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While I was in getting my Harley Quinn tattoo touched up, I had probably the most manly experience of my life in that when Jay started in on the tattoo, Mark, another tattoo artist there wheeled in a chair and we commenced a manly discussion about women, tattoos, tattoos of women, and movies. While discussing movies, I came to understand two things; the first is that Jay does the most epic impression of Hunter S Thompson the Earth will ever see; the second is that I have become remiss in my manly movie watching; probably because of too much animu. Thus, for the better part of a month I've been making lists and hunting down movies. So I return to you; the men of men; the men of the AG to compile and discuss our lists of the indispensable manly movies. I present to you my nascent Manly Movie List:

Scent of a Woman This one was introduced to me by my father, a man who is difficult to beat in his taste of movies and classic rock music. He rented it one weekend for my sister and I, being quite emphatic that this was a movie that we had to watch. I think it's the only time I've seen Al Pacino not kill someone in a movie. It's Tuesdays With Morrie for real men. I dig that you can learn things from old men (hence Streamjumper), but it's got to be something fun and life affirming. (Similar movies include Good Will Hunting and The Dead Poet's Society)

Black Hawk Down I'm pretty sure that this is the only movie that I went to with my father alone rather than with the rest of the family. This is one of those movies that really drives home the fact that for me war is to be avoided, but when it cannot, the lives of soldiers are not to be squandered but used to promote just causes. These men are to be respected and acknowledged for their service, and I've never seen a movie that does so without a modicum of useless macho bullshit or masturbatory flag waving. (Similar movies include Lambs for Lions, Saving Private Ryan, and Three Kings)

Fight Club Generation X. The dark side of modern masculinity. Buddhism. Sex. Death. Man Tits. Anarchy. Soap. So many movies are made for young men and about them, but how many actually speak profoundly to what it is to be one, even through the lens of an absurd mind? I don't even want to think about the kind of person I'd be today if I'd never mustered up the guts to rent this behind my parents' back. (Similar movies include... lulz)

Hard Boiled The first and last word in action movies. Chow Yun Fat playing a renegade cop named Tequila, five metric tons of lead flying through the air, and the acrobatics that inspired everything from Cowboy Bebop to The Matrix Trilogy. (Similar movies include The Killer, The Departed, Banlieue 13, The Professional, Ghost Dog, and Ronin)

Iron Man Real men don't dress in spandex, walk away from crying women in graveyards with stupid smirks on their faces, or spout useless platitudes about power and responsibility when they have neither. Real men drive epic cars, sleep with incredible women, and blow s**t up.
(Similar movies include... lulz)

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Tombstone This one got introduced to me by way of my friend's father when we were somewhere between nine and eleven as a rite of passage. He also had us watch Blade Runner, just to tell you how epic he is. Val Kilmer convincingly blowing people away half dead from tuberculosis and at least one of his lungs somewhere between his molars is something that stays with you for life. (Similar movies include Unforgiven, Legends of the Fall, 3:10 to Yuma, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Road to Perdition)

I believe you mean "b***h tits."

I present before the Manly Men Committee The Warriors! Rip and tear! scream

70's movie where one gang must make it home through New York after a meeting goes sour and every gang is out for their blood. Awesome fight scenes, funky music, manliness to the EXTREEEEME!

Please to be overlooking the fact that most of the gang members are actually Broadway dancers. ninja

The Jane Austen Book Club

Cyn, did you know that The Rock version is in fact a remake of an earlier adaptation?

Still funny about the guy being a KKK member in light of Dwayne playing him in the remake. Wonder if he knew that.