# Bromance movies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bromance-movies/744842 "2016-02-01T13:53:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bromance-movies/744842/21 "2016-02-02T18:22:30Z")

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How about _Office Space_?

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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bromance-movies/744842/22 "2016-02-02T20:01:48Z")

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> [@JohnGalt](#):
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> How about _Office Space_?

“Watch out for your corn-hole man.”

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bromance-movies/744842/23 "2016-02-02T21:20:07Z")

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> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> A lot of the best ones are already taken.
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> Since we’re talking bromance and not buddy movie, I nominate _Die Hard_.

OK, but what’s the difference between a bromance and a buddy movie?

Because every other movie is a buddy movie. It seems to me a bromance has to go much further than the typical wunza. (Wunza straight-laced apex predator who goes by the book. The otherza freewheeling subterranean autotroph who makes his own rules. Together they fight crime.)

And yeah, “Brokeback Mountain” cannot count by definition. It’s a romance between bros, not a bromance.

It seems to me that a buddy movie can have buddies who tolerate each other, or work together, or learn to appreciate the other’s unorthodox style, but a bromance has to go further. It has to be that if it was a male/female pairing you’d expect them to at least kiss before the closing credits. They can’t just be buddies, they have to be potential hetero life partners.

“Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”  
All Star Trek movies with Kirk/Spock.  
“The Force Awakens” for Poe/Finn.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bromance-movies/744842/24 "2016-02-02T21:23:15Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I think that one crossed the line into romance.

When did you think they crossed the line? Was it when they had passionate anal sex in a pup tent?

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