OT- Summer Thread: What Movie do you have to see to be a Man?

Submitted by M-Wolverine on
So even though the recruits are coming fast and furious, and OSU is keeping us entertained, we're due for some more threads just for fun. As I'm flipping channels tonight, I see that AMC is showing "The Man With No Name Trilogy", which I can't go by without watching a few scenes. Because it's mancard viewing 101. Which led me to think - What other movies do you have to see before you can have a full fledged graduate mancard, and not just a learner's permit? The Dirty Dozen came to mind, and I could probably think of a lot more, but I'd rather hear what you all think. So crack open a manly beer, fire up cable or your various video player, put on something with a lot of testosterone, and chime in.
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chunkums

June 11th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^

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.

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M-Wolverine

June 12th, 2011 at 5:19 PM ^

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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F5

June 11th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^

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!

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Moe Greene

June 11th, 2011 at 11:03 PM ^

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....

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ToDefyTheFrizzleFry

June 11th, 2011 at 11:05 PM ^

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.

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NoMoPincherBug

June 11th, 2011 at 11:37 PM ^

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:


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hedawils

June 12th, 2011 at 1:55 AM ^

"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. 

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L'Carpetron Do…

June 12th, 2011 at 2:56 AM ^

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?)

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SirLaurenceFukMSU

June 12th, 2011 at 12:52 PM ^

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 :) 

 

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MGoBender

June 12th, 2011 at 2:25 PM ^

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.

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