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« Reply #45 on: March 03, 2008, 01:17:25 AM »
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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« Reply #46 on: March 03, 2008, 01:34:51 AM »
Come on.. Where's Hamburger Hill, Or The Big Red One?? Wake Island? The Dirty Dozen???
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« Reply #47 on: March 03, 2008, 03:06:47 AM »
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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« Reply #48 on: March 03, 2008, 03:24:16 AM »
Decision Before Dawn



Pearl Harbor?  Get a rope...
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« Reply #49 on: March 03, 2008, 05:17:33 AM »
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

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« Reply #50 on: March 03, 2008, 05:43:32 AM »
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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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« Reply #51 on: March 03, 2008, 05:45:12 AM »
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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)

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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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« Reply #52 on: March 03, 2008, 08:10:27 AM »
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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« Reply #53 on: March 03, 2008, 08:54:10 AM »
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Originally posted by Rino
Battle of Britain United Artists 1968

"repeat please"


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« Reply #54 on: March 03, 2008, 10:55:12 AM »
Just got done watching The Deer Hunter, again. It's pretty amazing.
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« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2008, 11:01:44 AM »
Seriously guys, this IS the best war move ever made, by a long shot:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0363163/




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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« Reply #56 on: March 03, 2008, 11:02:10 AM »
Das Boot
Stalingrad
Battle of Britain (dagadagadaga)
Midway
Platoon
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« Reply #57 on: March 03, 2008, 11:17:11 AM »
No ones mentioned "Sands of Iwo Jima"
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« Reply #58 on: March 03, 2008, 12:25:59 PM »
I forgot about Little Big Man.

That was a war movie.
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« Reply #59 on: March 03, 2008, 12:29:44 PM »
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Originally posted by Rino
Battle of Britain United Artists 1968

"repeat please"


I just love that part :)

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