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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: jay1988 on May 26, 2004, 01:36:30 AM
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What is the Best WWII movie or series??
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I love Band of Brothers. It was a 10 show series on
HBO. Its on DVD now if any one want to watch it.
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# 1 Battle of Britain (1969) with Sir Laurence Olivier, and Michial Caine
# 2 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
# 3 Green Berets (1968) John Wayne need i say more?
# 1 TV Black Sheep Squadron ( 1976 -1978 )
# 2 TV McHale's Navy (1962 - 1966)
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Patton
TORA TORA TORA
Midway
Green berets
Bridge over the river kwai
guns of naveron
the wild Geese
The great Escape
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Dont forget "Combat" or that all time classic series "The Rat Patrol" ;)
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The list is LONG and endlessly varied depending on taste.
Band of brothers was excellent.
As was "The longest day"
Tora, tora, tora, and Midway.
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My favorites:
Saving Private Ryan
Cross Of Iron
A Bridge Too Far
Memphis Belle
Sink The Bismarck
Midway
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Patton was so boring, I love WWII movies but I fell asleep on this one.
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Originally posted by jay1988
Patton was so boring, I love WWII movies but I fell asleep on this one.
Read up om your history then watch it again
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A piece of Cake
The longest day
Appointment in London
.....sheesh it's pointless, too many.
Although war movies made during the war, before the outcome was known, always give me an extra shiver. Imagining all the millions who crowded into old cinemas to watch a film about a war where they most certainly knew someone actually living the roles they see on the screen, is , frankly, hard to imagine.
Imagine watching Wake Island when your son/father/bro, just shipped out in the Marine Corp.
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The British seem to have the knack of making great movies about the air war during World War II. American directors do not. The best we have ever done has been only fair in quality.
Opening up this discussion a bit, what particular event or aerial drama would you like to see developed from the World War II time period. Personally, although it would be difficult to do, I would like to see a film developed about Claire Chennault's career in China, going all the way back to the period predating the Flying Tigers and the International squadron. This film would make modern Americans familiar with this "forgotten war" and the sufferings of the Chinese. It might prove embarassing for the Japanese, who have never fully come to grips with the atrocities perpetrated by their army against the Chinese populace.
Regards, Shuckins/Leggern
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Sci-fi just had Amazing Stories II on. It had the short story on the b-17 and the ball turret gunner who got trapped. Up until the cartoon landing gear, I thought it was a pretty good story.
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One of the better was "The Big Red One"
IMO the worst are all of those in Willcrd's list above.
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Originally posted by jay1988
I love Band of Brothers. It was a 10 show series on
HBO. Its on DVD now if any one want to watch it.
i heard there gonna do a marine version of the band of brothers during the island hopping campaings
ahhooorrraaaaahhhhh!!!!
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Originally posted by Dogsta04
# 3 Green Berets (1968) John Wayne need i say more?
Err, isn't this Vietnam? (sun setting in the East on the final scene... awesome!)
I like "In Harms War" although it was a bit too long.
"12 O'Clock High" will teach you a lot about leadership.
"Destination Tokyo" creeped me out with a scene where Cary Grant says something along the lines of "The Japanese don't love their women the way we do, to them they are just baby makers and factory workers." (Yes yes, wartime propaganda and all that. I know).
There was about 20 minutes of ""Pearl Harbor" that I really liked (When the Japanese sank the Arizona, Oaklahoma and a half dozen Spruance Destroyers lol).
I know I'm forgetting some good ones, I'll have to think it over longer.
-Sik
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633 Squadron!
1941 (Funny WWII movie)
A Bridge too Far
A Guy Named Joe
Band of Brothers (TV Series)
Black Sheep (TV Series)
Combat! (TV Series)
Destination Tokyo
Flying Leathernecks
Hart's War
Hellcat! (About the Sub, not aircraft lol)
Great Escape
In Harm Ways
Longest Day
Memphis Belle
Midway
Mosquito Squadron!
Patton
Pearl Harbor
Saving Private Ryan
Thirty Second over Tokyo
To Hell and Back
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tuskgee (Something I found the title)
Twelve O'Clock High
I think that's all I have seen, but it could be more movie I have seen in Cable and forgot the name of the movie.
Rafe
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Kelly's Heroes
Mr. Roberts
Band of Brothers
most of Enemy at the Gates (the end just doesn't seem right)
The Fighting Lady
Task Force
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i like clips of ww2 russian propoganda...at least its probably more accurate than most ww2 movies...
actually i dont like ww2 movies...no laser guns or spaceships
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Originally posted by vorticon
actually i dont like ww2 movies...no laser guns or spaceships
LOL, so that why you like AH? Hispano-lasers and niki-saucers? LOL
I like the grittier movies rather than the hollywood (50s-70s style particulary) polished ones. the trend seems to be moving that direction though. SPR and BoB being prime examples of gritty and modern. I liked Midway and A bridge too far for their overall historical detail and accuracy, I saw the former in sensarround during the 70s. The Big Red One blended the surreal, the horrific, and the comedic very well I thought. I haven't seen anyone mention the Battle of The Bulge, it was okay if you could get past all those grey painted M60s (:D) and the song "Panzer Leid" is still in my brain over 25 years later from it. But Telly Savalas and "Dano" from the TV shows were distracting.
Das Boot and The Beast are my favorite foreign war movies. Was ABTF a British film? If so add it to that list.
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I may have missed something and frankly don't know half of the movies and or series but what about 'Das Boot?'
Thta's my favourite WWII movie.
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we just had this thread over in the oc ..
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=117731&referrerid=4291 (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=117731&referrerid=4291)
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How about "Hell in the Pacific"? Don't see it that often on TV, but a really good movie.
"The Great Escape"
"BoB"
First and last scene in SPR always gets to me.
"No Man is an Island"(haven't seen this one in years)
:aok
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My favourites...
The Great Escape !
Band of Brothers !
The Longest Day !
The Big Red One !
Kelly's Hero's
Von Ryans Express
Where Eagles Dare
Battle of Britain
Tora Tora Tora
PT 109
Private Ryan
Patton
Battle of the Bulge
A Bridge too far
Midway
and one that many may have not seen, Dark Blue World
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Originally posted by seabat
Sci-fi just had Amazing Stories II on. It had the short story on the b-17 and the ball turret gunner who got trapped. Up until the cartoon landing gear, I thought it was a pretty good story.
Aha!! TY I've been trying to remember where i'd seen that. Now i can get it for my bros, I knew it existed, and it wasn't just the medication.
While we're on the weird, how about the scene in Heavy Metal, with the B17, hehe. That swamp area with all the crashed planes and Zombies, looks alot like the last 3 Knight fields before a reset.
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Originally posted by seabat
Sci-fi just had Amazing Stories II on. It had the short story on the b-17 and the ball turret gunner who got trapped. Up until the cartoon landing gear, I thought it was a pretty good story.
I remenber that movie. I like it but the cartoon part was so unrealistic.
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Memphis Belle is also a good WWII movie. I love how they had the whole movie in the B17
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Originally posted by Edbert MOL
LOL, so that why you like AH? Hispano-lasers and niki-saucers? LOL
i said i dont like watching ww2 movies...i dont like playing space type games, the fights are boring, its either tell the computer to fire the phasers at full charge for 5 seconds on that there clinton errr klingon or point your x wing in the general direction of the enemy and press fire...
i have only flown a niki once...and that lasted about 3 minutes...and i cant hit anything with anything outside of d400
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Originally posted by jay1988
I remenber that movie. I like it but the cartoon part was so unrealistic.
If it was realistic it would have been called "mundane ordinary stories"
-Sik
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For Aviation movies:
Fighter Squadron
Battle of Britain
A Guy Named Joe (if you love P-38s)
A Wing and a Prayer
God is my Co-pilot
Flying Leathernecks
12 O'clock High
The War lover
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
I Wanted Wings
Dam Busters
Grunt movies:
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
A Walk in the Sun
Battleground
From Here to Eternity
The Young Lions
Patton
Guadalcanal Diary
Gung Ho!
Go For Broke
The Train
The Desert Fox
G.I. Stooge (Three Stooges)
Naval movies:
Sink the Bismarck
Tora Tora Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
Crash Dive
Midway (even with that footage of an F9F crashing, LOL)
Das Boot
We Dive at Dawn
Action in the North Atlantic
In Harm's Way
The Gallant Hours
The Fighting Sullivans
Corvette K-225
And several others for which I forget the titles.
My regards,
Widewing
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Woohoo, Bumba wants to invade Wides film locker,
sir.
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There was one movie that I've only seen once but it was based on the 56th fighter Squad. One of the only movies that have great P-47 footage. Do any of you guys know what the movie is called?
Also I like the movie "Air Force". Based on the first few day of WW II. What I like about it is the footage of the P-39's in the PI and the P-43's that they used as Japanese aircraft.
Jag 34
Tiger Squad
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Originally posted by Dogsta04
# 1 Battle of Britain (1969) with Sir Laurence Olivier, and Michial Caine
# 2 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
# 3 Green Berets (1968) John Wayne need i say more?
# 1 TV Black Sheep Squadron ( 1976 -1978 )
# 2 TV McHale's Navy (1962 - 1966)
You forgot "Combat" and Rat Patrol"
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Originally posted by Jag34
There was one movie that I've only seen once but it was based on the 56th fighter Squad. One of the only movies that have great P-47 footage. Do any of you guys know what the movie is called?
Fighter Squadron with Robert Stack. Also in the cast was that dweeby character who played Jimmy Olson on the old Superman TV series from the 1950s.
They used Air Guard P-47s and P-51Ds, which stood in for the Luftwaffe (they wish! LOLOLOL).
My regards,
Widewing
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Sopranos on HBO oh wait you said WWII.
Never mind.
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Another good movie was 'The Enemy Below' with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
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The oscar winning documentry 'Thunderbolt!' - about a U.S. thunderbolt squadron flying out of Corsica during 'Operation Strangle' in Italy. Use of colour film and on-board cine cameras give unique real action footage. Good close up of squadron life and lots of P-47 footage - will whet your appetite to fly these juggernauts. Intro by Jimmy Stewart, hilarious narration by my childhood hero Mike Nelson - er, Lloyd Bridges!
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Battle Of Britan (Awesome!!)
Enemy at the Gates
Tora Tora Tora
Band of Brothers
Midway
In Harms Way
Mephis Belle
A Bridge too Far
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Best series..12 O`clock High.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Best series..12 O`clock High.
Yah, I agree Jackal. The first two seasons, before Savage bites it, aremy favs. It's quite a dark series for tv back then.
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M*A*S*H of course
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lol read the subject title, cretin
got to be Battle of Britain, I guess
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