<p>This might help those of you looking for last minute gifts. Please feel free to add to this list:</p>
<li>Magnificent Seven - yeah, I know it’s a remake of a (probably) superior film, but this is great, anyway. Great cast.</li>
<li>Papillion - Steve McQueen made a couple of duds, but he was in a lot of really good guy movies, for how short his career was.</li>
<li>The Searchers - the movie he probably should have won the Oscar for</li>
<li>The Unforgiven - Awsome Clint Eastwood movie.</li>
<li>Treasure of the Sierra Madre - I’m a Bogie fan; I think this is his best performance.</li>
<li>Blazing Saddles - not very PC, Mel Brooks at his best. This is somewhat more of a guy movie than “Young Frankenstein” which was also great.</li>
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<p>My son informed me today that all 5 Rocky movies are available “on demand” from our cable provider (free). I said, so now you have something to do all week.</p>
<p>Animal flicks:Willard (Ernest Borgnine). Straw Dogs(Dustin Hoffman)
High Noon (Gary Cooper)
Das Boot (Brave Men)
georgey bushy type: Dr Stangelove, Seven Days in May.
JOHN WAYNE: Series:True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, The Shootist. And for boys & Fathers: The Cowboys.</p>
<p>We all liked Master and Commander
( I even saw it twice- because I saw it by myself first)</p>
<p>I just saw Casino Royale, that frankly- I think is the best Bond film ever made
really- but Connery is my favorite Bond</p>
<p>I think it probably depends on what you think of as a "guy"movie
Is it action and adventure like Master and Commander or is it more logical and passionate like 12 Angry Men or To Kill a Mockingbird?</p>
<p>I guess I don’t think in terms of “guy” movies although perhaps those that don’t have any significant female characters would qualify.</p>
<p>But I dont really like movies that are described as “chick flicks” I have never seen Bridget Jones diary for example- ( or read the book)
and some of my favorite movies aren’t even out on DVD!
sob
like Pascalis Island ( with Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance and Helen Mirren)
ok ok- I do like chick flicks sometime- I love the English Patient & the book is even better :)</p>
<p>So I guess Mel is verboten now? No Mad Max?
I think buddy films are key to the guy movie experience
Butch Cassidy?</p>
<p>My guys like
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Borat
The Cube
Office Space
Seven Samurai
Patton
And all the gory Vietnam ones–Full Metal Jacket, Apocolypse Now…</p>
<p>FMJ is number one on my list. I will just list my favorite movies as they are all awesome guy movies: Full Metal Jacket, Old School, American History X, Higher Learning, Scarface, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Major League, Good Will Hunting, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Total Recall, Road Trip, Wedding Crashers. Also all the Rocky movies, Star Wars movies, all the Terminator movies, all the mobster movies pretty much, most sports movies, oh and the Boondock Saints. Many more I forgot I am sure. Also I don’t think Borat is a “guy” movie, too many “gay” parts.</p>
<p>The Die Hard movies–no question with our guys!! (especially the first and third!)
They would also say:
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
My Cousin Vinny
the 1st and 3rd Indiana Jones movies
Jaws</p>
<p>I took ten 18 year old boys to Borat and one had to leave the theatre because he was laughing too hard and made himself ill. Half of them said it was the best movie they had seen in their entire lives.</p>
<p>Maybe you have to have an English sense of humour.</p>
<p>My son’s #1 guy movie is definitely Boondock Saints. I’m not sure why he likes it so much, though. He does like Mel Brooks movies, but his favorite is Spaceballs (a Star Wars parody), not Blazing Saddles or one of the other more popular ones.</p>
<p>Others I would nominate:</p>
<p>The Wild Bunch – to me, this is THE guy movie.
The Dirty Dozen
MASH
Kill Bill part 1
The Man Who Would Be King
The Road Warrior
Sin City (sharp, sharp gender split on this one)
The Deer Hunter</p>
<p>I didn’t say what I meant by “guy movie”, although I can see some of you have a different feel for them then I do.</p>
<p>I think there have been a lot of movies out in the recent past which present men as carictitures. The Arnold S movies, Steven Segal movies and so forth. Well, those are guy movies, but are so one-dimensional that they’re not very good guy movies. I’m not for “special forces” movies either, because they have the heroes do nearly impossible things as just routine.</p>
<p>Older movies had better roles for men AND women. Nowdays, a typical guy movie plot would be “men working together to keep the killer asteriod from hitting the Earth” while a chick flick is “a group of friends reflect on the impact on an asteriod strike upon their goals and dreams”. Blah.</p>
<p>For a great guy movie that is also a great chick flick…my favorite movie of all time…and I’m still mad that Paul Newman was denied the Oscar for it… The Verdict.</p>
<p>Sand Pebbles – It’s kinda long, but it has Steve McQeen at maximum cool and a young Candace Bergen. Plus every guy I know will watch the battle scene over and over - every time the movie comes on reruns.</p>