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marcus
I think I'm listed out after this one.
Hey, they find me. It's not like I'm looking.

The 50 Best Guy Movies Of All Time
From Men's Journal
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.
Guy films can be watched in groups, over and over, and you should be able to recite yards of dialogue from memory. Great lines stick in your mind forever, like old pop songs, and when you blurt one of them in public ("Say hello to my leetle friend!" "Don't ever take sides with anybody against the family again"), women and children should give you odd looks, while other guys -- total strangers -- glance over and nod with respect and understanding.
More important, great guy movies are distillations of the male experience, reduced to the essentials. For good reason, nearly all of them tend to be about soldiers, athletes, cops, and every kind of loner. They are unapologetically male, and often politically incorrect: Cathartic violence is practically a prerequisite -- gunfights, sword fights, firefights, fistfights -- whether cartoonish (The Matrix) or brutally realistic (Goodfellas).
Certain actors recur frequently. Al Pacino (twice in the top ten), McQueen (twice), Clint Eastwood (three times), Paul Newman (three), Robert De Niro (three), Bill Murray (two). These actors just can't help making great guy movies. And if you're wondering why we seem to give short shrift to all the hot female stars, just think about it. Everybody likes seeing good-looking women in various stages of undress -- and there's plenty of that here, to be sure -- but given the choice between watching The Terminator for the 12th time or going to see the new Charlize Theron movie, which do you choose? Case closed.
Finally, despite their action-packed superficiality, guy movies do have a moral, and it's always straightforward: If you're a cop or a criminal, a team player or a lone wolf, all that matters is being brave and honorable, no matter the consequences. That's it. True guy movies don't like to hit you over the head with their message. They just like to hit you over the head.
twiztid
Some good movies in there. Nice list thumbup1.gif
marcus
There was only 7 that I hadn't seen before. Loved the ones that I did though.
Never knew that I missed so much of Quinton Terrantino.
The oddball one in there, The Three Stoogies. I don't know about that one.
I haven't seen the stoogies in a long time.
But having it in this catagory as a Guys" thingy icon_rolleyes.gif
Mister 4x4
I was surprised that 'Big Trouble in Little China' didn't make the list, as well as any of the Indiana Jones movies. I figured Top Gun would've been there too.

Oh well - it's all good.
Troll
Watched Cool Hand Luke just the other week...

Damn Fine Flick....

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Troll
QUOTE(Mister 4x4 @ Dec 2 2003, 01:12 AM)
'Big Trouble in Little China'

Now that was one fine movie!

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burntkat
Pfeh. Cameron diaz.

the phrase "horse-faced girl" always comes to mind at the mention of her. I'm sorry, but she's just NOT attractive. Quite the opposite. Too damn skinny, no shape to her, and that damned face and voice.

thank you, no....
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