Male Friendly Entertainment, useful list

**Tyrael** · 31st-August-2007

Male Friendly Entertainment

The purpose of this thread is to provide a useful list with male friendly entertainment. Anybody can post a movie or game title. They will be added to this first, top post here.

If someone disagrees that i.e. a movie is not male friendly then you need to say why and it will be decided to either remove the title from the list or keep it.

When you post a movie or game title, please state the name, year it was released and genre. Games with barely a story don't count.

Last Updated: September 19th 2007.

Male Friendly Movies:

Transformers: The Movie, Genre: Animation / Action / Sci-Fi, Release date: 8 August 1986
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller, Release date: 1991
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1999
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 2002.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 2005
Star Wars IV: A New Hope, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1977
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1980
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1983
Ben-Hur, Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 1959
Gladiator, Genre: Genre:Action / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 2000
Flight of the Phoenix, Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 15 December 1965
Braveheart, Release date: 1995, Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / Romance / War
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy, Release Date: 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy, Release Date: 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Release Date: 2003
Rambo: First Blood, Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller, Release Date: 1982
Rambo: First Blood Part II, Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller, Release Date: 1985
Rambo III, Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller, Release Date: 1988
The Last Samurai, Genre: Genre:Action / Adventure / Drama / War, Release Date: 2003
Stargate, Genre: Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1994
Top Gun, Genre:Action / Drama / Romance, Release Date: 1986
Fight Club Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller, Release Date: 1999
Karate Kid, Genre: Action / Drama / Family / Sport, Release Date: 1984
Platoon, Genre: Action / Drama / War, Release Date: 1986
Full Metal Jacket, Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller / War, Release Date: 1987
Saving Private Ryan, Genre: Action / Drama / War, Release Date: 1998
Rocky, Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Sport, Release Date: 1976
Superman, Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1978
Spider-Man, Genre: Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 2002
Spider-Man 2, Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller, Release Date: 2004
Batman, Genre: Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller, Release Date: 1989
Dune, Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Release Date: 1984
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller, Release Date: 1981
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller, Release Date: 1984
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller, Release Date: 1989
Tron, genre: computer animation / sci-fi / adventure, release date: 1982
The Last Starfighter, genre: computer animation / sci-fi / adventure, release date: 1984
Conan, genre: fantasy / action / adventure, release date: 1982
Blade Runner, genre: sci-fi / noir, release date: 1982
Predator, genre: sci-fi / action / adventure, release date: 1987
Krull, genre: fantasy / action / adventure, release date: 1983
Westworld, genre: sci-fi / western / adventure, release date: 1973
A Fistfull of Dollars, genre: western, release date: 1964
For a Few Dollars More, genre: western, release date: 1965
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, genre: western, release date: 1966
John Carpenter's: The Thing, genre: horror / sci-fi, release date: 1982
Night of the Living Dead, genre: horror, release date: 1968
Tremors, genre: comedy / sci-fi, release date: 1990
Quigley Down Under, genre: western / adventure, release date: 1990
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, genre: sci-fi / western / adventure, release date: 1982
Soldier, genre: sci-fi / war, release date: 1998
Dog Soldiers, genre: sci-fi / war, release date: 2002
Nate and Hayes, genre: action / adventure, release date: 1983
Count of Monte Cristo, The, Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 2002
Magnificent Seven, The, Genre: Western / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 1960
Rocky Balboa, Genre: Action / Drama / Sport, Release Date: 2006
Rudy, Genre: Biography / Drama / Sport, Release Date: 1993
The Lion King, Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical, Release Date: 1994
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance, Release Date: 1991
Aladdin, Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical, Release Date: 1992
The Hunt for Red October, Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller, Release Date: 1990
Boondock Saints, Genre: crime / action / thriller, Release Date: 1999
K-19: The Widowmaker, Genre: war / action / thriller, Release Date: 2002
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, genre: war / action / miniseries, Release Date: 1985
Bullit, Genre: police / action / thriller, Release Date: 1968
Kramer vs. Kramer, Genre: Drama, Release Date: 1979
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World, Genre: Action / Adventure, Release date: 2003

Cool Hand Luke, Genre: Drama, Release Date: 1967
Russia House, Genre: Drama/Thriller, Release Date: 1990
High Noon, Genre: Thriller/Western, Release Date: 1952
Gettysburg, Genre: Drama/History/War, Release Date: 1993
Where Eagles Dare, Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/War, Release Date: 1968
Evil Dead, Genre: Horror, Release date: 1981
Army of Darkness Genre: Action/Horror/Comedy, Release date: 1992
Crimson Tide, Genre: Action/Drama/Thriller, Release date: 1995
Snatch, Genre: Comedy/Crime/Thriller, Release date: 2000
13th Warrior, Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy, Release date: 1999
Unforgiven, Genre: Drama/Western, Release date: 1992
Run Silent Run Deep, Genre: War / Action / Drama, Release Date: 1958

Male Friendly TV-Series:

Battlestar Galactica (original), Genre: Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure, Release Date: 1978-1979
The A-Team, Genre: Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / War, Release Date: 1983-1987
Star Trek, Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure, Release Date: 1966-1969
Transformers: Generation 1, Genre: Action / Fantasy / Animation / Sci-Fi / Thriller, Release Date: 1984-1987
Beast Wars: Transformers, Genre: Action / Fantasy / Animation / Sci-Fi / Thriller, Release Date: 1996-1999
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Genre: Animation / Action / Family / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1983-1985
MacGyver, Genre: Action / Adventure, Release Date: 1985
G.I. Joe, Genre: Action / Animation, Release Date: 1985-1986
Knight Rider Genre: Action / Crime / Sci-Fi, Release Date: 1982-1986
Airwolf Genre: Action / Adventure Release Date: 1984-1986
The Cosby Show, Genre: Comedy / Family, Release Date: 1984-1992
Johnny Quest, genre: animation / action / adventure, release date: 1964
Speed Racer, genre: animation / action / adventure, release date: 1967
Kimba the White Lion, genre: animation / adventure, release date: 1965
Shogun, Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama, Release Date: 1980
Band of Brothers, Genre: Adventure/Drama/History/War, Release date: 2001

Married with Children, Genre: Comedy, Release date: 1987-1997
Beavis and Butt-Head, Genre: Animation, Comedy, Release date: 1993-1997

Male Friendly Games:

Half-Life, Genre: First-person shooter, Release date PC: November 19, 1998, PlayStation 2: November 15, 2001
Half-Life 2, Genre: First-person shooter, Release date(s) NA November 16, 2004 (Win), November 15, 2005 (Xbox), October 6, 2007 (PS3, X360)
StarCraft, Genre: Real Time Strategy, Release date Windows (PC): 1998, Nintendo 64: 2000
Diablo, Genre: Hack and slash, (PC) (Mac) 1996, (PS) 1998
Diablo II, Genre: Hack and slash, Release Date: PC Mac 2000,
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Genre: Real Time Strategy, PC, Mac OS 1995, Saturn, PlayStation 1997
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Genre: Real Time Strategy, Release Date 2002
World of Warcraft, Genre: Fantasy MMORPG, PC 2004,
God of War, Genre: Hack and slash, Action adventure, Release Date: Playstation 2: 2005
God of War II, Genre: Hack and slash, Genre: Hack and slash, Action adventure, Release Date: Playstation 2: 2007.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Genre: Stealth action, Release Date: PlayStation 2: 2001, Xbox: 2002, PC Microsoft Windows: 2003
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Genre: Stealth action, Release Date Playstation 2: 2004
The Secret of Monkey Island, Genre: Adventure, Release Date: PC 1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Genre: Adventure, Release Date: PC 1991
The Curse of Monkey Island, Genre: Adventure, Release Date: PC 1997
System Shock, Genre: First-person shooter, Adventure, Action RPG, Survival horror, Release Date: PC 1994
Bioshock, Genre: First-person shooter, Adventure, Action RPG, Survival horror, Release Date: PC Xbox360 2007
Legend of Zelda (series), Genre: Action, Adventure
Mario Bros. (series), Genre: Action, Adventure, platform game
Shadow of the Beast, genre: side-scroll / adventure, release date: 1989
Another World, genre: side-scroll / sci-fi / adventure, release date: 1991
It Came From the Desert, genre: sci-fi / action, release date: 1989
Thief (series), Genre: First Person Sneaker
Stronghold, Genre: Historic Real-Time Strategy, release date: PC 2001
Total War (series), Historic Real-Time Strategy
Duke Nukem 3D, Genre: First-person shooter, Release Date: PC 1996
DOOM (series), Genre: First-person shooter
Quake 2, Genre: First-person shooter, Release Date: PC 1997
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Genre: RPG, Release Date: PC Xbox 2003
Homeworld (series), Genre: Real-time strategy, Space simulation
Max Payne (series), Genre: Third-person shooter
Ratchet & Clank (series), Genre: 3D platformer
Baldur's Gate (series),Genre: Role-Playing Game

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Genre: RPG, Release Date: PC Xbox 2006, Playstation 3 2007

Male Friendly Books:

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Genre: Fiction / Westerns, Author: Cormac McCarthy, Release Date: 1992
All the Pretty Horses, Genre: Fiction, Author: Cormac McCarthy, Release Date: 1993
No Country for Old Men. Genre: Literary, Author: Cormac McCarthy, Release Date: 2006
The Road. Genre: Science Fiction / Action / Adventure, Author: Cormac McCarthy, Release Date: 2007
Cannery Row, Genre: Novel, Author: John Steinbeck, Release Date: 1993
The Power and the Glory, Genre: thriller, Author: Graham Greene, Release Date: 2003
All the King's Men, Genre: Political fiction, Author: Robert Penn Warren, Release Date: 1946

Male Friendly Television Channels

The History Channel
Discovery Channel

Please check out this website Men's Movie Guide http://www.mensmovieguide.com for more movie titles with reviews. I'll add more movie titles from that website soon.

**ACLAF** · 31st-August-2007

Movies:

Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World Genre: Action/Adventure Release date: 2003

**IronLady** · 31st-August-2007

Jeez, you just posted a list of almost all my favorite movies!

BTW TRON was one of my husband's favorites...in fact, he uses the handle TRON on the internet a lot.

**myce** · 31st-August-2007

Some of my favorites here too.

I'll add some more:

Movie: Hero Genre: Action/Martial Arts/Historical/Drama, release date 2002 (China)

Television channels: The History Channel, The Discovery Channel

Game: Baldur's Gate (series 1998-2001) role-playing games in a Dungeons and Dragons setting

**christianj** · 31st-August-2007

Gotta call you out on a few of those Tyrael....

"Spiderman" was a complete pussy and a major wimp, personally found those movies quite nauseating..

Battlestar Galatica was a favourite right up until they landed that bitch in as the main fighter pilot .....it became a laughable, feminised, politically correct, joke..

Now, the old BG was great..

**IronLady** · 31st-August-2007

Did anyone ever see KRAMER VS KRAMER? Its old, from the 1980s I think...that movie really hit a nerve for my Dad, because it reminded him of the way my older sister dumped her 2 year old daughter onto my parents to raise, while she went out to "find myself" after her (first) husband left her.

The movie angered me every time I watched it, but at least it shows that fathers care just as much if not more for their children, and are willing to fight for them. (warning: this film may be a severe emotional trigger for any men going through custody battles with exes.)

Some Wikipedia info on the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer

**Tyrael** · 31st-August-2007

Quote from christianj

"Spiderman" was a complete pussy and a major wimp, personally found those movies quite nauseating..

Well I thought Spiderman 2 wasn't bad. I heard Spiderman 3 is though. That's why only Spiderman 1 and 2 are listed.

Quote from christianj

Battlestar Galatica was a favourite right up until they landed that bitch in as the main fighter pilot .....it became a laughable, feminised, politically correct, joke..

Yeah the 're-imagined' BSG, in other words feminized BSG is terrible. The original BSG was great, although I haven't seen much of it. If you read carefully you'll see that the list has the original BSG series.

Battlestar Galactica, Genre: Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure, Release Date: 1978-1979

**bachelor tom** · 31st-August-2007

I'd also recommend the Men's Movie Guide site. They trashed "300" for example because of its pandering to female viewers.

**Yan Yan** · 31st-August-2007

Quote from bachelor tom

I'd also recommend the Men's Movie Guide site. They trashed "300" for example because of its pandering to female viewers.

Got a link for that BT?? Cinemas in the Phils, at least the modern ones in the shopping malls are great $1 per seat and icy aircon - plus we get western films as soon as the west gets them. (Somebody here said that the big studios carefully time their worldwide release schedules).

**IronLady** · 31st-August-2007

My son and I had a disagreement while watching 300--I didn't like the part where he looked back at his wife before he knocked the black guys into the pit. To me, it made him seem like he had to get her permission.

My son said he was just looking back to her to see what she thought.

I just went to the website called the Men's Movie Guide, and I found a movie I started watching by accident on TV one day: Bend It Like Beckham. It didn't dawn on me that it would qualify as a "chick flick" but since its about girls, I guess so.

Anyway, I was drawn to keep watching it because I related to some of the story (athletic girl wants to join soccer team, mother won't let her, father lets her, etc etc) Anyway, according to the Men's Movie Guide, this is the rare chick flick that does not portray men as the enemy, and makes men look good. NOW I know why it didn't offend me, even though it is a "chick flick"!

**Tyrael** · 1st-September-2007

Quote from Annette1313

Did anyone ever see KRAMER VS KRAMER? Its old, from the 1980s I think...that movie really hit a nerve for my Dad, because it reminded him of the way my older sister dumped her 2 year old daughter onto my parents to raise, while she went out to "find myself" after her (first) husband left her.

I added that one, a couple of other movies plus books and television channels. Thanks for the submissions.

Quote from myce

Movie: Hero Genre: Action/Martial Arts/Historical/Drama, release date 2002 (China)

I'll make a additional list for non-english language movies.

**Dr David Banner** · 1st-September-2007

Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World Genre: Action/Adventure Release date: 2003
ACLAF

....AWESOME ADVENTURE!

**christianj** · 2nd-September-2007

Quote from Dr David Banner

Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World Genre: Action/Adventure Release date: 2003
ACLAF

....AWESOME ADVENTURE!

Got a copy of that and "Gladiator" sitting on my shelf. Both great movies..

**Feckless** · 21st-July-2008

I came across this site and read the review of 40 year old virgin. Really really good....enjoy:

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

I knew it was going to be bad when it started off with one of those stupid movie ads from Target.

Basically it was a montage of about ten minutes of women looking at themselves lovingly in various reflective surfaces. I know that the narcisism of the modern woman has nearly reached the point of inducing self-implosion, but this was just sickening. I wanted to crawl into my own vagina and suffocate to death. Where do I hand in my woman card?

At least we were spared the movie tickets dot com ad, the one in which the slutty blond says to her date "what movie are you going to you stupid pathetic penis unit?" Usually I scream out "suck exhaust bitch!" at this ad.

Anyway, the movie starts and sets up what an obvious "looser" the main character is for living without a woman. It shows him taking care of his health through exercise, making himself an undisturbed, balanced meal, admiring the results of years of devotion to his hobbies-- toy collecting, pewter figurine painting, and video games-- talking to his friends and neighbors then heading off to work on his bicycle.

When you see this man you just have to wonder how he can stand enjoying the simple things in life without a materialistic harpy clutching at his pocket book and demanding expensive consumer items. I mean, WHAT A LOOSER! Seriously, he has aqua man figurines for chrissakes! That's a sure sign of a looser! (Being a divorced mom of three certainly isn't!)

Anyway the other men at his workplace find out he's a virgin over a poker game. All of them are horrible caricatures of manhood, all of them intended to inspire some mixture of disgust, pity, horror and, of course, COMEDY! Because everyone knows stereotypes of men are funny! (They inspired me to think the writers were useless, bigoted dumb-fucks however.) They then conspire to get him laid.

Various hilarious antics ensue, including a hair-raising ride with a drunken chick behind the wheel. One can only imagine the humor if it had been a man behind the wheel! Wait, that would have ended up being some sort of MADD inspired tv docu-drama with the man shot in harsh black and white, laughing like satan as he plowed into hospitals, retirement homes and flocks of little kiddies! It wouldn't have been funny at all, because we all know irresponsibility is only funny when women do it.

There was one scene I thought had some promise, when the white guy (not the other white guy) told the virgin that he had left his ex girlfriend after she had cheated on him and that he regretted doing it. Wow, thought I, a sympathetic look at a man who's been jerked around by a woman. Needless to say, this little moment of hope was soon quashed when we discover the man is obsessive of his ex to the point of criminality.

Then some stuff happens that I don't remember.

And *then* the obessive white guy decides to get over his ex and become celibate. A wonderfully enlightening scene where white guy and other white guy discuss how not having sex with women makes a man gay.

At some point virgin has finally found himself a girl. She's a grandmother and divorced mom of three. They decide to wait to have sex, because ridden-hard-like-seabiscuit's been burned by asshole men in the past.

More stuff happens that I don't remember.

Suddenly virgin is changing his life! He's now cooking for ridden-hard and her crotch-droppings, who are all varying degrees of charming and female! He's also selling off his precious toys and collectables to get a proper job as owner of some sort of ambiguous monetary enterprise. But all these changes are his choice of course. Ridden-hard would never preasure him into providing for her and her vaginal-fruit. And when he accuses her of changing his life she's innocent! Innocent! No woman would ever make a man provide for her! How dare he accuse her of that. Grr... mean virgin! MEAN!

Now we're back in the bar after the misunderstanding between ridden-hard and virgin. Virgin's tired of being a virgin so he picks up a skank. (Is it just me or are all the sluts in this movie way too perky and healthy looking? As far as I can tell by the time a slut hits 21 she looks likes beef-jerky soaked in astrolube.)

Skank ends up being too skanky for virgin, but not too skanky for other white guy who's into beastiality and takes over.

Virgin goes home, only to find ridden-hard in his porn collection(or rather white guy's porn collection since he gave it to virgin). She accuses him of being a serial murderer and runs out. Wow. Ridden-hard didn't just betray herself as a drama queen and controlling psycho did she?

Typically virgin races after ridden hard and nearly gets killed. Then he confesses to her he's a virgin. And she's so happy he's not a serial killer, he's just a virgin!

At some point, but probably not this point, there's a scene where other white guy is "curing" white guy of his celibacy. White guy is saying he just wants to live a simple life without women. Other white guy proceeds to punch white guy repeatedly in the nuts till he decides to go out with a girl. Don't all men wish their friends were this caring?!?!?

Then there's the final scene where virgin and ridden-hard get married. And virgin carries her up the stairs into her new hideous mcmansion (bought by selling off his old life.)

The end.

In conclusion what pissed me off most about this movie was the fact that none of the women were jerks. All of the men were. Even virgin acted like a big meany until he repented and married ridden-hard.

- Typhonblue

Rated: R (for retarded) in the USA due to non-stop sexual content, foul language, and drug use.

Duration: 116 minutes Similar Movies: Anchorman