"No, it's not. It's fucking Sunday. And I've got to go to fucking work in four fucking hours because every other fucker in my fucking department is fucking ill! Now can you see why I'm so fucking angry?!"
Edit: Love this scene 😂
My dad took a date to see Scum in the cinema. If he'd gone for anything else I probably wouldn't have been conceived. Not long after that he met my mum and had worked out films like that are not really 'date' movies
Kes, the 70s depression fest about a boy whose only hope in the world is looking after a small bird.
I don’t think you can get any more British than a movie loudly complaining about how shit being poor in the North is with absolutely zero comedic intent whatsoever.
Also they speak in dialect for a lot of it, so there’s absolutely zero chance Americans will ever watch it, and you can’t get much more English than excluding the Yanks from the fun!
A good answer, there's a lot of good films suggested here but they're mostly twee versions of what Americans imagine England to be, or tweed clad, noble gangster fantasies, Kes is a more genuine portrayal of life in general not just the UK. Trainspotting is a good shout but its highly stylised, quadraphenia is good but its specifically the teenage experience.
Every time hot fuzz is the answer to one of these questions, the first comment is always a different quote from the movie, which shows how incredible the script is. Also, no matter what the top comment is, the sub comments will always lead to the line ‘the greater good’.
I swear to God, just the other night I was talking to someone and ended up saying ‘two pound ten a tit, and a fiver for his arse’ over something. That script was just perfection.
Not just the best British film, but quite possibly the greatest film of all time, and that's a hill I'm prepared to die on. Endlessly quotable, timelessly funny - all the jokes still land even after all these years - and the soundtrack is simply gorgeous. [Building the Crate](https://youtube.com/watch?v=apsrbm_PJa8&t=1m30s) is an absolute banger. For a film about a bunch of chickens escaping from a farm, Powell and Gregson-Williams didn't need to pull out all the stops but they certainly did. These two have collaborated on only one other film by the way, and that was Shrek - another fantastic soundtrack.
"We grow copious amounts of ganja yeah?"
"Yeah"
"And you're carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer?
You don't exactly look like you're average horti-fucking culturalist"
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.
This is such a great answer, because this film could only ever have been made in the UK in 2010. It perfectly exemplifies Britain's dark, dry, self deprecating humour, and ability to make light of quite a scary and serious subject.
Stephen Graham is great in basically everything he's ever been in. Man's a consummate professional. Even if the thing he's in isn't that great overall, he's still the shining light in everything he's ever been in.
Absolutely. I will watch anything with Stephen Graham
I know he’s been in a few Hollywood films too, but I’m honestly surprised he’s never become a bigger name outside the UK considering how good he is.
*The weekend has landed! All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man. I'm gonna blow steam out my head like a screaming kettle, I'm gonna talk cod shit to strangers all night, I'm gonna lose the plot on the dancefloor. The free radicals inside me are freakin', man! Tonight I'm Jip Travolta, the Peter Popper, I'm going to never-never land with my chosen family, man. We're gonna get more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever did, anything could happen tonight, you know? This could be the best night of my life. I've got 73 quid in my back burner - I'm gonna wax the lot, man! The Milky Bars are on me!*
Anything with Alec Guinness before *Star Wars* found him, such as:
* ~~Ice Cold in Alex~~ (sorry)
* The Man in the White Coat
* Kind Hearts and Coronets (my pick)
I've not even seen the first one.
Being from Bradford, every time I watch that I think there's no way they would have walked from Bob's house in Baildon to Buttershaw.
Also, Luna Cars was a genuine taxi company using their real number in the film.
The Wrong Trousers.
The train set chase sequence is the best moment in the history of cinema.
The bit where he catches him in the milk bottle is my favourite image. I just love the way he completely and perfectly fills the bottle.
[Shloomp](https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/11883607/640full-feathers-mcgraw.jpg)
🐧
Good grief, it’s you!
I believe you mean 🐔
Yes! Easily the best part. Still laugh at it every time.
I liked the film too : “I’ll be with you in an aaaaaah!” “An aaah? But I can’t afford to wait an aaah!”
You mean 🐔?
The penguin has the coldest deadest eyes I’ve ever seen and I would argue feathers McGraw is the best film/tv villain of all time.
I’m down to me last few coppers!
This is the correct answer. Any of the OG 3 Wallace & Gromit films are british classics at their finest.
I mean him bringing up ruining the woodwork kills me! Peak British comment.
Good call. Hard to argue with that - a film of the ***very*** highest order.
🐐
Shaun of the dead
It’s not hip hop, it’s electro
"...prick"
It's four o'clock in the FUCKING MORNING!!
But it's Saturday!
"No, it's not. It's fucking Sunday. And I've got to go to fucking work in four fucking hours because every other fucker in my fucking department is fucking ill! Now can you see why I'm so fucking angry?!" Edit: Love this scene 😂
"Fuck, yeah!"
Sort your fucking life out, mate!
“Next time I see him, he’s dead”
Prick. Next time I see him, he's dead.
I really really need Nick Park and Frost/Peggy to get together and do a 90 minute Shaun of the Sheep
Came to say the same thing! All time favourite! You've got red on you.
Passport to Pimlico is quintessentially British
Kind Hearts and Coronets. Especially Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Scum. Anything by Ken Loach. [E:(spelling)]
Is that the old fella in Coronation Street
Gary Barlow?
My dad took a date to see Scum in the cinema. If he'd gone for anything else I probably wouldn't have been conceived. Not long after that he met my mum and had worked out films like that are not really 'date' movies
Kes, the 70s depression fest about a boy whose only hope in the world is looking after a small bird. I don’t think you can get any more British than a movie loudly complaining about how shit being poor in the North is with absolutely zero comedic intent whatsoever. Also they speak in dialect for a lot of it, so there’s absolutely zero chance Americans will ever watch it, and you can’t get much more English than excluding the Yanks from the fun!
This and The Full Monty complement each other so well.
This, The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Brassed Off, all of them are perfect. Staples of every northern DVD shelf
A good answer, there's a lot of good films suggested here but they're mostly twee versions of what Americans imagine England to be, or tweed clad, noble gangster fantasies, Kes is a more genuine portrayal of life in general not just the UK. Trainspotting is a good shout but its highly stylised, quadraphenia is good but its specifically the teenage experience.
Proper Bo I tell thee
Rita Sue and bob too is also an absolute must see in this genre
Hot Fuzz.
"Are they as big as he is?" "Who?" "His mum and his sister" "Same person"
Marcus Karneys big brother said he fingered her up the duck pond.
You don't mind a bit of manpower, do ya Doris?
Yarp
Narp?
Good!
Everyone and their mums is packing round 'ere
Like who?
Farmers.
Who else?
Farmers Mums
The priest shouting "JESUS CHRIST" after getting shot has lived rent free in my head for what has to be a decade at this point.
No luck catching those swans then?
It's just the one swan actually
"Mr P I Staker, Piss taker!? C'mon" "So, Mr. Staker..."
Greater good
Crusty jugglers
Thith *weely* hurths! Ai'm going to need thum ithe cweam! [I think Simon Pegg wrote that scene so he could beat up James Bond.]
Every time hot fuzz is the answer to one of these questions, the first comment is always a different quote from the movie, which shows how incredible the script is. Also, no matter what the top comment is, the sub comments will always lead to the line ‘the greater good’.
Withnail and I
As a youth, I used to weep in butcher's shops
We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!
GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN!
We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!
I demand some booze!
Black puddings are no good to us. I want something's *FLESH*
Right you fucker, I'm going to do the washing up
Don't attempt anything without the gloves!
That's right, put on the gloves. Don't attempt anything without the gloves
Perfumed ponce!
Look at Jeff Wode. His head must weigh fifty pounds on its own!
Imagine the size of his balls!
I swear to God, just the other night I was talking to someone and ended up saying ‘two pound ten a tit, and a fiver for his arse’ over something. That script was just perfection.
SCRUBBERS!!!
Up yours Grandad!
We've come on holiday by mistake
Are you the farmer?
STOP saying that, Withnail - of course he’s the FUCKING FARMER!
"MONTY! YOU TERRIBLE C**T!"
I mean to have you even if it must be burglary
This line, from Richard Griffiths, terrified me as a teenager. Won't lie, It did put an extra menace on the Harry Potter series.
“Those are the kind of windows faces look in at.”
Took a while to get to that one.
Offer yourself to him.
Listen, I think you should strangle it instantly in case it starts trying to make friends with us.
I call it a Camberwell Carrot....
I think you’d agree there is a certain je ne sais quoi, oh so very special about a firm, young, carrot… mmm. Excuse me 🥕
Absolutely. Here hare here.
Chicken Run
Not just the best British film, but quite possibly the greatest film of all time, and that's a hill I'm prepared to die on. Endlessly quotable, timelessly funny - all the jokes still land even after all these years - and the soundtrack is simply gorgeous. [Building the Crate](https://youtube.com/watch?v=apsrbm_PJa8&t=1m30s) is an absolute banger. For a film about a bunch of chickens escaping from a farm, Powell and Gregson-Williams didn't need to pull out all the stops but they certainly did. These two have collaborated on only one other film by the way, and that was Shrek - another fantastic soundtrack.
Has she gone on holiday?
Goodnight Mr Tom... but I will ugly cry
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Hello little boy do you want a lollypop? Piss off you nonce
OI!
If you use language like that again you'll wish you hadn't
"We grow copious amounts of ganja yeah?" "Yeah" "And you're carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer? You don't exactly look like you're average horti-fucking culturalist"
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Errm bad breath, colourful language, feather duster.. what do you think they’re gonna be armed with? Guns you tit!
The Italian Job.
Came here for this, and please, not the crappy remake, for god’s sake.
I quite liked the remake as a standalone film, the mistake they made is using the same name
You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!!
You must learn, Keates, there are more things to life than breaking and entering.
Snatch.
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.
No thanks Turkish. I'm sweet enough.
You're not much use to me alive, are you Turkish?
All. Bets. Are. Off.
What the fuck can he get away from?
Tommy, The Tit, is praying...
And if he isn't, he fucking should be.
Protection from what? Ze Germans?
Do ye like dags
Dags?
Wha?
Yaah, dags
Oh… dogs. Yeah, I like dags. I like caravans more.
In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary...come again?
What, proper fucked?
Its a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!
In case we have to deafen them to death
You can call me Susan if it makes you happy
You been on a rally driving course intya, Tyrone.
What exactly is he gonna get away from.
Of course fuckin’ of course. I want askin’, I was tellin’.
Four Lions Thanks for award kind stranger
Rubber dingy rapids bro
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I say we bomb boots, they sell condoms that make you wanna bang white girls
I'll take this metal bar, right, and... run you over wi'a tractor
Fast track
Twelve bottles of bleach, please.
Why is she covering her face?
'cause she's got a beard.
But I was disguised. Yes but as a terrorist Faisal
Over the wall Faisal!!!!
What parts in a car are Jewish? Spark plugs! Jews invented spark plugs to control global traffic!
“So what is he lads, is he a martyr or is he a fookin’ jalfrezi?!”
Absolutely one of the best lines ever put to film. Fucking *chef's kiss* writing in an already incredible film.
I biggered it. It's a proper replica man. Replikay-47.
Fuck mini babybells
This is such a great answer, because this film could only ever have been made in the UK in 2010. It perfectly exemplifies Britain's dark, dry, self deprecating humour, and ability to make light of quite a scary and serious subject.
"These chickens are all fucked up!" "Waz...they're rabbits..."
Flipping rabbits wi no ears
As a Sheffield lad I love to see that representation.
You're an arse man aren't you, Waj?
You giving me batty chirps bruv?
You calling me a whammer bro?
youre going to heaven brother crow.
Fly into one of them towers full of jews and slags.
How's your Urdu Barry.
Absolutely fantastic film.
Is a Wookie a bear?
Is a Honey Monster a bear?
Brassed Off
The absolutely hilarious Full Monty
100% Holy Grail
Zulu.
"Dont frow those blaady spears at me!"
Spit boy, spit
Billy Elliot
This is England
Stephen Graham is great in basically everything he's ever been in. Man's a consummate professional. Even if the thing he's in isn't that great overall, he's still the shining light in everything he's ever been in.
Absolutely. I will watch anything with Stephen Graham I know he’s been in a few Hollywood films too, but I’m honestly surprised he’s never become a bigger name outside the UK considering how good he is.
If you haven’t seen it already, watch Boiling Point (the film). It’s a masterclass in cinematography and he’s fantastic in it
Dead Man's Shoes
Shout
DEAD MAN'S SHOES, YOU CUNT!
Trainspotting.
Paddington
& Paddington 2, which is somehow even better than the original.
Kes
Pride I felt covered a wide variety of British culture in a lovely way.
Human traffic
Could turn Hare Krishna into a bad boy
Nice! One! Bruv!
The weekend has landed...all that exists now is...?
*The weekend has landed! All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man. I'm gonna blow steam out my head like a screaming kettle, I'm gonna talk cod shit to strangers all night, I'm gonna lose the plot on the dancefloor. The free radicals inside me are freakin', man! Tonight I'm Jip Travolta, the Peter Popper, I'm going to never-never land with my chosen family, man. We're gonna get more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever did, anything could happen tonight, you know? This could be the best night of my life. I've got 73 quid in my back burner - I'm gonna wax the lot, man! The Milky Bars are on me!*
73 quid for a weekend. Fucking hell
What can I say? Humanity peaked between 1990 and 2001
We were the lucky ones
The ones that immediately spring to mind are - The Full Monty. Brassed Off. East is East.
Love East is East!
Anything with Alec Guinness before *Star Wars* found him, such as: * ~~Ice Cold in Alex~~ (sorry) * The Man in the White Coat * Kind Hearts and Coronets (my pick)
Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of the best post-war films
Flushed Away
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
I've not even seen the first one. Being from Bradford, every time I watch that I think there's no way they would have walked from Bob's house in Baildon to Buttershaw. Also, Luna Cars was a genuine taxi company using their real number in the film.
Shaun of the dead
Dog soldiers
Withnail & I has already been said so honorable mention to Quadrophenia.
This is Spinal Tap. (Yes, I know)
Marry Poppins
Chitty chitty bang bang.
Dead man's shoes.
The Wicker Man
Guest house paridiso!
Shaun of the Dead