrd]

39. Rejected For Sex In An Airport Bathroom

Not quite a movie but the video is available for free.

[opiate69]

41. The Big Lebowski.

[Tyler Durden]

44. Jesus Camp.

First thing that came to mind.

[NewJeffCT]

45. The ultimate "guy" movie - The Dirty Dozen

Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, and others.

[IndianaJones]

47. is that the show about the prostitutes and their mom? nt.

[jakefrep]

49. A two-hour "Little House on The Prairie" special.

God, that was the TV show that wouldn't die.

[Deep13]

50. The Right Stuff n/t

[Deep13]

51. I've got it! The very opposite of Sex and the City.

[sarge43]

53. For a double feature, Conan the Barbarian n/t

[sarge43]

52. Lawrence of Arabia n/t

[cemaphonic]

55. The Wild Bunch

[Xipe Totec]

56. Deliverance n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

57. The Crucible.

Thread over.

[JVS]

61. It was Goodie Bornaginhooligan who sickened our cattle! That's the witch

[Demoiselle]

58. Lilies of the Field. (Nuns in the Country.) eom

[JVS]

62. German nuns

[MorningGlow]

59. Reservoir Dogs n/t