no more tough guys in movies! health care is to blame

[Temis the Vorta]

Obamacare Drives Real Men out of Hollywood.

The new superheroes seem gentler (think Ryan Reynolds in "Green Lantern") or funkier (think Seth Rogen in "Green Hornet") or funnier (think Robert Downey Jr. in practically everything) or simply disoriented (think Sam Worthington in "Clash of the Titans").

Casting mavens might do well to review several psychological studies about women's attitudes toward their leading men, both in real life and in the movies. The bottom line: Women in advanced Western nations want their guys to appear softer and more sensitive. The tough testosterone types are favored largely in nations with the weakest economies and the worst health care.

Hence the Russell Crowe types play well in Mexico and Bulgaria. The Matt Damon types play in Sweden, Austria and the U.S.

Since when is Matt Damon a wimp?!?

In the U.S. where women now constitute almost 56% of the workforce, these preferences are becoming more pronounced. Perhaps the women wage-earners see enough Russell Crowe types during their work days and don't want to cope with them at night or on the weekends.

We should be so lucky. I see far more Jim Belushi's than Russell Crowes wandering around in RL.

This part cracks me up:

Now MGM is taking on "Red Dawn" again, and this time the Americans are turning back a Chinese invasion.

Milius and Reynolds both find the whole idea perplexing.

"I think it's a stupid thing to do," Milius told the Los Angeles Times. "Why would China want to attack us? They sell us stuff."

Logic in Hollywood? A bit too late for that!

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I like manly men...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ben Browder, baby! He needs to be the next big action star. Save him from the CW cheerleaders!

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

It would've made more sense to have an Iranian/Saudi Alliance invading in the ramake, like the Russian alliance was in the original. Then that would make sense. Or even North Korea would've made more sense than China!

 

[emacs]

that's a fine quote from Milius; well done!

 

[Aragorn]

This part cracks me up:

Now MGM is taking on "Red Dawn" again, and this time the Americans are turning back a Chinese invasion.

Milius and Reynolds both find the whole idea perplexing.

"I think it's a stupid thing to do," Milius told the Los Angeles Times. "Why would China want to attack us? They sell us stuff."

Logic in Hollywood? A bit too late for that!

Whites and Asians are the only groups left that can be the bad guys without fear of repercussion. That's why one studio wanted to replace the Middle Eastern terrorists with Filipino terrorists for a movie so as not to offend anyone.

 

[Harvey]

Milius is offended that a movie called Red Dawn makes absolutely no sense? About twenty-six years too late, no?

 

[RandyS]

I like manly men...

I like (actually love) womanly women.

 

[Hermiod]

Sam Worthington isn't a tough guy ? What ? I've only seen him in Terminator Salvation but the guy's a bloody great monster.

The fact that his less than subtle lobbying for the Captain America role didn't work was a shame.

 

[FordSVT]

^You didn't see Avatar?

 

[John Picard]

Sam Worthington isn't a tough guy ? What ? I've only seen him in Terminator Salvation but the guy's a bloody great monster.

The fact that he's less than subtle lobbying for the Captain America role didn't work was a shame.

An Aussie as Captain America

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

 

[Roger Wilco]

Now MGM is taking on "Red Dawn" again, and this time the Americans are turning back a Chinese invasion.

Milius and Reynolds both find the whole idea perplexing.

"I think it's a stupid thing to do," Milius told the Los Angeles Times. "Why would China want to attack us? They sell us stuff."

Logic in Hollywood? A bit too late for that!

Yeah because the original Red Dawn made so much fucking sense, right?...

 

[iguana_tonante]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017874.html?categoryid=1&cs=1

Hence the Russell Crowe types play well in Mexico and Bulgaria. The Matt Damon types play in Sweden, Austria and the U.S.

Since when is Matt Damon a wimp?!?

Holy shit, the guy is Jason fucking Bourne!

 

[Deckerd]

It all sounds like a journo with a deadline and no material.

 

[Hermiod]

^You didn't see Avatar?

No. I may watch it on TV eventually, movies I don't want to pay to see specifically are what my Sky Movies subscription is for.

Sam Worthington isn't a tough guy ? What ? I've only seen him in Terminator Salvation but the guy's a bloody great monster.

The fact that he's less than subtle lobbying for the Captain America role didn't work was a shame.

An Aussie as Captain America

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Without turning this in to another Thor/Heimdall/Idris Elba thread, he looks the part, I can live with a non-American getting the role.

Chris Evans is a good choice, though, IMHO.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I wouldn't want to take a hit from Matt Damon, but he seems like the kind of guy you could talk to. Russell Crowe is just always drunk and angry.

 

[sidious618]

Matt Damon, as much as I like him, was not a good choice for the Bourne character. He never comes across as tough enough which is why they softened him in The Bourne Supremacy.

 

[Aragorn]

It all sounds like a journo with a deadline and no material.

You want to talk journalist with no material? How about the writer who attacked Erin Andrews for being on Dancing with the Stars?

 

[captcalhoun]

uh... explain Jason Statham's popularity? isn't he a manly man who does most, if not all of his own stunts?

 

[FordSVT]

Statham is a bad ass, I've never seen a movie with him in it that I didn't enjoy on some level even if the rest of the movie wasn't that great. But then again most of his movies are average and better, he's been in very few stinkers.