Top 100 Movies List

[impala454]

So this is the spinoff from another thread, I saw this list on artofmanliness.com and it seemed to have a lot of great classics on it. I'd printed it a long time ago swearing I would watch them all (I've only seen about 20-30 of them), and found the printout while digging through some old stuff. So decided to get it going again and start over from scratch, and watch them all (whether I'd seen them or not). So this thread will be an ongoing discussion of these movies, if you participate make sure to use spoiler tags where appropriate!! Also it's understood that there's probably tons of great movies not on the list, but I figure it's a good list to go off of!

I'll update the list with a * and the date I watched it. I own lots of the "obvious" ones so I'll probably go through those first.

100 Must See Movies For Men

[size=3]1. The Great Escape
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Dirty Harry
4. The Endless Summer
5. Bull Durham
6. The Apartment
7. The Shootist
8. Hoosiers
9. Last of the Mohicans
10. The Bicycle Thief
11. Field of Dreams
12. North by Northwest
13. The Outsiders
14. First Blood (Rambo)
15. The Manchurian Candidate
16. In the Heat of the Night
17. Shane
18. Double Indemnity
19. Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside)
20. The Maltese Falcon
21. Das Boot
22. Star Wars (The Original Trilogy)
23. Rudy
24. High Noon
25. Gandhi
26. Rebel Without a Cause
27. The French Connection
28. Casablanca
29. Unforgiven
*30. The Iron Giant (3/15/2012)
31. Gladiator
32. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
33. The Hustler
34. The Untouchables
35. The Grapes of Wrath
36. Bullitt
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Die Hard
39. Enter the Dragon
40. Malcolm X
41. Cinderella Man
42. The Right Stuff
43. True Grit
44. A Streetcar Named Desire
45. Vertigo
46. All Quiet on the Western Front
47. The Shawshank Redemption
48. Cool Hand Luke
49. Spartacus
50. Mississippi Burning
51. Chinatown
52. Remember the Titans
53. Braveheart
54. Citizen Kane
55. On the Waterfront
*56. The Bourne Identity (The Series) (3/17/2012)
57. Rocky
*58. Apollo 13 (3/14/2012)
59. Glory
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
61. The Karate Kid
62. The African Queen
63. The Sting
64. Chariots of Fire
65. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
66. Schindler’s List
67. All the President’s Men
68. Zulu
69. Patton
70. Lawrence of Arabia
71. The Godfather (I and II)
72. 12 Angry Men
*73. Lord of the Rings (The Series) (3/23/2012)
74. Gangs of New York
75. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
76. Dead Poets Society
77. The Searchers
78. Pride of the Yankees
79. Saving Private Ryan
80. American Beauty
81. Seven Samurai
82. From Here to Eternity
83. Old Yeller
84. To Kill a Mockingbird
85. Dr. No
86. Jeremiah Johnson
87. A River Runs Through It
88. Bridge On the River Kwai
89. Gentleman’s Agreement
90. Fight Club
91. Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade)
92. It’s a Wonderful Life
93. A Raisin in the Sun
94. The Natural
95. Ghostbusters
96. Ben Hur
97. Groundhog Day
98. Top Gun
99. Swingers
100. The Longest Day[/size]

[impala454]

So first I knocked off Apollo 13, then The Iron Giant, and The Bourne (complete series). I'll try to run a marathon of the full set of any multi part movie.

So Apollo 13 has always been one of my all time favorites. I've about worn out the DVD over the years and got the bluray and can say the sound alone was worth the upgrade. Great flick, and very true and correct from the nasa side of things. You can actually pull up the mission audio from the real mission and a lot of the dialog is identical. One funny thing I noticed from the special features, The scene where Jim Lovell's wife is in the shower and accidentally drops her ring down the drain: Apparently Ron Howard got drilled by several critics for making that up and making it a totally obvious "ominous" plot thing, but they have Jim Lovell's real wife in the special features saying that it really happened!. So anyways if you like anything space related this is great. Tom Hanks and Ed Harris both did a particularly good job.

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The Bourne series to me is one of the no brainers in the list (especially of "manly" movies). This is the series that sold me Matt Damon as a legit badass. It's also nice to see a main character's love interest actually die off in the middle of a series. To me that shows real thinking in the plot and realism in a genre that tends to get very unrealistic.

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The Iron Giant is a non CGI animated flick, one of the classic themes of teaching a machine to care and have feelings. Definitely a "manly" movie in the sense of a kid having a giant pet robot . I especially love the scene where the robot thinks the army killed the kid and goes berserk. he's so clumsy throughout the movie and looks harmless, then starts busting out crazy looking laser weapons from every crevice a la some alien meets terminator meets war of the worlds. Great, classic story and a good one to show kids as well. Pixar is great stuff but this is awesome for a good old fashioned non-cgi animated flick every now and then.