In light of recent events–namely the passing of Patrick Swayze and the release of Crank 2: High Voltage on Blu-Ray–my friends and I are convening for the first time since last October for a three-movie marathon of mirth, mayhem, and manliness: The 14th Manly Movie Mamajama. The booze, the junk food, the heckling, the gratuitous violence and nudity, the homoeroticism…it’s all so close I can taste it. What better time to take a stroll down MMM memory lane?
THE MANLY MOVIE MAMAJAMA
MMM1: ROADS AND/OR WARRIORS
1. Road House
2. The Warriors
3. The Road Warrior
MMM2: DYSTOPIAN FUTURES AND/OR KURT RUSSELL
4. The Running Man
5. Escape from New York
6. Big Trouble in Little China
MMM3: VERHOEVEN IN VER-GOSHEN
7. RoboCop
8. Total Recall
9. Starship Troopers
MMM4: GET WELL, FIDEL
10. Red Dawn
11. Invasion U.S.A.
12. Rambo: First Blood Part II
MMM5: SCHLOCKTOBERFEST
13. The Monster Squad
14. Hellraiser
15. The Thing
MMM6: FEMININE FILM FEST
16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
17. Aliens
18. The Descent
MMM7: STALLONE IN THE DARK
19. Over the Top
20. Death Race 2000
21. Rocky IV
MMM8: MMMY BUDDY
22. Dead Heat
23. Point Break
24. Tango & Cash
MMM9: NIGHT OF THE LIVING NIGHTS
25. Night of the Comet
26. Night of the Creeps
27. Nightbreed
MMM10: MONSTER MOVIE MAMAJAMA
28. Tremors
29. King Kong Lives
30. Reign of Fire
MMM11: SWAYZE FROM THE HEAT, OR “THEY SAVED PATRICK SWAYZE’S PANCREAS: A VERY SPECIAL MMM”
31. Road House
32. Steel Dawn
33. Point Break
MMM12: THE MODERN MANLY MOVIE
34. Crank
35. Doomsday
36. Rambo
MMM THE 13TH: SUFFERING IN SUFFERN
37. The Lost Boys
38. Slumber Party Massacre II
39. Dead Alive
MMM14: MEN. MOVIES. MAYHEM.
40. Crank 2: High Voltage
41. Road House
42. RoboCop
Alert readers will note that both Road House and RoboCop are re-runs. In Road House‘s case–our first threepeat–the reasons are obvious. In both cases we figured there’s no possible way a new film could follow the nigh impossible to fathom insanity of Crank 2. We went with the familiar and awesome instead.
For a full explanation of the MMM phenomenon, click here. But to fully understand, you have to be there.
The nineties seem oddly under-represented. I wonder if there’s a broader explanation for that.
And, if I was anywhere near NY, I’d find a way to crash this party.
Finally caught up with Crank 2- it’s definitely something special!
I’m missing way too many of these.
Your a homo and your making fun of me?!!!
You mean “you’re” surely?
Lay off, Nick. He’s only in high school.
@BrickhouseBUTTLICKER
Better dudes than Pokemon you DEVIANT!!
Perhaps he’s upset that Best of the Best didn’t make the cut this time?
You never fail to put smiles on faces and fear into little bears’ hearts, Brickhousebunny21. Thanks for bein’ you!
This brickhousebunny discussion just gets stranger and stranger… many of my friends are proud, open homosexuals, but I don’t know a single person who admits to fan fic or furry obsessions. Also I work with inner city fourth graders who know how to use spelling much more properly, so that may point to a different issue entirely.
Have you considered moving the MMM to non-American films? There are some great Turkish/Indonesian b-movies that would make a great fit —
i.e. BARRY PRIMA.
Yes.
This brickhousebunny discussion just gets stranger and stranger… many of my friends are proud, open homosexuals, but I don’t know a single person who admits to fan fic or furry obsessions. Also I work with inner city fourth graders who know how to use spelling much more properly, so that may point to a different issue entirely.
Have you considered moving the MMM to non-American films? There are some great Turkish/Indonesian b-movies that would make a great fit —
i.e. BARRY PRIMA.
Yes.
Carnival of souls
* Never a dull moment: Jack Kirby’s heirs are pursuing legal action to reclaim copyrights on his co-creations. You’ve got to wonder how much of the $4 billion Disney’s spending on Marvel would be in play without him. (Via Robot…
You stay classy, BrickhouseBunny21.
And by “classy” I mean what you usually do, which isn’t really very classy at all.
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