The Manly Movie Mamajama Rides Again
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.
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Comments (12)
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.
Posted by Matthew Maxwell | September 18, 2009 5:03 PM
Finally caught up with Crank 2- it's definitely something special!
Posted by Jon Hastings | September 18, 2009 5:42 PM
I'm missing way too many of these.
Posted by Mel Caylo | September 19, 2009 1:39 PM
Your a homo and your making fun of me?!!!
Posted by Brickhousebunny21 | September 19, 2009 8:43 PM
You mean "you're" surely?
Posted by Nick | September 19, 2009 11:22 PM
Lay off, Nick. He's only in high school.
Posted by Darvid | September 20, 2009 11:48 AM
@BrickhouseBUTTLICKER
Better dudes than Pokemon you DEVIANT!!
Posted by Pikachu | September 20, 2009 11:50 AM
Perhaps he's upset that Best of the Best didn't make the cut this time?
Posted by Ben Morse | September 20, 2009 12:12 PM
You never fail to put smiles on faces and fear into little bears' hearts, Brickhousebunny21. Thanks for bein' you!
Posted by Adam Tracey | September 20, 2009 12:23 PM
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.
Posted by nrh | September 20, 2009 8:46 PM
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.
Posted by nrh | September 20, 2009 8:49 PM
You stay classy, BrickhouseBunny21.
And by "classy" I mean what you usually do, which isn't really very classy at all.
Posted by Zach | September 20, 2009 10:37 PM