Best or Most Memorable War Movie of All Time

[Tank_Guy#3]

What do you think is the best or most memorable or both, war movie(s)?

Best: Full Metal Jacket

Most Memorable: Apocalypse Now (very strange)

 

[Illustrious]

Best: Dawn Patrol

Most memorable: The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (the rest was dreck).

You've missed a category. Worst: U-571 tied with Objective, Burma!

 

[Iggy]

Best: Laurence of Arabia

Most Memorable: Zulu

 

[Ramius75]

Best : too many to choose from. MFJ, Saving private ryan,Hamburger hill.

Most memorable : Last of the Mohican.

 

[Aegis]

The most memorable for me was Full Metal Jacket, especially with the bootcamp sequence in the beginning.

The Best was probably a series, Band of Brothers which was made like a movie.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Best: Dawn Patrol

You've missed a category. Worst: U-571 tied with Objective, Burma!

Merry Christmas Mr Laurence was another stinker.

I think FMJ is the best, but I would go for Cross of Iron for most memorable.

 

[Jawz II]

saving pvt ryan sucked donkey rectum IMHO (besides the 1st 10 minutes)

hamburger hill, full metal jacket, deer hunter, the platoon are all good vietnam movies, but apocalypse now pwns them all hands down

more obscure ones: when trumpets fade, a bright shining lie, tigerland (well actually its a bootcamp movie)

dirty dozen, guns of navaroe are good old ww2 movies

im sure im forgetting a whole bunch of good movies

 

[col]

Zulu - depends which war you have in mind...

 

[philippe]

best: apocalypse now
most memorable:the thin red line

 

[nonconformist]

Best: Apocalpse Now: Redux/Das boot
Most memorable: The Deer Hunter.
The one that sucked more than a Dyson: U-571.

 

[dgfred]

My vote goes for Full Metal Jacket and Kelly's Heroes

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Best: Band of Brothers (2001 mini-series; there was a much older mini-series about WWI with a similar theme that was better, but I can't remember the name of it)

Most Memorable: Zulu (1964 film, but absolutely awesome); also Battle of Britian, but only because my son loves airplanes and watches it at least weekly

Worst: U-571 (we seem to butcher or ignore history in modern movies)

 

[nonconformist]

Worst: U-571 (we seem to butcher or ignore history in modern movies)

Yeah, you yanks done went won the war with one had behind your backs

 

[dgfred]

I have rented U-571 to see for the first time this weekend . I have
read where many say it is too far-fetched, but with alot of action. Is this
so? I like much action, what did you guys think ?

 

[WildFire]

Band of Brothers. Loved everything about it.

 

[Panda]

Tuntematon sotilas aka The Unknown Soldier (the 1955 version), Die Brücke, Stalingrad and Cross of Iron all made a big impression on me.

I wasn't able to watch Saving Private Ryan to the end.

 

[superisis]

I'd say "No mans Land". But then again I haven't watched that many war movies.

 

[Colonel]

I cant really tell you the best but

heres a list
Full Metal Jacket
Longest Day
Tora Tora Tora
Band of Brothers
Dirty Dozen

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I actually liked U-571.

I think a lot of people putting it as the worst movie are just upset that it isn't historically accurate. In fact, note that most people who list it as such are British, which makes me suspect this is true.

 

[JohnRM]

Best, most memorable, etc -- Gettysburg