Top 200 Movies For Guys

Yes you read it right. Not to be outdone by “top 100” lists, no stone was left unturned in presenting you with a list of 200 flicks with guy appeal. If you’re looking for sophomoric fare like “Dumb And Dumber” keep moving, you won’t find it here. Movies for men are more than just a string of frat house hijinks. And while hyper-kinetic action is great, being mentally engaged ups the ante tenfold.

Good films for men are an acute distillation of the male experience, boiled down to the bare essentials. Loners, guys with no name and straightforward morals with little to no shades of gray. The lack of political correctness in most of the films listed increases their appeal tremendously. Or you can ask yourself the simple question: are you a Captain Kirk guy or a Captain Jean-Luc Picard kind of guy? Cowboy diplomat or Calvinist minister? I rest my case.

Even at 200 films, this list is still missing quite a few entries like “Westworld”, “The Omega Man” and many others. For those of you looking for the latest string of 3D extravaganzas, keep moving. If you like your actions scenes with real people (where all the moves aren’t blurry) and not CGI then you may find much to enjoy!

Submitted for your approval in no particular order, 200 movies for guys:

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
3) Ben-Hur
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
6) High Noon
7) Jaws
8) King Kong (1933)
9) Lawrence Of Arabia
10) The Graduate
11) The Godfather I & II
12) Easy Rider
13) The Bridge On The River Kwai
14) Bonnie And Clyde
15) Chinatown
16) Citizen Kane
17) The Wild Bunch
18) The Third Man
19) The Shawshank Redemption
20) Shane
21) The Searchers
22) Star Wars films (1977-1983)
23) Raging Bull
24) Psycho
25) Paths Of Glory
26) On The Waterfront
27) Pulp Fiction
28) Die Hard films
29) Terminator I & II
30) Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
31) The Big Red One
32) The Dirty Dozen
33) Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
34) Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
35) Planet Of The Apes (1968)
36) The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
37) Emperor Of The North
38) The French Connection
39) The Seven-Ups
40) Death Wish
41) High Plains Drifter
42) The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
43) Fistful Of Dollars
44) For A Few Dollars More
45) Dog Day Afternoon
46) The Mechanic (1972)
47) Hard Times
48) The Valachi Papers
49) Shaft (1971)
50) Superfly
51) Unforgiven
52) Tombstone (1993)
53) 12 Angry Men
54) The Defiant Ones
55) The Seven Samurai
56) The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
57) Ice Station Zebra
58) Platoon
59) Menace II Society
60) Network
61) Scarface (1983)
62) Taxi Driver
63) Goodfellas
64) Ronin
65) The Expendables
66) The Silence Of The Lambs
67) Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
68) Full Metal Jacket
69) Glory
70) A Soldier’s Story
71) Escape From New York
72) Halloween
73) Henry V (1944 and 1989 versions)
74) Mean Streets
75) Reservior Dogs
76) Bruce Lee films
77) John Woo films (Hong Kong only)
78) Jet Li films
79) Jackie Chan films
80) Marty
81) The Matrix
82) Predator
83) Monty Python And The Holy Grail
84) Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
85) Patton
86) Mad Max
87) The Road Warrior
88) Bullitt
89) The Great Escape
90) Stalag 17
91) Rocky
92) Saving Private Ryan
93) Spartacus
94) The Shining
95) Robocop
96) Total Recall
97) Starship Troopers
98) The Thing (1951 and 1982 versions)
99) Blazing Saddles
100) Deliverance
101) In The Heat Of The Night
102) The Vikings
103) L.A. Confidential
104) Road To Perdition
105) Master Killer
106) Rollerball (1975)
107) Death Race 2000
108) Young Frankenstein
109) Patterns (1956 film version)
110) The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit
111) Indiana Jones (first 3 films)
112) Rambo films
113) Alien I & II
114) The Running Man
115) Commando
116) Desperado
117) Lethal Weapon
118) James Bond (first 3 Connery films)
119) Iron Man
120) Bourne films
121) Hunt For Red October
122) Das Boot
123) Downfall
124) North By Northwest
125) Rear Window
126) Forbidden Planet
127) Speed
128) Braveheart
129) Sin City
130) The Wrestler
131) Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
132) Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)
133) The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
134) Spider Man I & II (2002 – 2004)
135) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
136) Blade Runner
137) Once Upon A Time In The West
138) Prince Of The City
139) Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
140) Cool Hand Luke
141) The Conversation
142) The Parallax View
143) Three Days Of The Condor
144) 28 Days Later
145) Get Carter (1971)
146) Guns Of Navarone
147) Pork Chop Hill
148) Twelve O’Clock High
149) Major Dundee
150) El Cid
151) Ride The High Country
152) Straw Dogs
153) The Killer Elite
154) The Caine Mutiny
155) The Wild One
156) Paint Your Wagon
157) Birdman Of Alcatraz
158) Seven Days In May
159) The Train
160) Seconds
161) Grand Prix
162) Barry Lyndon
163) A Clockwork Orange
164) Minority Report
165) Dirty Harry
166) Sudden Impact
167) Gran Torino
168) Space Cowboys
169) Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
170) Hard Times
171) The Green Berets
172) The Road
173) Platoon
174) Se7en
175) American History X
176) Black Hawk Down
177) Battleground
178) The Usual Suspects
179) The Maltese Falcon
180) The Longest Yard (1974)
181) North Dallas Forty
182) The Untouchables
183) The Hustler
184) The Right Stuff
185) The Three Stooges (with Curly  or Shemp)
186) The Marx Brothers (1930’s)
187) Papillon
188) Billy Jack
189) Slap Shot
190) The Getaway
191) The Sting
192) Sahara (1943)
193) Dead End (1937)
194) The Shootist
195) Once Upon A Time In The West
196) The Magnificent Seven
197) Willard (1971)
198) Ride The High Country
199) Tombstone (1993)
200) Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe films

Multiply Social Network Going Down For Bloggers

Multiply, the social network you may have never heard of in spite of millions of members around the globe, will be shutting blogging services down by December 1st 2012. It will then become a “social shopper site”. One of the reasons Multiply is not in the mainstream (other than to make room for the big IPO kid on the block) are the tools by which members use to upload and share media. This apparently is a no-no for a media industry being crushed under the weight of its own excesses. Multiply finally gave in and has decided to reinvent itself as a hawker of five and dime fare from the Pacific Rim. You can read more about the situation in a little tome I posted for my online friends:

The inevitable has happened and Multiply will no longer serve us in its present form by the first of December 2012. The virtual Mayan calendar has run out, our sharing sins laid bare and some of you are waiting for the next social networked shoe to drop. Well not this guy and hopefully most of my other fellow swells who have been here through thick and thin, educating me on the finer points of jazz, pop, blues, films, books, etc. And not to mention your respective cultures from all over the globe. This one’s for you.

I have been plying my multimedia trade here on Multiply since 2006, another grizzled refugee from the still lamented Yahoo 360. While there is still enough to feel bad about when it comes to Yahoo, Multiply ended up being the superior place glitches and all. Unlike Yahoo, The ‘Ply offered a premium option for a measly stipend so long as we obeyed the rules. For the most part we did, but over time it seems as if the rules were starting to bend at the expense of those who were more than willing to walk the straight and narrow. All of a sudden we started to receive invites from people who were hawking dime store wares from points Pacific, in complete violation of what we came to understand as no selling on Multiply. We ignored this growing trend at our own peril as we turned down these invitations and went about our merry multimedia way convinced of our invincibility. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

But wait….there’s more. We have been told there are other sites who can better serve our blogging interests while this one continues to pander to policy breakers. Truth be told…and this is just my opinion, our overseers have bowed to the pressures placed upon them by “the industry” and have been ordered to crash the “sharing” party here. Couple that with another ad-addled social network who’s recent failed IPO has it scrambling for other options to keep it afloat. And a few million people from a soon-to-be-extinct site may just migrate over to help with the headcount. In the words of the immortal Dennis Miller “of course, that’s just my opinion….I could be wrong”. Not. ; )

There is however a rainbow at the end of the road. Most of us have been actively seeking alternatives. While the Multiply format in its current incarnation is a tough act to follow (cheap pocketbooks and watches notwithstanding), some say impossible, it can be done. Some have fled to the newly minted public competition. Others plan to strike out on their own for more obscure waters so as not to be shat on by a pair of random angry birds in the town of Farmville.

For the time being, yours truly will be billeted HERE. I know, at first blush its kind of plain, but as they say “pardon our dust”. A work in progress if you will. If I build it, hopefully all of you will come from time to time. And if a review addled blog is not your cup of Darjeeling, then cut to the chase right HERE. This is the only way I can think of to continue in the capacity I have here for the past few years. Until then, please add my email to your lists: dunkirkstreet@gmail.com.

Keep your heads up out there and don’t fall into despair. There’s much more to life than wiling away precious hours creeping and crawling on all these crazy sites. However….! Let’s get out and show ’em…we may be down but refuse to be out. The dynamic carried over from 360 to Multiply can mutate again into something even more wonderful. So what if we are a bit scattered? Keep the email addresses and site links and just spread the word that Multiply refugees have their heads down and are still punching.

Fred
That’s pretty much it in a cracked nutshell. Multiply, good, bad and sometimes ugly, was one of the best full featured platforms out there which didn’t require you to “like” anything you didn’t want to, not to mention a level of privacy we may never see again.

Miles Davis – So What?

“So What” is the first track from trumpeter Miles Davis classic 1959 album “Kind Of Blue”. I can think of no better way to start a new blog than with music from this landmark work. The late actor Dennis Hopper, in an interview in 2008 with Men’s Journal, claims Davis named the song after intellectual conversations with Hopper, in which he would reply, “So what?”

• Miles Davis – trumpet, band leader
• Julian “Cannonball” Adderley – alto saxophone
• Paul Chambers – double bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums
• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Bill Evans – piano

Welcome to Dunkirk Street

Welcome to Dunkirk Street.

Many of us have grown up with one or more “favorite streets” from childhood. Be they a place to buy things, catch a bus or where a defining life-moment took place, streets have held a lifelong fascination for me. So for the lack of a more trendy compound phrase to use as a site name, why not use the name of a street in St. Albans, Queens NY?