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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All of them classics and all should be in the top 10.
If I was a guy, I'd like Rob Roy - It was AWESOME!
Me too CG, but I gotta make two comments. One, Road Warrior should probably by #1 since the one time my good friend and I tried to watch it, and we love MEL, we switched to The Thorn Birds in about 5 minutes flat. LOL, never were we so glad of Richard Chamberlin, even though he's a priest, alright, I admit it, it's trash, but such fun trash, really. I also would think that Cool Hand Luke would be a lot higher up than it is, based on hubby's constant referencing of it!
I just watched Jack Nicholson in Chinatown last night. That would get a vote from me. Love Monty Python, LOVE Air America! How about Pride of the Yankees! LOVE THAT ONE! Maybe Bulletproof with Wayans and Sandler... okay, now I'm just being silly.
Loved... Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Fish called Wanda, A Few Good Men!!!How about Hunt for Red October? Top Gun? Maltese Falcon?
Maybe an Indiana Jones flick?
The Right Stuff!
SPARTACUS!!!!
TORA TORA TORA
Off the top of my head....
You can still like it even tho you're just a chick!
The Killer isn't a Kung Fu movie. It is a John Woo film with Chow Yun Fat using twin .45s to kill more people than I have ever seen.
Some I haven't seen mentioned
Boondock Saints
Porkys
Chopper
Smokey and the Bandit
Well, I figured you had good taste, and you did not disappoint. You are a woman of many man's dreams due to the fact that you'll sit through a Monty Python movie. Now if you could acquire the taste for Benny Hill.... ;o]
Benny Hill.... I find myself at a loss for him -
however...
Monty Python and the Stooges... I'm good to go.
I like it...how can I change my screen name to Justachick
Don't forget The Four Feathers. (1939 not the PC remake)
It does have a ring to it! Contact the admin guy, but it might already be in use.
I've never seen the 4 Feathers. It got panned (the re-make).
Nope, not buying into Benny Hill yet.
But... Remembered some that I believe have gone unmentioned.
Flight of the Phoenix - original of course - even though Paul Mantz was killed during the filming - sniffle.
LA Confidential
Butch Cassidy and/or The Sting
Henry V
From Here to Eternity....
Ah, right you are.
Can't stand him, either.
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"The Quiet Man"
Speaking of Tom Selleck, and completely off topic, that was a pretty good TV movie he was in last weekend, called STONE COLD, about a cop in a small town up against a freaky serial-murdering couple.
Only if DG gets killed.
As a woman, I'm offended.
I like all of those movies (barring two, which I haven't seen).
So why are they 'guy' movies.
Monty Python's 'Holy Grail' is great. Nearly as good as The Life of Brian! ;-)
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