Author Topic: Best WW2 film (Read 1059 times)

dkit · « **on:** January 02, 2002, 04:12:00 PM »

Ok whats the fav WW2 films in AH?

Mine would be 2, Battle of Britian (pre 1970's flick) and Saving Private Ryan.

kit

JoeCrip · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:33:00 PM »

The all time best is easily "The Longest Day"

Hangtime · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:35:00 PM »

Memphis Belle.

I still can't listen to the pipes playing "Amazing Grace" without shedding a tear.

Kratzer · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:39:00 PM »

Anyone seen When Trumpets Fade? It is a pretty good recent one about a disillusioned, yet good at his job GI in the Hurtgen forest in the fall of '44. Just watched it the other day, so it is fresh in my mind.

akak · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:40:00 PM »

Full Metal Jacket was a really good one, as was Stalingrad and Das Boot. But I have to say that best one I've seen was the Band of Brothers mini-series on HBO. Seeing the real life members of Easy Company relate their stories before each episode really made an impact.

Superfly · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:41:00 PM »

Full Metal Jacket is a Vietnam flick, Private Pile!

Saving Private Ryan for me. Can't get over D-Day.

hblair · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:42:00 PM »

My wife and I watched a foreign made war movie the other night. "Stalingrad", I think it was a German flick, can't remember. Was as accurate a depiction of the Eastern front conflict as I've seen in a movie. Only problem was having to read the close captions.

Not the greatest war movie I've seen, but pretty good...

I think the first 30 minutes of SPR is the best war movie footage ever shot. Very powerful beginning to that movie.

Mathman · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:44:00 PM »

Stalag 17 and The Great Escape

I am looking forward to Hart's War for obvious reasons.

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:44:00 PM »

Hell in the Pacific

Wotan · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:48:00 PM »

Stalingrad is by far my favorite.

I 1st saw it with subtitles and then with over dubbed english..... Great movie.

Memphis Belle is kick bellybutton as well.

Theres so many older ww2 movies that kick bellybutton its a toss up.

Udie · « **Reply #10 on:** January 02, 2002, 04:53:00 PM »

12:00 High w/ Gregory Peck...

Replicant · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2002, 05:04:00 PM »

Hmm.... Das Boot has probably got to be the best WWII film I've seen closely followed by Memphis Belle, Angels One Five and the Dambusters

I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan very much too.

Regards

Nexx

Tac · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2002, 05:15:00 PM »

Hogan's Heroes

Thin Red Line I think was better than SPRyan. SPR had too many hollywood hero crap put in, Thin Red Line tells the story of a soldier, not some heroic gimmick.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2002, 05:23:00 PM »

Das Boot
Catch 22
Longest Day

akak · « **Reply #14 on:** January 02, 2002, 05:36:00 PM »

I'm just going for war movies, not just WW2 ones. Take Warbirds for example, it was probably one of the best war movies ever made and it was a silen picture. The flying sequences are just awesome in it. Also really cool about that movie is that they used real bombs for the bombing parts they showed, not hollyweird special effects. Then there is All Quiet on the Western Front, nothing until then captured the horrors of war like that movie did.

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Originally posted by SUPERFLY:
Full Metal Jacket is a Vietnam flick, Private Pile!

Saving Private Ryan for me. Can't get over D-Day.