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There's been drink taken, hence the superlatives.

So folks, manly men, butch women, what's the best man film?

In reply to Frank4short:
is that 'man' in a bad way or a good way?

if good, then for me its Sideways

In reply to Frank4short:

"Southern Comfort".

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Predator
Lethal Weapon
Deliverance

ID. A good bit of old fashioned thuggery

In reply to Frank4short: ditch has got it, predator

In reply to Frank4short:

Brokeback Mountain.

In reply to Frank4short: You can choose almost anything with Clint Eastwood in it. The ridiculous but always entertaining Eiger Sanction, perhaps?

T.

In reply to Frank4short:

The Dirty Dozen.

In reply to Pursued by a bear:

The Outlaw Josey Wales. Not just best man film ever but best film ever

In reply to Ditch_Jockey:

OK, two dreadful films that appeal to teenage boys, and...


a materpiece, one of the greatest thrillers ever made.

What an odd combination.

In reply to Frank4short: There's a couple of cool Russian films called Brother and Brother 2 which fit the bill.

In reply to Pursued by a bear: Which film was he Gunny Highway in?

In reply to Submit to Gravity:

Heartbreak Ridge

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Good call. Could almost say "any Walter Hill film". ALMOST. There's stuff like Brewster's Millions muddying those waters though!

In reply to alanlgm:

Or something that sounds quite similar if your choice is Deliverance.

In reply to ThunderCat:

like it.

(Not the activity, you understand)

In reply to Frank4short:

I watched Ted the other night and laughed like a demented person all the way through.

In reply to Frank4short:

Full Metal Jacket ?

In reply to Frank4short: despicable me

In reply to Frank4short: Thinking of films with no main female character:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Breaker Morant
Midnight Cowboy
Paths of Glory (Kubrick again, with apologies to Blue Straggler!)
Scott of the Antarctic
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Withnail and I

In reply to Pero:

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
All versions of The Bounty
The Bedford Incident (I THINK this might a very rare case of no female characters, no pictures of women (on posters etc), no voices of women over the phone, AND not even any conversational reference to a woman. I might have to watch it again just to check

etc.

Lack of a main female character doesn't automatically make a film a "bloke" film though.

In reply to Frank4short: bridesmaids

It made me cry

In reply to Frank4short:

Apocalypse now.

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Yup, watched it again last night, I had forgotten how good that film really was. The Ry Cooder soundtrack is awesome and I actually jumped up and shouted "get some you dick!" when Stuckey fell into the swamp. It was a tad embarrassing when everyone started staring at me. I also find it odd that Powers Booth looks more like David Carradine than Keith does.

My goto "man" films are

Cross of Iron
Enter the Dragon
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Full Metal Jacket
First Blood

In reply to Clarence:


Was actually called Shogun Assassin wasn't it?



hard to argue with those two

id add The Dear hunter

and Zombie Strippers

and Das Boot

In reply to Daithi O Murchu:



and Stalag 17

In reply to Daithi O Murchu:

Shogun Assassin was bodged together out of the first two films, Sword of Vengeance and Babycart at the River Styx. Shogun Assassin has a higher deaths per minute rate but Sword of Vengeance and Babycart at the River Styx have a better story.

In reply to Frank4short:

Play Misty For Me

In reply to Clarence:
Powers Booth - anything he does is worth watching, from the current Trashville to the brilliant Curly Bill in Tombstone and Cy Tolliver in Deadwood

Top ropers might be interested in A Breed Apart with Powers, Rutger Hauer and Kathleen Turner, wherein their art is practised while rescuing rare birds from a villainous Donald Pleasence

In reply to Frank4short:

Different types of ManFilm:

Casino Royale.
Straight Story.
Casablanca (the ultimate bromance, with a Nazi villain played by a Jew who had escaped from the Holocaust, filmed whilst the Holocaust was happening)
The Big Sleep
The Big Lebowski
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Eli Wallach had all the best lines)

In reply to Tom Valentine:

A Breed Apart! An odd film indeed! And seemingly very rare - over the years I've idly pondered "has someone put this out on budget DVD yet" and it seems not. Saw it in about 1990. I think I missed the end.

I like to call him "Glowers Booth"
And yes, his presence in a film or TV series is always welcomed.
As is that of his daughter (she plays a minor red-headed whore in Deadwood - working for Cy, in fact - must have been fun on set )

In reply to Tom Valentine:

This statement has just caused me to find a clip of Jean-Claude van Damme fighing a woman who is wearing a giant penguin costume

In reply to almost sane: the Dude abides!

In reply to Frank4short:
The California Dolls (aka "All The Marbles")

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Got me there.

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Sudden Death, 1995. Powers Boothe is the head bad guy.

In reply to Tom Valentine:

PS when Powers and Rutger turned up in Sin City, I may have been the only person in the cinema to utter "finally reunited, decades after A Breed Apart"

In reply to Frank4short:

Kick ass

In reply to blurty:

How is that a "man film"?

In reply to Frank4short:
lots of classics in the list so far. I'm going to add...

the fast and the Furious

In reply to Frank4short: Caddyshack.

In reply to Frank4short:

Drive

In reply to Frank4short:

The Rocky films
Rambo films
The Expendables 1 & 2
Predator
Terminator
Conan the barbarian

In reply to Frank4short:

Enter the Dragon
The Wild Bunch
Debbie Does Dallas

In reply to Frank4short:

Hard Target
The Warriors
Point Break
K2
Die Hard
Highlander

Stone Monkey

In reply to Frank4short: Any of the Peter Sellers Clouseau films - in my limited experience, for some reason women just don't seem to find them as stupidly funny as I do...

In reply to Clarence:
Good list, especially Lone Wolf, my most watched movie, though I'd leave out Enter the Dragon.

I'd put in Sin City

and as previously mentioned, Apocalypse Now.

In reply to Flinticus:

Thinking about it, I might leave that out myself and replace it with Takeshi Kitano's new version of Zatoichi.

In reply to Frank4short: The Matrix. More one liners and quotes than you can rehash in a lifetime. And thats all us blokes are after isn't it.

Either that or the Bridges of Madison County.

In reply to Frank4short:

It has to be True Grit ( the REAL one with John Wayne not the silly remake with Jeff Bridges)

"I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?"

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man"

"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!"

Classic with a Capital "C"

The Usual Suspects?

In reply to Frank4short:
Roadhouse. Thread over.

In reply to Ditch_Jockey: predator

Secondhand Lions. Michael Caine at his best.

In reply to Frank4short: Has to be 'Once Were Warriors' with Jake the Muss...

In reply to MonkeyPuzzle:

beat me to it . very funny.

In reply to adam11:

Have you seen "Shiner"? (more Caine)

In reply to mike kann:

Really? What are the "classic" one-liners and quotes from The Matrix? I can think of:
"There is no spoon";
"Show me"

and that's it. Some classic SCENES are reliant on some good lines of dialogue but there's very little that's standalone

In reply to adam11:

Can't agree there. I nominate "The Man Who Would Be King" as best Caine film and a top end man film.
The central idea of the film is that the two mates, Peachy and Daniel, will have nothing to do with women during their quest. I don't think a woman speaks a line in the film apart from Roxanne screaming at Daniel during the wedding.
They just don't make films like this any more.

In reply to Frank4short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_(1997_film)

In reply to Frank4short:

Cool Hand Look

Best film of all time for me. Women generally just don't get it thus the nomination in this category

In reply to Paul035:

Look??

Look??!!!

WTF is that??

My favourite film, seen it loads of times, and I can't even spell the title!!!!


Obviously I meant Cool Hand Louk

In reply to Paul035:

I suppose it's possible that some women don't "get" the car washing scene.