I’ve skipped the past few Thursday Movie Pick prompts but I’m back for the bad boys! I mean, who doesn’t love a bad boy? If you aren’t familiar with Thursday Movie Picks, it’s pretty simple! As the name suggests, Thursday Movie Picks is held every Thursday. The rules are based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. I told you it was easy.
1. Bad Boys
“Miami-Dade detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) blow a fuse when $100 million worth of heroin they recently confiscated is heisted from station headquarters. Suspecting it was an inside job, Internal Affairs gives them five days to track down the drugs before they shut down the narcotics division.”
I mean, can you have a list about bad boys and not include the movie “Bad Boys?” You could easily have an entire list filled with just these movies. I love Will Smith and Martin Lawrence together. The chemistry they have is fantastic and I’m a sucker for a good action movie, especially when it has some humor tossed in.
2. The Covenant
“In the 17th century, five families with supernatural powers make a pact of silence. Eventually one power-hungry family is banished. The descendants of those four remaining families are heirs to tremendous power. Known as the Sons of Ipswich, the boys attend elite Spencer Academy. When a student there is found dead after a party, unraveling secrets threaten to shatter the pact that has protected the boys’ families for centuries.”
It’s basically “The Craft” with boy bitches and not as great. I would have loved to see a crossover though. The entire reason I watched this movie was because Sebastian Stan plays one of the characters and turns out to be the ultimate witchy bad boy.
3. Cruel Intentions
“Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian’s (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend. However, Sebastian gets more than he bargained for as he attempts to woo Annette into his bed.”
One could argue he’s just an asshole, not a bad boy, but Ryan Phillipee is fantastic in this role. It’s not that easy to be a bad boy. It has to be believable and sometimes, it’s just not. I remember being obsessed with this movie when it first came out, and with Ryan. Ah, that teen life.
That’s the list for this week! Who are some of your favorite bad boys?
It’s been years since I’ve seen Cruel Intentions, I’m really due for a re-watch on that one. The only one I don’t think I’ve seen is the Covenant. I honestly can’t remember if I’ve seen that or not.
Of these three my fave is Cruel Intentions which updates Dangerous Liaisons with a sharp eye. I’m not much of a fan of Gellar but she works well here and Phillipe utilizes his somewhat mush mouthed beauty and vacancy to good effect while Reese does the doe-eyed innocent thing that she’s so good at.
The Covenant was pretty dumb but I enjoyed in that mindless way such movies can be viewed….once.
Bad Boys is one that I loved though Smith and Lawrence did have excellent chemistry.
When I went looking for titles for the week I was surprised how ubiquitous Bad Boy(s) was as a title and how many of those I’d seen! So I decided to use that as my theme within the theme.
Bad Boy (1935)-Pool shark Eddie Nolan (James Dunn) would like nothing better than to spend his time shaking down suckers and shooting the breeze with the other sharks. But he loves Sally Larkin (Dorothy Wilson) whose parents think him a bad boy wastrel and refuse until he has a reputable job. Eddie tries the straight and narrow but is unable to find a place. Driven to despair he contemplates whether he has anything to live for. Fast paced programmer, under an hour, definitely foreshadows Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
Bad Boy (1949)-Bad boy delinquent Danny (Audie Murphy) has a raft of charges against him but the judge decides to give him one more chance and sends to the reform school Variety Ranch run by caring Marshall & Maud Brown (Lloyd Nolan & Jane Wyatt) to see if he is capable of redemption. With an enormous chip on his shoulder tough nut Danny may prove to be more than even the Browns can handle.
Bad Boys (1983)-Bad boy delinquent Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) is sent to juvenile hall after accidentally killing rival gang leader, Paco Moreno’s (Esai Morales) young brother when a con he’s running goes wrong. In the brutal prison Mick finds himself instant adversaries with the vicious Viking (Clancy Brown) and Tweety (Robert Lee Rush). While Mick fights for survival inside Paco plans to take revenge on those close to Mick, including his girlfriend J.C. (Ally Sheedy).
I have seen parts of Bad Boys and I have to see it from the start because it looks good. I haven’t seen your other 2 films but the last one is a nowaday Dangerous Liasons
Oh I love Cruel Intentions and rewatched it recently too. And yes Phillippe was perfect in it.