5 Dude Movies Every Girl Must Watch

Lucia and Ameera Wilson discuss their 5 favorite dude movies that don't lack an ounce of masculinity. What makes these movies so appealing? Why should girls not shy away from watching? Tune in to find out!

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Gladiator. Gladiator. If you haven't seen it, I'm sorry. Get on that gosh. Rosalchro, he does. He just does a fantastic job at this film. Like, Rosalchro could command the room by his presence. When he stood up and he's like in the cage with all the other gladiators and they all are like ready to follow him. You believe it. It's the way he walks. You're like I would be one of them. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense that this guy is in charge. Have a seat. I'm being repressed. Gladiator. Oh, what a giveaway. You're that you. I'm on the back. Do you see him repressing me? You saw it. Didn't you? Welcome back to help help. We're being repressed. Woohoo. Woohoo. Huzzah and all that. All that jazz today. I feel like the light is in a different spot than normal. Like, I think it is too. Your complexion is slightly different. It's normally to my side. And now it's like barely off center. So it's just straight in my face. When I look at you, which is great. I love the light in my face. Where sunglasses next time for the whole podcast. Oh wait. Yeah. This is great. No, don't do it. Take a walk. I miss your eyes. That was really dark actually. Okay. It's a light look normal. You were, you were like a shadow. Anywho. Today's topic. Usually a shadow is five boys movies. Boy movies. That every girl needs to see. And this is not a complete list. I'm sure that there are more boy movies girls should see. But we're starting with five. Keep things contained. We are starting with five. How are should we announce what our book clubs going to be? Oh, yeah, I forgot. We're doing another book club. Because like, at least because it's small, small handful of people that like to comment said to not make it go away. So we're going to respect the wishes of those glorious five because we are for the little man. The minority be underdog. Yeah. So the rest of y'all suck it up. Mm-hmm. So our next book club will be the amazing Maurice and his educated rodents. Terry Pratchett by Terry Pratchett himself. Terry himself. And this is one that can be read by kids too. I so it's not like your five year old is going to struggle to get through it. But it can read. You're sick. You're sick. I can read by kids too. It's but it's something that hits a pretty broad demographic. I think in. Remember when I first read it. There's things that are going to be very funny to a 12 year old and things that are going to be very funny to a 30 year old presumably I haven't been 30 yet. If that. I know the great. You like it. You do. Yes. I don't. People who've been 30. Yeah. Okay. I know people who have been 30 at one point in their life who still like this book. So amazing Maurice and his educated rodents and we'll talk about that probably on March 26th. We're going with problem. Guarantees. No guarantee. Third time may or may not be the charm guys. Yeah. Life happens. Okay. To us. So to us. We didn't make it happen. No, but the amazing Maurice. It's an excellent one. So I hope you find the time to at least read a bit of it because it'll bless you. Actually, I'm going to get hand boy movies. See, Lucy is just what are my first complaint was like, hey, hey now. See, I'm going to sensibilities are a friend. A mirror is a big supporter of gender rights. Yes, that's me. And taking down the norms and equality. That's what she's all about. I was like, wait, you she sent me a list. I was like, but at least two of these are like favorite things. And I identify. Here's the thing. We're not defining boys movies as movies only boys watch. But it is in fact, there's all the movies that are kind of just targeting everybody. And then there's a clearly girl movies. We've been over those. We have. And boys. See, I just actually rescind my complaint. These are boy movies. And she's not a feminist. And I'm not I'm not a feminist actually. We're repressed what I may seem. And I like all of these movies. So, but just to talk about the topic of boy movies. Sure. I think that boy movies are normally a combination of a couple different things. One is just a boy topic. Like, it's pretty simple. They like war. They like race cars. They like fighting. They like the lone fighter out on his own. There's some pretty like boy topics. Cowboys. Right. Cowboys. Yeah, bombs. They're going to be cowing movies for girls. Those are also the thing. Yeah, but it's like we got we got our boy topics are dumb trucks and all the things like that. Monster trucks. Look at us. And we also we also have boy plots. And this is where you do get a distinction. Is boy movie plots tend to be very mission focused. Yeah. Right. It's it's not that that can be the only thing. But when you get a boy setting and then you get a very mission focused. You often have a loner. Not always. Here's the thing. There are there are types of boy movies that are just like the bros, you know, like. That happens. But there's frequently some kind of quest. Yeah. We we like our missions. A mission to accomplish. Yes. So yeah, a mission to accomplish a boy setting. And then obviously we've got our aggressive male characters. And the advantage of movies for men. And this is what we're writing to. Both genders will watch them. Mm-hmm. Most guys don't watch girl movies. Or don't love girl movies the way that they may be forced into watching girl movies. And the love and sisters. Yes. And occasionally they may enjoy girl movies. But girls will watch movies with guy main characters. Guys will watch movies with guy main characters. Yeah. So it's less likely to watch movies with great characters or read books with girl main characters. But yeah. So well. Boy movies. Very mission focused. Rah-rah. Violence and fun things. Vikings maybe. Yeah. No, the different ones. Blood. Obviously masculinity. Yes. Just a lot of masculinity in boy movies. Which is why boys find it fun. And it's also why girls can find it fun. But I have also talked. I've talked to girls before who don't watch or read things because they're boy movies. Not so tragic. And so girls can have a preference for no. The four things that are more unisex or girly. But there are some boy movies that you need to watch. So we have listed five. Would you like to kick us off with the first one? Sure. One of my favorite movies. It came out in 2019. Best year for movies. And that was 1917. It's kind of a work of art. I don't know if definitely one sometimes awards. Do you remember what awards are one? Best cinematography. Yeah. I was like I was for sure. It's like cinematography. It was robbed for best picture by parasite. Would I have not seen? So. So I can't really judge. Like the way that I judge it. But 1917. So 1917 is a World War One movie. Following a messenger with a message that is life and death. For a whole lot of people. And so it's artistically just amazing. It's a most of it is shot and it's a one shot. Yeah. So you just, which is really, really hard to do. Really difficult to do. But it's also a fantastic effect because it really brings you in. So you're like with the character because you're actually following it. It's like it's your own. You're on the journey with them. Yes. And sometimes it like pulls out and it's like you wouldn't be there. But it's still like following him very much and you're down in it. I mean, there's some beautiful shots in that movie. Like they pull off across a pond and there's like a raven or something flying across it and him like in the mud across. It's just, it's really well filmed. The cinematography is fantastic. And I think the story is based off of the true story. I think so. So it's based off an actual guy. Or at least pulling from true stories based off of this very loose, you know. But it's fantastic. It's one of my favorite movies. So that one, it's worth watching partially just for the art of it. So a big, big point towards the art. And that's something that anyone should be able to appreciate. So it can be really good to wake up to how beautiful movies can be because we've become rather accepting of all kinds of crap. Yes. Very, very low quality films. Yeah. We've become very unserious about the medium of film and just letting it, it's like it's just a movie, right? Yeah. It's just a movie. And then we accept all kinds of garbage like the new AI film. And we just, we don't have the good judgment to discern between great and horrible. And it's the sort of thing where like the, it's just a movie mentality is kind of similar to saying it's just a painting. I'm like, well, one was done by your three year olds with their little dollar store watercolor. And one is a Rembrandt. Yeah. It's like just a painting is, well, a painting is a medium. And any number of things can be done with it. And sure, you have your pop culture paintings and your paintings that hang above your microwave. And the ones you like to use in story books. And sometimes you hang your three year olds painting up. And it's amazing. And they did so well. They did so. I think they're the next Picasso. Oh, hopefully not. So it's like, yeah, there's, there's a time and a place for or not amazing paintings or like not incredible paintings. It's like there are fun paintings. There are pretty paintings. There are paintings that go in story books or in like more low level places. And then there's the higher art, the stuff that lives on for centuries. And painting is just the medium. And so you can't like dismiss the whole medium. But I mean, that's kind of a, we're doing that too to painting as well. Yeah. And just because any medium is just a medium that someone is going to work through that and it can hit at any level. Yeah. And it's funny because it's like, okay, yeah, you want to see like, is this a well formed painting or whatever or film? And or is this like terribly made? But then there's also the morals of it, right? And it's not just a painting. It's not just a film. It actually says something about the world. I mean, we were just talking about one of our classes about I have a class on George Orwell. And we're talking about one of his reviews of Salvador Dali's paintings. So if you know the, he does surrealism. Where you have like the melting clocks, the like, yeah, like those sort of things. And Orwell talked about it. And I was trying to find a quote from him. But he talked about how he was like, fantastically talented, freely, freely, really good at it. However, he was like, this is a symptom of all the world's illness. Like he is a corruption. Like this is, he is a rejecting the reality. He's rejecting all, like, morals, principles, standards. And so you have that sort of thing where it's like, okay, technically brilliant. This is very much Picasso, technically brilliant, rejection of everything good. Yeah. So that's what a medium is just something that a person works through, right? Yeah. That's all a medium is. And so to dismiss things based on the fact of their medium can be shallow, to lump all mediums together. So it's exactly right that is you can have some things. You can have a lot of things that are just popcorn equivalents of paintings or movies. But you can also have a lot of meaning port into something, messages port into something new perspectives and themes. And that can be paintings or movies. And you can have very bad ones and you can have very good ones. But I think that 1917 is a good thing to visit for remembering what you can do with movies in terms of just visual artistry. Yeah. And the artistry of it really is like, it's fantastic in its, I don't know, it's variety. So you in the film, you get really, really quiet moments and quiet beauty. But then you get explosions and even the explosions, it's like, it's, I don't know if like, quietly, the one scene with the like magnesium, yeah, bombs, the, or flyers, I don't know what they were exactly, to light up the night battlefields. That's kind of what you mean of the intense, but subdued intense. Yeah. It's like this, I mean, surreal is what it was. As you're kind of frozen in this alien moment. Yeah, but you have like the really quiet moments, you have the explosions, you have him running across the battlefield, just people die around him. But then you also have all the soldiers just sitting there, singing a song together, which is like a really emotionally impactful like moment of the film. So you just got that variety and 1917 isn't only good in quality, it's also good in morals. And it is just a base, a very basic plot. It's like you said, boy, movie, mission, quest, quest, you got to get this done. But there's a type that it needs to happen. There's a type in that that I think really does attract us, specifically the masculine mind, which is just like the idea of duty. Yep. And that's, that's another thing you can associate with a lot of boy movies is duty and nobility as driving focuses. It's not in everyone. That's that's kind of a subset. But yes, it's definitely something. But this one definitely captures that and it captures it in a really good way, where it's like you just have to follow, like you have to get this done regardless of everything. Like you have this one thing. Just like do it. Yeah. And spoiler two people start off with the message one makes it, right? And that's the sort of thing where it's like you watch your friend die. And you keep going. And you keep going through most of this alone. Because it's so much bigger than you or the two of you. Because like you've got to get this done no matter what. So it has a lot of nobility to it. And that kind of drive desperation and self-sacrifice. And then of course it has the setting of one of the gnarliest wars ever. Yep. It's a cool movie. It's pretty awesome. Girls watch it. Boys also watch it. But we were talking you know the boys you want to watch it anyway. If you haven't you should get on it. But girls you just do it. I promise. I promise it's worth it. Second movie. Yours. 310 to Yuma. Yeah. Russell Crowe. That's a fun one. And Christian Bale, right? Oh yeah. I forgot it with that. But Russell Crowe is. But Russell Crowe. So cowboy movie. We got the setting. There's a lot of guns and the wild wild west. Obviously in a bay. So this is another kind of duty-driven one. And on the podcast episode where you you lost your Wi-Fi and I had to do it with dad real fast. Yeah. We talked about how the question of responsibility is frequently the same question as ability. It's like can you do it? Then you're doing it. Then you must. And this is the 310 to Yuma setup. Is Christian Bale is a very solid cowboy. And he ends up kind of unintentionally getting wrapped up in this arrest of a very dangerous outlaw Russell Crowe. And everyone is kind of wimping out of taking Russell Crowe because he has to he's been arrested but you're in the middle of nowhere, right? And he has a whole posse that the moment they know he's been arrested they're going to be coming after you. So there is a 310 train to Yuma. Like I don't know how far away but in like a different town. And that's a prison city. So they need to get him on that train. And so because he's able to he just is like okay like this is a really bad man someone needs to do it. I'm stepping up and I'm going to do it. And then you have the extra complication throughout where he has a son. The main guy Christian Bale who does not really respect him. Yep. And admires the villain. So you've got that kind of dynamic where the son sees his father as a bit weak. So he doesn't have a lot of yeah he doesn't have a lot of respect for his dad. He doesn't really see he doesn't understand his dad is the main thing. Like his dad is operating according to a very strong set of morals but one that his kid doesn't get. His kid perceives his weak. So yeah he's starting to kind of grow in admiration towards the bad guy. Which changes. Yes however the end. Russell Crowe also does a fantastic job making himself likeable. So it's totally total villain but a likeable villain right. The best quote of the movie. Even bad men love their mommas. Yes he's hilarious he's funny but he's totally debraved and throughout the film you do get the like I don't know you get the sense that the other man is genuinely a better man and he's it's hard not to spoil this film. It is. I'm like we always do. They can skip if they want. We always spoil. But at the end he basically just decides like he will die to get this guy on. Well because at that point every single other person is whipped out. It is now just the dad and his son. He also earns the respect of the villain. So it's funny because as the son is kind of being drawn to the villain the villain is actually kind of being drawn to the dad. Yes of just in terms of respecting him. Yeah. It's a fun thing. Like you said at the end it's down to just the two guys and the villain and they have made it to the town but they have to make it to the train station and the posse is arrived and everyone is whipped out. Except for those two men. And the posse also hypes up the entire town that they'll pay them if they shoot Christian Baal. Yes so it's a lot of men that he has to get through. Yeah and he's just like we're doing it. And that's kind of the point when both Russell Crowe and the kid which I think is Logan Lerman. No idea. Just know the two leads. Get a ton of respect for him where it's like okay so this is the real man. Once again that when you're going to lose wins. You know I'm sensing a theme in these movies that we chose. Oh yeah it's it's very much you do it you do the right thing regardless of any consequences. It's like you have what you must do and you do it. Yeah because you must like there's no there's no way you can step step out of it just because you might die or you might get hurt. But they're both who refuse to lose. Yeah okay that was our story. Yeah so that one that one's also a pretty good quality one but I would say the highest quality aspect is probably just the actors all absolutely nail it. Is where I give the points but obviously fun setting with all the Cowboys fun story. But yeah so I love a good father figure dynamic learning to respect your mother is great. So that's our second one. Number three. Lucy is favorite movie. Oh yeah it's my favorite. Gladiator. Gladiator. If you haven't seen it I'm sorry. Get on that gosh. This is one of the best movies. Thank I've ever made it's amazing. I love it so much. Another war but a different kind. Yes it is a fantastic film. So Gladiator for the naive and the tragic among us who have not ever seen the movie. We have not participated in this piece of wondrous cinema. I was about a general who becomes a Gladiator. Yeah we've definitely commented on this one before but we're talking about it again. Well it's always we're talking about again. It's yeah amazing. Rose Crom. Mm-hmm again. Fantasic. He just does a fantastic job with this film. Yeah but it's another one that's incredibly duty driven. Where he kind of doesn't want to do things but he will. Mm-hmm. Yeah and he also gets kind of torn by the idea of vengeance and his duty and it's the sort of thing where it's an interesting dynamic where both line up just not really something I feel like you see so frequently but when you have the idea for vengeance but also just the noble duty that he didn't want to step into fall into place together but yeah so we have general maximus of the Felix legents. Yep. And he serves Marcus Aralius. It's kind of a baller dude in real life. He was in good writing. He was an interesting guy. Yes, do it I believe. And not fully baller. He had problems. Oh he had problems but what Roman didn't. My gosh. Most Romans had slite issues. Other than Paul Paul was fine. Just do a couple years before he starts writing letters and you're like oh I see the problem here. He's forgiven. He's forgiven. But yeah so he serves Marcus Aralius and at the beginning of the film Marcus Aralius tells Maxmas that he wants Maxmas to be the next Caesar instead of his son comedists in order to restore the Roman colonel. Wait is the actor for comedists again? Walking Finks. He does an amazing job. He nails it. He is an elite villain. This is the thing. I watch Gladiator 2. It was horrible. Nobody's watching it. Gladiator 2. It's actually just straight up doesn't exist. No. Whenever a second movie contradicts the first movie you just throw it out. It's not jammed. It's full. It's full. But what's funny though is watching Gladiator 2 highlighted in my mind how good a job walking Phoenix did. It's not that the Emperor brothers in Gladiator 2 did a bad job with their acting. They were probably some of the better actors in that movie actually. That movie sucked. It hurts my feelings. The best part of that movie was the beginning credits where they just did a watercolor filter over Gladiator. That was the best part of the film. The way I felt it sucked and I hated it. I'm just saying seeing those guys where I'm like they were probably some of the better actors. They did a pretty good job. But the way that they just could not match comedists. Because comedists is an amazing villain. He's probably one of the best. He is a masterful blend of pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. You look at him and you're disgusted. He's a worm. He's gunk stuck under your shoe when you're like the heck is that. And then also totally freaky. Very scary. Terrifying. And he has this fantastic blend where he actually knows how to control the population. He's not dumb. He's highly limited. He's erratic. Yes. And insecure and pathetic. But he actually does halogen that authority that he can flex upon. He has the aura. He does. He definitely can hold it. He's a worthy opponent. We'll say that. Because this is something we repeated again and again is just you need scary villains so that your hero looks good when he defeats him. You always want it to look like maybe they couldn't beat them. Yes. And so comedists wielding this absolute authority and kind of terrifying aura on top of this just whimpering patheticness. It's quite the character. It's very real. But then you also have his insecurity like he feels completely insufficient next to Maximus which any man would like be real but his gross dependency on his sister. Yeah. Like the fact that he's genuinely like devastated from having killed his father but also desperately wanted to kill his father. Yeah. It says he's this kind of twisted broken man. But he's fantastic. He has to jump out of it. Like nale's little bit. Russell Crowe also nails the rule. Like one of the big problems with how do you do which now is on my mind. I want to just try to make it. I'm like I just want to delete it fully. It was a terrible experience. Just all that. But one of the biggest differences was Maximus Russell Crowe could command the room by his presence. Yeah. So this is like you believe it. It's a difficult thing for actors because I think it's something that you just have or you don't and it's the ability to just hold space. When he stood up and he's like in the cage with all of the other gladiators and they all are like saluted like ready to follow him. You believe it. Like the way he walks you're like I would I would be one of them that's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense to this guy is in charge. Let's be very man-albowing their heads. It's like you believe it. Why are you listening to it? I wouldn't listen to it. I wouldn't listen to it. I'm a girl. Like not even close. But yeah. Gladiators is a fantastic film. It's all about like like you said there's the duty. There's the duty, the vengeance. There's the you know there's also just that that feeling. It's the same thing that you find in the first two of a battle that you must fight that it might be a losing one. And so it's like a lesser man would have run kind of thing. I also just love it because it's really a study of humanity in some ways. Where I mean it is historical. Also you have Rome. You have the gladiator games. You have the mobs. You have the mob and I think just that's a really the depiction of it's really fun and interesting. It's like I really enjoy the movies. Do the mobs. It's like you control people by giving them the games. You give them blood. You give them you know entertaining circuses. Which is why Maxmas is lying. They're like are you not entertained? It's so fantastic. I conic. And they love him. Yeah. They love him for it. And so we are like I'm at a talent. They're like I'm at a talent. Yeah. But yeah. So that kind of it's also it's a fun dynamic. And this is the first two that we mentioned are very much lone man fighting. This one's an interesting dynamic because it's a lone leader. So he is completely alone. Yeah. Like start to finish. He is fighting alone. He's trying to take down Rome by himself. But he is that commander. So it's just people flock to him and he still carries the burden entirely on his shoulders. So it's a fun and inspiring character. Yeah. And another fight to the death. But it's also fun when people can make a death at the end of the movie be a happy ending. Spoiler. Oh no. It's now for so long. You'll probably know that. But if you haven't said it, it's just like the fact is I like it when it's like he it's I've complained before about unnecessary self-sacrifices. Or I love me a necessary one. The necessary ones are great. But the other thing is like he did what he had to do. And death is rest. Yes. So you don't really feel bad for him. You would have felt worse for him if he had to keep living actually. Honestly. Yeah. I'm happy. Yeah. You got a rural Rome now. Like chat sounds like no fun. But honestly that's the movie. It's probably first in my priority list if you have not seen. So I'm like glad eater. Girls. Yeah. The other thing you you will like it. Boys you definitely will like it. Yeah. And it's like if you're a girl that you're not so into the violence. Get over it. And it's worth it. Watch it for the character studies. Yeah. But it's really good. Obviously it also looks good. The costumes are good. The Coliseum is impressive. You know what I think that's like biography. So bad is the bad like you know that one fever dream. Yes. You're like oh this is old. But the rest of you don't notice that. But yeah. So that's that's a peak recommend. That was movie number three. Movie number three. Movie number four. Ford versus Ferrari. Nice. Cars. Race cars. Specifically. Zoom. And pro-America obviously. We love a little bit of patriotism. Yeah. Like beating Canadians. Yeah. I know we have some Canadian listeners. Oh yeah. It's going to be old news by the time this podcast comes out. However, we still will have been Canadians. So at Ice Soccer. I would I would think ice the cross. But ice locker works and it's more demeaning. So. Let's see. So Ford versus Ferrari. We've obviously talked about F1s and this is the other race car movie I like. Out of the two. You like both of them. I like both of them. You know the funniest thing about this movie to me is that right before it came out, our dad made us watch it. Oh I hate this. You made us watch a documentary about the whole Ford versus Ferrari situation. Yeah. And I hate documentaries. And I didn't want to watch it. He was like no you have to. We're all watching this together and we watched a whole documentary about Ford versus Ferrari. It was interesting. And then we got Ford versus Ferrari. And then we got like and then you're like wait you you need I could have just watched a movie about and the movie basically has all the stuff from the documentary and in a more fun way. And I was it's like what have you done? You wasted an hour and a half of my life. It's because you've never wasted an hour and a half of your own life. Yeah but if I wasted it's special. It's so special. Well that was the funniest part to me. The documentary was actually good. I do recommend the documentary as well. I don't remember what it was called. I don't remember either. But Ford versus Ferrari is from the same year as 1917. It was a good year. Ballerier. 2019. And everything went wrong. Well before COVID shut down the theaters and everybody was still out of making quality movies because it was going straight to streaming. And they're like oh they'll watch. I don't know why don't people go to theaters and I'm like because you stopped making good movies. Why would I want one? I went to that in theaters twice. And that was fantastic. I went like two days apart too. You're weird. I was going with different people though. You're still weird. Okay but Ford versus Ferrari. Ford versus Ferrari. Very good filming. I like this cinematography. And it's been a while since I watched this one. Does it have good music? Great acting. Good music but it didn't make like a huge impression on me. Okay but like good film. Music was good. Good acting. Matt Damon and Christian Bale. And this is also a quest. Yeah. It's a different one. It's a different mission because the other ones are like life and death. You have to do it. This is just we want to beat the Italian. Which I think is a pretty good quest. Like personally I'm a big fan of. Yeah so it's more of the I'm feeling patriotic over here. It's a it's a self-imposed quest. It's we've decided we should be the best in the world. So the quest that is like if you can't lift this bar your gay you know. If you can't beat the Italians. You're okay. But any use it's it's a self-imposed quest to be the best in the world which is its own type of masculine. Which is a very patriotic quest. I feel like it is. This is what the I mean like the best we like being the best in the world. We're going to keep slandering Canada. Yeah no the best in the world is an excellent quest and this is it. So it's just we're the new kids on the block. We want to drive a race car faster than you. We make the little family automobiles. And here's just this really old family of amazing engineers and their fancy things who all look down on us and look down on the Ford family name. And we're going to beat them. Okay and we're going to be faster. We can go a room room too. What's funny though about this one is it does manage to it's very honest. So when you know something is propaganda like patriotic propaganda. Which there's much of there is much of that in the world is when there's a side where nobody's bad. If in any if in any story there is a side where no one on that side is bad if you are watching propaganda. If it's fully black and white. Yeah. Do you kind of have great propaganda that's I think more effective propaganda is not fully black and white. However I'm going to say it's a good tell. It's a good tell. But that's the whole like leftist ideal is leftist goods right wing bad and all of them are evil. Right and that kind of black and white would do that like a German accent because German. I don't. I don't. I know the next German you instinctively went to the evil German accent when you're making broad statements. Okay but I'm just saying like the black and white that's a sign of propaganda. So this does actually do a very honest while it's very bra, bra, America. There's a lot of losers among the Americans. I'm sorry. The heroes are the designer and the race car driver. Be engineer I mean. But uh and the race car driver. And then all of the business men are kind of the losers slash antagonists. Which is fine because you have the antagonists of like the Italians. But then you have the antagonists of just like the people want our side who suck. Which is more really which is always the case. Just saying if you've ever been on a team ever the biggest antagonist or normally your teammate. Yeah who are doing things their own way because the other side is supposed to be obnoxious. When your side is being a pain you're like you're the most to be with me. Yeah too much to ask really. But yeah so but it's not all simplistic there too. It's like the big Ford guy. I don't remember what his first name is because he's not Henry Ford. He's but the leader in the Ford family. He's just the guy with the money. Yeah so he's not a bad guy. He just doesn't do any of it himself. So he's he inherited this and he wants to be best in the world. But he he hasn't done the work. So he plays more of a part of an ignoramus. Yeah. But not a money. And then you have people under him who are more malevolent. And then you have the dynamics of the people actually doing the work. And so there's lots of good relational like relational intrigue to the story. Yeah. So girls you can still like it. There's but it is. It's not just an attempt to be the best in the world. It's the attempt to be the best in the world with a deadline which makes it extra fun. It's like we want to be the best in the world now. Spoiler alert. We are. We are. We win. We win. So yeah. That's a really that's a really fun one. High quality, good acting, fun story, good relational dynamics. Love a chase to be the best. Would recommend. Alrighty. Well our final recommendation. I think it's probably I would say probably the worst quality. Like the most flawed. However, it's still it's still pretty darn fun. Is warrior. Yeah. And that's probably one of the lesser known ones on our list. And not the cast. No, not the cast. Warrior the Tom Hardy film. Yes. Who is another actor who can just have presence? I think it's the traps. That's true. It's just got a big trap. It just takes up like a lot of stuff. So it's less of a cinematography one. However, the place where I think it's really worth it for girls to watch it too is really strong relational side of the story. Yes. So this one, it's a family that had been very toxic in childhood. The dad had been a drunk. The mom had been kind of problematic too. And they split up. Spent the brothers. Yeah, but the mom was supposed to leave with both boys. But the older son decided to stay because he had a girlfriend that he wanted to marry. Because he was like 15. And so he decided to stay. And because of that, his younger brother deeply resents him. Because his mom died soon after and he was completely alone. And so he resents his brother for leaving him behind. He hates his dad for destroying his family. And he just, he's really embroiled in hatred. Wasn't his dad also like made him train a lot and be a fun. Yeah. That's the other thing is the dad had been a a fighting trainer and the may. And he had decided that Tom Hardy, the younger brother was the gifted one. So he was super, super hard to train her. And he in fact was. Yeah. But like so the older brother has that kind of dynamic of being passed over for the younger brother. So yes. So this Tom Hardy has an insane amount of hatred that has become a defining character trait for him. And his older brother is much stronger, more patient character. But he still has all his hang ups too and his different weaknesses. So he was never as physically older. He was older when the, you know, when it all happened. When it all happened, he wasn't as pressured by their dad. There's a lot of reasons for him to be the more stable brother. But you have him who's still angry and bitter against his father and doesn't want him to see his kids. Then there's the younger brother who's just angry like his to fight. Yeah. Yeah. And he's just fear. But the older brother, he has some weaknesses as well because he's trying to take care of his family. But they have money problems and his wife doesn't want him to fight. And fighting is kind of one of his best ways of making money because he's a teacher and as we all know, teachers don't get paid anything. But so he has kind of this weakness in leading his family where he doesn't properly take the lead because he's kind of, he's trying to keep them out of it. And then there's the dad. It's a reasonable flaw, especially since he was raised by an insane fighter who's just obsessed with it. But his dad is a thousand days sober. And a very desperate man. Yeah. Because now he's fully come to terms with how he wrecked his family's lives. But he wants to be part of it so badly. So he's put in over three years, no, three years, what's the math? You're, I don't know, three years about a thousand days. I wish a little less maybe, but three years about of pursuing sobriety. And he hasn't been able to take a single step to fixing his family because the older son, Brendan, I think, will have nothing to do with him. And that it's a sort of thing we're having his kids not meet their grandfather seems appropriate because the implication is that he might have hit the kids once when he was still a drunk. And so the, but on the more problematic side, Brendan has clearly not let go of his hate. And while you don't have to let him back into your life, you don't get to stay hateful. And so that's kind of the setup of this whole situation. And both brothers are trying to make money. Both are desperate for money, both join an MMA tournament and not a low level one. There's some pretty tough fighters happening. And so you get them both going through the tournament. So, and only one of them can get the money. Also, the younger brothers also ex-military, ex-marine. And the younger brother actually returned to his dad to get training for this tournament. And, but has not forgiven him. So because that you have this setup and you have this very, very masculine way of working through it all, which is fighting. Not talking about it. It's like a punch-doof. Now we're okay. Yeah, but it's both guys have their strengths. Neither of them are weak men, but both of them have weaknesses that they're working through in this. So for girls, I think it's worthwhile because these family dynamics and the growth is really good. Also, it's really fun. It's really fun. But it's also just the characters. But yes, if you're not, if you're not drawn to just like watching the fighting fight each other, which is fair, then yes, think about the relational dynamics, the family dynamics. And it's also just, it's interesting in that way. Yeah. And it's one that, unlike some of these other ones, I do have edits, things that I would have kind of done differently. But even that is kind of interesting to think about and talk about. Yes, I do think how wonderful is towards the end where you're just left wondering a little bit of like, well, what's going on now? Well, that's the thing. He's what's funny is your, my first impression after I finished was I wanted like 10 more minutes. Yes. And it's like three hours. Which is, yeah, it's actually, whenever you ever finished a, like a movie, three hours long and wanted a little more. So it's funny because it's like, okay, I prefer that than wishing that it was 10 minutes shorter. However, yeah, it's because I was talking about that means that you had to step back and finagle some things about. There were some things that you weren't left. Well, they're some loose ends. Yeah, it has itself a bit of an implied ending. There were loose ends for sure. Because it ends like at the end of the climax, rather than having any kind of little like wrap up and we wrap up at the end and we were like, hold up. So you can finish it in your head, like that's fully possible to kind of because it does imply several things. Yes. In the end, there was just like, but I wanted, I wanted to see it because of how much these boys hurt. I wanted to see a little bit of after they made up. It's like, okay, I do want a bit of happy resolution. And I think one of the ways that it's really great is the way they address the different issues that the people have. They don't play favorites with the problems. No, they do not address all of them. They address all the issues. And I think they, I think the decisions they make about like, who wins the fights and stuff or like how they win the fights, I think they do really well. And fun fact, they surprised me. Yeah. Yeah, like with the out, with the tournament, how it went down, there was some really good decisions that I didn't expect. Which made it fun. But yeah, and I'm not going to spoil that one. You get to watch it. Look at it. It's a little less or known. So I figure it's more likely people haven't heard of the different endings. Different things. I have a lot of. I love so known. But yeah, no, that's a good one. Because like I said, I have, I have edits, but it's, it's pretty powerful. Yeah. And especially as someone who loves me a redemption, it's really good. But part of that is just, you like to see. Strength and pain turned to just strength. You know, yes. I also, one thing that talks, it's strength, get broken down. Yes. One thing that I really like that I think is a lot. I don't think it's very common right now. And our culture is the need to forgive someone. So what really big, what I see a lot online is people being like, you owe them nothing. Like, you don't have to forgive them. It's a family treated you wrong. Like, you know, you don't have to forgive them. Like if they come back, they apologize. If someone did something wrong, a bully from child or whatever, it's like you owe them nothing. And this movie does very counter cultural thing, which is be like, so actually that lack of forgiveness. Your feet towards them is just damaging you. And it is a problem. And you actually do need to move forward and to move forward truly. You need to forgive. Yeah. And it is true. Like forgiveness can be a thing for like, I love it in story when forgiveness features as something that you do for your own growth. Rather than you owe them forgiveness, because you don't in all cases. They frequently people who've wronged you don't deserve to be forgiven. But it's not about that. You're called to forgive them. Yeah. And not forgiving them rots away at you. Yes. So it can also be a very strong thing. So seeing both brothers have to work through behavior. They're different ways. And it's the sort of thing where I think any like most movies made right now would not have forgiven the dad. And this is the dad terrible for the dad had been terrible. And right now he's not a good man as much as a broken man. So like he's a man who has faced everything he's done wrong and hasn't been able to do anything about it. Yes. So he's a very broken character. But because he was genuinely awful, most movies right now would not redeem him. Like they just wouldn't because we're incredibly unforgiving culture. Yeah. Which is ridiculous. Because fun fact, nobody deserves redemption. That is the dominant feature of redemption is that you don't freaking deserve it. It's like, oh wait, you don't, like, you only need forgiveness if you don't have something wrong. Yeah. So the fact that you did something wrong. And then you use that as a reason for why you can't forgive someone is just well, that's something that pop has talked about before is he makes fun of people who follow that line of thought because he said like you're walking down a hallway and someone bumps into you. They don't require your forgiveness because they didn't like wrong you. It was like, oh, sorry, excuse me. And you're like your excuse. Do not. But then someone tucks down their head and ram into you. And apologize. And you say, I can't forgive you. You did that on purpose. Well, that's the only thing that requires forgiveness actually is things you did on purpose. Plus no sinner is so bad that God can't reach them. That's just the fact. And so I love it when storytellers have the boldness necessary to pull out one of those deep sinners. Yes. And there's the tapasins that we have problems with where it's like it depends on the person. But there's like, okay, so you have the angry father, like the abusive father. And a lot of people will be less likely to be willing to forgive that sort of sin where it's like you abused your kids, you know, compared to like stealing or something stealing like, oh, you were a robber. Like, it's like, well, you were poor. We forgive you. We forgive you. It's like, okay, so what's more acceptable? Yeah, we feel like we can only forgive them if they have some kind of motive we kind of feel for. You know, it's something we relate to. And you're like some of them are not sympathetic. And that's the sort of thing is forgiveness does not mean escaping the consequences. No, he still has it. Like I said, I might have been okay with Brendan keeping his kids from his father. Yeah, at least for a while longer. Like that is totally within his his power to make that decision. If he if he still felt like his father could be some threat to his daughters, his responsibility is never his kids first. However, he wasn't just doing that. He was holding on to this resentment. Yes. It was actually about the protection of his kids. Yeah, so the problem wasn't that he couldn't be at his granddaughter's birthday party. The problem was that Brendan is the end of it and being full of hatred. Yeah. Are ready. Well, but yes, so those are our five boy movies that every girl should see. And boy, maybe we'll do more sometime. Every girl. Cool. Watch the movies and let me know. Read amazing. Read the amazing. Marisa is educated. Roads you will be blessed. Peace out.