Just received my latest issue of Men's journal and they have an article/listing of the top 50 guy movies of all time... according to the authors(an excerpt from the article) : ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - ------ "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."
Being a guy and all, I have to say that there is not many on the list I would not want to see and it was enjoyable reading through the entire list along with their commentary.I couldn't help notice that there were no movies in their top 50 list with Robert Redford (The Sting and Butch Cassidy come to mine) so the list can be seen as subjective to the authors perspective. What does everyone else think? and the gals...are these top 10 movies just for guys?(50 given in the magazine list) Cheers!
I haven't seen the complete list, but my selection of recent movies would include "Black Hawk Down", "Das Boot," "Blade Runner" and "Reservior Dogs. Put any of those on and watch the women folk flee the room!!
I would also include most anything directed by John Ford and most movies starring John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart. I think as far as alternative entertainment goes, anything with Ginger Lynn in it rocks!!
"First you getta da money, when you getta da money, you getta da power, when you getta the power, you getta the woman" - Scarface How can you slam a movie that has that line of truth? A few others -"Whatta you mean I'm funny?... Funny how, am I a clown, do I amuse you?" - Goodfellas / "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver / / "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"- Dr. Strangelove / "I'll be taking these Huggies, and, uh, whatever cash you got." - Raising Arizona
1.The Wild Bunch 2.Glengarry Glen Ross (this movie sent my wife to the lobby) 3.American History X 4.Crumb (too weird for most women) 5.Clockwork Orange 6.Straw Dogs 7.Bullitt(car chases are cool) 8.French Connection (more car chases are cool) 9.Caligula 10. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
"Pop one into the DVD player and your wife or girlfriend should run screaming from the room." -- MJ
by that worthy criteria my vote would definitely have to go to "In The Company of Men" (1997) by Neil LaBute ... i actually had a civilian date walk out of the theater on me! LOL
favourite quote: "Never trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die."
Charles Bronson Westerns, Any Film by Sergio Leonie, Anything by the Farlie Brothers. Blod Simple, Japanese Monster Movies The Stooges (...a BJ while watching the Stooges...) ...
Cobb was probably the only man on earth who ever got his face turned into a bloody pulp by Larry Holmes and then told Howard Cosell that "I really enjoyed the fight". Cosell was so sickened by the bloody slaughter that he quit doing boxing commentary permanently as a result.
BTW, There is a splendid one on AMC this evening...Stalag 17.... William Holden...simply tremendous performance.... Peter Graves of Mission Impossible fame was also great as the Nazi informant.
Demi agrees to do a private dance for Senator Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds) so that she can talk about her child custody case, and he says:
"We kin talk about anything you wount, as long as yo nekkid!"
(I hope that Conan The Barbarian made the list also. "Conan, what is BEST in life?" His answer: "To crush your enemies, see them flee before you, and hear the lamentations of their women."
I've had this discussion with a number of my guy friends. It has been a great topic of discussion over cigars. The list in no particular order:
- The Longest Day - Platoon - Heat (Pacino/DeNiro) - Unforgiven - Rocky (the first one only) - Goodfellas - The Godfather - The Godfather II - Glory - Raging Bull - Ronin (DeNiro) - The Magnificent Seven - The Great Escape - Blade Runner - The Guns of Navarone - Bridge Over The River Kwai - Die Hard - Band of Brothers - Predator
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ump the Matrix and Scarface, Otherwise the list is perfect