50 Movies All Guys Should See Before They Die (1 Viewer)

[JoeyR]

No I like MAN movies, now if they retitled the list to 50 Movies all guys with small nuts should see before they die I might agree with that.

BTW not a knock on those that have seen these movies but the majority do not fit the movies I would think with the title of this thread

 

[Brad Porter]

In your prior post you said you'd only seen 5 of the films in the list, so I'm not sure where you're drawing the lines. Can you cite an example of a film or type of film that is missing? Torture porn? Faces of Death? What? What diameter do my balls need to be to watch films from your list?

Brad

 

[george kaplan]

OK, but I'd still choose films like Spy Game, Man on Fire, Memento, Enemy at the Gates, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, The Green Mile, Dark City, Ronin, Con Air, L.A. Confidential, Air Force One, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Apollo 13, Leon: The Professional, Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, A Few Good Men, Hard Boiled, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, The Hunt for Red October, Total Recall and others from the last 20 years before many on that list.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I kinda like the George Kaplan list.

I think Shawshank needs to be added, though.

 

[TravisR]

Alot of those movies are what I thought would be on the list (The Rock and Con Air) and they're probably more fitting for a guy's movie list. Others are good movies (L.A. Confidential or A Few Good Men) but I don't see them making a list of guy's movies. Granted, my definition of guy's movies means that you generally, but not always, have to check your brain at the door and just enjoy a good time.

 

[Bryan X]

Great list, George!

 

[Todd H]

Wow. Some real stinkers on that list.

 

[Marianne]

I've seen every movie on your list (except "Hard Boiled"). I never really thought of any of them as "guy movies".

I guess someone needs to define what makes a movie a "guy movie".

 

[Brad Porter]

There are competing interests in the naming conventions being used. On the one hand the descriptions in the article seem to identify the list as being "guy movies" - extra helpings of testosterone and dirt. The title suggests something different. Movies that guys should see could be taken to include any number of films that are not obvious "guy movies".

Men With Guns is an example of a film that I think guys SHOULD see, but I wouldn't ever call it a "guy movie". I feel the same way about The Straight Story.

Brad

 

[Holadem]

Good list which highlights my main problem with the original: It think the original is heavily skewed toward the hipster/metrosexual crowd (for lack of better term.

With a few exceptions (Heat, Unforgiven etc..), the guys in the original list just talk too damn much

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H

 

[Lew Crippen]

While I can’t really speak for George, I’m guessing that if a list of the top 50 chick movies came out, we would both have seen a fair number.

Having seen chick movies does not disqualify me from admiring a pretty girl.

 

[JoeyR]

George is bringing some winners into the fray

Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
and I could go on

 

[Bryan X]

I was just thinking of those exact two films also, JoeyR.

 

[Stephen Orr]

I've seen most of these, and just put the rest in my Netflix queue.

 

[Steve Christou]

Never mind seen I own 45 of the 50, he shamelessly admitted. Though none of them are included in my top 20 favorites.

Guy Movies? Where's 2001? Lawrence of Arabia? Rear Window? Psycho? North by Northwest? Goldfinger? Dirty Harry? The Godfather? Jaws? The Omega Man? Raiders of the Lost Ark? Aliens? Kill Bill? Caligula? Showgirls? Battlefie[STOP IT STEVE!]

 

[Walter Kittel]

Steve - The list only goes back 20 years; hence a number of superior films are excluded.

I've seen 40 of the 50 and its an okay list, but the criteria for inclusion wasn't very clear and (like everyone else) I would have made some different choices.

For my money, no guy's film list would be complete without some films starring Lee Marvin - The Dirty Dozen, Emperor of the North Pole and Point Blank for instance.

- Walter.

 

[Greg_R]

Yes, but they were not made in the past 20 years. The list is only covering the past 2 decades...

 

[Blu]

No:
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Big Trouble in Little China
True Romance
Not even any John Wayne movies?!?!?!
Not even the Swayze "classics" Road House or Red Dawn made the list...

Is this guy not past puberty yet?!?!?!

Edit: Alright didn't realize it was only a two decade list, you can take off the Duke but the rest remain even though Blade Runner and Red Dawn is borderline.

 

[george kaplan]

Just to be clear, the titles I listed were ones I thought were in the spirit of how "guy movies" were being defined by his list.

 

[JoeyR]

were thinking along the same lines, there are a few good ones on the guys list but "guy movies" his list has some I wouldnt think of seeing.