As a follow-up to the "Chick Flicks" topic, I would like you to name some of your favorite "guy flicks." For me, most of Clint Eastwood's work would qualify, especially "Dirty Harry" and "Space Cowboys" (Yes, Clint did a chick flick, "Bridges of Madison County.") Also, anything with "Alcatraz" in its title or as its setting qualifies. As with "Chick Flicks", please feel free to name any film, of any era.

Die Hard (no bloody 2 or 3!)
Silverado

Every single movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger...EVER!

Ditto for Jean Claude Van Damme

Little known movie called "Mean Guns" with Christopher Lambert. Pure Guy movie, and I loved ever second of it.

Any movie directed by John Woo.

The Bond films. Actually, pretty much any spy film with gadgets galore & easy women.

John Woo-good choice, especially "Face/Off". More action in its first 20 minutes than in most entire films, and there were still two hours more. Try and top this one, Mr. Woo.

"Apocalypse Now." Miramax has announced that this pic will be re-released this year with 53 minutes restored. I will be sitting right there. The best of all the Vietnam flicks. All the bad publicity it got during production was unfair. It took three years from the start of the shoot until its release in August 1979, and despite all its problems, it was well worth it. An epic journey. Run, don't walk, to this pic when it is re-released.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning!

Oh, I still think the opening monologue would be a great ST:VOY opening clip...

[Janeway Voiceover]: I asked them for a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one...

With the exception of Citizen Kane and Casablanca (a chick flick), my top ten fav movies tend to be guy flicks. In no particuler order:

I love war movies: Apocalypse Now (can't wait for the re-release!), Das Boot

I love sci-fi: Blade Runner, Alien, 2001 (O.K. that one's sorta gender neutral)

I love gangster movies: The Godfather Pts. 1 & 2, Goodfellas

And I also enjoy action flicks (eg: Die Hard) and horror (eg: Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead) and of course I LOVE BOND (esp. Sean Connery).

One of the reasons I married my husband is 'cause he's a guy who hates sports. He married me 'cause I'm a chick who hates "chick flicks".

Anita: I recommend "Pearl Harbor." At first, I thought that this was going to be a chick flick (two flyboys in love with the same woman) but it is really a male bonding story, hence a guy flick. Ben Affleck is typically heroic. More of an old fashioned type war flick then, say, "Saving Private Ryan." It is long, though, at three hours.
P.S. I am no sports fan, either. I live in the New York area and have no idea how the Mets and Yankees are doing. I have too much other stuff going on to be concerned about sports.

It's funny you should mention Pearl Harbour (OOPS! Canadian spelling!). I was going to say in my last post that I was going to see it this past weekend. I didn't (very busy). I will go to any movie with gratuitous flight scenes (saw Pushing Tin just for that - BLAHCH! on the story, though) AND can't wait for the bomb-o-vision! That's why I didn't mention it. I did't want to sound like I was trivializing a very tragic day in American\world history.
I've been to Hawaii, but regrettably didn't go to the U.S.S. Arizona National Memorial. My parents did on thier first trip and said it was very tragic. Unbelievalble that so many men were entombed below and you can see the top of the ship, as the memorial stucture spans it.
My father is responsible for my love of WW2 and submarine flicks. He was in the RAF in Britton after the war, and also loves planes (he was a parachute packer, not a pilot). I think I'll phone my parents now and ask if they want to come downtown and go see Perl Harbor (correct spelling) with me. The're older (71 & 72) and don't go to first run movies very often. But this one just begs to be seen on the big screen and only on the big screen! Plus it's got all the elements they'll love; Hawaii, vintage aircraft faboo flybys and it's set in the time they were teens! And I'm glad to hear that it doesn't get bogged down in some forced romance story line. Thanx for the reccomandation!

I ran to "Apocalypse Now Redux" (its official title) on its first day of release here in NYC. Best release of 2001. Very grim (but so is war), but a challenging and intelligent film, made before the blockbuster mentality took over Hollywood.

"Apocalypse Now." Miramax has announced that this pic will be re-released this year with 53 minutes restored.
Actually, according to Entertainment Weekly's recent review it's 49 minutes, which it says just slows the pace way down, so they gave the film two grades: A for the original but only B- for the redux.

I hated the worthless love story part of Pearl Harbor. I saw it mostly for the historic value (as much as they kept in) and the SPFX, which I thought were better than those in the otherwise far superior Tora! Tora! Tora!. I'm a sucker for WWII films, having my younger brother's voracious love of it when we were kids rub off onto me. Anita, I guess by now you, your husgand and your parents have seen the film, so how'd you all like it? One nit that I can think of in it was the bomb that the camera follows as it falls toward the Arizona. In real life it wouldn't fall straight down like it did in the film, but instead would fall forward at a downward angle, given the laws of physics.

Haven't seen it yet, but the reviews I've read say the 49 minutes make the movie a lot clearer!

When is "Apocalypse Now" supposed to be re-released?

It's out already.

The "Apocalypse Now Redux" ties up one loose end from the original film. The film is being presented as it was during its premiere run, without credits. The credits are listed in a booklet given out at the theater. I don't feel that the pace was slowed by the additional footage.

While my dad tells me that the additional scenes don't add much at all, I liked them well enough. Great film; the exact sort of thing you want to see on the big screen.

Would "Lawrence of Arabia" be considered a guy movie? I and the other guys I know seem to get a lot more out of it than any of the women who've seen it. And it just happens not to have any female speaking roles.

Lawrence puts out a match with his bare fingers. William Potter tries it and gets hurt.
Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
Potter: What's the trick, then?
Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

Sounds like a guy flick to me.

The Hangover is what I consider a real guy flick. Four dudes get totally wasted during a bachelor party in Vegas, and do asinine things while drunk. The rest of the movie finds three of the guys, who are excruciatingly hung over, trying to find the fourth, before his wedding. The Hangover, Part II opens this Thursday (May 26), but it seems like the exact same plot as the first. Except the location is different; this time it's Bangkok.
Mel Gibson, whose numerous personal problems have been in the news, was supposed to play a tattoo artist in the film. Due to protests from the cast, Gibson was dropped; the role was eventually played by Nick Cassavetes. I find it hypocritical that Gibson's appearance was vetoed by the cast, yet they had no problem with casting convicted rapist Mike Tyson (as himself) in both Hangover films.