What makes a guys movie a guys movie?

[Cardinals.Ken]

I'm a game bozo.

Steve

Ok, I'll put everything together over the weekend, and probably start things on Monday.

 

[Gee!]

There are pitfalls to having 13 different opinions in something like this. As much as I love TDK, it's no guy's movie...nor is Braveheart for that matter.

Does your job require drug tests? Cuz I think your due for one..

 

[Jersey Girl]

As a chick, I will tell you that Dark Knight and Blazing Saddles are not guy movies. And, Ken, I agree that Tommy Boy is not a guys movie either, though I do find Farley funny. My sis and I watch that movie all the time.

Braveheart is also not a guys movie. Well, I guess it could be if a guys movie means that chicks can also like it. But, yeah, not a guy's movie.

I am looking forward to the kumite!!!!

 

[Southpaw]

Well...my drinking buddies and I started with a list of around 200 movies that we had to whittle down to 128 (using our own, unique, voir dire process) to establish brackets. We then spent the last couple of months pitting these various guy's movies versus one another, using Facebook polling, to pare it down to a final four:

Conan the Barbarian (the original Schwarzenegger classic)
Blazing Saddles
Commando
The Dark Knight

That will be a fun guy's movie night indeed!

What, no
Terms of Endearment

 

[Linderbee]

What, no
Terms of Endearment

AWESOME.

 

[oaken1]

I agree with Stout...but explosions simplifies into the B's.................BOMBS!!


GEE,...yer my boy man,...but no way is Braveheart a guy movie...love it, own it...seen it dozens of times...but in no way a guy flick.

did D.O.A. make you guys' list??.......... I'm sorry...but Jamie Presley in Daisy Dukes kickin arse...damn.......


oh yeah, there are also explosions and lots of fighting....

 

[crisper57]

Violence
Hot Girls
A Decent Villain
And Epic Showdown
Probably some CG SFX these days
A Leading Man that has not been in any of the Step Up Movies
Probably not "Based On" any literary works
Probably a sequel or a remake at this point
Aims for the lowest-common denominator in its humor

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yeah, sorry, but there are only two 'guy' movies on there: Conan and Commando. Blazing Saddles and TDK are great movies, no doubt, but there are just soooooooooooooo many better ones out there. Sounds like your friends aren't guys...er, guy's guys

uh... there's no funnier movie ever made than Blazing Saddles.

 

[Cheesebeef]

There are pitfalls to having 13 different opinions in something like this. As much as I love TDK, it's no guy's movie...nor is Braveheart for that matter.

What really drove me nuts was Tommy Boy. It made it to the elite eight for kripe's sake. Chris Farley=not funny. I was glad when everybody else finally came to their senses when it was matched up against Blazing Saddles.

I thought of running a similar Kumite here...you bozos game?

Tommy Boy's an incredibly underrated gem IMO.

but I gotta agree with AzSteven... Conan over Die Hard? That's lunacy and that's coming from as big of an Arnold fan as there is in the world. Have any of you watched Conan lately? It's GREAT in my memory, but man, there a long stretches of that movie that are painful to sit through. Die Hard's a timeless classic in every way.

 

[Stout]

uh... there's no funnier movie ever made than Blazing Saddles.

Agreed, but it's not your prototypical guys movie.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Agreed, but it's not your prototypical guys movie.

fair enough. I don't think of it as a guy's movie either... but at the same time, i don't know any woman who loves that movie like we do.

 

[Stout]

fair enough. I don't think of it as a guy's movie either... but at the same time, i don't know any woman who loves that movie like we do.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

uh... there's no funnier movie ever made than Blazing Saddles.

True!

Tommy Boy's an incredibly underrated gem IMO.

but I gotta agree with AzSteven... Conan over Die Hard? That's lunacy and that's coming from as big of an Arnold fan as there is in the world. Have any of you watched Conan lately? It's GREAT in my memory, but man, there a long stretches of that movie that are painful to sit through. Die Hard's a timeless classic in every way.

False!

Conan still holds up, Die Hard not so much...except for the Willis vs. Godunov fight, which still kicks total f'ing ASS!

 

[FArting]

superhero movies makes the guy feel like a hero

 

[AzStevenCal]

True!



False!

Conan still holds up, Die Hard not so much...except for the Willis vs. Godunov fight, which still kicks total f'ing ASS!

Conan holds up like Pee Wee Herman movies hold up. About 10 years ago I watched Die Hard and decided it had passed it's time. It really felt dated and the jokes all fell flat for me. I hadn't watched it since then until last week when it was aired on one of the HDNet type of channels. I absolutely loved it, almost as much as I did the first hundred times or so I watched it. I've since concluded that it's not so much that it didn't age well but those of us that liked it tended to over-watch it until it became absolutely unwatchable.

Steve

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

I've since concluded that it's not so much that it didn't age well but those of us that liked it tended to over-watch it until it became absolutely unwatchable.

This is so true. Two films, which I consider revolutionary, fell prey to that during the Kumite: Terminator 2 & The Matrix.

I felt like John Adams at the Constitutional Convention trying to convince my friends to keep these movies on the final list due to the fact that they have both been overviewed (so to speak).

It's easy to overlook the impact of a film when you've become oversaturated by it.

 

[Chaplin]

Agreed, but it's not your prototypical guys movie.

The ultimate "Guy Movie", and this cannot be argued:

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[Gaddabout]

Any story with a lead male who has an extreme sense of justice, and especially justice he feels compelled (or circumstances compel him) to deliver it himself, is all you need to attract a male audience. All the other stuff is just furbelow.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

I agrued that a film should be rated on the 3B scale; those B's being Bullets, Boobs, and Blood. The more of any of these 3 elements in a movie, the more of a guys movie it is.

******** Danny Trejo stole my line!