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115.0. "The Men's Club" by DONNER::AIKALA (Penguins are cool.) Thu Jun 11 1987 05:40

    Topic title changed from Members Only to The Men's Club for DIR/TITLE
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    Gentlemen,
    
    There is a movie currently in the rental video stores.  It's
    title is quite evident:  The Men's Club.
    
    It is very good.  It's central star figure is Roy Scheider.  Roy
    loves sex, is overwhelmed by it.  I don't remember who in the
    movie started the concept, but someone suggested getting a group
    of men together from varying professions, married and single, to
    discuss women.  My favorite line in the movie went something like
    this, "Sure, start a Men's Club to discuss Woman, <--singular venacular
    then Woman comes along and it's every man for himself."
    
    The select group of men all get together at one man's house.  He
    is married but his wife is out for most of the gathering.  Some
    of the men are strangers.  All are about to embark on a bout of
    intimate out-pouring, some will get very defensive, some will get
    childishly immature, some will offer mature insight, all will carry
    on like little children at one point in the man's house, some will
    give up their darkest bedroom secrets (not "technique" secrets for
    those of you already halfway to the video store, rather, secrets
    of what they and another woman did behind closed doors).
    
    Then the man's wife comes home, sees conditional result of her
    beautiful home thanks to men reverting back to childhood days,
    and slowly builds a wrath of hurricane proportions while listening
    to drunken husband ramble on about her new hairdo and seeks aid
    in a wrought iron steel skillet, which she fully uses on the
    cranium of husband.  It was a funny scene and a serious scene
    simultaneously.  She bonks him and he BLEEDS.
    
    Stricken by this new turn of events, the husband must insist that
    the group depart, for if they stay, it could prove detrimental to
    his marriage.  We already gather marriage is on teeter-totter due
    to condition of house.
    
    Men leave, and thanks to one influential lawyer amongst them, they
    wind up in a first class bordello (cost for whole group was $4500).
    And gentlemen, this is where everything comes to a head (pun intended).
    Some men will come to "realize" themselves, others will come to
    hate their friends, one will remain faithful to his wife, another
    scorns his friend for not being faithful, yet he himself heeds not
    his own words.  And one will leave there re-married.
    
    The women are fantastic to view, the men are at times too embarrassing
    for us to relate to, but all in all, it's us.  Roy Scheider does
    superior acting for the character he assumes.  And might I add,
    he represents the devil in all of us.  He unlocks the fantasies
    some of us only entertain in thought.  The location is San Francisco.
    The bridge shown in the end is the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate,
    and he (Roy Scheider) is heading towards Oakland, away from San
    Francisco, (just so you can get your bearings. :^ )
    
    Good movie.  I enjoyed it.  Mennotes on video.  Critical analysis
    may follow in future replies.
    
    Sherman