Ah - the English.
Nothing is quite as entertaining as a properly outraged left-leaning Brit confronted with a homegrown piece of reactionary entertainment like WHO DARES WINS, THE WILD GEESE or HARRY BROWN. The thread title comes from one hilariously unglued reviewer over on Amazon UK discussing WHO DARES WINS and it's preposterous plot centering around crazed no-nukes terrorists being hunted by Lewis Collin's cut rate James Bond. THE WILD GEESE of course is amazing for being quite racist but in such a muddle-headed "Rule Britannia" way that its impossible to get actually worked up about it. It also has a cast full of some of both the greatest actors and drunks in cinema history. And any movie that has Richard Burton, Richard Harris AND Roger Moore in it where no one died from alcohol poisoning on the set has achieved something incredible right off the bat.
The Americans have RAMBO, the MISSING IN ACTION TRILOGY and DIRTY HARRY. The Italians have STREET LAW and the Maurizio Merli canon. So lets have some more distinctly British, un-pc and thoroughly conservative films. I'm looking for some favorites of members out there.
Call it the Margret Thatcher approved film list.
Nothing is quite as entertaining as a properly outraged left-leaning Brit confronted with a homegrown piece of reactionary entertainment like WHO DARES WINS, THE WILD GEESE or HARRY BROWN. The thread title comes from one hilariously unglued reviewer over on Amazon UK discussing WHO DARES WINS and it's preposterous plot centering around crazed no-nukes terrorists being hunted by Lewis Collin's cut rate James Bond. THE WILD GEESE of course is amazing for being quite racist but in such a muddle-headed "Rule Britannia" way that its impossible to get actually worked up about it. It also has a cast full of some of both the greatest actors and drunks in cinema history. And any movie that has Richard Burton, Richard Harris AND Roger Moore in it where no one died from alcohol poisoning on the set has achieved something incredible right off the bat.
The Americans have RAMBO, the MISSING IN ACTION TRILOGY and DIRTY HARRY. The Italians have STREET LAW and the Maurizio Merli canon. So lets have some more distinctly British, un-pc and thoroughly conservative films. I'm looking for some favorites of members out there.
Call it the Margret Thatcher approved film list.
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