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I didn't make the list but it's a pretty good list. I'd move some stuff around but what would you vote #1? And what did they leave off? I'd move Reservoir Dogs to the top with Fight Cub, The Godfather, Goodfellows. I don't see Dirty Harry anywhere, nor to I see Cool Hand Luke that should be #1.
What you all say?

The Dark Knight 2008
Inception 2010
Fight Club 19
Pulp Fiction1994
The Matrix1999
The Godfather1972
Gladiator2000
Batman Begins2005
Saving Private Ryan1998
The Departed 2006
Memento 2000
The Godfather: Part II1974
V for Vendetta 2005
The Usual Suspects1995
Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991
Léon: The Professional1994 (This was pretty good - who wouldn't teach a 14 yo Natalie Portman to be a hitman)
Goodfellas1990
The Sixth Sense1999 (Guy Flick?)
Reservoir Dogs1992
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015
The Shining1980
The Terminator1980
Snatch 2000
300 2006
A Clockwork Orange1971
Gran Torino 2008
The Big Lebowski 1998
Scarface1983
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966
Sherlock Holmes 2009
12 Angry Men1957
Heat 1995
The Bourne Identity 2002
Casablanca1942 (Don't think I'll ever sit through)
Captain America: Civil War2016
Rocky1976
Mr. & Mrs. Smith2005 (meh)
Casino1995
Mystic River2003
Gangs of New York2002
Training Day 2001
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines2003
Rogue One2016
Collateral2004
Predator1987
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 (Really?)
The Exorcist 1973 (guy Flick?)
The Italian Job 2003
Terminator Salvation 2009
The Godfather: Part III1990

Bottom 50
Meet the Parents 2000
The Ring 2002
National Treasure 2004
Jackie Brown 1997 (Jackie was a chic, Man - what;s it doing in this list)
3:10 to Yuma 2007
Eyes Wide Shut 1999 (nude supermodels - okay dude flick)
Once Upon a Time in America1984
Donnie Brasco 1997
The Untouchables 1987
Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000
Road to Perdition 2002
Blow 2001
The Boondock Saints 1999
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Eastern Promises 2007
21 Grams 2003
A History of Violence 2005
National Treasure: Book of Secrets 2007
Silent Hill 2006
First Blood 1982
Traffic 2000
For a Few Dollars More 1965
Carlito's Way 1993
The Descent 2005
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle 2004
A Fistful of Dollars 1964
Dracula 1992
Hostel 2005
The Crow 1994
Analyze This 1999
Commando 1985
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
The Count of Monte Cristo 2002
A Bronx Tale1993
The Omen1976
Bonnie and Clyde1967
Friday 1995
Edge of Darkness 2010
Around the World in 80 Days 2004 (I saw the original)
Grandma's Boy 2006
House of 1000 Corpses 2003
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo1999 (Really?)
The Omen 2006
Half Baked 1998
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood1996
Mickey Blue Eyes 1999
Up in Smoke1978
American Me1992
 

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I only see three Westerns on there and not one is a John Wayne movie- nor any of his war movies.
No Stripes?
Casablanca has to be in my top five - Bogart was a man's man in that movie and Ingrid Bergman should have had my children.
And no Bull Durham?

Who came up with that list Threat?
 

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"Deuce Bigalow" but no "Animal House"? GTFO.
 

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Midway. Saw it in a theater with Sensaround technology back in mid-'70s. When dive bombers took off from American carriers the theater shook with spine chilling volume. You could almost smell the engine exhaust. C. Heston, G. Ford, H. Fonda, R. Mitchum, J. Coburn pay back the Japs in spades. Give'em hell, boys!
 

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This list is old, originally in 1998, but there are a number of movies that should be on the above list that are here when talking guy movies:

http://www.filmsite.org/maxim100.html

  1. Slap Shot (1977)
    Why is this the ultimate Guy Movie? Because Paul Newman and the rest of the Charleston Chiefs live the life every real guy dreams of: They drink beer, get laid, play sports, gamble, watch TV, avoid relationships, and successfully put off adulthood. And at the end of the film, their immaturity is rewarded with a Main Street parade in their honor! Slap Shot's got it all: sports, humor, male bonding, violence, more sports, plus some not-strictly-necessary-to-the-plot naked females. What's not to love?

  2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
    Doodle-oodle-oo...wanh wanh wanh. Doodle-oodle-oo...wanh wanh wanh. It was the most memorable theme tune in Guy Movie history (until the theme from The Godfather), and it carried Clint Eastwood ("the good," more or less), Eli Wallach ("the bad"), and Lee Van Cleef ("the ugly") across a dusty, Civil War-torn America in search of buried gold. The best of the spaghetti westerns from Italian director Sergio Leone, this classic is not a buddy film. These guys would just as soon kill each other as share a drink, and the hero, Clint's cigar-smokin', poncho-wearin', bandito-splatterin' "Man With No Name" is the ultimate loner. Who needs buddies when you're packing heat?

  3. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
    "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." The boys from the Delta House are immature, irresponsible, disrespectful, and not all that bright; in short, the perfect heroes for a Guy Movie. They know how to party, anyway, and the worse things get (pledge-party mishaps, double-secret probation, flunking out and getting their chapter thrown off campus), the better the parties get. And why shouldn't they: After all, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Behind the antics of John Belushi, who shines as the colorful miscreant and future U.S. senator John "Bluto" Blutarsky, this is cheerful viewing for anyone who ever threw seven years of college down the drain.

  4. The Terminator/Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1984; 1991)
    "I'll be back." Breathtaking special effects. Shotguns. Motorcycles. An orgy of relentless robotic power. Plus: A buff, largely bra-free Linda Hamilton! If it ain't here, you don't need it. Arnold Schwarze-negger, a wooden actor but a meaty presence, peaks as the Terminator, an unflinching killing machine that can absorb bullets like so many mosquito bites. Bonus: As the cyborg with exactly one facial expression, Arnie turns a so-called male liability--our limited emotional range--into a virtue!

  5. Die Hard (1988)
    "Yippee-kai-yay, motherf----r!" One look at terrorist Hans Gruber's smarmy European grin and you instinctively want to kick his ass. And that's precisely what a barefoot, wisecracking Bruce Willis does for two hours: he kicks Gruber's (actually Alan Rickman's) ass all over a 40-story building, beating the standard impossible odds with his usual pluck and determination. The twist? Willis feels pain, and lots of it, which is a nice shot of reality. For instance, in the bathroom, he's plucking glass shards out of his mangled feet, and for a minute you almost think he's going to shed a...nah, just kidding.

  6. Stripes (1983)
    "Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear..." Sure, this is just a remake of Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates. But Bill Murray, the crowned prince of smart-asses, was at the peak of his game, and when he was there, no one in Hollywood could touch him. In Murray's army, discipline is comfortably lax, R&R means mudwrestling, MPs are gorgeous and randy, and even the common Winnebago is reconfigured as a fully loaded tactical urban assault vehicle. A hilarious send-up of all things military.

  7. Caddyshack (1980)
    "You'll get nothing and like it." Bill Murray, country-club groundskeeper, swatting the heads off innocent carnations. Chevy Chase, hapless swinger, reinventing the tequila shot. Rodney Dangerfield, entertaining loudmouth, working straight man Ted Knight into a frenzy. Lacey Underall (some actress named Cindy Morgan), not trying very hard at all to keep a bra on her body. This was a movie about golf?

  8. GoodFellas (1990)
    Ain't life in the Mafia grand? Loads of cash, drugs, free time, and mistresses. Someone mouths off, you kill him. Even a stint in prison seems more like guy's weekend than a punishment. Joe Pesci is priceless as Tommy DeVito, a cold-blooded killer who makes Fred Krueger look like Fred Rogers. One unforgettable scene: A cocaine freak-out that makes you want to throw up--in a good way, that is.

  9. Dirty Harry (1971)
    "This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off..." Only a drooling, jibbering, complete and utter imbecile would dream of f-----g with Harry Callahan, the original lawless cop. Movies like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly had already secured Clint Eastwood's guy movie credentials; this role made him a legend. Highlights: The scene where the bad guy hires a lug to smash in his face so Callahan will be blamed. The gunpoint showdown in which our man makes a poor dirtbag guess whether there's another bullet in the chamber or not...and the reprise at the end. The torture scene on the football field, where Callahan stands on a bad guy's wounded leg until he gets what he's after. You actually feel sorry for any criminal with the dumb luck to get in the way of cinema's most relentlessly bad-assed mother****er.

  10. The Godfather/The Godfather: Part II (1972; 1974)
    "It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." In the Corleone world, the men rule the families. There's plenty of dough to throw around; everybody's got nice suits and classy black cars. The womenfolk make big Italian meals. Letting aggravation explode into violence is accepted, even encouraged.

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    Pulp Fiction (1994)

    "Zed's dead, baby." Black humor, heady violence, and inspired casting make this one for the ages. But it almost gets ugly again and again. Just when you're about to witness a horrible Deliverance-style anal rape, the victims triumph and get medieval on the perps! Just when drug-addled mob moll Uma Thurman is about to OD and plunge the theater into gloom, John Travolta saves her beautiful ass! Hallelujah; pass the Whoppers.

  12. The Blues Brothers (1980)
    "We're on a mission from God." It's hard to remember today, but there was a time when stretching Saturday Night Live skits into movies actually worked. Filmed in a simpler era when John Belushi was still alive, and Dan Aykroyd was still funny, this story of Jake and Elwood Blues serves up car chases, honky-tonk bars, and alcohol galore. A bizarrely gymnastic Belushi does backflips and Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown supply soulful cameos. These guys were so cool that the fact that they knew they were cool did nothing to diminish their coolness.

  13. The Longest Yard (1974)
    "I think you broke his f-----' neck." This film combines two Guy Film staples: prison and football. Stars Burt Reynolds (back when he was the studliest guy in the world) and Richard Kiel, who played Jaws in two James Bond movies. The film focuses so tightly on one guards-vs.-inmates football game that it's like watching sports and a movie at the same time: an eerily gratifying experience.

  14. Rocky (1976)
    "Yo, Adrian!" Rocky Balboa (Sly Stallone) is a regular Joe with a dream. (Maybe he's a lobe shy of being a regular Joe, but you get the idea.) And in just two hours, as he takes on slabs of beef, jogs up those famous steps in Philly, and gets ready for the Apollo Creed bout, he comes to represent the idea of willpower-conquering - all that's at the heart of every guy's hero dream. If Rocky had only won that fight, we might have been spared 500 sequels.

  15. Diner (1982)
    "I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family." Guys find this a feel-good film because director Barry Levinson suggests that going to a strip club, getting into fist-fights with old rivals, tricking girls into touching your unit, and requiring a prospective wife to pass a sports quiz is perfectly acceptable behavior. Bonus: Seeing Kevin Bacon and Paul Reiser before they sold us out and went sensitive.
 

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The fact die hard is t on this list troubles me. I would probably agree with around 70 of these but there are at least 30 more that I think belong over others.
 

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I would ad Office Space, Dirty Dozen, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Blazing Saddles
 

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This list is old, originally in 1998, but there are a number of movies that should be on the above list that are here when talking guy movies:

http://www.filmsite.org/maxim100.html
My first thought went to the comedies, Caddyshack and Animal House. Blazing Saddles is a good one, Bugs.
Then I would pick Res Dogs, Gladiator, Clockwork Orange, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Not sure it's a guy flick, but Dr. Strangelove is one of my all time favorites.
 

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My first thought went to the comedies, Caddyshack and Animal House. Blazing Saddles is a good one, Bugs.
Then I would pick Res Dogs, Gladiator, Clockwork Orange, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Not sure it's a guy flick, but Dr. Strangelove is one of my all time favorites.

I watched Dr. Strangelove with my wife once. She looked at me with the WTF is this? But, Kubrick directed some great guy flicks. He wanted to make a Napoleon film, but never happened. That would have been epic.
 

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I only see three Westerns on there and not one is a John Wayne movie- nor any of his war movies.
No Stripes?
Casablanca has to be in my top five - Bogart was a man's man in that movie and Ingrid Bergman should have had my children.
And no Bull Durham?

Who came up with that list Threat?

Now I don't remember. Whatever came up first - Maxim maybe. It's lacking a lot of good movies as people have mentioned. And has a few I wouldn't have put on the list.
My favorite John Wayne is Hellfighters though.

Probably should be more Steve Mcqueen and Paul Newman.

Every Sean Connery Bond film.
Escape from Alacatraz
I just checked and Deliverance is some how not on the list.
 

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Now I don't remember. Whatever came up first - Maxim maybe. It's lacking a lot of good movies as people have mentioned. And has a few I wouldn't have put on the list.
My favorite John Wayne is Hellfighters though.

Probably should be more Steve Mcqueen and Paul Newman.

Every Sean Connery Bond film.
Escape from Alacatraz
I just checked and Deliverance is some how not on the list.

Steve McQueen!! How the hell is The Great Escape missing from this list? (Or did I miss it?)
 

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Now I don't remember. Whatever came up first - Maxim maybe. It's lacking a lot of good movies as people have mentioned. And has a few I wouldn't have put on the list.
My favorite John Wayne is Hellfighters though.

Probably should be more Steve Mcqueen and Paul Newman.

Every Sean Connery Bond film.
Escape from Alacatraz
I just checked and Deliverance is some how not on the list.

Maxcim list was in response. The Bond movies (except you Never say never), Escape from Alacatraz and Deliverance are all on that list.
 

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My first thought went to the comedies, Caddyshack and Animal House. Blazing Saddles is a good one, Bugs.
Then I would pick Res Dogs, Gladiator, Clockwork Orange, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Not sure it's a guy flick, but Dr. Strangelove is one of my all time favorites.
Good picks. Not a lot of comedies on the list. How about Army of Darkness and Super Troopers?
 

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Good news. Super Troopers 2 has supposedly been shot and will be released this year.They raised the money, the film is in the can now just comes editing. The crew is back including Ursala and some few surprises. Can't wait


Midway. Saw it in a theater with Sensaround technology back in mid-'70s. When dive bombers took off from American carriers the theater shook with spine chilling volume. You could almost smell the engine exhaust. C. Heston, G. Ford, H. Fonda, R. Mitchum, J. Coburn pay back the Japs in spades. Give'em hell, boys!

Midway has been on my list to rewatch for a while. Maybe this weekend. Midway is the best of what war movies should be.
 

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It's obvious the person that wrote this doesn't know many movies before a certain point in time. Just breaking through again and he uses all the remakes for the horror movies when the originals are classics or in the case of Star Wars only the newest.

I would add jaws, Beverly Hills cop, ghostbusters, and many more.
 

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