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 What is the best UK movie released in america? 
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Post What is the best UK movie released in america?
Shaun of the Dead
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Trainspotting
Full Monty
The Commitments
Billy Elliot
28 Days Later

They are the only movies from the UK, I can think of. Cant think of anything else. Can you pasty thigh,rotting tooth lads inform me more of other UK films?


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Love actually
Bend it like Beckham
Notting hill

out of your list i would choose :

Shaun of the Dead
Trainspotting
Full Monty

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A Fish Called Wanda
Any of the Monty Python films.


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El_masked_esteROIDe_user wrote:
Shaun of the Dead
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Trainspotting
Full Monty
The Commitments
Billy Elliot
28 Days Later

They are the only movies from the UK, I can think of. Cant think of anything else. Can you pasty thigh,rotting tooth lads inform me more of other UK films?


*gasp*

That is all you can think of!


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Love Actually is the best, followed by 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead.

UK films released in US:

Four Weddings and Funeral
Shaun of the Dead
Notting Hill
Bend it Like Beckham
Full Monty
Trainspotting
Billy Elliot
A Fish Called Wanda
The Commitments
Sexy Beast
Face
Snatch
Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (not sure :?)

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ALL THE JAMES BOND FILMS ;)

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The problem with most British films is that they invariably turn out to be a bit shit. Take for example every single gangster film released in the last decade *grumble*stupid, crap Guy Ritchie*grumble*. The odd one slips through of course, but for the most part we offer about as much to the film industry as a used tampon.

At the moment it seems there are only five British film types:

1) The Kitchen Sink drama/comedy. Examples: Billy Elliot, Secrets and Lies, The Full Monty. Typically films set in depressing, working class areas that are either outright depressing, or depressing, yet uplifting.

2) The Hugh Grant romantic comedy. Examples: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Wimbledon, Bridget Jones. Even when Hugh Grant does not himself star in the latest Hugh Grant romantic comedy (such as in Wimbledon, for example), his hollow presence can be felt in whichever identikit leading fop takes his place.

3) British Television Comedian's extended sitcom. Examples: Ali G in da House, Blackball, Sex Lives of the Potato Men, The Parole Officer, Bean. Give a funny man from the telly some money to make a film. Watch him lose all ability to be funny before hopefully slipping back to television obscurity.

4) Luvvie-led period drama. Examples: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Stage Beauty, An Ideal Husband. We Brits love our extravagant costumes and tea. What better place to enjoy both but in the English countryside, whilst someone with a name like Darcy or Rothermere attempts to woo an English rose half his age.

5) Gangster film. Examples: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Gangster No. 1, hundreds of others in the last 4 years alone. Upper class English actors attempt to assay London hardmen with names like Jimmy Long-Nose, Butcher Butcher or Timmy Tight-toes while some sort of generic heist goes horribly wrong. Probably involving Vinnie Jones.

As I said, every now and again a film pops out that manages to transcend it's British film trappings. Films such as Withnail and I, Shaun of the Dead, About a Boy, A Fish Called Wanda, etc. For the most part though, we Brits are about as good with a strip of celluloid as we are at being pretty and toothsome.


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Snrub wrote:

1) The Kitchen Sink drama/comedy
2) The Hugh Grant romantic comedy
3) British Television Comedian's extended sitcom
4) Luvvie-led period drama
5) Gangster film


You can do this with US films too. Its not only UK films, Americans are the most unoriginal of all.

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The Crying Game.


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Shaun of the Dead


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neo_wolf wrote:
The Crying Game.


You take away the surprise gimmack from the Crying Game and all you will get is a mediocre movie.


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El_masked_esteROIDe_user wrote:
neo_wolf wrote:
The Crying Game.


You take away the surprise gimmack from the Crying Game and all you will get is a mediocre movie.


Exactly, I guessed the surprise immediately (I walked into my mom wathcing the movie when it first came out and I blurted out the secret) and well I think the movie sucked.


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