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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: dkit on January 02, 2002, 04:12:00 PM
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Ok whats the fav WW2 films in AH?
Mine would be 2, Battle of Britian (pre 1970's flick) and Saving Private Ryan.
kit
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The all time best is easily "The Longest Day" :)
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Memphis Belle.
I still can't listen to the pipes playing "Amazing Grace" without shedding a tear.
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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.
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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.
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Full Metal Jacket is a Vietnam flick, Private Pile! :p
Saving Private Ryan for me. Can't get over D-Day.
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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.
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Stalag 17 and The Great Escape
I am looking forward to Hart's War for obvious reasons. :)
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Hell in the Pacific
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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.
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12:00 High w/ Gregory Peck...
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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
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Hogan's Heroes
:) :D
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.
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Das Boot
Catch 22
Longest Day
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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.
Originally posted by SUPERFLY:
Full Metal Jacket is a Vietnam flick, Private Pile! :p
Saving Private Ryan for me. Can't get over D-Day.
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"The Dirty Dozen"
Franko V.R. death by hanging says
"I'm not shaving in cold water, the guards have hot water how come we gotta shave in cold water"
"I thought you said mayonnaise was the only one suppose to climb the rope"
I did not think the lines that maggot said were suitable for this forum. hehe
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Judgement at Nuremberg- 1961
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well, I love a bunch of them, but my fav would be the BIG RED 1 w/ Lee Marvin. I liked Midway, longest day, and the new all timer...Saving Private Ryan. Bunch of others,
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Judgement at Nuremberg- 1961 wasn't as waar movie.
It was damned good......... No doudt.....
I had read where it was critized at the time for not "going after the political leadership" instead of the judicial branch. But when you watch it you understand why they did. Good movie ......
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I agree with all of the choices. One I want to own is Fighter Squadron about a P47 squad. If I remember they used p51s as me 109s but other than that it was pretty good.
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Can't believe it hasn't been said yet, "Tora Tora Tora!".
Makes me wonder why they even bothered with "Pearl Harbour". :confused:
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In Harm's Way
Flying Tigers
The Fighting Seabees
Back To Bataan
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Operation Pacific
Flying Leathernecks
Torpedo Run
Destroyer
Patton
Stalag 17
Up Periscope
Von Ryan's Express
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
To Hell and Back
and...Pearl Harbor :)
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Hmmmm...
The Man who never was
Das Boot
A Bridge to Far
The Cruel Sea
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brother's
Saraha
Cold one in Alex
Bismark
Their are too many I love team all :)
I nead to see Stanengrad!
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What!
No one even said Kellys Heros with Cojack (whats his real name?) Eastwood and Sutherland. "Its a mother beautiful bridge, and it'll be there" Hehe.
Favotire is Band of Brothers however, only part that was BS at outside of carentan when shermans blast away tiger/panzer, that was hollywood.
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Since no one said the name:
Enemy at the Gates.
And then all the others, Battle of Britain, Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, The longest day, The big Red One, Memphis Belle, A bridge too far, The great escape, Bridge over the river Kwai, on and on.
Stepping outside ww2: Aces High!!!!, and why not the Wild Geese?
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I have to say the Band of Brothers series by far. Just beautiful, I wanna buy the DVDs.
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When Trumpets Fade, Das Boot, and the Stalingrad one.
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Kelly's Heroes
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Band Of Brothers in Hidef tv was the best i have seen I hope they rebroadcast it.
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Stalingrad
Das Boot
and Im hoping Band of Brothers will come to dvd sooner than later for us cableless fans.
Oh and I cant forget "Kellys Heros!"
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: SunKing ]
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Hmm...So many...
Patton (Absolute best, no doubt)
Big Red One
Band of Brothers
Gung Ho (Marine Raiders)
Midway
Tora, Tora, Tora
Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
Enemy at the Gates
In Harm's Way
and A Bridge Too Far
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"Saving Private Ryan" hands down even if it was fiction and American-centric. (It wasn't a dcoumentary folks!)
The good, accurate, well done movies are few.
IMO the majority of the Hollywood films on WWII combat plain old suck. Like 'Midway' 'Tora Tora Tora' 'Battle of the Bulge' and the latest murderer of what really happened 'Pearl Harbor'
Westy
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by Apache
In Harm's Way
Flying Tigers
The Fighting Seabees
Back To Bataan
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Operation Pacific
Flying Leathernecks
Torpedo Run
Destroyer
Patton
Stalag 17
Up Periscope
Von Ryan's Express
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
To Hell and Back
and... PEARL HARBOUR,,I surtenly hope you meant TORA TORA TORA,cause the new PH-movie is an insult to all war_movie lovers
MY favorite:The guns of Navarone
Das Boot
SPR
Where eagles dare
Band of Brothers
Dam Busters
Midway(charlton Heston)
Tora Tora Tora,,etc etc
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B]KELLY`S HEROES[/B],,,,,,,,,great movie ;)
THE BRIDE IS STILL UP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NO IT AINT :D
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ERRRR,,, BRIDGE :D
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Lee Marvin fans should be ashamed of themselves for not mentioning "Cross of Iron".
GREAT film...
Stalingrad, Das Boot, The Longest Day, In Harms Way, SPR, BOB, and A Bridge Too Far also!
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U 571 ..for its realism
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U 571 ..for its realism
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SARCASM IS NOT POLITE ;)
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Originally posted by kit:
Ok whats the fav WW2 films in AH?
Pretty tough to beat "Saving Private Ryan." After that,in this order, the other nine:
Patton
Platoon
The Blue Max
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Battle of Britain
Paths of Glory
Top Gun
The Bridges at Toko Ri
- Oldman
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Pearl Harbor was a love film, not a war movie or documentary. Much like Titanic was a love story and not a documentary. :) Gotta get the women into the theaters somehow to make the mega bucks!
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Originally posted by Dawvgrid:
by Apache
In Harm's Way
Flying Tigers
The Fighting Seabees
Back To Bataan
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Operation Pacific
Flying Leathernecks
Torpedo Run
Destroyer
Patton
Stalag 17
Up Periscope
Von Ryan's Express
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
To Hell and Back
and... PEARL HARBOUR,,I surtenly hope you meant TORA TORA TORA,cause the new PH-movie is an insult to all war_movie lovers
MY favorite:The guns of Navarone
Das Boot
SPR
Where eagles dare
Band of Brothers
Dam Busters
Midway(charlton Heston)
Tora Tora Tora,,etc etc
No, I meant the new PH. My wife got all lovey dovey afterwards. Think I'll watch it again tonight :).
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Empire of the Sun
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The 70's Film Battle of Britain without doubt! Seen that movie about 200 times now, will never stop!
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Cross of Iron with James Coburn and James Mason.
Thin Red Line is great also.
And Where Eagles Dare always works for me.
SPR was really just a few tremendous sequences in a pretty mediocre film.
Vladd
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Vladd ]
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Oh, I forgot Kelly's Heroes, Tora, Tora, Tora and Ice Cold in Alex!
Still, Das Boot is the one for me though!
Nexx
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Originally posted by Pollock:
I agree with all of the choices. One I want to own is Fighter Squadron about a P47 squad. If I remember they used p51s as me 109s but other than that it was pretty good.
Ah, yeah, I was trying to remember the name of that film. Who were the stars? For you P47 fans out there, I tell you, this film has LOADS of real gun camera footage which makes it all the more better. And yes, there are P51s made up to look like 109s!
Nexx
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I can't believe I'm the only one that has mentioned 12 O'clock High w/ Gregory Peck. The best b17 movie I've ever seen!!!!
God you guys are such dweebs! :D