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Most 'boys own' film ever?
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Raiders deffo...
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It's perfectly clear than nobody on this thread has EVER read a SINGLE ISSUE of "Boy's Own"
For example, the idea that "Gangster" or "Gangsta" films would EVER be considered as "Boy's Own" adventures is utterly and completely mistaken.
If you haven't lived it, you need to do your research.
FFS - "The Godfather" as a Boy's Own film?
I'll give you the ultimate "Boy's Own"
"The Four Feathers" or "The Thirty-Nine Steps" are your starting references
"Under Siege" FFS! It's got tits in it!!!
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eldridge as far as i remember every boy loves tits
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The Rock, made even better if you watch the extras and Sean Connery says to the lift when it won't close "shut ya c*nt" its just so unexpected and funny.
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Got almost all the way through the thread before a mention of The Thirty Nine Steps - poor show - should have been top of the list, taking 'boys' own' in its old fashioned sense.
Not the original though - it was a bit toss - I far prefer the gaudy colours of the remake.
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None of the film adaptations of 39 Steps come anywhere close to capturing the book imho.
300
Sin city
Gangs of New York (my other half hates it)Posted 3 years ago # -
It's perfectly clear than nobody on this thread has EVER read a SINGLE ISSUE of "Boy's Own"
That's because the rest of us are under 92....
Heroes of Telemark gets my vote. Great film, about some truly heroic people. I had a Norwegian girlfriend, whose grandad was in the Norwegian resistance, a hunter turned sniper. Whilst on holiday there, I was taken to a shooting range, and given a few rifles to try out. After firing one obviously old rifle, I asked what the marks on the butt represented (there were a fair few). Moose killed?
'No, those represent Germans....'
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+1 Four Feathers, Zulu!, Ronin.
How about "We were Soldiers" - true story of 7th Cav. in early Vietnam/USA battle with Mel Gibson & a hard as nails, bad tempered Sergeant Major (forget the actors name).Posted 3 years ago # -
If you don't know the film you are a girl
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Maybe this one?
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Bridge Over the River Kwai(get whistling), Wages of Fear.
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eldridge as far as i remember every boy loves tits
Every BODY loves tits.
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Twin town
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The Guns of Navarone.
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some like it hot
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Ohhhhh...... (I hope no-one else has said this).
Great one....
Run Silent, Run Deep
LOVED submarine films as a kid.
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True Grit
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Jeremiah Johnson......some say he's up there still.
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.
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Pekinpahs classic The Wild Bunch.
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Shoot em Up (no women would ever get that one) (and prob top body count ever)
My OH loves that film - Should I be worried
Irreversible
Cronos
The Wild Bunch
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Escape from New York.
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Oh yes... Ice Cold in Alex. Top film in every way.
Whilst Apocalypse Now is probably my favouritest film ever, it's not a boys own classic. There's far too much weird shit going on for that. It will mess you mind up.
Boy Own requires: Gadgets, action, cool hero, heroine, explosions, guns, none of that smooshy love interest rubbish.
Like... Shooter. The Longest Day. That sort of thing.
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The Italian Job (the original version)
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A boys own film should be all about heroics, action, danger and adventure. I agree with rudeboy; Heroes of Telemark would take some beating. True story, too.
After that, the bourne films and Indiana Jones would be very boys own.Posted 3 years ago # -
Jeremiah Johnson......some say he's up there still.
Good shout.
Dances with Wolves
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Das Boot
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I definitely agree with a lot of the films already mentioned:
Ice Cold in Alex
Where Eagles Dare
The Man Who Would be King
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thirty Nine StepsBut I'll add:
The Wooden Horse
Jason and the Argonauts
Barry Lyndon
The Duellists
Dersu Uzala
Shout at the Devil
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oh smiffy you are so right get carter is **** awesome and far superior to the italian job, which always struck me as being rather silly despite the amazing scene on top of the fiat factory
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Flesh Gordon
IGMC...........................................
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Another vote for 'The man who would be King'
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A Man Called Horse
The Black RobePosted 3 years ago #
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