Saving Ryans Privates

All films mentioned already will come a distant second once this is released

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/

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

or, what can I add to Big Sean?

or even

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 😉

Cooler…

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).