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Remember of any recent movie with good male representation?

maybe it's just the type of movies you watch, I go to theaters nearly twice a week and there's been a nearly countless string of good male representation in the past few years.
Saw red one yesterday and there's a couple there.
 

Coconutt

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Top Gun Maverick is the last movie I can think of that portrayed white men in a positive late, so used to seeing them as the villains in every modern movie.

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Tom Cruise Maverick GIF by Top Gun
 

intbal

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OP, you said "past five years".
A Quiet Place fits inside that window (2018).
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May not be the type of story you were thinking of, since the point of the movie isn't really to highlight personal relationships. Although it does that fairly well. Especially considering the dialogue is minimal.

Another horror movie with top notch male representation is "The Road". It's not really all that recent, though.
 
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RedC

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I'm surprisingly looking forward to Gladiator 2 this year which will be filled with a wide breath of masculinity.
 

FunkMiller

Gold Member
Lots of people quoting good examples of non asshole males in movies, so maybe the focus should be more on heroic male protagonists in major Hollywood output? IE - the central, main character of a movie being male, with heroic, positive traits for young men to identify with? How has that archetype fared in the last four or so years on the big screen?
 
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IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Civil War- Two female reporters. Two male reporters. Female reporter has a breakdown. Male reporters dont.

The male reporter played by Wagner Moura has a breakdown when

Sammy dies. The dude just stands there screaming and the next scene he's clearly a broken mess

For those who want to see it

 
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SlimySnake

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The male reporter played by Wagner Moura has a breakdown when

Sammy dies. The dude just stands there screaming and the next scene he's clearly a broken mess

For those who want to see it


yeah but by the end he's back to smiling in the middle of a warzone and keeps his composure even after he loses you know who.
 

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
yeah but by the end he's back to smiling in the middle of a warzone and keeps his composure even after he loses you know who.

I think he's only calm in the end because he knows he's going to fulfil his dream and

document the last spoken words of the POTUS

That and he has years of experience and knowing what to do when shit hits the fan. Same with Kirsten Dunst, but I think at the end, years of trying to bottle up her emotions and not letting go got the best of her.

He still has moments of vulnerability, just like any person who decides to be a war reporter.
 

LimanimaPT

Member
I was watching a youtube video with trailers of 2024 horror movies. I stopped at the 15th trailer. 13 of them had female leads. The other 2 I couldn't tell.
 

PlayofSparta

Gold Member
5 years? Hell no. I don't know any. The Batman borderline there maybe? But those two movies are good (jobless male young adult and detective male young adult):

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RedC

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I was watching a youtube video with trailers of 2024 horror movies. I stopped at the 15th trailer. 13 of them had female leads. The other 2 I couldn't tell.
Horror films are known for having female protagonists and appealing to a largely female demographic and are great for dates. Hence, it's consistent with low-risk budgets with potentially high reward box office returns.
 
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Kraz

Member
I've watched a tv series recently called "Why Women Kill", and like the title implies, every men is a piece of shit in it. Every single one of them (well, except the gay one, of course)

I asked my gf: "can you remember of a single movie of the past 5 years or so where there was a male role model? Not an asshole or some weak individual?". She couldn't answer. And I couldn't either, hence why I'm asking here.

I'm honestly worried about how this may impact young boys, with the lack of men that they could be inspired by in media, while being represented as bad individuals simply by being ... male.
The kindest way she could've answered would be to ask if Jason Statham stopped making movies.
If a gf asked something like that about women role models after watching Friday the 13th I'd wonder how much fluoride she ingested and hoping she's just tired and being insecure.

Yeah, great examples

I particularly love the Guy Ritchie movies (men are usually not role models in his movies tho lol. 90% are criminals, but I see what you mean)

Maybe I'm just consuming a lot of junk lately. I wouldnt call The Substance junk, tho.
It's good to see you recognize your opinion is informed by your selections.

Idealized male characters from this year alone, off the top of my head of strong role models
There's Praetorian Jack in Furiosa.
The lack of any mention of Ungentlemanly Warfare so far makes me wonder what values are considered good representation.
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Futaleufu

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oh man this reminds me i recently watched the biopic about enzo ferrari expecting cars, engineering and beautiful italian design and more than half the movie are his troubles with women....
It was so awful I stopped watching after 30 minutes. I was expecting something like Ford vs Ferrari.
 

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Does this count? This had me and my wife riveted the entire time. Got to see some true heroes maintaining their composure and bravery in the face of the most stressful situation imaginable, and surviving thanks to their hard work and ingenuity. And it’s 100% made up of real footage/pictures with a bit of representstional scenes mixed in…. not one of these documentaries where 80% of the visuals is people sitting there talking about their past experiences.

if 2024 Hollywood wanted to tell a fictional story in this vein, the disaster would happen thanks to some cocksure white men, and they’d all be arguing and raging about how to solve it, until some super genius BIPOC woman that they all underestimated walks in and presents some solution that she worked out all by herself. And all the dudes would just sit there gobsmacked at her brilliance.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
if 2024 Hollywood wanted to tell a fictional story in this vein, the disaster would happen thanks to some cocksure white men, and they’d all be arguing and raging about how to solve it, until some super genius BIPOC woman that they all underestimated walks in and presents some solution that she worked out all by herself. And all the dudes would just sit there gobsmacked at her brilliance.
To be fair to the ladies, this scenario plays out for ALL Hollywood 'science' films. You can't just have a competent team without the drama of some authoritarian figure dismissing them. Very few writers can make just science or engineering interesting for a mass audience film so the "they dont believe my wild idea" angle is what they go with time and again.
 

Londo

Neo Member
Boss Level (2020) is pretty good, I found it funny and with great action scenes, plus Michelle Yeoh in a small part, so, 'nuff said.
Last week I saw Rebel Ridge (2024), which was pretty meh and forgettable to me, like 99% of the modern times movies nowadays, but it checks the 'good-male-representation' well.

Better search into indians/hk/chinese/indonesian/korean productions, even if for some flicks you have to get accustomed to subtitles.
 
The Northman?

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In which world is a bloodthirsty motherfucker any good representation?

What this movie does better than most is depicting Vikings as the barbarians they really were.

I'd say Interstellar's protagonist is a prime example of good representation.


In series, The Walking Dead is full of them.
 
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Jsisto

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This has been going on for a long, long time. Think commercials and sitcoms depicting men as clueless dopes that can barely even put their pants on without the pragmatic, rational woman to keep them in line. Culturally I think we’re finally reaching the point where we’re exhausted by it.
 
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