The Neighborhood Threat - GUY MOVIES Part Deux

In doing my comprehensive research for yesterday’s post I stumbled across two lists of “GUY MOVIES.” The first list, the 100 Best Guy Movies of All Time was written by the barely literate folks over at MAXIM. The second was 50 of the Greatest Guy Movies of All Time, and that was written by the Men's Journal. That’s a magazine I haven’t read, but I believe is about things like exercise and diet or clean livin’ or some nonsense like that… I think Mormons read it.

Anyway. I have seen 74% of the movies on Maxim’s list. Or 74 to be precise. Of the Men’s Journal List I have seen 45 out of 50, giving me a percentage of… uh…

Doesn’t matter.

These lists are old, you can tell because they do not include any film from the Will Farrell in his underwear series. I’m not even going to bother arguing the finer points of these lists, because the whole category is a bit silly. How does one attach a gender to a movie anyway? Oh, that’s right, you blow up a lot of shit up for no good reason.

The category is misnamed because we all know plenty of ladies that like things that blow up. My wife, for instance is a sucker for disaster movies, plane crashes, and end of the world scenarios. She also enjoys going to movies about traveling pants and wal-mart babies, but truth be told, so do I. I once went to Atlanta to “party” with the “guys” and we ended up watching DVDs of the Gilmore Girls for the whole weekend. It ruled.

Of the two lists, I’d have to say the religious one, the Men’s Journal, is better. Maxim decided to lump Mad Max and the Road Warrior together as one movie. This proves they are not qualified to write this list. Also, only one of the Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns is on the list, but somehow every Bond movie (except Never Say Never Again) is on there… The Man with No Name is a bigger badass than James Bond. To me, James Bond is a children’s show pretending to be an action-adventure series.

Plus, Maxim has an Abott and Costello Movie on there, Sirens, and, of all things, the Last Waltz… a documentary about the Band. Huh? What blows up in there? Robbie Robertson’s nose in a tragic coke accident?

Also, points go to the Men’s Journal for including the Seven Samurai and Blade. Those two movies rule for completely different reasons, but rule nonetheless.

For those keeping score at home I’ve included the movies from each list that I haven’t seen.

MAXIM’s LIST

1. Slap Shot (1977)
15. Diner (1982)
18. Bond Movies
29. Fletch (1985)
31. Blade Runner (1982)
34. Death Wish (1974)
39. Fandango (1985)
44. Blazing Saddles (1974)
51. Thief (1981)
53. The Last Waltz (1978)
61. The Last Detail (1973)
63. The Hot Rock (1972)
64. Down By Law (1964)
65. The Sting (1973)
69. The Seven-Ups (1973)
70. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
73. The Getaway (1972)
82. Bad Boys (1982)
83. Pappillon (1973)
86. Barbarella (1968)
90. Big Wednesday (1978)
91. Clerks (1994)
94. Abott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
100. Sirens (1994)

MEN’S JOURNAL
15. Bullit 1968
22. BLAZING SADDLES 1974
23. THE WILD BUNCH 1969
43. SLAP SHOT 1977
50. FLETCH 1985