Favorite war movie scene

[Angus]

Opening scene of saving Private Ryan......


BTW, they're filming "Flag of our fathers" in my nearabouts. I am going for a job interview about that tomorrow

[Simaril]

For Best Combat Spectacle, I'd go with the D-Day drop sequence in Band of Brothers

For best extended dramatic combat sequence, gotta go with Little Round Top in Gettysburg

For Best Small Unit combat sequence, gotta be Brecourt Manor from Band of Brothers.

And for best comic moment (not forced comic relief), without a doubt, it's Steve McQueen in Hell is for Heroes. Bob Newhart plays a clerk shanghaied into McQueen's outmanned platoon. Somebody's trying to show Newhart which end of the rifle to hold, and a round goes off, almost hitting McQUeen in the next foxhole. He locks those laser eyes on Newhart, doesnt look away or say a word -- while he moves his grease gun to the side nearest Newhart's hole and clicks the safety off....

just nuttin more to say.

[uberhun]

First five minutes of "Hamburger Hill"
Battle scene in "We were Soldiers"
The scene of Slim Pikens riding the Nuke down in Dr. Strange Love
The landing Scene on Utah Beach in "Saving PRVT. Ryan"

[Ack-Ack]

The part in Kelly's Heroes where they inform the scarfaced, squinty eyed Tiger commander that there is gold in the bank and watching the German's eyes go big and then the scene cuts to the bank door being blasted in by the Tiger.  Classic western..err I mean war movie scene.



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[snakemaw]

Does anyone remember Attack Force Z.......I think Mel Gibson was in it...................LOL

[Ack-Ack]

yeah, great movie.  based on a true story but I don't think it happened like the movie.



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[Bluedog]

Originally posted by snakemaw
Does anyone remember Attack Force Z.......I think Mel Gibson was in it...................LOL

That the one where old mate falls down the ridge and breaks his ankle and rather than leave him to be tortured by the Japs and blow thier entire mission, they give him a cigarette and as he bends to light it, a 9 mil in the back of the head from a silenced Owen gun?
If so, an entirely crap movie portrayal of an absolutely riveting true story.


My favourite war movie scene would be Graham Kennedy arguing with the pay clerk in 'The Odd Angry Shot'...lol, Graham Kennedy as an SAS trooper was comedy gold in itself. "You heard me mate, I said get fluffied"

Same movie....The Aussie SAS and the US Army 'fight night' between a huge hairy spider and a scorpion at SAS Hill,Nui Dat. RSVN
Lots of money being laid down on each critter.
The spider (the Aussie contender) appears to be absolutely owning the scorpion, so it gets crushed by a US Army boot........the fight night then begins, fists, boots, teeth, nails, ammo boxes, iron pickets,water canteens.... you name it, they hit each other with it, greatest movie all-in-brawl of all time.

Not a movie, but a Tele mini series...ANZACS, two private Diggers strolling through the bazaa in Cairo come across a bemeddled Brit officer, smartly saluting everything he passes.....they completely ignore him, much to his disgust...."You there!! Don't you salute in your Army??!!"  ...."We used to , but we're trying to give it up."


We Were Soldiers..The scene where they are talking about how the Sioux fought as a family unit....."Any of you little sons of *****es calls me Grandpa, I'll squealing kill ya"  Sam Neil is it?, the old guy anyway...they show the looks on some of the 'little sum*****es' faces, they believe him.

[-tronski-]

Originally posted by Bluedog
That the one where old mate falls down the ridge and breaks his ankle and rather than leave him to be tortured by the Japs and blow thier entire mission, they give him a cigarette and as he bends to light it, a 9 mil in the back of the head from a silenced Owen gun?
If so, an entirely crap movie portrayal of an absolutely riveting true story.


My favourite war movie scene would be Graham Kennedy arguing with the pay clerk in 'The Odd Angry Shot'...lol, Graham Kennedy as an SAS trooper was comedy gold in itself. "You heard me mate, I said get fluffied"

Same movie....The Aussie SAS and the US Army 'fight night' between a huge hairy spider and a scorpion at SAS Hill,Nui Dat. RSVN
Lots of money being laid down on each critter.
The spider (the Aussie contender) appears to be absolutely owning the scorpion, so it gets crushed by a US Army boot........the fight night then begins, fists, boots, teeth, nails, ammo boxes, iron pickets,water canteens.... you name it, they hit each other with it, greatest movie all-in-brawl of all time.

Not a movie, but a Tele mini series...ANZACS, two private Diggers strolling through the bazaa in Cairo come across a bemeddled Brit officer, smartly saluting everything he passes.....they completely ignore him, much to his disgust...."You there!! Don't you salute in your Army??!!"  ...."We used to , but we're trying to give it up."


We Were Soldiers..The scene where they are talking about how the Sioux fought as a family unit....."Any of you little sons of *****es calls me Grandpa, I'll squealing kill ya"  Sam Neil is it?, the old guy anyway...they show the looks on some of the 'little sum*****es' faces, they believe him.

The Odd Angry Shot is brilliant...the blue over the spider/scorpion fight is a ripper (although for the record, the aussies start it)..Graham Kennedy and Bryan Brown are legends.

The non saluting Aussie was Paul Hogan, and the old bloke in We Were Soldiers was Sam Elliot.

You maybe interested to hear Blue, they're making a film with Sam Worthington called Long Tan...hopefully it'll be a good one

 Tronsky

[Bluedog]

Ta Tronski, knew it was Sam Someone, my Mum idolises the guy.
 
I just figured it woulda been a Yank that started it, Diggers being bronzed gods who can do no wrong

Long Tan should be interesting, hope they get it something like close to the true events, will keep an eye out for that one.

Not a war movie, but allmost, and a cool scene.....The scene in Mad Max where Max is sitting in 'The Interceptor' with his bluedog and opens the can of dogfood...then eats it himself.
They must have used a stand in mutt, a true Bluey woulda tore his throat out for a transgression like that.
Sucked bigtime when Bluey wore a crossbow bolt

[Kev367th]

Battle of Britain -
Where the Polish pilot bails out and lands in a field, a couple of farmers approach him and he says "Good Morning" in an accent.
Farmers relpy - "Good morning? Get your hands up you bosch bast***"

Same film Michael Caine waiting to take off -
"The engines overheating and so am I, we either get up or blow up"

[Sox62]

Blackhawk Down-the scene where D-boy  Hoot sticks his head in the Blackhawk that's being looted,and says in Somalian,"I believe this is mine!"