# Anyone else have a soft place in their hearts for movies that (practically) have no women in them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429 "2014-08-25T04:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/61 "2014-08-26T14:50:21Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Don’t forget Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) who was Melody, one of two girls at the motel. Naked housewife at the window when Lightfoot was working in the yard. The girl on the motorcycle hitting his delivery truck. The bank manager’s wife and daughter (caught having sex). The tourist at the schoolhouse that got disgusted with her husband when he thought they were going to be robbed. But yes, very much a guy pal movie, not just with Eastwood and Bridges but also George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/62 "2014-08-26T15:08:31Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > So, strongly female movies are either about women who act like men, women who want to have sex with men, or women who gossip about men. I was only saying that those films were highly successful. If you want to critique them, go ahead, but the question wasn’t whether they were any good or not, it was whether it was hard to think of films where the leads were all or mostly women. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/63 "2014-08-26T15:12:44Z")
[Heavenly Creatures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_creatures) By no means a chick flick, but has no male leads. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/64 "2014-08-26T15:13:59Z")
Bah, doublepost. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/65 "2014-08-26T15:23:41Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > So, strongly female movies are either about women who act like men, women who want to have sex with men, or women who gossip about men. So if it’s not a movie about tight-lipped lipstick lesbians, it’s not a valid female movie? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/66 "2014-08-26T15:25:57Z")
It’s purely a coincidence, but a lot of my all-time faves are all-male: Lawrence of Arabia, Zulu, Great Escape, Hunt for Red October, Moby Dick. Are there any women in Rudy? When I watch Major League I fast-forward through all of Rene Russo’s scenes (removing the love sub-plot and making it 100% baseball) and it’s a much, much better movie. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429/67 "2014-08-26T16:02:33Z")
> [@grude](#): > > The reason I like these kind of movies is they have no shoehorned in love story subplot(assuming they aren’t oozing with homoeroticism lol) because I HATE forced love plots. You’d enjoy an all-female cast as well, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-soft-place-in-their-hearts-for-movies-that-practically-have-no-women-in-them/696429.md?page=3)