Posted on 02/23/2005 1:58:48 PM PST by 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
Click link to see the other 40!
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Agreed. I think I saw that "nude" movie of hers. She didn't age well.
But then, neither have I.
I just saw that movie last month on TCM. She was 16?
I think she was 18, not 16. But a real beauty, nonetheless.
I'd love to just have the soundtrack...of the train station scene. Jack Elam...catching the fly in his gun barrel. The windmill...sound.
The line.."We only have three horses...we are short one". Bronson say's..."No. You have two too many"...
Great movie..!! Hands down..!!
FRegards,
Ugh. Those were the ONLY good scenes in that interminable waste of time. Can't STAND Jeremy Irons.
I'm very sure she was-but I could be wrong (thanks,pissant)..I was watching the movie a few years back on TMC and the narrator said she was 16.My dear mother (the q-Tip) is 85 years young & loves her old movies,and she says she thinks she was 16.
Ooops! Make that TCM! Sorry!
Some of mine, no particular order...
1. Braveheart
2. Gladiator
3. Ocean's 11 (the REAL one, with Sinatra)
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Patton
6. Sands of Iwo Jima
7. Rio Bravo
8. The Last Boy Scout
9. Rocky
10. The Unforgiven
11. Casino
12. Tombstone
13. Spaceballs
14. Animal House
15. Terminator 2
16. Falling Down
17. The Longest Day
18. Full Metal Jacket
19. Planet of the Apes
20. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
21. War of the Worlds
22. The Time Machine
23. The Naked Gun
24. Rambo: First Blood
25. Casablanca
Please feel free to give us your best guy flick, and chick flick for that matter. Hope all is well!
Doh!
26. Pulp Fiction
I can't believe I forgot about that one.
"It just happened. Could have happened to any of us. It was an accident, right?"
It was Daniel Day Lewis, not Jeremy Irons. Besides, you should have been looking at the chicks. I thought it was a good movie (and even better book).
Pretty good list, except for the lack of any Duke flicks.
Sorry, anything with John Travolta cannot be classified as a guy flick (Except Welcome Back Kotter)
Yeah, me too ;)
Eh?
There's 3 on there! And those are a few...
Seriously, the Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans team need a comeback.
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