100 Must See Movies: The Essential Men’s Movie Library

Art of Manliness ^ | July 13, 2009 | Brett & Kate McKay

[A'elian' nation]

“A man’s movie list should be movies men want to see”

What no Brokeback Mountain ? What gives ? lol

[driftless2]

Not too bad, given that the reviewer is probably a lib. Some very good flicks, and some awful ones. Like everybody else, it wouldn’t be my top one hundred (American Beauty? gimme a break,) but not too shabby for a liberal.

[Daffynition]

Energetic Men We love upright, energetic men. Pull them this way, and then that way, and the other, and they only bend, but never break. Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their feet. Bury them in the mud, and in an hour they will be out and bright. They are not ever yawning away existence, or walking about the world as if they had come into it with only half their soul; you cannot keep them down; you cannot destroy them. But for these the world would soon degenerate. They are the salt of the earth. Who but they start any noble project? They build our cities and rear our manufactories; they whiten the ocean with their sails, and they blacken the heavens with the smoke of their steam-vessels and furnace fires; they draw treasures from the mine; they plow the earth. Blessings on them! Look to them, young men, and take courage; imitate their example; catch the spirit of their energy and enterprise, and you will deserve, and no doubt command, success.

From Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business, 1866

[Texas Mulerider]

what was the western staring Brian Kieth and Charlton Heston?

Could you be thinking of The Mountain Men? It played last night on the Westerns Channel.

[central_va]

“Behind the Green Door”, classic.....

[Jack Deth]

Never saw ‘Gandhi’.

‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ are incredibly over rated.

Where’s Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’?

‘Lawrence Of Arabia’, also very over rated.

Switch ‘From Russia With Love’ for ‘Dr. No’.

Agree with the previously suggested ‘The Hill’ by Sidney Lumet and Bogart’s version of ‘Sahara’.

Don’t know why ‘American Beauty’, ‘Bull Durham’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ are on the list. Swap those for Walter Hill’s ‘Extreme Prejudice’, the Coen brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’, Alan Ladd’s ‘The Glass Key’ or Bogart’s ‘The Big Sleep’.

Overall, a fair to middling list of ‘Suggestions’. ‘Essential’? No way in Hell!

Jack.

[Spruce]

Shirley they can't leave Airplane! off the list.

[tanknetter]

"Alert One this is Eagle One, you're cleared to fire - splash the zeros, I say again splash the Zeros"

Yup. I'd add "The Final Countdown" to the list as well.


"Eagle Control to Alert One, you are clear to arm, but don't fire. Throw them off, play with them ..."

"Alert One this is Eagle One, you're cleared to fire - splash the Zeros, I say again splash the Zeros"

"Captain Yelland: If the United States falls under attack our job is to defend her in the past, present and future.
Lasky: And after that?
Captain Yelland: After that, we take our orders from the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.
Lasky: Franklin Delano Roosevelt? "

Too bad it debuted in 1980 rather than, say, 1986.

[gorush]

Sgt. York

High Plains Drifter

The Quiet Man

[Rammer]

ping

[daler]

“Jaws.”

[central_va]

Red Dawn
Josie Whales

[JoeProBono]

More likely:

[Colonel_Flagg]

Not bad but as others have mentioned, way too much PC. And “Twelve O’Clock High” isn’t on it.

[SuzyQue]

“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”

That’s a great line. Words to live by.

[Daffynition]

LOL...splurging, I see.

Recipe suggestions for the leftovers

[central_va]

The Odd Couple
Animal House

[Big Bronson]

I loved 12 O'Clock High. But then I like just about anything involving airplanes. "Catch 22", "Strategic Air Command","Fly Boys", "Dawn Patrol", The Blue Max. "Battle of Britain", even gay boy's "Top Gun".

For non airplane movies I've got every Steve McQueen, Humphry Bogart, Clint Eastwood, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie made. Plus the usual cowboy, sci fi, war, comedy stuff - a lot of it on the big list.

[Krankor]

the Coen brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’, Alan Ladd’s ‘The Glass Key’
They're the same movie
And I'd kick out High Noon and The Outsiders and add The Bad News Bears

[TheCause]

WAHT?# No Red Dawn? This list is Charlie Foxtrot.