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Best war movies?
Are there any others as good as Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon?
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das boot, hamburger hill, full metal jacket
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you forgot the best of all: Apocalypse Now
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Here's a few others:
Good ones .... - Saving Private Ryan - Apocalypse Now - Platoon - Inglorious Bastards - Heartbreak Ridge - Full Metal Jacket - Flags of our Fathers - Schindlers List - Band of Brothers (series) Others - When We Were Soldiers - The Thin Red Line - Enemy at the Gates |
Jakob the Liar
Not a lot of war action, but took place in WW2 and its a pretty good flick. |
Classics:
A bridge too far Longest Day Paths of Glory The Deer Hunter The killing Fiends Newer stuff: Defiance The Pianist Downfall (Der Untergang) watch it in German, much more intense Black hawk Down |
other good ones:
Idi i smotri Stalingrad Patton The Big Red One The Great Escape Max Manus The Pacific |
Not a movie, but 10 chapters series by Spielberg and Tom Hawks, but still amazing and my favorite ones, specially the first:
Band of brothers (war in Europe) The Pacific (war in the Pacific) |
for me Band of Brothers
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star wars (all 6 films)
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Pretty much looks like my lsit too. |
Most of them have been mentioned, but here's a few more.
Lawrence of Arabia Casablanca Gone With The Wind And maybe the best of all Bridge Over The River Kwai. |
If you are not into modern war movies but just great war movies, go watch Troy or King Arthur, two of my favorite war movies.
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Patton
Midway Raid on Rommel Sahara (the original w/Humphrey Bogart) The Final Countdown And my personal favorite Kelly's Heroes. |
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"A Man Escaped"
"All Quiet on the Western Front" "Stalag 17" "Ivan's Childhood" |
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May I recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-High...2181345&sr=8-1 HTH |
My favourites have to be Letters from Iwo Jima and The Deer Hunter.
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One of my favorites is The Pianist.
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Without reading other replies to influence me:
Apocalypse Now Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 version) Das Boot The Longest Day The Great Escape The Guns of Navarone The Bridge on the River Kwai All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (one of the best war movies ever made IMO) |
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..and for the record the people of that generation, including vets, LOVED that movie. If you can't recognize it as being a good one then you have no place in this debate... |
Damn a lot of great movies listed in this thread. Every one of the ones I was going to suggest are already here so Happy Watching :)
I just watched Full Metal Jacket with my boys this past weekend and they asked me if that is what bootcamp is really like... My response; "Yes, that's how it WAS" |
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Best series ever made. </thread> |
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Enemy at the Gates (sniper battle)
Pianits (hidding from nazi) Walter Defends Sarajevo (Germans will be fucked!) |
Gods and Generals...
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I also enjoyed We Were Soldiers and I'll throw in Braveheart for the hell of it.
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I saw The Hurt Locker and I think it really holds it's own as a good modern war movie.
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All my favorites have already been mentioned but one that wasn't is
Behind Enemy Lines |
The A team
Missing in Action Rambo I Rambo II Rambo III Rambo IIII Rambo IIIII |
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And obviously "Braveheart" gets the thumbs up from me too! :winkwink: |
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Shame it gives the wrong impression about "honour" though... Just my moral duty to point out the fantasy from the reality... |
Full Metal Jacket
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band of brothers was very good
the battle for marjah 2011 (real battle in this one) theres one starts with an r ill find it real war as well kind of sad stuff |
hate war movies, they bore me. :Oh crap
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Restrepo (2010) is it
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Tomorrow when the war began
Red Dawn |
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hmm the best were already mentioned but you should also check out: "Tora! Tora! Tora!", "The Sound of War", "9th Company" & "Tunnel Rats" are quite enjoyable movies.
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"Das Boot" is a great one too. . |
pearl harbour, Saving Private Ryan and that japanese war movie, can't quite remember the name. I think its called "Letters from iwo jima"
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Homegrown Video, war is hell... but war movies are... entertainment (awww, hell)
Fuck that... Bridge over River Kwai is ok only in that sanitized blockbuster sort of way, but having known someone that actually was interned there, it is grossly innacurate and disgraceful to the people that actually survived the experience. Much closer to the truth and the grisliness of that episode in history is "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"
My recommendations are: "Iron Cross" - Sam Peckinpah's film based on the real life exploits of a highly decorated, anti-nazi german commando during WW2 "Seven Samurai" - Classic and still holds up to this day "Empire of the Sun" - I think this is one of Speilberg's best war films... resonates for me more than Ryan or even Schindler in retrospect "The Thin Red Line" - elegaic, tragic, and unlike 99% of the uber-patriotic-quasi-fascist fair that is typical of so many war movies "Breaker Morant" - How many other films do you know about the Boer War? |
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some not mentioned:
jarhead the grey zone generation kill (hbo miniseries) hart's war redacted over there (fx miniseries) |
Some classics of ancient warfare...
I know some people hate this movie but if you can find the right version it is certainly better than a lot of people give credit for it... "Alexander the Great" Oliver Stone's version. Pretty amazing depictions of phalanx style warfare and two incredible battle scenes that serve as bookends to the film "Musa" (The Warrior) Korean knights trying to fight their way out of Mongol controlled lands, pretty entertaining... "Mongol" which is just a great movie about you guessed it... Ghengis Khan, but before he became Khan |
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