Kevin's Watch

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Gotta disagree with #2 and #1. They're not guy movies. Interesting list anyway.

Heh, i've seen them all.

I only really agree with Top Gun.

Crap list.

It wasn’t until Scent of a Woman that moviegoers finally broke the code on Al Pacino’s thespian technique: first he talks quietly. Then he SCREAMS AT THE TOP OF HIS GODDAMN LUNGS and gesticulates wildly. We’ve seen this acting method used by plenty of homeless people, but to date, we haven’t given any of them an Oscar for it.

Wow, I haven't even see half of them.

God-damn-it, Cail!

You're going to get me fired.
I've been on that site all morning and laughing my ass off.
Stupendous Man just killed me:

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Hmm. Several of them aren't really "guy movies", and I've only seen a handful anyway. I agree with Top Gun and maybe Blade, but not at all the Terminator.

Shoot! I've seen 9 out of the 11 listed! Does that make me a 'guy'? Or just a very hardcore girly?

It makes you a girl that almost every guy wants to be with.

Pffft! Platoon is a great movie. Berenger should've got an Oscar for that.

Marvin wrote:Pffft! Platoon is a great movie. Berenger should've got an Oscar for that.

I agree, Berenger is very underrated.

"Billy Madison" is a very, very bad movie.

I read CRACKED magazine a lot in the early '80s (thought it was even funnier than MAD); it just never occurred to me that they had a website.

I've seen 6 of the films on the list. The criteria for "guy" movies seems vague, so I'm just ignoring that part of it.

Top Gun: I agree about the Val Kilmer/Tom Cruise thing -- the "action" is between them, not between Cruise and McGillis. But overall, this is one '80s flick I can live without.

Blade: I only recently caught this movie during some late night channel surfing. My friends had been raving about Blade when it first came out, saying that "if you loved The Matrix, you'll love Blade." Okay, Blade is a good action flick - the climactic battle is pretty exciting! - but it's not much more than that.

The Terminator: I love this movie so I'm willfully deaf to any criticism of it. Okay, okay, I'll concede that the visual and makeup effects aren't entirely convincing, but that's why Cameron redid the whole thing in the form of the megabudget, megacolossal T2 (which I love even more than the original.) And okay, time travel stories generally make my head hurt, but less so with the Terminator films.

Platoon: I'd rank it as the dirtiest Vietnam movie I've ever watched. It's as close a taste of the Vietnam experience I would want as a moviegoer without being completely turned off. Well, maybe I have been turned off, because I haven't had any desire to sit through Platoon again. On the other hand, I have no trouble re-watching Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now - maybe because they are more "artistic" films?

The Shining: love this film, love crazy Jack Nicholson, love Kubrick's kind of filmmaking. People call it slow, I call it hypnotic.

The Exorcist: I understand the CRACKED staff's opinion that this movie looks more "ridiculous" with the passing years, but The Exorcist is more than just about Linda Blair (or her demonic self) vomiting her lunch. In terms of sheer gore factor, sure, this film would rank pretty low. But for me, the main about the Exorcist is its creep factor. It lets the viewer's imagination do a lot of the work, and that's scary enough.

Bah, the film of The Exorcist is feeble. Read the book instead.

Geez, CJ, first it was Day of the Jackal, and now The Exorcist. Leave me alone with my feeble movie adaptations!

Usivius wrote:It makes you a girl that almost every guy wants to be with.

yeah, that's why they're all beating a path to my door....not...

Matrixman wrote:Geez, CJ, first it was Day of the Jackal, and now The Exorcist. Leave me alone with my feeble movie adaptations!

The daft thing about the Exorcist is, as I recall, it was written as a film but no-one would buy it, so the author bloke (whose name eludes me) turned it into a novel. The novel was so successful, the studios chased him to turn it into a film. So he ended up selling them the script they originally turned down, and making much more money than he'd asked for the first time.

William Blatty.

It is a great book.

dlbpharmd wrote:

Marvin wrote:Pffft! Platoon is a great movie. Berenger should've got an Oscar for that.

I agree, Berenger is very underrated.

I've only seen him in a few movies, but he was outstanding in "Rough Riders", a TV movie from about 10 years ago where he played Teddy Roosevelt. He had that TR role down to a tee; you don't even recognize Tom B.

Kil Tyme wrote:

dlbpharmd wrote:

Marvin wrote:Pffft! Platoon is a great movie. Berenger should've got an Oscar for that.

I agree, Berenger is very underrated.

I've only seen him in a few movies, but he was outstanding in "Rough Riders", a TV movie from about 10 years ago where he played Teddy Roosevelt. He had that TR role down to a tee; you don't even recognize Tom B.

I couldn't agree more. "Rough Riders" is a great war movie, Berenger gives a splendid performance. The depiction of the battle of San Juan Hill is heart wrenching.

Berenger's another one of those actors who's really good but has a knack of picking lousy movies.