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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rich46yo on March 02, 2008, 04:13:12 PM
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OK if you had to pick 5 of your all time favorite war movies what would they be?
I just screened "Das Boot" over the weekend, "actually made me think of starting this thread". This is an absolutely great war movie and is definitely in my top 5. Others would be "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". "Tora Tora Tora" is my fave all time flight movie. "All Quiet On the Western Front" is a gem. And last would probably be "Platoon".
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You mean besides Patton, Kelly's Heroes, The Great Escape, MASH and Pvt Ryan?
I'll have to think.
edit>> and what's with all the air quotes?:mad:
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Battle of Britain United Artists 1968
"repeat please"
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Not sure it would be considered a movie but Band Of Brothers, a close second would be Patton.
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Full Metal Jacket anbody?
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Das Boot and the Great Escape. That's it.
...-Gixer
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"Casualties Of War" would be another.
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Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
The Longest Day
Gettysburg
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HOW ABOUT 10?
In no particular order..
Dark Blue world
Das Boot
SPR
Flags/Letters from Iwo
Battle of Britain
The Big Red ONE
Enemy at the Gates
The Iron Cross
And..
Too late the Hero
Ooops, never got out of WW2. Should have said 15 :D
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Pvt. Ryan
Band of Bros.
Black Hawk Down
Battle of Britain
Letters from Iwo
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Originally posted by trax1
"Casualties Of War" would be another.
:rofl
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Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
We Were Soldiers
Stalingrad- from the same people who made Das Boot
Patton- although the combat scenes leave a litle bit to be desired. Would
actually tie this with The Longest Day
There's alot of good war flics out there kinda hard to narrow it down to five.
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battleground
a midnight clear
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Originally posted by John Hynds
Patton- although the combat scenes leave a litle bit to be desired.
Patton is about the man, not the battles.
When he kisses the Captain on the forehead after the night battle and then goes on to explain about the carts and then says "I love it! God help me I do love it so"
When he says, "We're gonna keep fighting. Is that CLEAR? We're gonna attack all night, we're gonna attack the next morning. If we are not VICTORIOUS, let no man come back alive!"
His aide says, "You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting... he replies "It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know."
These are the battle scenes.
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#5 - Hot Shots! :rofl
#4 - Memphis Belle
#3 - Black Hawk Down
#2 - A Bridge too far
#1 - Pearl Harbor (yes it's a love story, but it's an awesome one! :aok )
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Originally posted by Latrobe
#1 - Pearl Harbor (yes it's a love story, but it's an awesome one! :aok )
If you ever had any credibility, you've just lost it.
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Ya ya ya, blah blah blah. I just like Pearl Harbor the most. :aok
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A bit off topic...that stalingrad movie....by the boys that did Das Boot...
More info if ya can...because I know it's out there, but have never and want to see it.
Top 10 or so...in no particular order
private ryan
downfall
Boys in company 'c'
Kelly's heroes
patton
Dirty dozen
Das boot
Jarhead
The longest day
A bridge too far.
Stalag 17
Now, to make things interesting....
top 5 or so worst....and the nominations are.
Battle of the bulge. C'mon! the ardennes didn't look like the mojave desert.
Hitler" the last ten days Alec Guiness as hitler? not convincing
Band of brothers...only the episodes with David Schwimmer.
Captain what's his heads mandolin.
Battlestar Galactica (didn't specify which war, did ya?)
Ilsa: She-wolf of the SS (very predictable plot)
And...for even MORE fun...how about war movies you'd like to see?
Serious or humourous, include cast members.
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Originally posted by Angus
HOW ABOUT 10?
In no particular order..
Dark Blue world
Das Boot
SPR
Flags/Letters from Iwo
Battle of Britain
The Big Red ONE
Enemy at the Gates
The Iron Cross
And..
Too late the Hero
Ooops, never got out of WW2. Should have said 15 :D
Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Black Hawk Down, ect. ect. I like em all :lol
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Patton
Apocalypse Now
We Were Soldiers
Twelve O'Clock High
The Big Red One
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Originally posted by Latrobe
#1 - Pearl Harbor (yes it's a love story, but it's an awesome one! :aok )
Oh man!
You’d have been better off making up a story about how you fought off some Samoan dudes with your butt-crack-pen-knife but really got yourself pummeled and then claimed that you felt No Pain because they only connected to bone…
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O man how could i have forgotten we were soldiers
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Battle ground
the big red one
the great escape
and my all time fav. Kelly's hero's:aok
o and i did forget enemy at the gates
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Latrobe, any and all respect for you has been lost.
Redeem yourself and tell us please.....
I meant to say "Tora,tora, tora"
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Originally posted by Latrobe
Ya ya ya, blah blah blah. I just like Pearl Harbor the most. :aok
Me+Pearl Harbor=(http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/images/smilies/slaphead.gif)
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Originally posted by ridley1
A bit off topic...that stalingrad movie....by the boys that did Das Boot...
Enemy at the Gates?
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1. The Train
2. Is Paris Burning?
3. Howard Hughs' Hells Angels
4. The Longest Day
5. Sergeant York
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Originally posted by ridley1
Latrobe, any and all respect for you has been lost.
Redeem yourself and tell us please.....
I meant to say "Tora,tora, tora"
No, I stand by what I said :) .
I didn't like "Tora, Tora, Tora" much. Yes it was pretty historically accurate, but I just couldn't get into it like I did with Pearl Harbor!
EDIT: If it redeem's me just a little bit, Pearl harbor is the only Love Story I like. ;)
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Battleground - Band of Brothers long before Band of Brothers. A lot of 101st vets had bit parts too. Tired, worn, scared and doing what that had to GI's. They looked like Willie and Joe, not like recruiting poster GIs of so many war movies.
Kelly's Heros---Just cause.
"Air Force" -Guilty pleasure, complete propoganda film, made during WW2, about the B17D "Mary Ann" winning WW2 all by itself.
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How about your favorite - sweet 16!
Band of Brothers
Memphis Belle
Battle of the Bulge
Midway
Tora Tora
The Longest Day
We Were Soldiers
The Train
Enemy at the Gates
Stalingrad
Patton
Black Hawk Down
Kelly's heroes
Dirty dozen
Das boot
Saving Private Ryan
< S > - GGhost :aok
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Very Hard.
5 - Black Hawk Down (non-stop action)
4 - Saving Private Ryan (EXTREMELY well written)
3 - A Bridge to Far (Very well done and shot)
2 - Kelly's Heroes (Stop with the negative waves......)
1 - The Longest Day (I could watch this again and again and again....)
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Originally posted by Rich46yo
OK if you had to pick 5 of your all time favorite war movies what would they be?
I just screened "Das Boot" over the weekend, "actually made me think of starting this thread". This is an absolutely great war movie and is definitely in my top 5. Others would be "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". "Tora Tora Tora" is my fave all time flight movie. "All Quiet On the Western Front" is a gem. And last would probably be "Platoon".
That last one on your list in no way compares with the others.
It was a piece of anti-American, anti-US Military garbage. Purely a venue for Oliver Stone to vent his Anti US government feelings.
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Originally posted by Leslie
1. The Train
2. Is Paris Burning?
3. Howard Hughs' Hells Angels
4. The Longest Day
5. Sergeant York
Everyone should see "The Train". It was one of Burt Lancaster's best performances ever. A real classic.
Movies like that are simply not made anymore.
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Originally posted by Redlegs
O man how could i have forgotten we were soldiers
When the list of KIA rolled at the end....first time I ever cried in a movie theater.
Sam Elliot really nailed it as the Sergeant Major, best role he's ever played.
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Originally posted by John Hynds
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
We Were Soldiers
Stalingrad- from the same people who made Das Boot
Patton- although the combat scenes leave a litle bit to be desired. Would
actually tie this with The Longest Day
There's alot of good war flics out there kinda hard to narrow it down to five.
"We Were Soldiers" was a very well made movie. And while it did OK at the box office, the liberal Hollywood press never liked it, since it did not make American soldiers out to be sick and twisted wackos.
John Wayne's "The Green Berets" was way too political too, and on the opposite side of the spectrum from the war movies the left endorsed. It was also not a very well made movie in my opinion.
"We Were Soldiers" focused on real life events, and what it was like to be an American fighting in Vietnam. It is another must see for anyone who missed it.
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i forgot about We were soldier's as well but it is a very good movie!
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Platoon
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
Das Boot
Hotel Rwanda
Honorable Mention:
Band of Brothers
Gettysburg
The Great Escape
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon was the most convincing portrayal of soldiers I have ever seen in a film. The soldiers talked and walked like soldiers of that era, they used words and phrases in their dialog that I'd never heard anybody but my father say, I thought he made them up. Blackhawk Down tried to do this but it was compromised by hollywood polish. The result was inathentic.
Schindler's List for delivering so completely the sense of the inhuman indifferant regard of the germans toward the jews.
Apocalypse Now for capturing the unbelievable sureal insanity of that war. And the plausibility of the story. Special forces sergants were deployed individually to primitive tribes thoughout vietnam and were winning the war in their area to a degree that brought them unwelcome attention from the Army establishment. The soldiers became so ingrained into the villages that adopted them that they were very reluctant to be reassigned from them usually it would require a lot of threats and compromising. From their perspective they gained a great amount of sympathy for the villagers' bitter resentments toward both vietnamese governments. It's not inconcievable that the US army would have to deal with a rogue adviser.
Das Boot. The definitive factor of a submarine war movie is the suspence factor. Depth charges and dives, how much pressure and punishment are they willing to take before they break. This movie delivers supsence like it was ghostwritten by Edgar Allen Poe. All submarine movies since have been pale mimics. Visually it is quite convincing, no other naval warfare movie comes close. The irreverence that the veteran submariners display for military pomp is protrayed wonderfully. The one thing that bothered me was that the only nazi on the entire ship was the outcast, he wasn't even from germany. That's simply ahistorical and smacks of revisionism.
Hotel Rwanda. If it were fiction, and it's not, it would still be an excellent film in it's own right. The fact that it's a true story makes it even more commendable. Definitely a must see, and I would recomend the documentary "Ghosts of Rwanda" as a companion.
Band of brothers. The only bad thing I can say about it is that it suffers from the same inauthentic and hollywoodesqe dialog that really hurt Saving Private Ryan. But band of brothers offers so much to outway it's detractions.
Gettysburg. If you have any interest at all in the american civil war you should watch this. If you're not interested in the civil war, you will be after you watch it. The best civil war film.
The Great Escape. Would've been in my top five, would have been a great movie if the directors wouldn't have catered to the primadonna Steve McQueen. The other actors were tremendous, very believable, really a dignified tribute to the real life POWs that they were portraying. The studios wanted McQueen's face on the posters to sell tickets in America. So when he threatened to walk off the set unless they made him the hero of the movie they acquiessed and bent the film around McQueen's ego. The result is generally a very good movie between the scenes that McQueen stars in. His acting is bathos. Go back and watch this movie, pay particular attention to McQueen's scenes and ask yourself if his mimicry is more congruous with a serious war drama or The Little Rascals.
Saving Private Ryan. A very good movie if only for the action. Visually it is spectacular, a landmark wwII film. If it were a novel it would be a complete flop. That is to say, take away the cinematic experience and all you're left with is very generic and unrealistic dialogue. The characters were quite unconvincing as crack commandos of the US army's most elite unit at the time. Spielberg would have us believe that commanding officers of the ranger regiment were basically augmentees at the beginning of the war, not lifers. And that rangers in wwII were basically undisciplined average joes who are only in the military because of the war. In both Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan the dialogue is amost john waynish at times. The attempt at humor in both films is so inane that it's really just bad and way out of place.
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In no particular order
We Were soldiers
Private Ryan
Enemy at the Gates
Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down
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Gotta say band of brothers was my favorite along with bob and saving private ryan(era movie prob schindlers list as well), all movies i liked but i got into Band of brothers the most.
I liked deep blue but there was just to much gaga love making not enough fighting.
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Flags of our Fathers, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, We were soldiers, Wind Talkers. Those are mine.
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1. Perl Harbor
2. Thin Red Line
3. WindTalkers
4. Fly Boys
5. Rambo I, II, III (Really count as the same movie)
6. Iron Eagles I, II, III (See above)
:cool:,
Wab
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Not particularly in this order
Gettysburg
Battleground (1949)
The Story of GI Joe
Private Ryan
Patton
Band of Brothers (Miniseries)
Also rans
12:00 high
Tora tora tora
Midway
Fireball forward "Well, when you're too old for command, and too young to retire, and too stupid to do anything else, there's only one place for you in this man's Army - Intelligence!"
and thereis another movie I cant remember the name. Havent seen it in a long while
But Its about a leutenant that takes over a unit and is told by his commander that until he learns whats going on. All he is is a messanger boy for the seargant to communicate with the commander.
Then the Leutanant eventually moves up in command and tells his replacemnt the exact same thing.
Cant remember the name. Good movie though
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Originally posted by Suave
Gettysburg. If you have any interest at all in the american civil war you should watch this. If you're not interested in the civil war, you will be after you watch it. The best civil war film.
the last 1/2 hour is best experienced with the sound cranked up as loud as you can get it.
the cannonade is worth it
I make things vibrate off the shelves at my house.
and the dogs run for cover LOL
:aok :aok
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Originally posted by AKWabbit
1. Pearl Harbor
Yay! I'm not the only one!
(fixed spelling mistake for ya too ;) )
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Movies (In no particular order):
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gettysburg
Saving Private Ryan
Dark Blue World
Das Boot
Platoon
Stalag 17
When Trumpets Fade
Blue Max
Paths of Glory
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Battle of Britain
Letters from Iwo Jima
Mini-series:
Band of Brothers
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Above all movies ever: Der Untergang (Downfall)
Other war movies in no particular order:
Dark Blue World - WWII air war movie
Battle of Britain - WWII air war movie
The Beast - Afghanistan tank vs. rebels movie (Soviet invasion)
Stalingrad - The battle for Stalingrad seen from the German perspective
Das Boot - WWII U-boat movie
Also ran:
Iron Cross
Tora Tora Tora
Enemy at the Gates
Platoon
The Patriot
Starwars Episode V (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
By Dawn's Early Light
Failsafe
Dr. Strangelove
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Come on.. Where's Hamburger Hill, Or The Big Red One?? Wake Island? The Dirty Dozen???
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Full Metal Jacket
Battle Of Britain
The Longest Day (John Has A Long Moustache)
Sergeant York
They Were Expendable
Battle Of The Bulge
In Harms Way
Destination Tokyo
Operation Pacific
Back To Bataan
I could list titles allllllllll day and could NOT put them in a definite order... not on the list are Midway, Tora Tora Tora and many many other favorites.
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Decision Before Dawn
Pearl Harbor? Get a rope...
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The Best 5:
The Battle of Britain
Saving Private Ryan
Cross of Iron
12 O'clock High
A Bridge Too Far
The Rest:
None But the Brave
The Dambusters
Full Metal Jacket
Breaker Morant
The Dirty Dozen
Mr Roberts
Hell in the Pacific
Gallipoli
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Eagle Has Landed
We Were Soldiers was craptastic...the book was far better, and Decision Before Dawn and the Beast are great films
Tronsky
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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
Full Metal Jacket anbody?
Yes please. Add Das boot and you have my top two.
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Originally posted by AKWabbit
1. Perl Harbor
2. Thin Red Line
3. WindTalkers
4. Fly Boys
5. Rambo I, II, III (Really count as the same movie)
6. Iron Eagles I, II, III (See above)
:cool:,
Wab
Have you been in my desk and found my list of worst ever "war" movies? :lol
The only one you missed is Top Gun :D
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in no order:
Lawrence of Arabia
The Battle of the River Plate
633 Squadron
Das Boot (subtitled version)
Platoon
Went The Day Well?
BoB
The Cruel Sea
Empire of the Sun
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
One of my alltime favorite movies is Sidney Lumet's The Hill (Sean Connery's best role by a mile) not sure if its really a war movie even though its set in a British Army prison in North Africa.
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Originally posted by Rino
Battle of Britain United Artists 1968
"repeat please"
"Shut Up! IN POLISH!"
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Just got done watching The Deer Hunter, again. It's pretty amazing.
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Seriously guys, this IS the best war move ever made, by a long shot:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
(http://home.scarlet.be/~hv100190/films/der_untergang1.jpg)
I'm stupefied that it hasn't been mentioned by more people here. I find myself in total agreement with this IMDB review (the first on the page):
"don't know what to say about this film. I am almost speechless.
First of all, this is almost PERFECT cinema, beautifully shot, acted, lit, staged and on and on. BUt it is also the only film in recent memory that had an almost physical impact on me. I left feeling disoriented and very disquieted, a feeling that lasted for several hours.
What we have here is an exercise in patience. A film that allows us to watch the disintegration of the largest empire in modern history, from the inside out. Beginning after the start of the siege of Berlin, the bulk of the film takes place in the cramped bunkers below the city, where Hitler and his officers are trapped like rats on a sinking ship, aware of their fate, but not smart enough, not willing enough, or maybe incapable of escaping the fates they created for themselves.
This is a daring, brilliant film with a virtuoso performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler. He shows us that beneath the genocidal, world changing shell of hatred that the globe knew, Hitler was still that petty, hatefilled, failed art-student that he was before becoming the greatest villain in history.
awesome, awesome, awesome movie."
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Das Boot
Stalingrad
Battle of Britain (dagadagadaga)
Midway
Platoon
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No ones mentioned "Sands of Iwo Jima"
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I forgot about Little Big Man.
That was a war movie.
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Originally posted by Rino
Battle of Britain United Artists 1968
"repeat please"
I just love that part :)
shamus