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List added by PvtCaboose91 on 1 August 2009 05:26
My Favourite MANLY Movies! |
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 771  7  7.8 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Predator represents a paradigm in the manly action movie genre. Take one look at that amazing cast. Oh yes...they all featured in a movie together. You have Arnie, Bill Duke, Shane Black, Carl Weathers... I dare you to find another cast of this calibre (The Expendables aside). There's lots of damn muscle and testosterone here! Apart from that, there's a lot of action. And oh yes, it's fucking VIOLENT! We're talking unapologetically R-rated. Men being skinned, people sliced to pieces, and so on. Your ears will also be subjected to masses of profanity and men talking like real MEN! This is probably the manliest movie ever.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
 
1308 7.7 8.3 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Die Hard is a product of the '80s action market - that enough information for you? To elaborate, it's a movie created in a time when R-rated blockbusters ruled the box office. When pussy little teens couldn't get their sissy hands on a manly action movie. Hence, you will see people getting shot and blood splattering all over the environment. When a guy gets shot in the head early into a film, his brains colour the window behind him. Hell yeah! During the close combat battles, you can feel the blood and sweat... It's visceral. And did I mention the big explosions? Bruce Willis is a homegrown manly man. He's endearing, he has muscles, and he swears a lot ("Yippie-ki-yay, Motherfucker!"). Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is a model of a villain. And best of all, the hero saves the damsel in distress who falls in love with her rescuer (although they were already married).  PvtCaboose91's rating:
 
876 6.8 7 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Die Hard 2 arrived two years after its predecessor. Know what that means? Oh yes. '80s excess was still all the rage. And that ain't a bad thing. This is a brutal, hard R action movie. Renny Harlin created it during his self-titled "squib period", thus each death is punctuated with overzealous squirts of blood. This guy can stage an action sequence! When you've had enough shooting, there are explosions too. Witness an airplane crammed with about 20 grenades as it explodes... Oh yes, the glorious '80s! What's there to say about John McClane that I haven't already said? He's one badass motherfucker with balls. He gets the gal. He ices the baddies. He stands up to authority. Can't get more manly than that.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
 
970 7 7.4 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Let's get this out of the way first: if this was just another straight-up Die Hard movie, it'd be manly but more of the same...hence not really worthy of the list. Thankfully, someone with a head on their shoulders upped the ante by adding SAMUEL L. MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON to the cast. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Case closed. Furthermore, you'll see explosions. You'll see blood (a man even gets sliced in two). You'll hear profanity. You'll see the protagonists sticking it to the antagonists. It wears the title of "Manly Movie" with aplomb.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
356 7.5 7.9 HOW IS IT MANLY?
I dare you to find an actor more manly and badass than Clint Eastwood. He oozes manliness from every pore. Give him a Magnum and give him people to shoot, and you have yourself a fucking manly movie. Now, the character of Dirty Harry is manly down to every hair on his body. He's one relentless motherfucker. Witness him torture a suspect and violate his rights...him sticking it to authority...and his famous phrase: "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" This is one badass, gritty 1970s action movie.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
745 8.4 9 HOW IS IT MANLY?
The real question here is 'How isn't it manly?' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one badass Western. You've got Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef in the same place. You've got grittiness from beginning to end. Rousing shootouts too, and action in general. This is a movie which helped give birth to the manly genre. It's a movie made by men for men.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
552 7.9 8.3 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Clint Eastwood. Gene Hackman. Morgan Freeman. The above stars alone could answer this question. Unforgiven is gritty, violent and contemplative. It's a brilliant Western overflowing with manly values - redemption and retribution being the most prevalent. It has Western standoffs too. And though it's short on the action department, it doesn't underwhelm when guns are fired.  PvtCaboose91's rating:
2196 7.7 8.4 HOW IS IT MANLY?
Look, Sin City is R-rated. It's a HARD R as well, with extreme violence, disturbing themes and even sex. In the cast you'll also find an awesome selection of manly men. There's Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Michael Madsen and Benicio Del Toro, just to name a few. Robert Rodriguez knows how to satiate those thirsty for a true R-rated picture in a climate ruled by watered down PG-13 rubbish (The Spirit, a very similar project, pursued the PG-13 route, making Sin City seem far superior in comparison).  PvtCaboose91's rating:
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Being a man is brilliant. You get to fight, drive cars through explosions, shag birds, drink beer, and be an asshole. But what really make a man a man? Muscles? Sure. Blood, guts, and fisticuffs? It helps. A bit of nationalism? Of course. Wildly improbable baddies, snakes, the Mafia, guns, lots of guns, boxing, and rude words? All are welcome. But manly movies are the real cornerstone of our species – while women are reading Cosmo and buying shoes, us alpha males are out saving the universe with our shirts off. As a man, I am entitled to like movies which ooze anything manly - from hardcore violence to a testosterone-packed cast to manly values. The following are unadulterated MANLY movies WITH BALLS that I can sit back and enjoy whenever I need a dose of manliness. Most of these were created in a time when movies were created before rating and box office became the aim of moviemaking, and before the action genre was neutered. Meet the cruellest, fiercest, wonderful, violent and blood thirsty movies all packed into one list (in no particular order). They are a salute to manliness, and in return I am saluting them. Girlie Man comments will be eliminated. No, fucking Zac Efron is not manly. No, fucking neutered action movies like Transporter, The Marine, 12 Rounds, Terminator 4 and other such films are NOT manly. Fuck off if you disagree with any of the above facts.
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