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There's a guy that doesn't admit he likes the Goonies? Was there a chick-flick story line that I missed?

That list makes no sense.

Who the fuck came up with that? Doesn't sound like a guy wrote it.

If it were to say for example: "Modern Girls" aaah see that, I LOOVE IT!, that's hard to admit for a guy.

He's Bruno X!!!

The Princess Bride? Inconceivable!

My take is that some intern, "alternate lifestyle" type, wrote this list.

Beetlejuice? Really? I know loads of men and women alike who love this movie. Not only do they not deny it, it comes up as a fave before it's even asked about. I can't imagine somebody denying (or, semantically, not admitting) that they love it.

The tits (x3... I see what you did there), indeed.

9. Bettlejuice

What?! One of my favorite movies, as it is most men I know. Catharine O'Hara is a gorgeous, manic, wallpaper-hating goddess.

6. The Goonies

Wuh???!!!

5. The Princess Bride

ZUH??!! First off, any man I date should have the balls to confess to loving any film, because I get off on teasing people and because I'll feel like less of an asshole when I watch Coyote Ugly for the 8 thousandth time. Second, if The Princess Bride comes on and the guy doesn't take pleasure in quoting the wonderful intricacies of the dialogue ("I only dog paddle!"), his chances of getting into my pants becomes mostly dead.

So, as far as I can tell, the criteria for this list is any movie that prominently features a lady and doesn't include gratuitous shots of shirtless, greased-up men with big... guns, or the anti-thesis of Spike's current line-up of movies.

These are certainly the "men's men."

Just goes to show that they'll let anyone with a keyboard post on a website...

Pretty much every 30 something guy I know likes all of those movies and quotes them fluently in casual conversation.

Ever get the feeling that the people who come up with lists for stuff like this are actually just bored or suffering from writers block so they just write any old BS to fill space?

Not Pajibans, surely, but this guy? Yeah.

Spike TV is right up there with Maxim as far as quality, but these are movies they think guys won't admit they love? How they hell do they figure? Honest to shit, I dig all those movies. Here's a list of movies that, should I happen to be with a bunch of guys and the topic of movies/television/books/product comes up, I'm not really sure I'd admit to digging:

• Dirty Dancing
• Clueless
• What Not to Wear
• Jack & Kate Plus 8
• Joss Stone
• Sex & The City
• Judy Blume books
• Decorating and wrapping gifts
• Scented lotions
• Dove deodorant - I friggin' don't know what it is, but all "manly" deodorant stinks like shit. What the hell is Mountain Pine Glacier? Or Performance? Is it supposed to be musky, or friggin' earthy? 'Cause brother, they smell like cloying shit. I wear cologne, yeah, but keep all "made for men" deodorant, shower gel, and aftershave the hell away from me. Jesus Christ, they stink like a high school boys locker room in a shitty school district. I'd rather get my crap at Aveda...

Uh, yeah. This list makes no sense. Most of those aren't even chick flicks in any sense of the word. Now, if they had "A Guy Thing" which hersheyguy loves, or "10 things I hate about you" (Ledger - squee!) then maybe.

"But I love my sketchers!"
"Thats because you don't have a Prada backpack."

Also, "Center Stage" because I try to find a way to fit "I'm the best damn dancer at the American Ballet Company, who the hell are you!" into daily conversation and hersheyguy is still with me.

Babe. The corralling scene at the end is great every time.

Now I gotta go finish sheet-rocking my basement, take a piss with the seat down, and then impregnate my wife.

More than half this list is completely BS. Say Anything was the first date for me and Mrs. Newman and I'm proud to say it worked wonders.

Why isn't Terminator on this list?

Spike TV's Approved List of Movies the Be-Testicled May Admit to Enjoying:

Die Hard
First Blood
The Godfather
Alien
Personal Best (Sports AND lesbians!)
True Lies (Schwarzenegger and a horse)
Eraser (Schwarzenegger and crocodiles)
Jingle All the Way (Schwarzenegger and Sinbad)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (masturbation is fun)
Bad Boys (so is shit that gets all 'splodey)

The ultimate "never admit to liking it film for a guy" has to be Staying Alive. Not only would you be admiting to being a chick, you'd be admitting to shitty taste in movies.

SkitMax, I'm in agreement with your list, except for the honking exception of Joss Stone. A six-foot tall, barefoot, cockney chick that can wail like the side-baby of Etta James and Steve Perry?

If one is a straight dude and does not admit her awesomeness, we cannot be good friends. (Not you specifically, just a general rule I have.)

You know what? this is bullshit. What about Bob? Seriously? Are we sure a man wrote this list? Cause if it was I am ashamed to be of the same gender. Most of these items are to celebrated by men. Admitting to liking these movies isn't like admitting you love The Notebook or balls on your face.

"But now when your friends start listing off awesome movies from the '80s - Back to the Future, Aliens, Predator - The Goonies gets mysteriously omitted. Why? Because it stars a bunch of kids? Because it's a modern day fairy tale? Because it's about friendship, instead of violent aliens or time travel? Well, whatever the reasons for this conscious omission, it was and still is one of the oft overlooked gems of the '80s, and everyone who grew up watching it knows this."

Whaaaaaat?! "...still is one of the oft overlooked gems of the '80s"? Are you friggin' kidding me? Who the hell overlooks this flick as one of the '80s greats? Shit, anytime I've ever started talking about movies from the eighties with somebody, this flick comes up. Whoever wrote this obviously knows jack shit about crap.

Skitt

Monster Squad! That is all.

"A six-foot tall, barefoot, cockney chick that can wail like the side-baby of Etta James and Steve Perry"

Yes. I do love me some Joss Stone. I will no longer hide it. Also meant to say "should I happen to be with a bunch of guys I don't know".

I have an enormous secret crush on Skittimus, don't tell anyone.

This definitely is absolute shenanigans. I love every movie on that list, minus Pride and Prejudice and that's only because I've never even seen it.

• Judy Blume books

Skitt, will you be mine? We can cuddle on the couch while watching Beetlejuice and discussing whether God really gave a shit about Margaret.

The ultimate "never admit to liking it film for a guy" has to be Staying Alive. Not only would you be admiting to being a chick, you'd be admitting to shitty taste in movies.

Sheeeeit. It goes hand in hand with "Urban Cowboy"! Both fantastic! It's where "Satan's Alley" comes from!

Anyway, it's obvious Generation Douchebag TM wrote this, right?

I won't admit to liking The Goonies, because I fucking hate that movie. It's probably the one and only 80s-nostalgia thing I just don't get. (I'm all about The Monster Squad, though, Admin11.)

But every other movie on that list that I have seen, I enjoy and would not be afraid to say so. Love Actually has Laura Linney, which is enough to make like anything, and Sense and Sensibility has Kate Winslet, which is far more than enough.

And if Barack Obama said, "Yeah, I saw The Princess Bride. Didn't think much of it," I'd vote for... well, nobody, probably.

I love the anger in this post. YOU TELL 'EM, SETH! Fuck those morons!

Also, Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite movies of all time. But yeah, really not a guy movie at all.

Judy Blume is the tits!

Skittimus, no matter what the thread topic, you always have a million chicks throwing themselves at your wit (myself included!)

My guy friend in high school who was a big bruiser football and lacrosse player had a deep dark secret he never told anyone but me...he always cried at the end of Dirty Dancing. Made taking his virginity that much sweeter :-)

I once dated a guy who thought that liking movies was "kinda gay". Not kidding. I asked him his top 5, and he came up with 2 (Bloodsport and Predator) and when pressed for more said "guys don't really like movies that much unless they're kinda gay". He also once told me that I wouldn't have any fun on my vacation in Australia because I didn't speak Australian. He was hot, older and I was 14, don't judge me.

This list has to be a joke. My Dude and I own Princess Bride - one of his oldest (male) friends gave it to us for Chrismaka a fews back. Plus, other than my high school friends, I've only watched that movie with dudes. Most recently with three dudes. And they are manly. So, fuck that.

([([(I've never seen Goonies - it came out before I could speak English - NOT my fault - want to see it - please don't kill)])])

PS - Hi, Julie! I miss you! School is hard! (like deez nutz!)

If one is a straight dude and does not admit her awesomeness, we cannot be good friends. (Not you specifically, just a general rule I have.)

If caught between the Scylla and Charybdis, I'll choose barefoot over sandals, but barefoot on stage (or anywhere in public) really bugs me. Plus....dirty. Of course I can look past dislike or disinterest for one's work to purely appreciate their visual qualities (see: Many), but she fails all around for me.

I'm pretty much indifferent to "The Princess Bride". Just never really clicked with me. I very well know not to argue against it, but I don't really care enough to anyway.

I friggin' don't know what it is, but all "manly" deodorant stinks like shit.

Along with the "Men's" shower gel 'n shit. Foul. A couple of friends and I agreed in high school that Secret really does smell nice, and I like getting the "powder" scent too if I'm buying a solid. And are there women who like that Right Guard kind of smell anyway?

Jay, I owe you a goddamed Irish Car Bomb - Secret and Dove just smell nice. Period. I've tried a boatlod of "mens" deodorants, shaving creams, razors, aftershave balms, shower gels, etc., and most of them all have the same "whatthefuckisthat?" stink about them. Like chemical-ish. I just don't get it. Aveda, on the other hand, has stuff for guys that smells... pleasant. It just smells clean and good and natural. Lastly, when I mentioned razors up there? Yeah. I use a Schick Quattro for Women. The razor head is larger, it's got more aloe strip on it, it's more flexible, they seem to last longer, and above all? No goddamed razor bumps/rash. Seriously. I just shaved with a lady's razor this morning while listening to the new Kings of Leon (very good, by the way), eating a chunk of leftover steak, and balancing a scotch on the rocks on my mid-morning erection. It ain't ladylike, it just works better.

Men's Arm and Hammer that my guy uses could double as a cologne. I like it. I personally don't think deodorant needs to smell like anything...men's or women's.

SLOTH LOVE CHUNK!

This list was conceived in Bizzaroworld.

Hee. I wear Old Spice High Endurance ('fresh' scent) because I hate the way women's deodorants smell. I'm not a baby-powdered flower, y'all.

Ah, to be a scotch on the rocks.....sorry, inappropriate.

Maybe this list was in celebration of October Fool's Day?

Because of the kind of music I like, my friends call me A.C. (for Adult Contemporary) and when it comes to movies, I have been known to like a romantic comedy or two in my time. Three of my favorite movies of all time are Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and Say Anything, to the point that I have framed posters of all of those movies. (they aren't up, Betty Rubble44 and I have only been in the apartment for 2 years....just haven't had time)*

I will fight to the death defending Princess Bride. I love the book and the movie. I would be quite happy if William Goldman could get past his writers block and finish Buttercup's Baby. Why wouldn't men admit to loving this film, it has Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles and Andre the Giant kicking ass while displaying mad rhyming skills "anybody want a peanut?"

It's like the guy at Spike just pulled random movies off Netflix and made a list. Every one of those films are cool. As for Sense and Sensibility....my brother and my friend have a rule that they will see any Jane Austen movie, but they have to be reallllllly drunk. It came from when they saw Emma after a full day watching football at the Westwood Brewing Company. Ah, college.

Anyway....the list is bogus.

* I also have a poster of The Tao of Steve, which is not only an underrated movie, but I look like Donal Logue in that film, but 50 pounds lighter...I still need to mix in a salad once in a while though.....I get winded playing video games.

What About "The Notebook" I loved that, wait, oh no there go my balls back into my stomach.

Estelle!! Hello dahling, we need to hang out again ASAP. :singsongy: I own the Goonies!

I have personally never understood the appeal of The Goonies. Maybe it's because I hate almost all 80s movies, what with the bad hair and bad clothes and terrible music. I've only tried to watch The Goonies twice and I've fallen asleep both times.

The Princess Bride is cute but doesn't warrant such rabid fanaticism. The music in it is horrible and it really isn't that funny. It's like a Mel Brooks movie...funny but not THAT funny.

I like my men manly enough to fess up to their likes and dislikes. I call bastardy.

shit, I own Beetlejuice, The Goonies, and The Princess Bride (and the book? SO much funnier than the movie. For serious!).

:starts plotting to crash Estelle and Julie's party:

Skitt

You rock that shit. In my previous profession (I'm sure you can figure it out) I worked at an Aveda salon. To this day I haven't found anything that even comes close. I still only use that stuff as it doesn't smell a chemical spill.

"My name Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

'Nuff said.

My husband has used my Noxema skin cream to shave with, and my women's razor as well ever since we started dating... over 14 years ago. I think he thought it was some sort of conspiracy us women kept from our menfolk, but hey! He swears by it over the other manly stuff you can get at Longs.

He also loves "The Princess Bride". And "Zorro The Gay Blade". So there, Spike. Shove it up your hairy ass...

And to think you always hear about the "did you use my razor to shave your legs??", but not the other way around. Hmmm. I tried the regular Quattro and it left me rougher than my trusty Gillettes do, but the "women's" might be different.

I've been using Aveeno shave gel the past year. It's made with oatmeal and smells like almonds. My face got a lot more sensitive and prone to bumps in curvy areas a few years ago (on the other hand, my metabolism kicked up a little) and I had to be more careful and generally avoid going against the grain, even though my sparse little joke of a beard begs for it. Neutrogena's line is pretty good too.

Zorro The Gay Blade! Ha! I didn't think anyone but me remembered that! Last year I finally got to shout "And I'm gonna be 40!!!......in eight years!!!" This year someone better give me a pullover sweater.

Fwiw my girl swears by my Mach3's. Jay if I go against the grain I look like something from a splatter film. Thankfully she also likes my o'clock shadow.

Thanks Admin (why the eleven)! Any chance you still have some sort of employee discount number you wanna pass on to me? That foofy shit ain't cheap... Becky TTG, your hubsam's welcome to use my shower anytime. Bottom line is, if it's made to be more soothing to the skin because it's made for a woman, well paint me chartreuse and do my hair up in rollers. Lady stuff just feels better...

However, in all fairness, should I meet a pack of ravenous manly men who love Spike, Maxim, Tucker Max, and drink nothing but Bud because of the chicks in the commercials, and they ask me what I dig? Here's my list (this doesn't mean I don't like some of these things, you just gotta play to the crowd, catfish?):

• Operation USA.
• Carmen Electra.
• Brian Johnson era AC/DC is better than Bon Scott era AC/DC.
• "You Might Be a Redneck" jokes.
• That Kimbo Slice is gonna kick Ken Shamrock's ass (you call me a racist because of this, you're a shithead - I think Shamrock's gonna pull it off, end of discussion).
• Debating the finer points of Calvin pissing of Ford vs. Chevy.
• Giant decals in my rear window that clearly state what kind of car I drive.
• How soccer is for queers (no offense to the gay/lesbian community on this one, just stating how it might be brought up whilst swilling some shit domestic beer and talking sports with guys wearing No Fear/Big Johnson shirts. By the way, why is it "gay & lesbian" community? how come they just don't say "gay community"? I mean, lesbians can say they're gay, but the fellas really can't say they're lesbians - how's that work?).
• Cambell's Chunky Soup.
• Texas Hold 'em (don't even think about holding this against me - I stated very fucking clearly that this list doesn't mean I don't like these things, just that in the company of Axe Body Spray-wearing guys, it'd be a topic of discussion).
• How Chicklets aren't "real" gum.

Yeah, it's eleven vs. ten, but so what? You can suck it, Nancy!

Debating the finer points of Calvin pissing of Ford vs. Chevy

I once saw Yoda pissing on the Federation logo.

And I agree, the lesbians can't have it both ways, dammit! I gotta support my brothers here!

And is it inaccurate as well as pejorative when the to-be-divorced Walter Matthau, in "House Calls" I think, said "my wife's a fag!" Discuss. Or.....not.

Actually Skitt I still get 25% off so it makes that shit only twice as expensive as regular stuff. 11?! I thought those were ll's. I'd better put some cucumbers on my eyes they're getting puffy.

Jay, Gin a body meet a body comin' thro' the rye, should the two of us ever meet, I'm paying your tab, holmes... I've never understood how the lesbians get both gay and lesbian... I say we pull a Dan Savage (thanks, Santorum!) and come up with a new word...

What? Why the hell you looking at me? I've got jack shit here... Mini diversion (is this my first? Sku-weeee!) - what can our homerexual fellas call themselves, being that lesbians have... uh, lesbians? I call "Atreyus"... Fuck off, I like the sound of it...

I can do 100 pushups while watching Titanic. In fact I do that every Tuesday. Thursdays I do squat thrusts while watching legally blonde

Two bits...four bits...six bits...a peso

All for El Zorro....stand up and say so!!!!!!

Well, Spike Lee hates most films with white people so it makes sense.

Not only do I love Say Anything the movie, i love the book. I love anything to do with that movvie. I love John Cusack like a white kid loves jack johnson in his college years. I love it more than I love drunkenly forgoing punctuation and grammar. And if it makes me less of a man, FUCK YI. And YOU. Mh delete key is broken so I am not willing to go back and correct these . I ljust love Jon cosack and Jack Black. And c'mob, Let's get it On at the end? That's amazing! and a kuttke hot, I'll admit. Like I saif, I lurve John Cusack, except in Being John Malkovich where he is a lil' creepy but I love the movie,. Anything else, I'm good to go with Cusakc.

Woooooo Paj I..... baa?

I'll see your throat punch and truffle shuffle, And raise you a sagitarius death grip with a hetorosexual stomp! Viva La Lauper!

My guy is a hopeless romantic so his favorite movie is 'Love Actually' (but only 'cause 'The Princess Bride' is a given).

I love John Cusack like a white kid loves jack johnson in his college years.

Have things gotten that bad out there?

So, I must've thought it said Hi-Fidelity. That would explain it.
He's everywhere Jay. Like a mellow, quasi-surf rock plague.

Spike TV is geared toward overly masculine frat boys who pound cases of Bud Light and play every intramural sport they can to hide the fact that they're basically closet cases who steal peeks at their friends in the shower.

While I can't say I've seen Love, Actually or Sense & Sensibility, I can proudly admit to seeing and enjoying the rest of the films on that list. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get ready for tonight's flag football game.

Barbado, I absolutely LOVE Modern Girls! It's one of my all time faves! ..Hang on, you're inside my head, aren't you? *Eyes darting around*
Aww now I have that awesome Depeche Mode song stuck in my head!

Skitts, me and my coworkers go with the term "greco-roman"

What a ridiculous list! I own up to loving "Love Actually", and "Good Will Hunting" is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm grabbing my broom!

Men, if you want to have a smooth shave without razor bumps but don't want to use girlie creams and foams, do what I do (as a girl): Use a small amount of any type of hair conditioner. Found out the secret from a stripper that was giving me a lapdance (long story) and I asked her how she stayed so smooth without waxing everyday. Have never looked back. You can also use the conditioner in the washing machine to soften a wool sweater. Strippers have wisdom we can only dream of.

True story:

I'm in England right now getting a master's in scriptwriting, and my British classmates and I are sitting around the pub talking about movies, and I'm bringing up every good action movie I can think of. A girl in the class says, "Oh, we should all write in genres we don't like. Like Jake should write a rom com." At this point, I admit to them that rom coms are by far my favorite genre and that Love Actually is one of my favorite films.

The pub goes quiet. And out of nowhere, all of these British people start mocking me, including the girl who hasn't said anything all day, turns to me and asks if i realize that the film is shite. It was a rough time in my life.

...But not as rough as when I forget to close out the fucking italics. Goddammit!

Bon kicks Brian's ass quite well for a dead guy.

LOL, awesome commentary Seth

But where's the love for Beaches?

Sorry, I had to do it. But seriously I've never really gotten the whole guy flick vs. chick flick deal. I seriously liked Crank AND Clueless, all the Kevin Smith & Coen Brothers I've seen, Spike Lee's films, and Roadhouse, Red Dawn, Steel Magnolias....

Well I guess what I should have said is you can find interesting charcters and ideas in most movies, or failing that just enjoy the stupid.

oh hell, I left out Babe & Secret Garden.

Kid movies can be cool.

saying SHIT and FUCK makes you man enough, don't worry. I guess you didn't want to sound like a sissy

And let's be honest, boys and girls, and admit that the good ol' double standard is hard at work here (at least in the mind of the writer of that putrescent list). Chicks can dig Coyote Ugly and Fast and the Furious (oh shut it, you know it makes y'all hot and bothered when you see that shit in our movie collections), but a guy admits he likes Emma or The Holiday, and he's a pussy? Please. I begin to seriously doubt the mental capacity (or eyesight) of any guy who can watch Hugh Dancy and not concede to his fuck-ableness. And yes, it works both ways - were I playing for the other team (or maybe just a little drunk), Monica Bellucci would be my first choice for a celebrity sleepover.

The whole concept seems just a little passe' to me.