OT- Summer Thread: What Movie do you have to see to be a Man?
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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<br>(Other Indy movies YMMV).
No The Godfather Part II was
Believe it or not this movie changed my life..
Saw it for the first time this year. Ordered a white russian immediately afterward.
Basically Kenny Powers as a small town Tae Kwon Do instructor. Epic.
Dude, there are like 6 montages in Rocky IV. That alone should tell you which is more manly. Also, the training montages in IV are inspirational, whereas the one in III is awkward to say the least. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with prancing around in the ocean in half shirts, but it doesn't exactly measure up to military pressing ox carts full of people and running on treadmills at 70 degrees.
Though maybe less manly. 3 is about not being as manly, and gaining it back. 4 ends with "let's all be friends"; 3 ends with friends fighting. And Eye of the Tiger.
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<br>This is a hilarious discussion.
My favorites are boondock saints (only the first on, the second sucks) and inglorious bastards are tied for first. 300, saving private ryan, flags of our fathers, reqrium for a dream, lost boys, burn after reading, little nicky, caddyshack, and I kind of dig unbreakable with bruce willis in it. Speaking of him, die hard series, scarface, godfather, and finally, beavis and butthead do america. I dont care what anyone says, beavis and butthead were fucking awesome!
Little Nicky may be the worst movie I've ever watched.
To each his own, I guess.
Meet the Parents, for the Focker in all of us . . . .
Original Bad News Bears...Grumpy Old Mens as well. Apparently I like Walter Matthau.
Also, the Indiana Jones Series and Back To The Future series are requisite watches.
Feel free to skip the new Indiana Jones movie with Shia Labeouf though.
Very true and for the record, that was not meant to be included with the first three.
I bought a whip in anticipation.. let down...
Dont know how I could forget 310 to yuma and tombstone but those are also tied for first
Swingers
The Godfather I & II
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Shawshank Redemption
The Defiant Ones
A Face In The Crowd
The Getaway
and many more...
No one mention the Volley Ball scene nothing says man like rubbing another greasy man.
Zulu
Black Hawk Down
The Longest Yard (original version w/ Burt Reynolds)
Spartacus
Cowboys v Aliens
How can we not have Red Dawn on this list? For some of us, worrying about how we would run into the forests and beat back the Russkies was our damn childhoods....
WOLVERINESS
Kubrick and Hitchcock films:
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Psycho
North by Northwest
Vertigo
and pretty much everything else named in this thread.
Big Trouble in Little China
All 3 are definitely movies for men...
Blue Horseshoe love Anacott Steel...
As does Terrelle Pryor and Red Horseshoe... the Gordon Gekko of College Football and the epitomy of "Greed is Good"...another good manflick:
Can't decide between Twilight and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Patton
A Bronx Tale
Tora Tora Tora
Downfall (If you don't mind subtitles)
Bloodsport
Enter The Dragon
Hot Rod! So many good lines
Leon: The Professional.
Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, and pre-teen Natalie Portman,..Nuf said?
Screams "man" to me; at least not in a good way. But the movie's a good choice.
GoodFellas
Lethal Weapon
God Father
Casino
Training Day
Kingpin
The Prestige w/ C. Bale and H. Jackman
Superbad....
Donnie Darko...
Dr. Strangelove (mentioned above)
The Dark Knight...
I Heart Huckabees...
Sideways...
"The first rule to fight club ... is you don't talk about fight club." Many people consider it a movie about schizophrenics, but I see it as a commentary on how men struggle with the ever-increasing separation between modern society's expectations and their primal instincts. Certainly something many of us can relate to as men.
I did a Ctrl+F on all 3 pages for Mad Max and was shocked that it hadn't been mentioned.
In addition:
Lethal Weapons 1-4
Indiana Joneses
Batman (with Keaton and Nicholson)
Slapshot
Did anyone say Major League (so help us God if it wasn't)
If you said the following you should be ashamed of yourself:
Scarface (most overrated movie of all time)
Apocalypse Now (second most overrated movie of all time)
Rudy ('nuff said - do I need to tell you why?)
300 is also pretty manly if you can look past all the quasi gay porn.
Cool Hand Luke
Team America World Police
South Park: The Movie
South Park and Team America are the only musicals a man should admit to watching voluntarily.
Conan The Barbarian
True Romance - Call Christopher Walken an egg plant..I dare ya!
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Who didn't wanna cut school after seeing this one?
8 Mile - Eminem - 'nuff said.
The Road Warrior
Blazing Saddles
48 hrs
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Any Steven Seagal movie that carried a 3 word title - Hard TO Kill, Above The Law, Out For Justice, Marked for Death..etc..Plus the Under Siege movies
Fletch
I apoligize if I did repeat a couple :)
The Battle of Algiers
The Graduate
Fight Club
I think we're getting to the point where everyone is just naming their favorite movie. For example, Donnie Darko = good cult film. NOT a "Man flick." Matrix also not a man flick.
So, staying with the mancard movie, here's my general list. You'll notice most are "givens." If you have to argue about it, it probably shouldn't be on the list:
- Die Hard
- True Lies (Nobody's said it yet?!)
- Your favorite Rocky movie
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (again, mentioned yet?!)
- Godfather I/II
- Lethal Weapon
- Major League
- Field of Dreams (nobody has said this one either...)
- Happy Gilmore
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Caddyshack
- The Big Lebowski
- Saving Private Ryan
- A Few Good Men (Another one people have missed.)
- Apocalypse Now
- Top Gun
I struggle putting any others on the list. FMJ I wouldn't quantify as a "Man card movie," and neither Dr. Strangelove. Clockwork Orange is definitely NOT a "man card movie." Scarface is horribly over-rated. Chinatown maybe could be considered, but not a given.
Hunt for Red October, the Untouchables, The Man Who Would Be King.