ApocalypseKurtz
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Best WAR Movie?
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Ohwell
Deity
What about "The Longest Day" ? I have never seen any of these.
Magnus
Diplocat
How could you not have 'Glory' in your poll?
Suppersalmon
Think Safely think again
What about the dam busters or the great escape
Ohwell
Deity
!!! The Great Escape! A classic! I love it! I am thinking about one in the Pacific, cant remember what. Definatley not a Pearl Harbour flic, I am sick of that stuff.
Ohwell
Deity
Originally posted by IceBlaZe
The americans sure know how to ruin a good war movie, with stupid love affairs and dogs dying in ships and all this kitch sentimental crap only the americans know how to do
Dogs? Are you sure? I sure am glad I didn't see THAT movie. Can't the Americans make a movie without any love, sex or drugs?
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
I second Ohwells shout for 'The Longest Day'.
'Enemy at the Gates' is a great film too, and of course the classic 'Great Escape'
'Enemy at the Gates' is a great film too, and of course the classic 'Great Escape'
CurtSibling
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I can't really abide war films.
But I like good stories...
You have many classic missing from your poll, but since you ask...
The Battle of Britian
603 Squadron
Dam Busters
Stalingrad
The Iron Cross
The Blue Max
The Longest Day
Southern Comfort
First Blood
I don't like many new war films...Modern war movies are especially crap and historically distorted. We live in an age of formula films; no plot, just eye candy and PC concepts for the mass-brainwashed audience...
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
U-571
Pearl Harbour
These are some examples of these crude modern war flicks.
But I like good stories...
You have many classic missing from your poll, but since you ask...
The Battle of Britian
603 Squadron
Dam Busters
Stalingrad
The Iron Cross
The Blue Max
The Longest Day
Southern Comfort
First Blood
I don't like many new war films...Modern war movies are especially crap and historically distorted. We live in an age of formula films; no plot, just eye candy and PC concepts for the mass-brainwashed audience...
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
U-571
Pearl Harbour
These are some examples of these crude modern war flicks.
Cilpot
Pretentious Schmuck
What about "Slaughterhouse Five" !?!! One of the best movie classics of all time about the allied bombing of dresden.
Also the german movies Das Boot and Stalingrad are classics....
Also the german movies Das Boot and Stalingrad are classics....
Fayadi
Technocrat
If not for the propaganda stuffs,Independence Day is the best war movie.They are damn ambitious you know from the fighter scene,air force one,pentagon,white house but too bad the move is short of propaganda (President giving speech?Whole world listen?So the credit for saving the world goes to America?)
Alcibiaties of Athenae
Imperator
Plenty to add to this list, like the two airborne classics "A bridge to far" and HBO's "Band of Brothers", the Steve McQueen classic "The Sand Peebles" also comes to mind, as does the fantastic Stanley Baker epic "Zulu".
Great Escape and Patton are two of my favorites, but a lot of the WWII propaganda movies are fun (And so historically inacurate as to be laughable) like "Flying tigers" and "Guadalcanal Diary" (which wasn't to bad historically), another great Brit pic missing is "Sink the Bismark".
A lot of films in this genre.
Great Escape and Patton are two of my favorites, but a lot of the WWII propaganda movies are fun (And so historically inacurate as to be laughable) like "Flying tigers" and "Guadalcanal Diary" (which wasn't to bad historically), another great Brit pic missing is "Sink the Bismark".
A lot of films in this genre.
Hamlet
Manic Depressive
Out of the ones that are there, I'd say apocalypse now, no competition.
*Me smells youngsters who have poor film knowledge.*
*Me smells youngsters who have poor film knowledge.*
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Lot of people have already bought up some of my nominations, and nice to see someone knowing about "Gallipoli"
I would have to go for "The Thin Red Line" for realism and grittiness, but my top ones are German : "Das Boot" and "The Bridge".
"To Hell and Back" is rather good, and it is refreshing to see "Zulu" get a guernsey.
I would have to go for "The Thin Red Line" for realism and grittiness, but my top ones are German : "Das Boot" and "The Bridge".
"To Hell and Back" is rather good, and it is refreshing to see "Zulu" get a guernsey.
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
The Thin Red Line was one of the most tedious films I've ever seen. About as long as Lord of the Rings and about half as entertaining. 
(Btw, I didn't like LotR that much either - all the lines were delivered in a declamatory style reminiscent of a local dramatic society's production of Shakespeare, any play...).
I didn't like Schindler's List either, as I have said elsewhere, but although it is a film that is set in wartime, the emphasis isn't on the war as such. If you were to use that as a criteria then you couldn't have the Land Girls either.
My mates and I started thinking of making Sink the Bismark into a musical with the theme song to the tune of Catch the Pigeon. A winner for certain!
Can't believe that no-one's mentioned Escape to Victory yet! Proof, if any were needed, that footballers can't act and actors can't play football.
I'm afraid that good films aren't my forte, so I will continue to list the ones I hate. I notice that you're all concentrating on the wars of this century, which is probably a good thing, as the Patriot was complete tosh too. Olivier's Henry V is a wonderful film, and prime for propaganda, but I may be little biased toward its literary incarnation here. Can't think of a single film about the Napoleonic Wars that's any good, and I hate the early Hollywood studio epics with hordes of Roman legions and Egyptian charioteers.
(Btw, I didn't like LotR that much either - all the lines were delivered in a declamatory style reminiscent of a local dramatic society's production of Shakespeare, any play...).I didn't like Schindler's List either, as I have said elsewhere, but although it is a film that is set in wartime, the emphasis isn't on the war as such. If you were to use that as a criteria then you couldn't have the Land Girls either.
My mates and I started thinking of making Sink the Bismark into a musical with the theme song to the tune of Catch the Pigeon. A winner for certain!
Can't believe that no-one's mentioned Escape to Victory yet! Proof, if any were needed, that footballers can't act and actors can't play football.
I'm afraid that good films aren't my forte, so I will continue to list the ones I hate. I notice that you're all concentrating on the wars of this century, which is probably a good thing, as the Patriot was complete tosh too. Olivier's Henry V is a wonderful film, and prime for propaganda, but I may be little biased toward its literary incarnation here. Can't think of a single film about the Napoleonic Wars that's any good, and I hate the early Hollywood studio epics with hordes of Roman legions and Egyptian charioteers.
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
"Can't think of a single film about the Napoleonic Wars that's any good, "
Waterloo, with Rod Steiger as Boney wasn't that bad, and Richard E. Grant is alright as the Scarlet Pimpernel in the series of the same name.
Waterloo, with Rod Steiger as Boney wasn't that bad, and Richard E. Grant is alright as the Scarlet Pimpernel in the series of the same name.
Alcibiaties of Athenae
Imperator
For the Napoleonic wars, two fairly recent entries are quite good.
The first is a series of cheaply made movies that cronical the fictional adventures of one Richard Sharpe, a member of the 95th rifles in Portugal and Spain. The uniforms are quite accurate, as is the combat (for the most part). The stories cover various aspects of the war in Spain, with the hero usually winning at some cost.
The second, and far superior, is the excellent A&E series based on CS Forrester's "Horatio Hornblower" series of novels, that tell the story of a fictional British lad in the Royal navy throughout the period. Accurate in uniforms, as well as navel combat, and featuring fine acting and story lines, they are well worth anyone's time.
The first is a series of cheaply made movies that cronical the fictional adventures of one Richard Sharpe, a member of the 95th rifles in Portugal and Spain. The uniforms are quite accurate, as is the combat (for the most part). The stories cover various aspects of the war in Spain, with the hero usually winning at some cost.
The second, and far superior, is the excellent A&E series based on CS Forrester's "Horatio Hornblower" series of novels, that tell the story of a fictional British lad in the Royal navy throughout the period. Accurate in uniforms, as well as navel combat, and featuring fine acting and story lines, they are well worth anyone's time.
