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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SirLoin on January 20, 2002, 08:28:38 PM
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1:The Longest day
2:Saving Private Ryan
3:Enemy At The Gates
4:Patton
5:Battle of Britain
6: Das Boot
7:Eye of the Needle
8:Tora Tora Tora
9:Why We Fight
10:Guns of Navarone
Results to be tallied and posted.Vote once only please..
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A Bridge Too Far
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Nope..Too much guts,not enough Gustav..
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The Last Battalion
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I heard that was a good one PimpJoe...Will search for it but so far no votes...
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from the list i'd say das boot
but why would you have enemy at the gates and not a bridge too far on the list. if you had included it i'd vote for a bridge too far
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Ah.. the answer is quite easy:
Top Secret
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Cross of Iron
The Dambusters
Saving Private Ryan
A Bridge too Far
Battle of Britain
12 O'Clock High
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Das Boot
The Desert Rats (1953)
The One that Got Away (1957)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Tronsky
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Ah.. the answer is quite easy:
Top Secret
Latrine!!
Tronsky
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Pearl Harbor of course..... :rolleyes:
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U-571
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In no particular order
Hell is for Heroes
Patton
Tora Tora Tora
The Lost Battalion
Bridge On The River Kwai
SPR
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Surprised you didn't include "Battlefield" directed by Wild Bill Wyman..
or BoB
or "Walk in the Sun"
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Here are some more
Bridge Over The River Quay
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
Memphis Bell
Too late the Hero
Big Red One
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THE BIG RED ONE[/color]
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Kelly's Heroes :D
woof woof!
Daniel, aka Cyrano
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Good stuff!!..Keep 'em coming..:cool:
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Midway is one of my all time favorites.
Pearl Harbor? uungh! 2 hours 20 minutes of kissy face and 20 minutes of action.
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The Green Berets
The Dirty Dozen
But I think any war movie topic has to include
Platoon and Apocalypse Now.....IMHO, of course.
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Green Berets? I thought this was WW2 Movies?
Saving Private Ryan - Raised the bar
Patton - Excellent GC Scott won the Oscar
Big Red One - Excellent
Enemy at the Gates - Almost good.
Pearl Harbor - Get the DVD and jump to all the action scenes.....even though it's a bad movie it's worth the money. Plus the extra footage and History Channel Documentary are very cool.
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Das Boot.
Directors cut.
Hands down.
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2.
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The Green Berets
The Dirty Dozen
Horn
Aren't you forgetting "The Final Countdown" too :)
Charon
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PH is one of the few movies I never want to see again in my life.
My list of great ww2 as they came to mind:
Das Boot
Stalingrad
The Great Escape
SPR
Bridge on The River Qwai
Tora Tora Tora
BoB
Kelley's Heroes
Not a movie but required WW2 viewing.
The World at War series.
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Originally posted by Charon
Aren't you forgetting "The Final Countdown" too :)
Charon
Was that the one with the carrier travelling back into time??
Great movie, of the "B" variety.
You're very funny :D
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for directors das boot hands down.I watched it as a 3 parts series with subtitles! on tv when it first came out on Tv and it was superb
but for classic war movies(regardless of ham acting etc :))
The great escape
the long the short and the tall
the longest day
bridge too far
dirty dozen
Dunkirk
battlefield
reach for the sky
kellies heroes
battle of the bulge
tobruk
desert rats
we dive at dawn
too late the hero(bit weird and dull :))
above us the waves
sands of iwo jima(some great shots of planes)
hell and back (true story of audy murphy who stars in film)
the desert fox
gungho
the blue max
sergeant York (suprisingly entertaining :))
...................endless lists :)
new films?
Saving private ryan
enemy at the gates
band of brothers
and worst film ever made?
U571 ......a total rip off of das boot. tries to steal the gritty look and fails miserably,tries to impart the FEAR under depth charges like das boot did brilliantly and fails with the director deciding to shake the camera for about 10 minutes of the scene.
Its very amature stuff.I think ive seen better student films.
and to top it all it blatently ignores(and i think insults) the real heroes of WW2 like the british sailor who REALLY captured an enigma machine by climbing into a submarine that was set to blow up by its German captain!! That really took balls.
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Thanks for reminding me.....
das Boot
Bridge on the River Kwai
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I can't believe we all overlooked Schindler's List
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U-571 is perhaps the worst war film ever made. At least Pearl Harbour has no pretences to being a serious attempt at historical drama (or entertainment for that matter), but I actually heard one of the U-571 directors comment "We thought the best way to tell the story was to just simply describe the events as they happened."
It's just one long piss take.
Schindler's List is very good. I just find it uncomfortable viewing.
Where Eagles Dare is up there.
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Man... I can't believe it... nobody has mentioned "Catch-22".
Oh.. and "Green Barrets"? Wasn't that Vietnam.. or Korea?
AKDejaVu
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Well leaving W.W.II ...
Korean Conflict
The Bridges at To-Ko-Ri
Pork Chop Hill
Vietnam
Charlie Mo-Pic 13 (this one still gives me the creeps ... gritty in the extreme)
Go Tell the Spartans
The Green Berets
others
The Horse Soldiers
Soldier Blue
The Blue Max
And my all time Favorite
Dr Strangelove
and back to W.W.II
In Harms Way
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This was a WW1 film, but nothing has creeped me out as much as "Johnny Get Your Gun".
About a young man who has his face, arms and legs blown off in a trench. Dream sequences and stuff abound, but the message is chilling and heartbreaking.
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MrBill!!! You bugger!!
I want to type that!!
IN HARM'S WAY!!!!!
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bridge at tokori is awesome. that sucks when the guy gets shot in the trench at the end.
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Das boot???? Someone please.... I most embarrasingly admit I've never heard of it.
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This is director Wolfgang Peterson's ultimate version of one of the most critically acclaimed war movies of all time. stars Herbert Gronemeyer, Jurgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann. See the directors cut, it sells for about $15. About a u-boat and her crew, great flick!
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Since this has degenerated away from WW2 anyway, I would like to recommend a war movie. I like a good shoot um up as much as the next guy. But it is hard to take these flicks seriously most of the time. There are moments in various movies that look quite realistic. For example, the Fire fight in Forrest Gump looked all to familiar. But, for the most part, its like trying to described the taste of a passion fruit, to someone who has never even seen one. You could show them a million movies of someone eating passion fruit, and they still would have no idea how one tastes. An experience, is an experience.
The best one I have ever seen was called Saviour. The set up is for the usual Hollywood revenge movie. If you ignore it, the rest of the movie is very good. It shows the emotional disconnect that a lot of soldiers experience. And then the protagonists struggle to gain his humanity back. It is not a shoot um up but, it is the most accurate depiction of what its like to be a solider i have seen in a movie.
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My picks:
10. Final Countdown
Ok , just sorta WW2, but ya gotta wonder what a tomcat would do against a zeke :)
9. Thin Red Line
it was pretty good
8. The Longest Day
very revisionist & took a lot of liberties, but that was a LOTTA war movie
7. Midway
Extremely poor movie-making, but my favorite battle, and pretty faithful to the actual events
6. Patton
A shiny new penny to the guy that can tell me: Who served under Patton & also played him as a character?
5. King Rat
Excellent film. I highly recommend it.
4. The Great Escape
Steve whoops butt
3. Bridge Over the River Kwai
Good Film-making exemplified
2. A Bridge Too Far
Over-simplified, sure. But Attenborough actually got that many freaking planes in the air at one time. Worth seeing for the mass 'chute drop alone.
1. Saving Private Ryan
No other film brings the sudden horror of combat to your screen like this. Nuff said
kidcol
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kidcol....was that Karl Malden?
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Das boot is worth all 4 freaking hours !
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Private Ryan
Band of brothers (may not be a real movie but it rocked)
BOB
when are they going to put the BOB on dvd..bastards !
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Ditto - Charlie Mopic, MrBill. I've seen that one probably 6 or 7 times. Rent it if you can find it.
A real Vietnam sleeper that surprized the living sh*t out of me.
Shot in unusual 3rd person perspective. Really compelling.
I'm going to check out the other suggestions...
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Tora Tora Tora
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Midway awfully good. I'm with someone else who posted, what is Das Boot? I've never heard of it? I actually enjoyed U-571 so does this mean I will love Das Boot? :D
Nim
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Das Boot is much grittier and more realistic than U-571. At least in terms of atmosphere if not special effects. Although the effects in Boot are not bad either.
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Das Boot
Catch-22
A Midnight Clear
Just saw one over the weekend that was so-so but kind of interesting..."The Eagle has Landed."
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First, I gotta say that 'the Green Berets' is the worst movie ever made.
That said.
Anyone seen 'When Trumpets Fade'? That's a good one.
SPR is pretty good - although some of the Spielberg schmaltz I could do without. I liked the Thin Red Line too.
A Bridge Too Far is one of my favorites - I'm actually reading the book for the first time right now.
Anyone seen the german film 'Stalingrad'? I've heard it is good, but haven't seen it yet.
As far as non-WWII films, Black Hawk Down, while new, really did an incredible job - I've been obsessed with the story since seeing it Saturday, reading the book in two days (I think the last book I read in two days was a 'Little Golden Book' ;))
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Originally posted by Charon
Aren't you forgetting "The Final Countdown" too
Charon
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Was that the one with the carrier travelling back into time??
Great movie, of the "B" variety.
You're very funny
Horn
Just having a bit of fun :) I actually like both of those (Dirty Dozen/Green Berets) but I think they are more campy than great, IMHO.
Speaking of camp, I will be spending 24 hours this saturday at Northwestern's B-Fest (http://www.b-fest.com/) . No war movies on the schedule, unless you count Battlefield Earth and Godzilla 2000. It's like one big Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode (and it's runored that MST3K was inspired by B-fest) with full audience participation whenver the urge stirkes :) Going to be hard to top last year's "Greaser's Palace" though.
Charon
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For a few video pics try Piece of Cake (most probably know, but Battle of France and BOB with Spitfires and Buchons) and Danger UXB about WW2 Brit bomb disposal -- very good indeed. Both British multi-part series that appeared here in PBS in the 1980s/1990s. Have POC on DVD and UXB on video, worth the $$$.
Charon
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633 squadron was pretty good!
:)
I have Piece of Cake on VHS. Great Spitfire footage!
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Get your picks in!!!Results to be posted and tonight's Wild Wedneday winner will have his pick of any WW2 DVD delivered to his door courtesy of my Visa card...)To qualify you have to win WW as per rules and add 9 other WW2 war flicks that you would like to own to my poll...:)
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Ok
Heres a few more
1. Force Ten from Navarone
2. Where Eagles Dare
3. They Were Expendable (PT boat movie)
4. To Hell and Back
5. Flying Tigers
6. Fighting Seabees
7. Von Ryans Express
I didnt think Pearl Harbor was that bad, just cut out the sappy stuff and its pretty good. Didnt see it in the theater, waited and got the DVD. Liked the Spitfire and 109 dogfights and the P40 and Zero fights.
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OK now for some realllly forgotten ones.
The Steel Lady - Bogart in a tank!
The Devils Brigade - Bob Watson as Cpl. Peacock. :)
633 Squadron
The Heroes of Telemark
Tobruk
The Desert Fox
God is My Co-Pilot
Hell in the Pacific
Away all Boats - "Get your stinking plane away from my ship"
there are a lot of good un's from the 50's and 60's. When they still had lots of the original equipment to film.
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OK, seeing as only 1 person guessed, it was George Kennedy. He served under Patton & played him in "Brass Target".
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Didn't see if anyone said "Schindler's List". It would be hard to say it doesn't qualify.
kidcol
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Yes,more than one person said Schindler's list..I will add your's to the vote...
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1. Bridge over River Kwai
2. Schindler's List
3. Band of Brothers (HBO Series)
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Das Boot
6. Pearl Harbor
7. The Longest Day
8. Flying Leathernecks
9. Dirty Dozen
10. TORA TORA TORA
11. Midway
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Originally posted by Poony
633 squadron was pretty good!
:)
I have Piece of Cake on VHS. Great Spitfire footage!
Both are excellent, I have piece of Cake on Vid too...
I voted for SPR too, got to admit that after the first 20 minute heartattack it does revert to a basic A to B storyline. It is a superior film. I await in ernest for Band of Brothers...
Tronsky
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Just in case everyone else crashes on takeoff and I win...
9 others huh?
1) Big Red 1
2) Force Ten from Navarone
3) Gung Ho
4) Sands of Iwo Jima
5) In harms Way
6) Midway
7) Battle of the Bulge
8) Memphis Belle
9) The Tuskeegee Airmen