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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or, what can I add to Big Sean?
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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).
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.
[i]eldridge as far as i remember every boy loves tits [/i]
Every BODY loves tits.
Twin town
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The Guns of Navarone.
some like it hot
Ohhhhh...... (I hope no-one else has said this).
Great one....
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LOVED submarine films as a kid.
True Grit