Recently, the magazine Men’s Journal published a list of the “50 Best Guy Movies of All Time.”

Now, whenever you publish a list like this, you’re pretty much going to have questions, discussions and a few loud beer-soaked arguments.

Like, for instance, I think there’s a lot of room for debate on what defines a “guy movie.” Men’s Journal describes them as movies that, when you pop one in the DVD player, “your wife or girlfriend should run screaming from the room.” But if your wife runs screaming from the room, and your girlfriend doesn’t, is it really a guy movie? (Actually, my wife ran screaming from the room when I first started talking about getting a DVD player, but that’s another story.)

The list includes such testosterone-pumped classics as the original “Die Hard,” “The Terminator,” and the No. 1 of all time, “Dirty Harry.” But I’ve gotta tell you, there’s some big omissions in this list. Some of the great unrecognized guy movies are:

“Top Gun”: How in the world Men’s Journal missed this one, I’ll never know. It’s got everything: aerial dogfights with jets, an adrenaline-pumping soundtrack, a hero named “Maverick,” and Kelly McGillis as a sexy aeronautics professor (you know, the kind you find in every university science department). How can you go wrong? Best line: “I feel the need ... the NEED FOR SPEED!”

“Predator”: The only one on the list that stars two state governors, Minnesota’s Jesse Ventura and, of course, California’s new chief exec, Ahnuld Schwarzenegger. A group of commandos heads into an unspecified South American jungle, only to find themselves stalked, shot, and field-dressed by the Hunter From Outer Space. Best line: “If it bleeds…ve cahn kill it.”

“Conan the Barbarian”: Ahnuld again. Big swords. Hot blonde Amazon warrior women. Princesses in diaphanous gowns being sacrificed to giant snakes. James Earl Jones. Need I say more? Best line: “Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark!” Second-best line: “Three years ago, they were just another snake cult. Now they’re everywhere.”

“The Hunt for Red October”: You know that this is a guy movie because it’s based on a Tom Clancy novel and there are almost no women in it. Sean Connery is a Russian nuclear sub captain who’s trying to defect, probably because the other Russian nuclear sub captains are making fun of his Scottish accent.

Alec Baldwin plays the smart CIA analyst who figures out that not only is Connery trying to defect, he wants to bring his super-quiet sub with him. Scott Glenn is great as the American sub captain who’s not buying it. Best line: “If that (bad word) so much as twitches, I’m going to blow him straight to Mars.”

“Clerks”: The first, extremely low-budget film from director Kevin Smith , who later created huge controversy with his brilliant religious satire “Dogma.” “Clerks” is a smaller movie than “Dogma,” mainly because it deals with a couple of guys working the lower dregs of retail rather than the threatened destruction of Reality As We Know It.

But the movie is a great guy film mostly for its repartee between the two main characters: Dante, the convenience store clerk with a martyr complex and the perpetual yearning for his cheating ex-girlfriend; and his slacker buddy Randal, who just doesn’t give a rat’s hindquarters about anything, least of all his job in a video store. Unfortunately, I can’t recount most of the best dialogue in a family newspaper, because these guys talk about the things a lot of guys talk about: sex, death, sports, sex, “Star Wars,” pornography, and sex. And they don’t use euphemisms.

The movie also marks the first appearance of Smith’s recurring characters, the perpetually stoned Jay and his chunky, raincoat-wearing sidekick Silent Bob (played by Smith himself). Best line (that I can repeat here): “I’m a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.”

“Red Dawn:” The ultimate fantasy flick for card-carrying NRA members. Director John Milius’ Reagan-Era paranoia epic follows the adventures of a group of high-schoolers (including Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, and, god help us, Charlie Sheen) who take to the hills to fight off a Soviet-backed Cuban invasion of their hometown.

Why’d the Commies invade the Midwest? Why’d they parachute into a schoolyard, rather than, say, using the paratroopers to seize an airfield? How’d the ground troops make it through Texas and Florida? Who cares? Best line: Swayze and Sheen are talking around the campfire with a shot-down American fighter pilot identified only as “The Colonel” (played by Powers Boothe):

Swayze: Well, who IS on our side?

The Colonel: Six hundred million screamin’ Chinamen.

Sheen: I thought there was a billion screamin’ Chinamen.

The Colonel (throws his whisky into the fire where it flares up dramatically): …There was.

(Second best line, of course: “Wolverines!” )

“Aliens”: I wrestled with this choice for a while, partially because it stars Sigourney Weaver who is most emphatically not a guy. But Weaver’s character Ripley kicks butt better than the entire platoon of Space Marines she accompanies in the battle against the nasty critters that have overrun a human colony for use as Gerber’s Alien Baby Food. Best line: Ripley to the Queen Alien who’s menacing the last surviving human child: “Get away from her you (bad word rhyming with ‘witch’)!”

Guns. Explosions. Snappy one-liners. That’s what makes a great guy movie. And there’s a bunch of great ones out there. Save me the aisle seats and I’ll sneak in the beers.