Peter Maass: It’s Time to Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity
So, I bothered to read this tripe from Peter Maass in the Intercept entitled It’s Time to Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity. Basically, Maass is angry because Hollywood has stopped making movies which have too much sexual content, for some reason. He wants more movies like “Thank you for your service”. I haven’t seen it, actually, but I know from the title that I don’t want to waste my money on it. Maas confirms my suspicions;
The men in “Thank You for Your Service” are struggling with PTSD, painfully coming to the awareness that the combat that gave them such purpose in Iraq has injured their psyches.
Blah, blah, fucking blah. The same kind of drivel that Hollywood makes every few months for no reason other than to denigrate military service. Maass is upset because most Americans feel the same way that I feel;
“12 Strong” earned nearly twice as much in three days as “Thank You for Your Service” has earned in three months. And the numbers – more than $15 million in ticket sales for “12 Strong” in its first week – are Venmo pennies compared to the box office take of “American Sniper,” the macho movie about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle that has earned more than half a billion dollars since 2014. Who is at fault for the lucrative war chum that Hollywood tosses into our Saturday nights – the movie studios or the movie-goers who love to consume this masculine nonsense?
I’ll gladly answer that question: both.
Yeah, if only the movie-viewing public could be more like Maass and come to appreciate the fact that whining little pussies are more entertaining than the war-mongering heroes that actually write the chapters of our history in their blood. Hollywood wouldn’t make movies like American Sniper, 12 Strong and 13 Hours if Americans didn’t want to watch them.
Masculinity may be outdated in the testicle-free Maass household, and at Intercept, but not so in the rest of America.
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Nice, a blogger who has an irrelevant opinion and pretends to be a journalist.
Peter mAss needs to die off like the weak willed little fruit he is.
If Darwin is correct, Peter Maass will be the last of his bloodline.
PETER MAASS – Poster child for the pussification of America.
Maass is a man?
Ya coulda fooled me!
It must be so hard for him to face that fact he’s a wimp who can’t do anything, can only watch others do things, and that he’s a piss poor example of his species… and a slacker, to boot.
Pussy!
Atomic Queef.
Shocker!!! The feminization of America has Americans hankering for masculine roles. Who’d of thought?
Good Lord. Just scroll down and read the comments. Like an echo chamber of cuckolded, neutered little girly men all signaling their (assumed) virtue.
Well then, are future movies supposed to be all happy-happy-joy-joy with Smurfette getting cornholed by unicorns and the Care Bears? Here we go yet again with another snot-spined candyassed booger-eating bed wetting Mama’s boy who has likely never gone out and worked to legitimately earn something thus he’s “offended” by the likes of those of us who have worked like hell to earn what we have now. I bet Peter Maass sits down to take a pee!
Someone please use the TweeterGoogleNet thingy and tell this person that CVS has a special on Pamperin. Life time supply for all pussies.
CVS also has massive quantities of Gro-A-Cet®™ available for sale.
Peter Maass, the GWOT version of Jane Fonda.
LMFAO!
Did you originate “Gro-A-Cet”? That’s a good one, I may appropriate it for my own amusement. Wish I has some graphic art ability 🙂
Claw,
That was fucking hilarious!!!! I have to come up with a way to drop that one next time Im around our Olympia contingent.
Dude, good thing I has already swallowed my coffee. Gro-A-Cet(trademark stuff)! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
And already Claw has made the comment of the week, and possibly of 2018, with his newly trademarked “Gro-A-Cet®™” for journos and other wusses.
Appreciate the kudos, and yes, I’ll accept the award, but put “Gro-A-Cet”®™ into the Googly Images search box and it’ll show you several (sharable) pictures of it.
Gro-A-Cet®™ is the real deal and probably the CVS/Walgreens’ best selling item in Califruity Land./s
The other version of Growaset®™, the makers of Fukitol®™.
No Maass.
Poor little snowflake!
Bwahahhahahahahaha.
+10.
Can any of you ever post a spew alert?
It’s just a common courtesy, y’know.
And what if other men don’t want to see him?
+40 COOL POINTS!!
Peter Maass likely wanted to be a hairdresser for a career, but had to settle for being a film critic at the Intercept…
G.I Jane was a great documentary! sarc
Must…not…make…reference…to…ahfuggit- TOP GUN!
*grin*
Down Periscope!
You shut your cakehole! That movie was a perfect depiction of submarine life!
The humor part, anyways.
Are we gonna drink coffee or a nice cup of lard?
“Well, it depends, sir. If it’s a cold morning….”
Yeah, we all knew at least one Marty. Sometimes several of them.
Admit it, you love the volleyball scene…
Research shows that referring to the vollyball scene means that you really liked it.
Dammit AW1Ed!
Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
No TOP GUN!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhh!!!
Just like The Hurt Locker was an accurate portrayal.
not for nothing, they are the only movie so far that get s IED explosions pretty close to spot on…. i’m just saying
My compliments, Jonn. That there piece of yours is chocked full of gems. Gah-Zing.
I know what you’re thinking: where do we get such men as this fellow? Well, I have an answer. Peter MyAss is a graduate of….UC Berkeley.
Geez, that’s so obvious, now that you have pointed it out. Should have suspected as much all along.
GEE WHIZ, what a surprise! I assume that castration, emasculation and a full frontal lobotomy are required for male students in order for them to graduate from UC Berzerkely.
Wrong!!! It is not even necessary to graduate, to get a degree from Berkeley; that would make those who could not qualify, feel bad. So everyone gets a participation degree, whether they graduate with their degree in underwater lesbian dance theory or not.
I see UC Berkeley was bought up. I must now make my obligatory post that it and several other halls of festering liberalism posing as institutions of elite education need to be razed flat by bulldozers and replaced by trade schools.
BUT, well, GEE WHIZ, how will the CA Education system soothe the need for the masses of snowflakes’ needs for self esteem sustainment after that happens?
Not to be confused w/ the late great journalist & author Peter Maas (Serpico, The Valachi Papers, Manhunt, Under Boss).
“(O)utdated models of masculinity”
Translation: Standards little beta cucks like him will never achieve, even though they desperately wanted to.
It appears that the goal in most of California’s education systems is to produce either mouthy little Atomic Queefs like Gregory Salcido or emasculated fleabag Uber-wusses like Peter Maass.
Hit feedback accidentally dammit. Sorry
No problem, I’ve done that myself with my own clumsy thumbs.
Ahh…bloody red meat on a Sunday evening, although I’m sure Peter maAss wouldn’t know anything about red meat, other than gobbling tubesteak…
I’ve heard that Peter Maass is a Coinesseur of squirting sausages and juicy bananas as well.
And loves Manmayo something fierce…
He knows about red meat every month end or so when he has his period.
UCB Pete here doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish between glorifying war and honoring those, through accurate and honest depictions, on whom the solemn and unenviable duty it is to go to war–and to prepare to go to war–in order to keep the nation safe.
Hey, No Maass, your mommy called. She made up your bed in her basement, all nice and cozy for your return, just like you like it. Now, grow a damn set. Stand up to pee for a change. You don’t have to be an embarrassment to real men, snowflake.
Not gonna happen, HMC. Peter Maass will never stand to piss, he is biologically incapable of growing a set, and he will always be an embarrassment to men. Peter Maass is envied by Bradley Manning for being such a real-life pussy.
I think Peter Maass is right. There is way too much unnecessary violence in entertainment.
We are not in the bronze age anymore. We are civilized and should seat at the table in the United Nations to solve our differences.
It takes a real man to recognize the other side has a valid complaint and we should listen and accommodate their request.
This is not the age of gunboat diplomacy or cowboy problem solving skills. We need to understand our enemies, to make them into our friends.
So let’s turn our swords into plows, and you’ll see how all our conflicts are going to go away and start a new age of peace and prosperity for all, with abundance and happiness.
That other guy that said “those how turns their swords into plows will plow for those who don’t” doesn’t understand that humankind has a evolved and become enlightened.
*who
You forgot the /sarc tag.
Did he?
Yep, he did.
Yef-child, for someone who has claimed to be a Billy-Bob Badass 11B, you talk like some candyassed taffy-headed silver spoon up-the-ass Ivy League blueblood sneering at us who have BTDT.
Outdated masculinity? Like what? Guns? I like guns, and so do my wife and daughters. Possessing at least a basic proficiency in the application of one or more kinds of violence? Yeah, that’s called being prepared to defend your family, instead of cowering like a pussy while my children are threatened. Working to put food on the table and a roof over their heads? Yeah, that’s called not being a fucking deadbeat.
Need I go on?
I bet he thinks there should be a ‘Manning’ film……spew
Who would play our ‘ ugly in 2 genders’ He-She freak???
Is Nick Cage desperate enough yet??
He’s probably the type of guy that refers to his kids as “xhe” for the first 12 years.
Kids? That one? They’ll be too embarrassed by this wet sponge to stick around any longer than it takes them to learn how to walk.
A couple of things about Peter Maass’ petulant tirade strike me now that I’ve had a chance to think about it. For example, in the absence of other evidence, nobody died and left Maass in charge of what Hollywood does or doesn’t do. Motion pictures are a business. Their main driver is that things are produced because they’re what people want to see. Or does Maass want to trash the First Amendment, and have himself appointed Sheriff of the Thought Posse?
What Maass also seems to ignore is strong evidence to support the idea film violence actually has a net benefit to society. It does this by vicariously providing what Freud called catharsis of aggression. One of my all-time favorite films is Falling Down. In it, there’s a scene where the Michael Douglas character shoots a golf cart and causes it to run into a pond.
Is it just me, or is there not a sort of universal visceral appeal to cranking off a couple of 12-gauge rounds just to see if a golf cart can float? And hasn’t every normal person had the notion to torment arrogant golf Nazis by turning their transport into a U-boat? The fact that Douglas is able to carry out such a task means it’s something the rest of us don’t have to do.
As the actor John Wayne might have said, “Life is hard, Maass. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”
“Outdated masculinity”? WTF is that? Looks like PETER MAASS check in his balls a long, long time ago for a flaming mangina.
MAASS… go take a bottle of Midol, flush the Sahara out of your mangina and stop watching “The Crying Game”.
FUCKING. PUSSY.
Males that think masculinity is “outdated” are predominately players of the skin flute. Someone please correct me if I am wrong about this generalization/perception.
He’s the kind of guy that would be in charge of us in a world as depicted in “The man in the High Castle”.
Watching it now and thank God that we still have a Second Amendment and a President that supports it.
Great series!!!
I don’t understand the man in the high castle.
I mean, those videos are obviously different realities, but how does he get the videos? And why Hitler believe those videos?
My first reaction would be all that is fake, special effects.
And the videos even contradict each other.
That TV show is stupid.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/why_leftists_hate_masculinity.html
From the article above:
“There is an often quoted poem that sums up a society’s life cycle: “hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.”
Excellent 🙂
Say it, Red
https://youtu.be/Iubog28_KBI
Dumbass.
Just another pajama boi looking forward to watching his “husband” engaged in some serious cuckolding that will undoubtedly improve his relationship with him/her/xer (the purported husband). Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Couldn’t squeeze testosterone out of this guy if you put his gnards in a vice.
Kuntzman or is that Cuntman(afraid of AR-15 recoil, noise and the smell of cordite)
Salcido or is that salsaboi(afraid of all veteran/military personnel, makes him defecate in his drawers)
Maass or is that ma’s ass mommies boy
(afraid of war movies, has to watch them wearing adult depends and with its eyes closed)
anyway it’s the 3 stooges of liberal cowardly cuck ideology.
They should get a comedy TV show on CNN or MSNBC titled “What the Cuck with the 3 lil’ weenies”
IF Pajama Boy had a son……
It would be Peter Maass.
Luckily Pajama Boy will never get near a woman let alone procreate
How does one “wage war” against masculinity?
Point and shriek?
Hormone doping and sublimation.
Today after PT I saw a soldier in PT uniform and couldn’t tell if it was male or female.
Fort Benning is a zoo. I miss Fort Campbell.
Are you sure you didn’t catch a glimpse of yourself in a mirror?/s
Grab yourself a straw and SUCK IT UP, kiddo!!
I watched thank you for your service. I thought it was an honest portrayal of what it’s like to come home.only to have to deal with the VA as it was in 2007. And to deal with personal demons the operative word is deal. Not give in to its a true story much like 12 strong and American Sniper. I think each type of film has its place and tells different sides. That being said. To bash a movie that has more action. And war scenes as ousted masculinity is just plain wrong. It’s just as wrong to say the action is all we should focus on because the coming home part is weakness. Is wrong as well iMHO.
I don’t agree with this writer at all. But Bruckheimer’s character writing, and ‘modified’ action sequences are stupid and an insult to the guys that were actually there and did the deed. The weepy cell phone call to the wife just before the big battle, etc. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And it’s present in most movies, sadly. I *know* that the writers involved in these movies are given access to what was said and how, exactly, it was said. They just rarely choose to use it. Apparently they don’t think it will ‘sell’ with audiences. I hate to break it to long service, mentally tough wives and other such individuals but the actual legionary war-fighters, guys with nearly 20 years of back-to-back combat deployments – when they are having a particularly rough day or night – they turn to their Brothers-in-Arms for a dirty joke to give them a little laugh. Not for some soul-searching discussion that will right all the wrongs in their heads in a clean, neat 5 minutes, just enough time before the next ‘Heroic Battle!!!’ scene to take place. i guarantee the SARCs ‘I’d Hit It’ delivered with utter reliability and complete irreverence has solved more imminent mental crisis overloads than 50 phone calls home to the wife or 500 hours of mandatory psych evals. No joke. And the music. Kill the ‘heroic moment’ music. It doesn’t exist in the real world. You want a real soundtrack? The young pipe hitter, way close to half your age (because I’m not getting too old for this shit…’I’M NOT, GODDAMNIT!, now give me a swig time to blast doors and shoot faces-‘) is blaring ‘bodies hit the floor’ so loud you can hear it dimly thru his earplugs before he rearranges his comms. That dim music, and measured breathing rhythm from the guys nearest to you, and other rhythms, based on gods knows what, come from the guys nearest you – thumbs tapped on receivers, fingers tapped on knee armor, etc. That’s your sound track. So movies like the Horse Soldiers one – kind of cool because they show… Read more »
Sharkman, are you telling me that these guys are humans? They blow it off with dick jokes and how many times they’d like to fuck the girl in the picture in so-and-so’s wallet? They aren’t Bronzed Gods of War, just crumbly, ordinary Hoomans????
Gee, I thought they were all blindingly surrounded by godlike halos or something.
Far from ordinary. 🙂 Not crumble. Rolled steel or hammered and re-hammered bronze. Covered in a caked coating of blood, mud, and Stripper Glitter. So they can look crumbly, at a distance. 😉 At least partly human. The % of human remaining after each gunfight varies greatly between individuals. 🙂 And there are gems to be found in each movie, that make them all worth it. Marcus Lutrel brings the real Teams n’ Shit (TM) with only a few seconds of speaking in ‘Lone Survivor’ with his tone of voice and delivery when he asks “Why *wouldn’t* we shave him?”. Then again, he was a Teamguy playing a Teamguy’s Teamguy – no acting was required. 😉 Blackhawk Down was a special case. Members of TF Ranger actually coached the actors in great detail on how to act, personal mannerisms, etc. You can see it if you watch close and pay attention, and it mitigates the ‘Super Drama!’ between ‘Super Explosions Super Gunfight Action!’. The personal interaction with the guys who had BTDT definitely had an impact on the actors. And please don’t get me wrong here, Chris Kyle and Marcus Luttrell were never charged with ‘pimping the Trident’. What I gathered from discussions with the guys was neither wanted to write a book or have anything to do with a movie. But both were told ‘SOMEONE is going to write a book and make a movie about your deeds and experiences, so you’d better be as closely involved as possible, or you’ve got not excuses if it sucks.’ So they did. But there’s no way a Teamguy is going to have 100% creative control over the end result. There were some cool moments – some fairly legendary (within the Teams, unknown to all outside of SOF in general) Teamguys playing Teamguys in the background. I think ‘Lone Survivor’ was fairly well done. Some added drama that wasn’t needed; ‘Him and his men killed 50 Marines last week!’ – uhhhhhmmm, no. Never happen. If the Marines lose 50 guys in a gunfight it’s because they stacked 2000 badguy bodies and spelled… Read more »
Stripper glitter? I am SO borrowing that, Sharkman.
Well, you can ‘borrow’ (steal) all that you want.
But when you’re planning on wearing some and taking some pictures, please give The SARC a ‘heads-up!’ 😉
I had many problems with the authenticity of “The Green Berets” movie, but I enjoyed it and the book. It was entertainment, not a documentary. And it was patriotic, a characteristic sorely lacking in most of what Hollywierd spews at present.
Sicario also featured some of the best tension-building cinematography that I’ve ever seen in a movie, PERIOD. The “border shootout” scene is probably one of the best actions scenes of it’s type and the funny thing is, the shooting all takes place in a span of less than 10 seconds. But the scene leading up to it is amazing.
For those that haven’t seen it, it’s on YouTube, just search for “Sicario Border” and you’ll find it.
Nice post, mr. sharkman. Really nice.
My gripe with 12 Strong (saw it over the weekend) was that it was long on action but short on story, which seems to be common with war movies these days.
A good movie should be able to engage emotionally with the audience and I just didn’t feel it with 12 strong (nor with Lone Survivor.)
It wasn’t as bad as Act of Valor (which was terrible, I don’t think I remember one single memorable scene in that entire movie) but it wasn’t that good, either.
As flawed as it was, I preferred The Hurt Locker and American Sniper because they both actually seemed to be telling a story and both tried to create characters that were more three dimensional.
For me, at least, Black Hawk Down will be the one to compare any modern war movie to. IMO the story telling and character development in that movie was masterful.
I should also point out that I don’t care for the herky-jerky “shakey cam” style of filming that seems to be mandatory for any “action” movie these days.
I guess it’s supposed to add “realism” but it usually just ends up giving me a headache.
Oh man, Martinjumper, am I ever with you on that cam business. I loathe that filming method. Makes me sick as a dog. While I’m at it, I also hate the staccato dialogue business, commonly used in TV crime/hospital shows nowadays. Rightly or wrongly, I blame MASH (the TV show) for the later and The Blair Witch Project for the former..
That “shakey cam” kept me from watching “Homicide:Life on the Street” for a couple of years. They finally had the good sense to stop it.
“I guess it’s supposed to add “realism”…”
The only time reality looks like that to me is when I am terminally hungover or delirious with fever.
Try ‘Hamburger Hill’. Ashau Valley at its worst. See the hill. Take the hill. Abandon the hill. Go retake the hill.
I really liked that movie. I thought it was pretty realistic for the most part, making the allowances for Hollywood. That’s why I will never watch it again. I especially liked Courtney Vance as “Doc”.`
Forgot about that one but yes, I thought it was well done.
I think one of the best “Vietnam war” movies takes place in the suburbs of Washington DC: Gardens of Stone. Not very many movies really “get” the way officers, NCOs and enlisted men interact, “Gardens” was one of the few.
Speaking of Vietnam war movies, one of the most interesting I remember seeing was an odd little film called “84 Charlie Mopic.” It was a “found footage” film made almost 20 years before “Blair Witch.” There wasn’t much of a “story” but it was supposed to be the footage of a combat camera man (MOS 84C, hence the name of the movie.)
Gardens of Stone – The big hungry bear says “Yum, Yum, Yum” and asexual reproduction for Sergeants Major.
The one qualm I had with Hamburger Hill was the cheapness of the producers by not having the troops depicted with full color 101 patches like we wore.
Cheap Cheese Dicks.
I like Act of Valor – and it even had a story line that held the action together.
Black Hawk Down may be the sine qua non of the genre.
I could watch American Sniper again, and still think it is a great movie.
Both the Lone Survivor book and the movie are a struggle for me to engage in, but I’m keeping my copy of the book anyway.
To each his own, I guess.
Zactly, Greybeard. Movies are entertainment, using actors, and that’s about it. Too many people in this country don’t seem to get that at all.
Funny, but the link to this on our FB page was deleted without warning. Did someone complain?
It was probably Zuckerberg. He’s a control freak.
I think Zukerburg & Co cannot handle our mocking those who are toxically emasculated.
Facebook is SO completely Zucked up with PC these days.
Dunno, Jonn, the link back seems to be working just fine on my computer.
Yeah, it comes and goes. When it goes, so does the reader count for that post.
So they are fudging the numbers so that it “looks” like fewer people have seen a post?
I’m shocked! Shocked, I say! /s
Wait, war movies show fictionalized accounts of real events?
Goddammit…now I don’t know what to think about Down Periscope and the first female sub officer driving between the screws of a super tanker during war games…I supposed this means Sgt. Hulka didn’t really open his own burger franchise either…so we didn’t Save Private Ryan either?
This guy sounds like every other half a fruit critic who wants all films to carry a heavy, serious message about depressing real world shit….
Guess what Mr. Maass? Not all of us make a living sitting on our asses watching films and dissecting them, some of us like these movies because they are bubblegum for our brain pans…a distraction from the heavy, serious real life shit we are all working with every day.
It’s a fucking movie, it ain’t real life. You don’t like the film, don’t go but don’t be surprised that entertaining stuff makes more money than heavy, uncomfortable shit.
If I’m spending $50 I want a film that makes me laugh or simply makes me smile. Sometimes that involves Americans killing a bunch of Nazis, or terrorists, and sometimes it involves a bunch of guys marching to Doo Wah Diddy…
I liked about 70% of Fury. If only they had let me edit that damn movies.
Dammit. I ‘ll need the wasted s one day. Hate when I waste key letters.
For all the guys who’ve ever headed out on night patrol/ambush – one of the greatest scenes in a war movie, ever in my opinion.
‘Oh Susanah’ is more important than most understand…
I detest Oliver Stone. I consider his movies to be overdone cartoons, including most of “Platoon”. Parts of “Platoon”, however, were spot on. It is another movie I do not need to see again.
If you read up on it, he never forgot or abandoned his Brothers-in-Arms/Platoon mates, made certain they approved of crucial scenes during filming, and so on.
He was awarded a BS+V and possibly a PH. His Brothers-in-Arms all commented that he was a good, solid platoon mate.
Not crazy about any of his other movies either.
But with ‘Platoon’, Dad was Infantry in Vietnam and ‘Platoon’ was one of the few that he liked, respected, and had his attention snared by it. That counts for a lot in my book.
Personally, my view of this Masssive waste of his parents’ time (if he had any, that is) is that he would truly hate a movie like ‘Aliens’, because it’s not “cerebral” enough for him.
Essentially, he “thinks” he knows how to “think”, while it is clear that his “thinking” is quite lopsided. You can be anitwarfare if that’s your choice. I get that.
However, his opinion is based on his self-perception of not measuring up, not enough testosterone, less muscle mass than a low=level female body builder, and that whole thing about being a slacker and how it should pay him without his lifting a finger. I’m sure there are women in his AO who can lift heavier weights than he can, for whom he won’t even hold the door as simple good manners. And yet he expects to be the king of the heap with no effort on his part.
Well, if he doesn’t like war movies, he’s not required to view them, is he? No, he is not. But just seeing his soy-ridden sloppy presence in that photo speaks volumes about him.
Someone like me would probably scare him into wetting his boxer briefs. I’m sure there are women in all the services who would scare him to death and would point at him and snicker. I’m also sure that he has no ass at all, and that he’d have to use a magnifying glass, some pepper and a pair of tweezers to find his manhood. He also comes off as a lazy twerp. Just my personal viewpoint.
However, insults aside, he seems to be one of those challenged children who couldn’t win in any competition and that’s why he doesn’t like war movies.
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