<p>Great, another movie thread… You gotta love it.</p>
<p>War Movies, the ones that focus on the action, not the morality plays. You know, the ones that send W out of the house during the TMC or AMC marathons. They have to have big all star casts such as The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far and The Battle of Britain.</p>
<p>Even bad ones: The Bridges at Toko-Ri</p>
<p>Sure, there’s the archetypal guy action movies (ones I think not already mentioned): Indiana Jones, Deliverance, French Connection, Raging Bull, etc.</p>
<p>But…</p>
<p>Don’t forget the raunchy movie genre that make women cringe: Porky’s, Bachelor Party (How come Hanks didn’t win the Oscar for that one?), Stripes, Private Parts, Basic Instinct, Clerks, Animal House, Old School, and the movie no straight woman can sit through: Bound.</p>
<p>Let’s not forget:</p>
<p>Dumb and Dumber
Kingpin
There’s Something About Mary</p>
<p>my guys laugh at those no matter how often they are on cable!</p>
<p>buddy movies
besides Butch cassidy
The Blues Brothers
The Defiant Ones
Some Like it Hot
Beverly Hills Cop
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Lethal Weapon
The Sting
And one movie that I really like with Gene Hackman & Will Smith as unlikely partners- which has lots of explosions
is Enemy of the State</p>
<p>BUt seriously go see Casino Royale-
I haven’t seen a Bond movie for years- and this one reinvents the character- IMO</p>
<p>Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, Road Warrior, Graduate, Midnight Cowboy</p>
<p>Clerks makes women cringe??? That’s one of my favorite movies!!! We can take a little raunch when the writing is that good.</p>
<p>Anyway, I grew up there–I get to play spot the locations whenever I see a Kevin Smith movie.</p>
<p>H and I just saw and thoroughly enjoyed Clerks 2; the weird evil looking clown sign in the opening scene is in front of the supermarket I grew up going to (Food Circus).</p>
<p>Sports movies-- Hoosiers, Rudy. I cry at the end.</p>
<p>Just asked the guys: Rudy, Dave, Harry Potter, Billy Madison</p>
<p>Dadguy: Nice try, but the gals will always have a voice.</p>
<p>Heat
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Gladiator</p>
<p>Band of Brothers (the series)
The Patriot
The Matrix
The Quiet Man
Platoon
October Sky
Das Boot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Enemy at the Gates
Shrek
Spartacus
The Terminator
The Dirty Dozen
Animal House
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke</p>
<p>All spaghetti westerns</p>
<p>
I think you may be right, cheers. My son, whom I expected to <em>really</em> love Borat, was thoroughly umimpressed with it. <em>lol</em></p>
<p>One of my S’s all-time favs…Braveheart</p>
<p>Also (almost cult-like) favs of his group of friends
Clerks
Office Space
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Super Troopers
the Saw movies (ugh)</p>
<p>All war movies (especially John Wayne for DH)</p>
<p>One movie that I love and W hates (don’t know why) is Field of Dreams.</p>
<p>Something to do with the father/son thing - I really can’t put it into words.</p>
<p>I like Field of dreams & 8 Men out and Bull Durham.
Mayber you have to like baseball?</p>
<p>“A History of Violence” (actually made husband-and-wife sex look interesting–what? you and the missus do it on the stairway all the time?), “Shawshank Redemption,” “State of Grace” (the Sean Penn/Ed Harris movie), “Yakuza” (Robert Mitchum does Japan), “Big Lebowski.”</p>
<p>The Adam Sandler golf movie is really good. Gotta love getting beat up by Bob Barker. </p>
<p>Going back to the 1930’s: “Only Angels Have Wings” (Cary Grant as a daring mail pilot in South America).1950s: “Bad Day at Black Rock” (a one-armed Spencer Tracy kicks butt and takes names).</p>
<p>“Deliverance” only qualifies as a guy movie if you fast-forward past the squeal-like-a-pig scene.</p>
<p>Speaking of “buddy” movies…I’m kinda glad nobody mentioned a certain flick with the word “Brokeback” in the title.</p>
<p>Speaking of Adam Sandler- he has a new movie coming out in the spring costarring with Don Cheadle</p>
<p>Speaking of “buddy” movies…I’m kinda glad nobody mentioned a certain flick with the word “Brokeback” in the title.
That was more of a tragic lovestory than a “guy” movie-</p>
<p>Saw the previews to the new Adam Sandler movie last weekend when I saw The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith. The character Sandler plays in the new movie seems to be far different than the roles we usually see him play…much more serious.</p>