The 50 Best Guy Movies Of All Time

MensJournal ^ | 12/04 | staff

[pissant]

Man cannot live by Cameron Diaz alone. Sometimes we need big guns, fast cars, dumb jokes, and huge explosions. You got a problem with that?

Culturally, guys often get the short end of the stick. Most books are bought by women, the music industry caters to teenagers, and when was the last time an art museum had an exhibit on nitro-burning funny cars? But the movies have always been good to us. The first feature film, 1904's The Great Train Robbery, was full of trains, guns, and chases -- guy friendly from start to finish. And Hollywood has been in our corner ever since.

But what makes a great guy film, and how did Men's Journal pick the best of all time? At first there were no hard and fast restrictions; we just knew one when we saw one. But over time basic criteria emerged. Violence trumps sex, war beats peace, and you better have a very good reason to oppose anything with Steve McQueen in it.

We believe that a true guy movie is a movie only a guy can love. A crucial distinction. Pop one into the DVD player and your wife or girlfriend should run screaming from the room. We frown upon films that are too serious or sensitive. The Deer Hunter got KO'd despite lengthy elk hunting and torture scenes because Meryl Streep was in it. Sure, she's a great actress, but rules are rules: no films with Meryl Streep. (snip)

1 DIRTY HARRY 1972

2 THE GODFATHER 1972

3 SCARFACE 1983

4 DIE HARD 1988

5 THE TERMINATOR 1984

6 THE ROAD WARRIOR 1981

7 THE DIRTY DOZEN 1967

8 THE MATRIX 1999

9 CADDYSHACK 1980

10 ROCKY 1976

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[Hoodlum91]

I was 13. It was boring.

I probably could sit through it now, maybe even enjoy it. I've never tried to watch it again because it has the stigma of being the only movie I ever walked out of.

[Osage Orange]

If "Once Upon a Time in the West" isn't on this list...it's no list at all..!!

Absolute CLASSIC movie...directed by Sergio Leone..with Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, and Keenan Wynn.

FWIW-

[dfwgator]

"You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop."

[pissant]

Any movie that has Keenan Wynn or Charles Bronson is OK in my book!

[ILLUMINATI_216]

Once Upon a Time In America by Leone is awesome too

but both are slow paced and chicks can enjoy them too

i thought this was about guy movies

[justshutupandtakeit]

I loved Steel Magnolias. Few movies have me weeping like a school girl one minute and laughing my ass off the next.

[mdittmar]

I loved "Elisa" and "Gold Fever".

Hell, I just love that movie.

[pissant]

Not a Tarrantino fan.

[Griptilian]

Blues Brothers was great.
I'd add To Hell and Back, Longest Day, In Harm's Way

[peacebaby]

turn to the right!

Hoodlum91, break down and rent it this weekend. I promise you'll enjoy it the second time around.

[NonValueAdded]

Sorry but Danny Glover goes waaaaay beyond liberal. Generally speaking, you are correct and I do still watch and enjoy movies where people have self-declared their politics as liberal have major involvement. I even rationalize that parts of Canadian Bacon must be the product of good writing and acting despite the direction (please forgive me). But I do draw the line at Glover as do many others, IMHO. MCI/Worldcom certainly learned that.

[pissant]

"I loved Steel Magnolias"
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You need tharapy or a sex change

[cowboyway]

Get me that film, a box of bon-bons, a head full of curlers, and a big box of Puffs Plus, that's a good time

Stop it! You're killin me!

[Hoodlum91]

I'll hold you to that promise! ;-)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Don't forget the War Wagon. Or Sons of Katie Elder or Big Jake.

[justshutupandtakeit]

TWB may be my favorite western.

[ILLUMINATI_216]

christian slater hands gary oldman an empty envelope which is supposed to have payoff money to release the services of alabama worley [patricia arquette] then all hell breaks loose.

dennis hopper's blue collar irish character degrading the sicilian heritage of mobster christopher walken's character right before he shoots him.

brilliant!

I didn't know tarrantino wrote it until years later, when he got famous.

[speed_addiction]

"What is Hellboy about? Self-explainatory. Based on a comic book. A boy from hell doing good. Not very good."

Actually a young demon brought out of hell by the Nazis for evil. Abducted by the Americans and raised with traditional American values. Played by Ron Perlman, who is probably the coolest actor to grace the screen since Steve McQueen. The guy has no looks at all but cool just drips from him.

[95 Bravo]

Cross off "Paint Your Wagon" (Aaaaaack!) and "The Beguiled" and "Play Misty For Me" too.
And I'm a die-hard Clint fan.

[gimme1ibertee]

MEL...Lethal Weapon
MEL....The Patriot
MEL....Braveheart
...And John Wayne, Bruce Willis & Humphrey Bogart!!