Movies All Guys Should See

As a male between the age of 16 and 30, I have seen a lot of movies and watched a lot of television and hence feel the need to get through my day (and more importantly my life) by incessantly quoting them. Hell, I have had entire conversations with people in which it is just movie quotes (See: Any conversation between Andrew Cross and I). But it has come to my attention that some people haven’t seen as many movies and I have and more importantly the most important movies that pretty much every guy (I was going to go with everyone, but that just seemed like to big of a task) should have seen by this point in their life. I am coming to save everyone from this and going to list the movies that I think every male between the ages of 16-30 should have seen by now. Most will be obvious but I will explain my choices to the ones that don’t seem to fit. I am indefinitely going to miss something, so back the fuck off if you know what’s good for you.

Mafia Movie Category

· The Godfather

· The Godfather, Part II

· Goodfellas

· Donnie Brasco

· Casino

· Scarface

· On the Waterfront

· A Bronx Tale

· Pulp Fiction

· The Departed

· Heat

Action Movie Category

· Die Hard

· Die Hard 2

· Rambo

· Gladiator

· Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc

· Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

· Terminator 2: Judgment Day

· Saving Private Ryan

· Full Metal Jacket

· Apocalypse Now

· Platoon

· Bloodsport

· Predator

· Bad Boyz

· 007: Casino Royale

· 007: Goldfinger

· 007: Goldeneye

· Bladerunner

· Independence Day

· Jurassic Park

· Ocean’s 11

· Snatch

· Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

· Se7en

· Fight Club

· Top Gun

· American History X

· JAWS

· RoboCop

· Road House

· The Rock

· Braveheart

Comedy Movie Category

· Animal House

· Caddy Shack

· Dumb and Dumber

· Tommy Boy

· Billy Madison

· Monty Python and the Holy Grail

· Airplane!

· Blazing Saddles

· Young Frankenstein

· The Big Lewbowski

· Ghostbusters

· 40 Year Old Virgin

· Superbad

· Knocked Up

· Old School

· Anchorman

· Spaceballs

· Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

· The Jerk

· My Cousin Vinny

· Wayne’s World

· American Pie

· Friday

· Happy Gilmore

· Beverly Hills Cop

· Super Troopers

· This is Spinal Tap

· The Naked Gun

· Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

· Groundhog’s Day

· Wedding Crashers

· Swingers

· The Goonies

· Revenge of the Nerds

· Big

· Zoolander

· Dazed and Confused

· Grandma’s Boy

· Talladega Nights

· There’s Something About Mary

· Gremlins

· South Park: The Movie

· Rush Hour

· Renaissance Man

· Austin Powers

· Office Space

· Three Amigos

· Rushmore

· Bottle Rocket

· Clerks

· Waterboy

· Weekend at Bernies (Pokey demanded this and although I disagree he says the lone qualification is you must see this movie and therefore it belongs)

The “I Can’t Place It but it’s a Really Good” Movie Category (so basically a drama or a horror or suspense or really something I can't place)

· The Princess Bride

· Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (I bet more then 95% of you haven’t seen this one. Go out and rent it or Netflix it because it is just awesome)

· Good Will Hunting

· The Shawshank Redemption

· The Usual Suspects

· Rounders

· Back to the Future

· Stand by Me

· Silence of the Lambs

· One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

· The Shining

· Tombstone

· A Few Good Men

· Forest Gump

The Sports Movie Category

· Hoosiers

· Blue Chips

· The Program

· Raging Bull

· Bull Durham

· Rocky 1-4 (But not 5, you hear me!)

· Slapshot

· The Longest Yard (the original with Burt Reynolds, not that piece of crap with Adam Sandler)

· Brian’s Song (if you don’t cry at this flick, you are not human)

· Any Given Sunday

· Field of Dreams

· Pumping Iron (the unintentional comedy in this movie is ridiculous. It could go in the comedy section it is that funny)

· The Bad News Bears (once again, the original)

· Remember the Titans

· Rudy

· Major League 1 and 2

· White Men Can’t Jump (You can listen to Jimi, but you can’t hear Jimi.)

· Karate Kid

· Searching for Bobby Fisher (Take the dwaw. You alweady lost and you don’t even know it)

· The Natural

· Hoop Dreams

· Miracle

· Teen Wolf

· He Got Game

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category

· Star Wars IV: The New Hope

· Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

· Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

· Lord of the Ring 1: The Fellowship of the Ring

· Lord of the Ring 2: The Two Towers

· Lord of the Ring 3: The Return of the King

· The Matrix

· Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Now I know that some of your favorite movies have been missed on this list. I am just one man and there is no way I could have come up with a truly comprehensive list. This list has been weeks in the making but as always I accept your feedback and comments. Also I have actually seen every one of these movies. So if something amazing is not on there it might be because I have no seen it (cough, Batman Begins, cough).