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.
