Saw [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/ ]The Vikings[/url] 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?
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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?
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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!
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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!"
[i]Where Eagles Dare[/i]
Oh God, yes! An entire Allied front consisting of just Burton and Eastwood.
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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 [url= http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/latest/2008/11/23/boyzone-to-make-a-movie-about-themselves-115875-20916368/ ]this[/url]
Bambi
apocalypse now
i win!
Saving Ryans Privates
All films mentioned already will come a distant second once this is released
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colditz
On Any Sunday
erm people are saying top gun?? boys own for sure doesnt get much more homoerotic
id say
7 samurai
apocalypse now redux!
godfather
res dogs
predator
terminator
where eagles dare
a bridge too far
the man who would be king
full metal jacket
akira
goodfellas
ghost dog
spinal tap
the deer hunter
kimbers that's a nice list - man who would be king is in with a shout i reckon.
spinal tap is definitely out - great film but universal in appeal i think - so not 'boy's own'
Anything with Chuck Norris in.
Zulu
Scum
Under Siege
bloodsport/kickboxer - shite acting but definitely nowt for girls
The original terminator and predator
What about Commando?
Universal Soldier?
Equilibrium
I mean, Top Gun doesn't have any castration scenes, does it?
When Maverick is flying inverted over the MiG near the beginning and takes a Polaroid - it's metaphorical, but it's obviously a castration scene.
under seige and universal soldier are indeed up there!
The Sands of Iwo Jima
PT 109
Apocalypse Now
The Terminator films
First Blood
The Bourne Trilogy
bladerunner
owt with Bruce Lee
Pron
Blue Thunder!!
All seem to have pretty high body count, trying to think of boys films without (or the obvious.... )
Ghost Dog (top philosophical)
Equilibrium
Azumi
Black Hawk Dwn
9th Company (top war movie)
Leon
Ronin (top car chase)
Desperado
Shoot em Up (no women would ever get that one) (and prob top body count ever)
Lock stock and two smokin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1938
Commando
Predator (1 & 2)
Where Eagles Dare
Battle of the Bulge
The Longest Day
really just about any film made from 1940 till now about WW1/WW2!
Nice spot from Lionheart for 9th Company!
Layer Cake - class
the dirty dozen
A 'boyzone' film - when?
Zulu
I'm probably the only one on here who actually had a subscription to "Boy's Own".
The essence of "Boy's Own"-ness is that it involves the British Empire, faintly racist attitudes, stiff upper lips, camping, Army officers, gentlemanly codes of conduct and servants
So "The Four Feathers" it is.
One caption (from imperfect memory) in the film reads: "The camp of the Fuzzy-Wuzzy army"!
Ladies like the Bourne trilogy so that's out.
Eighth (lost count) Where Eagles Dare. When I was a kid and all the other kids wanted to run around with guns and I'd prefer a satchel full of make believe sticks of dynamite with little timers. Until my mate got a plastic Schmeisser then I wanted that.
Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy.
Mad Max
The wild geese, no bird on earth would like it i reckon and the call signs of "broad sword" and "danny boy" say it all....
Taras Bulba
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Raiders deffo...
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!!!
eldridge as far as i remember every boy loves tits
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.
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.
This aint too shoddy 😉
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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)
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....' 😯
+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).