Saw The Vikings the other day and today it’s on the guardian around historical accuracy.

It’s great and one of my all time favourites. worth seeing for the ridiculous drunken axe throwing bit at the start and the climbing up the axes bit at the end alone.

Is it the most ‘boys own’ film ever? I mean ridiculous action scenes, absurd hellraiser type behaviour, sterotype bad guys, enemies becoming friends

Recommend me some more classics – no rules i guess but i’m not looking for ‘die hard’ or stuff like that.

“Boyz N the hood”. 😕

Stand By Me

Die Hard?

😉

But it has to be a war film really – Mosquito Squadron or Dam Busters…

Swingers – But for none of the reasons you list above

mosquito squadron – awesome

to my shame, i’ve never seen stand by me – no idea why not

Kelly’s heroes

Brokeback Mountain?

😉

Heidi will tell you what to do from now on. She’s been one of our top agents in Bavaria since 1941 and…
[Smith looks down on Heidi’s low neck.]
Major John Smith: …what a disguise!

Swingers is a male chick flick (and one of my fave films).

A few more modern suggestions than most of the above…

Commando.
Anything with Jason Statham (esp Transporter and Crank series).
Any Hong Kong kung fu film.

Top Gun

Brokeback Mountain?

Quality. Now I have nothing against gay people but to have gay cowboys just isn’t fair on my childhood memories of cowboy and injun films.

But lesbian sci-films are perfectly acceptable 😉

Of course James Bond has to get a mention

Sure you’ve seen them already but Captain Blood and Robin Hood are absolutely ripping. “You speak treason!” “Yes, fluently!”

Where Eagles Dare

Oh God, yes! An entire Allied front consisting of just Burton and Eastwood.

*hums score.

Kelly’s heroes – donald sutherland’s anachronistic hippy tank commander is a work of genious.

never liked top gun, although i remember thinking that kenny loggin’s ‘danger zone’ was the coolest song ever at one time (hangs head in shame)

Captain blood – seen it a long time ago.Isn’t there an actor in loads of those 50’s films not a lead but a character guy, he’s always a huge thug with a menacing leer, maybe it has to have him in to be a real contender

Fight club. Even girls who love Brad are put off by the title alone when us boys know it has little to do with fighting.
Possibly the matrix series.
In fact, most science fiction (especially anything involving time travel) is avoided by girls because they have to ask too many questions. 😉

Captain blood turns out to be 1935 – cue ‘they dont make em like they used to’ turns out its getting re made too – but will end up as pirates otc 4 i’m sure

Predator

Gladiator………….i am maximus

Point Break! california, rad surfing, fighting, bank robbery, skydiving, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, hot women, shoot outs, meatball subs – what more do you need?!

Top Gun is way too girly for a boys own film surely? Poncy haircuts, wet music, etc.

Is there a film about Shackleton? There should be. He kicked ass big time.

Heroes of Telemark – where hollywood undersold what was actually a really amazing story.

Black Hawk Down, absolutely nothing in it for girlies.

The Dambusters,

Blood Diamond

Cross Of Iron

Lord of the Flies?

The original b&w film Lord of the Flies, brilliant film.

Gone in 30 seconds…

Nothing for a girl in that film at all…

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Cross Of Iron

That’s a great film but it’s not really “boy’s own”. I mean, Top Gun doesn’t have any castration scenes, does it?

Matrix 1 is a good shout apart from the poncy bit at the end where she wakes him up/brings him back to life.
Stand by me is good maybe a bit too slushy tho
Fight club defo
I thought point break was ace when I saw it at the cinema, not seen it since and TBH I’m not sure it will have aged well.

Star wars?

A Bridge Too Far.

Deliverance

cannonball run

Squeeeeeeeeel like a pig!

Death Race 2000 (original)

the most “Boys own” movie has to be this

Bambi

apocalypse now

i win!