Being a Brit male

[sixtyten]

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Just being a Brit Male

[Elbmek]

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Woman? Brain power?
does not compute

oh they do, my wife told me!!!

[Flash Gordon]

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Cowboys? something just popped in my head when I saw that..

Totally off topic - some foreign film where all these people went into a church but found they couldn't leave - superphobia - eventually half the village gets trapped in there - the local police drove in a flock of sheeep and I think they wouldn't leave either

That was the cowboy connection in my mind - sheep / cows

Anyone know what film it was ?

That would be, "Axis of Evil", starring George Dubya.

[Danny]

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That would be, "Axis of Evil", starring George Dubya.

Flash -I just spotted your answer this morning - totally mad but it got an 'aw shucks' grin

[airfix]

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Back to the original thread...I agree with your choices and
always thought "The Italian Job" was a proper Brit man's film. The original with Michael Caine, of course.

[moonvisage]

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Three typical Male Films i grew up hearing about were the following:

1: Horror of Dracula
2: Lawrence of Arabia
3: The Great Escape.

Boys growing up had to watch those films for a variety of different reasons:

1: Horror of Dracula - Because Sir Christopher Lee was a tough,aggressive non romantic Dracula,and only a Man could watch it without being scared!!!

2: Lawrence of Arabia - Because it was the only film a Man could be seen in,in such a beautiful environment,without it being called a Girlie film and the actor a puff,and any Male who watched it,MUST come away with all the morals,strengths and Machoness of Lawrence,after watching it!!!

3: The Great Escape - Because it showed Men being Tough,Hard and Defiant in the face of a Nazi with a Machine Gun,and enduring the Nazi Punishments.All boys MUST grow up with those glorious british only qualities installed in them!!!

[Flash Gordon]

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Flash -I just spotted your answer this morning - totally mad but it got an 'aw shucks' grin

Well I thought it was brilliantly satirical!!
Danny, you set 'em up and I knocked 'em down!

This is actually a very good question that requires some thought. I am surprised to read that I was right about two films (Watershipdown and The Great Escape) as I don't usually agree with myself, but I usually begrudgingly agree that I was right all along in the endlol

Surely someone must have laughed at my amusing suggestion of Brokeback Mountain?

Ah well, Magnificent Seven?

[staffslad]

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My three would be:

Zulu

Where Eagles Dare

Dirty Harry


I saw Where Eagles Dare on the big screen on its original release. I almost saw Zulu on re-release in the early 70s. On holiday on the Isle of Wight my parents took me to see it in a cinema on a pier--Shanklin? Sandown? Anyway, the Zulus were just approaching Roarke's Drift, ready to charge, when a thunderstorm knocked out the power and the screening was cancelled. We got free tickets for the next day but it was Zulu's last day and they changed the film to A Fistful of Dollars, and as it was an AA, I was too young to go in.

[victorbrunswick]

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Male Films vs "Chick Flicks"
In the former the characters get blown up or blown away, in the latter they die of some terminal illness.

[Donald the Great]

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I am not a Brit male but a male all the same.
My three would be:

Zulu for same reasons as Danny pointed out.

Dracula as Christopher Lee was the nastiest male and most believable as the imfamous blood sucker on film..

The orginal Dunkirk with John Mills. Was the epitomy of the David v Goliath contest with the average Brit risking everything against the might of the German Luftwaffe.

[Caitlyn]

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Is there a thread on Brit females... ?

[tex]

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Is there a thread on Brit females... ?

why not go ahead and start one?

[tex]

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Goldfinger.....The toughest guy in cinema history complete with gadgets galore
Dirty harry....No nonsense copper doing it his way
The fast and the furious....fast cars,fast women and punch ups