Start The New Year Out With A Resolution To Watch These Movies
There are great movies, and there are great guy movies. Every guy movie is great, but not every great movie is a guy movie. The Titanic, Thelma And Louise, Ghost... All great movies, but not guy movies by any stretch of the imagination.
Here is my list of one hundred movies every guy will want to see before he dies.
The list is presented in four installments of twenty-five movies each. In the end, I’ll reveal my number one guy movie of all time. I look forward to hearing from you about where I am right and wrong and some of your favorite guy movies.
In alphabetical order, here are numbers twenty-six through fifty.
26. The Cowboys (1972) - John Wayne leads a group of young boys on a cattle drive. Bruce Dern is the bad guy and kills the Duke after getting the hell beat out of him.
27. Deliverance (1972) - The catalyst for ninety percent of the hillbilly memes on Facebook. Four friends go on a trip down a river in Georgia. One dies, one is scared to death, one seems to thrive, and one, well…
28. Dirty Harry (1971) - “Go ahead, punk. Make my day.” That’s all you need to know.
29. Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) - Set in 1776. The American Revolution is underway. Tories and their Seneca allies go on the warpath, so Gil Martin and the patriot militia go out to kick their asses. Starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. Filmed in technicolor.
30. Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983) - Hands down the funniest live comedy show ever recorded. Eddie Murphy would be canceled if he did this today.
31. Enemy At the Gates (2001) - The most intense war movie I’ve ever seen. Communists killing Nazis and Nazis killing Communists. What could be better?
32. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - What do you get when you mix a swimming pool, a red bikini, and Phoebe Cates? Easy. You get the favorite movie of every guy alive in the Eighties..
33. First Blood (1982) - Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Badassery defined.
34. Frankenstein (1931) - Boris Karloff as the Monster. This is as creepy today as it was ninety years ago. A classic in every sense of the word.
35. Full Metal Jacket (1987) - The best depiction of Marine Corps boot camp ever recorded on film. R. Lee Ermy, as Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, is impeccable. More one-liners came out of this movie than any other movie in history.
36. Gettysburg (1993) - The greatest Civil War movie ever made. I watch it before every trip to Gettysburg just to get motivated.
37. Glory (1989) - The second greatest Civil War movie ever made. The cast is stellar, and the battle scenes are awesome.
38. The Godfather (1972) - Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, and Al Pacino as his youngest son Michael. Widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. Everyone should watch this at least once.
39. The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Some consider the sequel better than the original.
40. Gone With the Wind (1939) - The third greatest Civil War movie ever made. Starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler. An epic of the silver screen.
41. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) - Clint Eastwood westerns are all about the same, but this one is the best among equals.
42. Goodfellas (1990) - With all due respect to The Godfather, this is the best gangster movie of them all. Starring Ray Liotta as wise guy Henry Hill. This movie examines the lowly blue-collar side of the Italian mafia.
43. The Graduate (1967) - This one almost didn’t make the list, but here it is anyway. Dustin Hoffman stars. “Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?”
44. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - Based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the same name. Starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who leads his family west during the great depression. Directed by John Ford. This one is a classic.
45. Grease (1978) - The only musical a man needs to watch. John Travolta as Danny Zuko and Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson. I’ve watched this movie a hundred times, and I still love it. If you’ve never paid attention to the lyrics of “Greased Lightning,” you need to check them out.
46. The Great Escape (1963) - Loosely based on a mass escape of British Commonwealth POWs from a German prisoner of war camp in World War Two. Great movie!
47. Halloween (1978) - I watched this movie one night and read the book over the course of the following week. I was on edge for a month. This one looks kind of campy when you watch it today. I think that’s what makes it so good, though.
48. Hoosiers (1986) - If you like the underdog, you’ll love Hoosiers. A great movie.
49. Hud (1963) - Paul Newman stars as Hud Brannon, a self-centered, arrogant prick. Sounds good already, huh?
50. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - The first in what I think is one of the best franchises in movie history. It’s like a great book coming to life.
Check back tomorrow for numbers 51-75
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