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You can't list "We were soldiers" under "amazing movies" That movie is one of worst movies I have ever seen. My favorite part is when that Vietnam soldier runs at Mel Gibson and like 10 other guys with his fucking bayonet! And Mel pulls his M16 from his hip and shoots the guy between the eyes with one shot End every American is dying like a hero while Vietnamese are dying like idiots. Only an American idiot like Splum could like this movie?
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I found the opposite. I thought it was the first blockbuster to portray the NVA in a dignified manner. Past greats show Ho Chi Minhs boys as a bunch of screaming, crazed lunatics. This was the Tora Tora Tora of Nam movies in my opinion, the first to show the Japanese/Vietnamese in a neutral light.
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At the moment I have been watching a lot of war films and they are moving me and I love watching them.
I have seen recently
saving private ryan
full metal jacket
we are soldiers
platoon
are there any other really good ones that I should watch?
What do you recommend I Should buy?
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Some classics there. Nice.
Here's some great stuff you'll probably never hear of outside of this thread. Watch them and you'll feel better than the dudes that think Rambo is a good war movie :P
Downfall - (Hitlers last days) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
Joyeux Noel (WW1 Christmas in the trenches, Germans, Scots and French) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (Korean war movie, made in Korea. A little cheesy at times but a great 50's flavour and neat to see it all through a South Korean persepective) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/
JSA - (Another Korean film, no actual war scenes, about the border guards on the North and South of the DMZ. Pretty cool shit.) -
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1181
Tigerland - (It's about soldiers training before being shipped off to Nam, Colin Farrel before he was on the A list) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170691/
The Beast - (American made lower budget but good film about a Russian tank and its crew getting lost in Afghanistan during the Russian invasion.) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/
Days of Glory - (French film, moroccans fighting for France during WW2, a fresh story and perspective on the war. I havn't seen it yet but I hear its good) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444182/
And I highly recommend any of the post war, pacific theatre technicolour movies if you're into WW2 authenticity. Theyre a little slower paced but rich in detail and really put you into that exoerience. And the war surplus available to Hollywood then made those movies seem so much more authentic. In Tora Tora Tora for example, they used hundreds of planes in single scenes. Now they use all that CGI trash like in Pearl Harbour. Makes the new films look like bubblegum.
Some More From the top of my head
Bridge on The River Kwai
The Great Escape
Memphis Belle
The Longest Day
Casablanca
The English Patient
Lawrence of Arabia
MacArthur
The Dessert Fox
and 500 more...
A movie to stay away from is Casualities of War
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/ It has to be one of the worst films ever made.