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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I dunno, that doesn't seem very guy like to me.
"And Monty Python,,I have always hated that".
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I guess you still have lotsa girl genes!
Uncommon Valor!
You really like that Python stuff? That is so weird.
If youve got FMJ, you've got to throw in Platoon Leader...
Oooh Caddyshack is a gem, but you need to be a fan of the true Bill Murray and Chevy Chase styles, might be a total guy thing that even tom boy women (like my wife) just can't get.
I don't think Monty Python is guy so much as dweeb. Now most dweebs are guys, but it's a specific sub category.
Gotta say, LOVE Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Any movie that bashes the French that much is fun.
Also, the killer rabbit rocks!!!
Agree with you on Caddyshack though. Still don't get the mass guy appeal on that one.
Indeed. All good war flicks!
dweebs are guys , a specific sub-category.
LOL....LOL....LOL.
a specific sub culture, too.
speaking of which, anyone seen Napolean Dynamite?
You just reminded me of something from long ago when my daughter started saying I, her mother, was a "tomwoman". I think she was confused that I was earthy, like to wear sweats, hated to dress up and didn't quite fit in with the housewifey moms of her friends. Plus I had a serious career. And didn't do lunch.
So maybe liking guy movies makes me a tomwoman, I was a tomboy as a kid.
Clint singing is over the line. He did a few tunes in one of his 1970s movies too. Bronco Billy or the one with the monkey, I can't remember which.
It's on my Netflix list. Althoug, I just added Animal House and the Blues Brothers and bumped them to the front. Can't get them out of my head at the moment!
If you can't tell, then you need glasses!
If youve got FMJ, you've got to throw in Platoon Leader...
I've never seen it. What's it about?
Well yes, since all dweebs love Monty Python and quote it incessantly, that gives them their own language. And once you have your own language you've seperated your culture form the mainstream.
I couldn't decide what I thought of the preview of Napoleon Dynamite so I missed it. Might stick it in the que though.
What is Hellboy about?
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