Lee Marvin,Clint Eastwood in the greatest movie musical ever made.
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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Me too; but I've seen lots and lots and lots of women not at all bothered by that fact...so why should I be???
Clockwork Orange?
What about Hollywood Knights? (The scene in the van with Newbomb Turk, and the young Fran Drescher, is a classic)
Which one's the guy?
(If you have to ask, you know he's done it right!)
"They took the **(&%^$# bar!" I forgot that line.
Son, fat, dumb, and stupid is no way to go through life.
Eight years of college down the drain.
Otis, my MAN!
LOL! Gotta rent it, I think.
Absolutely!
We doan want no stinking, badges..!!
How about those great Eddie Murphy movies where he plays the cop? Those were funny.
Lena Olin! Yowzza!
Also conspicously missing:
(in addition to many already noted)
Highlander
Trancers
Jackie Chan stuff
Enter The Dragon
Commando (ok, need a couple of beers for this one to work)
Hamburger Hill
Big Red One
Fist Full of Dollars
Joe Kidd
Bond, James Bond
...
"Hollywood Knights"
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Never heard of it.
RUNNING MAN
And where is Cool Hand Luke?
I think the Beverly Hills Cop movies lose their guy cred because of Bronson Pinchot's gay character, he was a funny gay guy though.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
"RUNNING MAN"
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Is that the flick with Charlton Heston as the last guy left on earth?
I just have to say that Caddyshack just escaped me. I think that was one of the worst movies I ever suffered thru. What is it with that?
And Monty Python,,I have always hated that.
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