So you think you know movies ?

[moof]

List two or three good movies that have NO, repeat, NO love story angle. Does that leave anything but war & horror films.

To start,

Run Silent, Run Deep

Arsenic and Old Lace

A League Of Their Own.

[Dookus]

1. wait....

In arsenic and Old Lace, isn't Cary Grant newly-married?

[LiviaOlivia]

15. Also A League of Their Own insinuates possible

interest between Geena Davis and Tom Hanks characters.

[elperromagico]

2. Hmm... Shawshank Redemption?

I don't think the many attempts to sodomize Andy Dufresne count.

Maybe Bridge on the River Kwai, though William Holden has a brief scene with a British nurse, and Alec Guinness sure did love that goddamn bridge.

Lawrence of Arabia arguably has homosexual overtones, but perhaps that shouldn't count either (as it isn't overt), though he sure did love that goddamn desert.

[frogfromthenorth2]

5. That movie STARTS with a love triangle....

[elperromagico]

6. That's a lust triangle, man.

And from where I was sitting, it wasn't a threeway.

[Capn Sunshine]

3. Seven Days in May

a general schemes against the sitting president---hmmmmmmm

Runaway train-- if there was a love story in there I missed it?


Koyannisiqatsi-- no love in there , for sure

[Yupster]

4. Gettysburg?

Though I really didn't even like it too much and I'm a Civil War buff.

[Shrek]

7. Lilo & Stich

True Grit

Remember the Titans

The Longest Yard

The Shawshank Redemption

[TheZoo]

8. My choices

"Yellow Submarine" (even though "Love" is featured heavily)
"Das Boot"
"Monty Python's Holy Grail"

I'd add "History of the World Part I" and "Blazing Saddles" but there's some "love interest" in both.

[the_acid_one]

9. The Boondock Saints.

The Dog Soldiers

Terminator 2

[Sapphocrat]

23. Bzzzzzzt!

Sorry to say it, but T2 (director's cut) has the whole thing between Sarah & the father of her son.

[the_acid_one]

26. Aww...

...Does that count? Being that Reese is dead and all....

Well...In lieu of Terminator 2, allow me to offer up "Bubba Ho'tep"

Which is still making it's theater run. Very B movie, but really great, Check it out if you get the chance, plays mostly in indie theaters.

http://www.bubbahotep.com

[mitchum]

10. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" is neither a war or horror film...

and has no love story angle (except for the lust for gold and empire)

[elperromagico]

11. Escape from Alcatraz.

One of the inmates tried to create a love angle in the shower, but Clint Eastwood just beat the shit out of him.

[Jim Sagle]

12. Any John Carpenter movie - he must be an eternal pre-teen.

For instance:

Escape from New York
The Thing
At the Mouth of Madness

Many more.

[kerouac]

13. Escape From Alcatraz

Escape From Alcatraz
2001: A Space Odyssey
Reservoir Dogs
South Park: The Movie

[elperromagico]

14. Give 'em Hell, Harry,

James Whitmore's one-man show about Harry S. Truman, which was made into a movie in the seventies,

Sleuth, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine (only two actors in the film),

The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Company,

Fred Ott's Sneeze, produced by Thomas Edison in 1893,

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison, Edison Company, 1901.

Sounds like this Edison fellow didn't have any romance in his heart...

[DivinBreuvage]

25. No romance in "Sleuth"? Are you kidding?

Did you see the way Laurence Olivier was eying Michael Caine when the latter stripped to his skivvies? Oh, Eros was there, my friend.

[ornotna]

16. Any porn movie....pick one

Oops, you said good movie, sorry. :eyes:

[unblock]

17. saving private ryan?

terminator movies?
rambo movies? oh, sorry, forgot they had to be GOOD movies :evilgrin:

there must be plenty of non-romantic comedies, though i'm not so familiar with the pure slapsticky ones. i'm thinking 3 stooges or jerry lewis.

hmm, how about 'home alone'. oh, yeah, GOOD movies, rats!

[ProfessorGAC]

30. The Terminator Movies? Bzzzz! Incorrect!!!

In the first movie, Linda Hamilton's tryst with Michael Biehn is the reason why John Connor is born. Remember, he volunteered for the mission because he fell in love with the picture of John's mother. He says in the movie "I love you Sarah. I've always loved you."

So, i'm sorry, you lose this round!
The Professor

[LiviaOlivia]

18. Patton eom

[unblock]

19. rope

gotta love the hitch!

[Sapphocrat]

24. You don't think Rope had a love-story angle?

Okay, okay, so technically it was a dysfunctional-relationship story... but I'm sure Dahl & Granger loved each other once! ;)

[Mz Pip]

20. Sea Biscuit?

Unless loving a horse counts. :loveya:

Harry Potter

Stand By Me

MzPip
:dem:

[msanger]

21. I thought you said this wasn't a kissing book

I "hate" it when an otherwise good movie has a kissing scence, like in The Princess Bride. I know that is a love story, but it seems like often the "love interest" is thrown in just for the chicks.

But to answer your question, how about "A few good men." It seems there is a noticable lack of love interest between the two stars.

[Sapphocrat]

22. Off the top of my head (and without looking at replies)...

To Kill a Mockingbird

All the President's Men

Glengarry Glen Ross

Pinocchio

[regnaD kciN]

27. While we're at it...

Lawrence of Arabia

Derzu Usala

Kagemusha

The Wild Child

Platoon

Heart of Glass

The Straight Story

Babe

Help!

Patton

[Dees]

28. Tom Horn and Endless Summer....n/t

.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. Little Buddha (nt)

[nostamj]

31. arsenic and old lace ???? <tilt!>

Cary Grant does have a love interest in that movie...

"Grant plays Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who has written books against marriage and has just married Elaine (Priscilla Lane) who is the girl next door."

[soleft]

32. JAWS - ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN - STRAIGHT STORY

[terrya]

33. "Pink Flamingoes"

I really don't remember a love story in that one! :-)

[gator_in_Ontario]

34. Lord of the Flies

[chenGOD]

35. Let's see...

Slacker
Dead Man
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Scanners

36. the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

if there's a love interest in there, I'm not remembering it.

[MissMillie]

37. 1) Time Bandits

2) Dr. Strangelove

3) Alien

4) The Hunt for Red October

[Lydia Leftcoast]

38. Lots of 'em

Paths of Glory

The 400 Blows--a boy from a dysfunctional home is branded a delinquent

The Search--1940s film about a Polish refugee child "adopted" by some GIs

Au Revoir Les Enfants--Jewish children hidden in a Catholic boarding school during WWII

Not One Less--recent Chinese film about a 13-year-old girl who is put in charge of a country school

The Searchers

The MIssion

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. M, Godzilla vs Mothra, Master and Commander,

Ran,

[Anaxamander]

40. Here's three off the top of my head...

1. Deliverance
2. Wag the Dog
3. Predator