War Movies that should be remade

[RngFndr]

Ideas for war movies I would love to see:

+1 on 1, 2, 3,
The only other vid game I play is "Distant Guns"..  I dig the
whole Dreadnought era.. Was just reading about Spee a
week ago.. I agree, not common knowledge tho.

Odd, that the ship named after him would end it's life in
the same region of the world huh???

4, i don't think the world can handle it..

[Arlo]

I check you tube periodically for free full length classic war movies:

Hell in the Pacific:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPd3eOPPNQ

Gung Ho:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA6xqfSO30o

Gettysburg:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcaRk0ZRJ4

Go for Broke:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d96hP7HiQFc

[Fulcrum]

I know it's not the battle of your fourth suggestion but have you seen 'Cast a Giant Shadow?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_a_Giant_Shadow

Another movie I've found very interesting (and only discovered a couple of years ago, to my amazement) is Seven Days in May.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_51

I'll have to watch the first.  The second I saw several years ago (on AMC I think) and rather liked it.

[Fulcrum]

+1 on 1, 2, 3,
The only other vid game I play is "Distant Guns"..  I dig the
whole Dreadnought era.. Was just reading about Spee a
week ago.. I agree, not common knowledge tho.

Odd, that the ship named after him would end it's life in
the same region of the world huh???

4, i don't think the world can handle it..

If you like Distant Guns, get Jutland and it's add ons from the same company (Storm Eagle Studios).  It's worth it.  

Speaking of Distant Guns and the The Russo-Japanese War...did you know Toho made a movie out of Battle of Tsushima back in 1969?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uc3IrJwG7o&list=TLzjHgLbKJqsVyxyD2XhfACfpnmhYqGNWW

The Battle of the River Plate (where the German Pocket Battleship Graf von Spee met its end as you correctly pointed out) was made into a movie as well.  Saw it years ago...it was pretty dreadful.  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/

Would love to see a remake. And yes, I always thought it was odd the co-incendence of it meeting its end not terribly far from where von Spee the man died.

[artik]

4.) The Israel Air Force during the Six Day War or Yom Kippur War.  I'm sure, given the sensitivity of the subject, it would never get made...but one day I'd love to see Mirage IIIs dogfighting Hawker Hunters, MiG-17 and MiG-21s over the desert.  

There are some subjects that documentaries are actually better:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGgITqaAbg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FMLNlMEoo

(Hollywood tends to ruing anything historical it touches)

That is why I stopped seeing action/war movies produced by Hollywood

[Oldman731]

Another movie I've found very interesting (and only discovered a couple of years ago, to my amazement) is Seven Days in May.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_51

While Wiki suggests the book and film were based on General Edwin Walker, I always thought that Knebel and Bailey had MacArthur and Truman in mind when they wrote this novel.  

One of my favorite repartees of all time:


General Scott: I asked you a question — do you know who Judas was?!

Colonel Casey: Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.


- oldman

[Arlo]

Amazing roles for Douglas and Lancaster both.

[Rich46yo]

Sadly I think we've come to an end of an era for WW2 movies. And for many reasons.

The generation that fought it and remembered it is largely gone. Movie makers want to appeal to the young hip crowd, the ones with spendable cash, and they have to make their money off a movie quick. I bet at least 1/2 of high school seniors dont even know who all fought in the war or the years it was fought in. I suppose you could make money off a "Sink the Bismark" movie nowdays as long as you had the Dallas Cheerleaders staring dancing off the decks of the ships. A shame as these were, and are, great stories.

War movies of the future will be of current and future conflicts. I think the era of great WW2 films are about over.

[VonMessa]

Dare I say it a bridge to far.
Tho Im just going to say its almost to awesome to redo

Drinking a liquid lunch again, are we?

[Brooke]

Ideas for war movies I would love to see:

2.) The Battle of the Falkland Islands (WWI)

4.) The Israel Air Force during the Six Day War or Yom Kippur War.

These two would never be made by Hollywood for your reason:

Never, EVAH, underestimate the anti-capitalist / anti-colonial outlook of the movies makers over in the Peoples Republic of California.

 

when you add in anti-US ally (i.e., anti-UK), anti-Israel (which is so odd, given how many in Hollywood are Jewish), pro-socialism/communism (so pro-Argentina).  Even though you mean the WWI Battle of the Falkland Islands, Hollywood would still associate it with the modern theme.

Now, if you pick a topic that glorifies crime, socialism, communism, or anyone who hates the US, or shows the US, capitalism, business, work ethic, free markets, or US history in a bad light, then you have a good chance of Hollywood making it.

[Arlo]

Well. Guess my list of movies were aberrations. 

[gyrene81]

Sadly I think we've come to an end of an era for WW2 movies. And for many reasons.

The generation that fought it and remembered it is largely gone. Movie makers want to appeal to the young hip crowd, the ones with spendable cash, and they have to make their money off a movie quick. I bet at least 1/2 of high school seniors dont even know who all fought in the war or the years it was fought in. I suppose you could make money off a "Sink the Bismark" movie nowdays as long as you had the Dallas Cheerleaders staring dancing off the decks of the ships. A shame as these were, and are, great stories.

War movies of the future will be of current and future conflicts. I think the era of great WW2 films are about over.

gotta agree on the whole. then again, with the right actors and if the movie didn't get spielberged into the toilet with complete b.s. a war movie that didn't show the horrors of war to excess could do well at the box office.

there have been enough movies on the 3rd reich recently one has to wonder why there hasn't been any movies on the luftwaffe aces. i'd love to see a movie about the any of the luftwaffe aces if it was done right without too much spielberg like nonsense.

[gyrene81]

I check you tube periodically for free full length classic war movies:

Hell in the Pacific:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPd3eOPPNQ

Gung Ho:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA6xqfSO30o

Gettysburg:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcaRk0ZRJ4

Go for Broke:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d96hP7HiQFc

omg...the only one of those worth watching was gettysburg and that was barely worth the time.

[Arlo]

omg...the only one of those worth watching was gettysburg and that was barely worth the time.

Sorry, I won't stoop to Star Wars. 

[Fulcrum]

Now, if you pick a topic that glorifies crime, socialism, communism, or anyone who hates the US, or shows the US, capitalism, business, work ethic, free markets, or US history in a bad light, then you have a good chance of Hollywood making it.

Sadly, I have to agree. I'm also sad because others agree a Falkland Islands movie wont be made.