# Need Help: Man Movie Marathon, recent rental recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824 "2006-06-15T16:59:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/21 "2006-06-15T19:50:29Z")
Another vote for BASEketball; I found it a hell of a lot funnier than anything Parker and Stone animated/puppeted. There’s also The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, which I watched recently and thoroughly enjoyed. Much asskickery. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/22 "2006-06-15T19:52:47Z")
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier: if you need to “cleanse the palate” between the comedies, how about Jackie Chan movies? If there’s one thing that says “guy movie” (apart from boobs, beer, cars, explosions, guns, war, death, monsters, the mafia, blood, baseball, boxing, decapitations, excessive CGI, and Rutger Hauer), it’s kung fu. Someone else probably knows better titles than I. **Rumble in the Bronx** seems to be an okay starting point, though. And another suggestion: **Hard Boiled** , a John Woo movie with so much gunplay you’ll spray popcorn in delight. I think it still holds the record for “most on-screen deaths” with (according to IMDb) 230 in two hours. The final gunfight, in a hospital, takes about 40 minutes, and the shooting never freakin’ stops. Truly awesome. Speaking of hospitals: in general, stay away from anything about a disease. Only chicks like movies where one person dies slowly. Bring on the movies about lots of people dying quickly! ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/23 "2006-06-15T20:15:58Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > And another suggestion: **Hard Boiled** , a John Woo movie with so much gunplay you’ll spray popcorn in delight. I think it still holds the record for “most on-screen deaths” with (according to IMDb) 230 in two hours. The final gunfight, in a hospital, takes about 40 minutes, and the shooting never freakin’ stops. Truly awesome. Concur most vociferously. BTW, this was one of the earliest Chow Yun Fat shoot’em ups, where he honed his two-fisted style as seen in The Replacement Killers. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/24 "2006-06-15T20:19:49Z")
Tombstone…twice. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/25 "2006-06-15T20:48:15Z")
[QUOTE=BF] Concur most vociferously. BTW, this was one of the earliest Chow Yun Fat shoot’em ups, where he honed his two-fisted style as seen in The Replacement Killers. [/QUOTE] Well, A Better Tomorrow (1986) and The Killer (1989) predate Hard Boiled by a few years, but those three taken together are pretty much the holy trilogy of John Woo/Chow Yun Fat collaborations, and all action masterpieces. I’ll throw in a vote for all of them, and another for Tombstone as well. The OP did specifically request RECENT, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/26 "2006-06-15T21:02:52Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] So - what’s come out recently that I should be renting? I got to see X3 (not on DVD yet, but I have authorization to take my son to X movies), saw Napoleon Dynamite, Wedding Crashers and 40-Year-Old Virgin (I much preferred 40 to WC, fwiw). Help an temporary bachelor out here!! [/QUOTE] Much to my surprise, I laughed my ass off over The 40 Year Old Virgin. I’m a woman, but I just know this will translate to Man Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/27 "2006-06-15T21:05:43Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Much to my surprise, I laughed my ass off over The 40 Year Old Virgin. I’m a woman, but I just know this will translate to Man Movie. [/QUOTE] And I need to learn how to read more closely. You actually SAW this one. Multitasking NOT. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/28 "2006-06-15T21:11:05Z")
They’re not brand new but **The Bourne Identity** and **The Bourne Supremacy** are both chock full of manly stuff, guns, car chases, intense hand-to-hand combat, sadly, no boobs. Funny thing, there’re basically the same damn movie made twice but I love them both. Ooh! I just remembered, **The History Of Violence**!!! compleatly good stuff for a bach-movie fest. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/29 "2006-06-15T21:39:38Z")
What about something Bruce Lee? What about Bloodsport or the second best Van Damme movie ever (which doesn’t say much): Cyborg. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/30 "2006-06-15T21:49:55Z")
All good - keep 'em coming! Saw the Killer, but not the others in the Woo/Chow Yun Fat trilogy. Noted. Chan/Kung Fu as palate cleanser? I like your thinking. Noted. Bruce Lee - know them; love them. Own some. A little chicken talk, anyone? 😃 Van Damme? Haven’t liked what I’ve seen unless it co-starred Lance Henrikson… Bourne’s - got to see those; enjoyed their manly goodness. History of Violence - got to rent that the first weekend it came out on DVD - along with the Keira Pride & Prejudice for WordWife - that was a good weekend! History would’ve been perfect for my roster otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![Doom\_Slinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Doom\_Slinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doom_Slinger)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/31 "2006-06-15T22:30:58Z")
_The Road Warrior_. No boobage (that I recall), but it does have Lord Humonguous and some kick-ass car chases. ---
**Author:** ![Doom\_Slinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Doom\_Slinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doom_Slinger)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/32 "2006-06-15T22:32:05Z")
Er…that’s Humongous. Not someone you’d want to piss off by misspelling his name. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/33 "2006-06-16T00:07:01Z")
Death to Smoochy - the violent side of children’s tv show Shawn of the Dead - Zombies! (28 Days Later might qualify for this as well) Snatch - various undergrounds collide ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/34 "2006-06-16T00:20:51Z")
Not recent but if you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend “True Romance.” Despite the title, it’s not a chick flick! “Lord Of War” is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/35 "2006-06-16T00:29:46Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] Snatch - various undergrounds collide [/QUOTE] +1 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/36 "2006-06-16T01:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] All good - keep 'em coming! Saw the Killer, but not the others in the Woo/Chow Yun Fat trilogy. Noted. Chan/Kung Fu as palate cleanser? I like your thinking. Noted. Bruce Lee - know them; love them. Own some. A little chicken talk, anyone? 😃 Van Damme? Haven’t liked what I’ve seen unless it co-starred Lance Henrikson… Bourne’s - got to see those; enjoyed their manly goodness. History of Violence - got to rent that the first weekend it came out on DVD - along with the Keira Pride & Prejudice for WordWife - that was a good weekend! History would’ve been perfect for my roster otherwise! [/QUOTE] Well, if you haven’t seen Bloodsport, I highly rate it. IT’s Van Damme’s first movie and is SO damned cheesy. Of course, I know the movie like the back of my nuts and watch the craptacular thing every flippin’ time it comes on. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/37 "2006-06-16T01:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=River Hippie] Not recent but if you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend “True Romance.” Despite the title, it’s not a chick flick! “Lord Of War” is pretty good. [/QUOTE] Lord of War is indeed good, but it’s more sobering than entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/38 "2006-06-16T02:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Well, if you haven’t seen Bloodsport, I highly rate it. IT’s Van Damme’s first movie and is SO damned cheesy. Of course, I know the movie like the back of my nuts and watch the craptacular thing every flippin’ time it comes on. [/QUOTE] I’ll second Bloodsport. That and Hard Target (which the OP referred to above as Van Damme’s collaboration with Lance Hendricksen) are Van Damme’s two best movies, by far. Bloodsport features a blend of neat fighting styles in a tournament setting – my favorite is the “monkey kung fu” guy from Africa – and an awesome soundtrack for getting psyched, courtesy of Stan Bush (who also recorded the famous “You Got the Touch” and “Dare” for Transformers: The Movie). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/39 "2006-06-16T02:17:07Z")
I rented Sin City and Team America one weekend to watch with my girlfriend. There was some…unpleasentness… I would go with those two plus: Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy The 40 Year Old Virgin Weding Crashers Old School Maybe a classic war film like Kelly’s Heros, The Great Escape or The Dirty Dozen. You know the type. The ones where WWII was essentially like going away to summer camp to kill Nazis with a bunch of tough as nails wiseasses. Not all maudlin like SPR or Thin Red Line. Throw in a little Kill Bill or The Matrix action. Maybe some classic Schwartzenigger or Willis - Commando, Terminator/T2, Die Hard I or III, Predator. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824/40 "2006-06-16T02:55:08Z")
If we’re not sticking to “recent” (last couple years), I must also recommend: _Last Man Standing_ (AWESOME film noir set in a dusty Texas town during Prohibition, with Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken as dueling badasses – a remake of _Red Harvest/Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars_.) _Payback_ (Mel Gibson as an amoral crook turned antihero, taking down an entire criminal syndicate because one guy ripped him off and he wants his money – a remake of _Point Blank_ with Lee Marvin.) _Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels_ and _Snatch_ – a Guy Ritchie double-feature. _The Last Boy Scout_ (Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans) and \*The Long Kiss Goodnight \* (Geena Davis lookin’ HAWT/Samuel L. Jackson being badass) – a Shane Black double-feature (or triple-feature if paired with _Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang_… and Black also created and wrote _Lethal Weapon_!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-man-movie-marathon-recent-rental-recommendations/360824.md?page=3)