Casino (1995)

If you're gonna have a Main Man Movie, eventually you're gonna need a Scorsese. And right at the top of the list are Goodfellas and Casino. Really, they're the same movie; they just changed names and locations. Who cares, though? Pesci and DeNiro are just so much damn fun to watch.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

May 15th, 1992. My 7th birthday.

It was on that day that I became a man. You could say it was my very own Bar Mitzvah. (Also a 'hello' to our Hebrew readers from Israel. Did you like that Bar Mitzvah line? That one was for you.) There was no ceremony. No breaking of a wine glass under a cloth. (Mazel tov!)

The Blues Brothers (1980)

The summer of 1980 might be the best summer for comedies in history. Within about one month's time, we had The Blues Brothers, Airplane and Caddyshack. (We also got Wholly Moses! but we won't get into that.) Airplane and Caddyshack are great, no question. But I think the best of all three of those is easily The Blues Brothers.

 

The Halloween Series (1978-2002)

Last week, I took the liberty of watching every Halloween movie ever made (not including Season of the Witch and the Rob Zombie ones) because, y'know, why the hell not? It was an odd experience, to say the least. There were eight in the original series, spanning from 1978 to 2002, with mostly different writers and directors making each movie. When you watch them all together, you start to realize that only one person really cared about the series as a whole. It wasn't John Carpenter. It certainly wasn't Jamie Lee Curtis, who accepted a small role in the final film only so the producer would stop asking her to appear in the sequels.

It was Donald Pleasence.

 

The Thing (1982)

The Thing.

The goddamned Thing.

The Thing is a lot of things. It can be anything, really. It can be your dog. It can be your wife. It can even be you.

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

In recent cinematic history, you would be hard-pressed to find a movie with more panache, character, and out-and-out slickness than Ocean's Eleven. In this 2001 Steven Soderbergh remake of the 1960 Rat Pack flick, we're given a motley crew that rivals even Frankie and the gang.

Heat (1995)

Jez: I've got Heat on DVD at home. We're watching this, when for less money we could be watching Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Mark: I'm going to pretend I am watching Heat.
-Peep Show

Hey Barbeardians, this is Ian here to tell you why one of my favorite TV shows had it right--watching Heat is better than anything else, pretty much ever.

MEGAPOST

Sorry Barbeardians, I've been away for awhile.

You see, Mrs. Barbeardian decided she wanted be with another caveman, but at the same time, told me she loved my beard and didn't want me to leave the cave we had together. So, I kindof fell off the grid for a while and into a bottle. Don Draper style.

Anyway, TDB is back with a vengeance. I'd thought I'd give you guys a big post to make up for the time gone. Let's kick it off with a Main Man Movie Monday Tuesday.

 

 

The Transporter (2002)

Looking back almost 10 years ago, I might have stopped this movie from being made. If you would have told me that this franchise would spawn two pretty bad sequels and the beginning of Statham as Statham, I might step on that proverbial butterfly. As it is, though, The Transporter is one of the greatest, if dare I say, underrated, action films of our generation.