War Movies that should be remade

[pipz]

Remakes that were better than the original IMHO:

Ocean’s Eleven

Its a outrage!!!!!

Dare I say it a bridge to far.

Dont you dare.........

The Blue Max

Your kidding me rite???  Wait good idea we could get Brad Pitt to play Stachel and Angelina to play the countess.......


 

[pipz]

Japanese movie about the battleship Yamato. Very over-acted, but the CGI shows what can be done on even a modest budget...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4QWqDTCk2A

I have that movie. Its good but as you said the acting is a bit over the top!

[Zacherof]

Redbull as Cpl. Joker
DrBone as Cowboy
ink as Animal Mother
ACE aka DrSpek as Pvt Pyle
Debrody as Senior Dril Instructor Hartmann
zack1234 as Crazy Earl
Madhogg as Mr Payback
Bruv119 as Captain Shortround
Zacherof as T.H.E Rock

i just need a few million to get started and then i will cast the rest of the roles

[zack1234]

I think it's time to redo Battle of the bulge.  It was on the boob tube a while ago and I just couldn't watch it. The baterred bashers of bastogne? C'mon!

Valkyrie was  somwhat acceptable....except for having Tom Cruise as the title character.  Jerry Lewis would have been more beleivable

Actually came across "paths to glory" Kirk douglas film directed by kubrick.

Anywho....I'm wandering....like this thread will (I hope)

Valkyrie was "acceptable"?

Your views in regards to films is summed up it that statement

[rpm]

2 that should be remade because the script is so good but could never be better than the original are "They Were Expendable" and "Decision Before Dawn".

[RngFndr]

Remake the old GOOD Movies??? No way..
Aren't there plenty of Topics yet to cover???
Or is there such a dearth of insight and knowledge???

Ya just know that it would be full of lousy acting
by people who don't fit the parts, and plastic goofy
looking, and out of scale CG..

Like THE BOMB.. In pearl Harbor, the bomb that went
thru the Arizona Decks and the little fuse fan was on
a motor turnin round and round.. (just an example)

LOL, even had a little motor sound..

I guess it was supposed to be some kind of clockwork fuse
or something from some hollywood boobs imagination..

Instead of a little fan that winds the striker into position
after the bomb leaves the plane..

I guess they have to give us something to look at, other
than look at the Ninnies they hold up as Actors..

Edit: they should make their own crappy movies, and
leave the classics alone!

Remember, there ain't ever gonna be another John Wayne,
Robert Mitchum, Glen Ford, Rock Hudson, Clark Gable,
James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, on and on,
EVER..

Or Audie Murphy, talk about the real deal..

So quit tryin to BE them, and make your OWN PLACE in film..

[RngFndr]

Some War Movie Topics worthy of a Major production..

An Epic of the Chosin reservoir battle would be excellent.. Talk about Material for a movie!
An awesome story of desperate fighting and survival against Herculean odds..
And hasn't been done yet..

Fox Hill overlooking Taktong pass, One company of Marines in the most impossible victory..
One of the most Epic military actions of History! Cut off for days, being assaulted by brigade
after brigade of Chinese infantry trying to close the Pass.. Holding the door open for the
whole  1st Marine Division + 1/2 of an Army Division.. ONE COMPANY!

Task Force Faith, wiped out on the North side of the Reservoir, Road cut behind them..
Trapped between the cliffs, and the frozen lake, Massive numbers of Chinese on the hills
above them, overrun by Human waves.. Every man for himself, as the survivors staggered
out into the Darkness, onto the Frozen lake, dragging their wounded friends with them..

Task Force Drysdale, mixed unit of US and Royal Marines.. almost wiped out trying to
move up the Road from Koto ri to relieve Hagaru..

The Hand to Hand Fighting on the Ice covered ridges all around the Yudam ni valley..

All of these would make a Movie on their own..
But I suppose Hollywood's Chinese owners might not like that topic, lol..

[Rich46yo]

Japanese movie about the battleship Yamato. Very over-acted, but the CGI shows what can be done on even a modest budget...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4QWqDTCk2A

Foreign films can often looked over acted in translation but not so in their native languages and cultural norms. Yamato has some of the most vicious scenes Ive ever seen in a film of what strafing by heavy war plane MGs can do. Those American 0.50s just chewed them up, made worse by the USN method of attacking one side of a ship in order to destroy the AA on that side first for the torpedo planes. They used to have these scenes on you tube but were made to take them down. This film is worth paying the DVD price for.

I didnt really find it "over acted". The discipline in the IJN was pretty fanatical. Here I found a link to the final battle scene, tho the quality is kinda crap. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaa81o_must-see-battle-scene-otoko-tachi-n_tech Go to about 3;45 mins if you want to see the worst of it.

[GScholz]

I have Otoko-tachi no Yamato and I wasn't thinking of the battle scenes specifically. The Japanese have a theatrical culture when it comes to movie making, and every emotion is exaggerated and overacted. This was also a problem during the filming of Tora Tora Tora, where they had to change the Japanese director who refused to tone it down, and still there is a lot of overacting in the Japanese scenes.

[smoe]

What about a new Apocalypse Now spoof, but with Charlie Sheen as the main character?

[gyrene81]

What about a new Apocalypse Now spoof, but with Charlie Sheen as the main character?

and leslie nielsen as col. kurtz...  that would be hilarious!!!           

[GScholz]

and leslie nielsen as col. kurtz...  that would be hilarious!!!           

It would also be very spooky!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

It would also be very spooky!

At least it would bring deeper meaning to the 'rosebud' i.e. being plant food.

[wpeters]

Movies that would be worth watching or remade

1  They need to make one about the wolverine: why he was captured and what was he doing in Japan. Make for a awesome movie.

2  A good Kids movie would be based on the book Treasures in the Snow 

3 Flag of Our Fathers   should be redone

4 Movie based on the book:  The Forgotten Soldier

5  Another great movie would be based on the Escapes From Colditz

Use as POW camp[edit source | editbeta]



Colditz Bridge in 1945 after the town had been occupied by the US Army
Main article: Oflag IV-C
After the outbreak of World War II the castle was converted into a high security prisoner-of-war camp for officers who had become security or escape risks or who were regarded as particularly dangerous. Since the castle is situated on a rocky outcrop above the River Mulde, the Germans believed it to be an ideal site for a high security prison.
The larger outer court known as the Kommandantur, had only two exits and housed a large German garrison. The prisoners lived in an adjacent courtyard in a 90 ft (27 m) tall building. Outside, the flat terraces which surrounded the prisoners' accommodation were constantly watched by armed sentries and surrounded by barbed wire. Although known as Colditz Castle to the locals, its official German designation was Oflag IV-C and it was under Wehrmacht control.[2]
Although it was considered a high security prison, it boasted one of the highest records of successful escape attempts. This could be owing to the general nature of the prisoners that were sent there; most of them had attempted escape previously from other prisons and were transferred to Colditz because the Germans had thought the castle escape-proof. One lavish scheme even included a glider that was kept in a remote portion of the castle's attic, although it was never used because Germany surrendered to the Allies before the scheduled date of the planned escape.
Captain Patrick R. Reid, who successfully escaped from Colditz in 1942, wrote two detailed books about the living conditions and various escape attempts at Colditz from 1940 to 1945: The Colditz Story and The Latter Days at Colditz. In the early 1970s, these were made into a BBC television series starring David McCallum, Edward Hardwicke and Robert Wagner.
In April 1945, US troops entered Colditz town and, after a two-day fight, captured the castle on 16 April. In May 1945, the Soviet occupation of Colditz began. Following the Yalta Conference it became a part of East Germany. The Soviets turned Colditz Castle into a prison camp for local burglars and non-communists. Later, the castle was a home for the aged and nursing home, as well as a hospital and psychiatric clinic. For many years after the war, forgotten hiding places and tunnels were found by repairmen, including a radio room set up by the British POWs, which was then "lost" again only to be re-discovered some ten years later.
Famous Occupants
Douglas Bader
Desmond Llewelyn
Airey Neave
Charles Upham

6 Movie on Chuck Yeagers Life

7 Flying Tigers

8 Erich Hartman   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann   Would make a great Movie.. 
 
9 Heinrich Bar   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_B%C3%A4r

10 Gunther Rall    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Rall



These would all make Great movies

[Fulcrum]

and leslie nielsen as col. kurtz...   that would be hilarious!!!        

T'would be difficult. He's been dead since 2010.


EDIT:  Ahhh....nevermind...someone else pointed this out as well.