Favorite War Movie?

[Pootertoot]

I'd have to go with a three-way tie between:

1) Wages of Fear
2) The Great Escape
3) Dr. Strangelove

Pretty much anything with a powerful (and coherent) anti-war sentiment.

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[The Blowhard]

"Alexander Nevsky"
"The Dirty Dozen"
"Battle of Britain"
"The Longest Day"
"Patton"
"Battle Of The Bulge"
"Zulu"

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[Mother]

HOLY CRAP! there are actually people with decent taste in movies....

1. Great Escape (the original...not that crappy part two thing with Christopher "wheels" Reeves)

2. Longest Day (the best scene is Paul Anka arriving in the gun box on top of the cliff in the life preserver and when asked why he's wearing it...he replies...I can't swim)

3. Battleground (Van Johnson...Ricardo Montelban...how can it go wrong...Winter time, pinned down, no gas for the tank, battle of the bulge...need I say more?)

4. Apocolypse Now (never get outta boat... bye tiger, bye tiger...")

5. Buck Privates (if only for the dice scene)

[The Blowhard]

Also:
"Braveheart"
"Bridge On The River Kwai"
"Tora Tora Tora"
"Sands Of Iwo Jima"
"Platoon"
"The Deer Hunter"


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[JustJon]

Why has no one said "Top Secret!" yet???

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[Pootertoot]

Watching them in that cow...that's actually stock footage, I hear.

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the boys in company c
and go tell the spartans
and an aussie flick called
the odd angry s


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[vegeta]

I'd have to say Apocalypse Now. It rocked and it's still good to watch and it hasn't lost its touch.

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This is Iris Junior calling...my
favorite war movie is "To Hell's
Kitchen and Back" with Audie
Murphy.It was filmed in Bayridge
Brooklyn-peace out.

[Amuse2KAOS]

EVERYONE FORGOT FULL METAL JACKET...C'mon, that movie was friggin awesome. "What is your major malfunction Private Pyle? Did your mommy not tell you she loved you enough?"


from the front to the back, the best thing going...well, i don't really like the back, you can't really see anything from there...
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[Pootertoot]

Would anyone have banged that asian girl who got shot at the end of "Full Metal Jacket"?

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[LionHeart]

Gotta give honorable mentions to Glory and Starship Troopers. Glory might not have all the excitement that many of the other movies listed have but ALL the main charachters die. Starship Troopers had decapitations, blood gore, nudity and yes.....Denise Richards!!!

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[skullcrush]

how about savin private ryan?i havent seen that many war movies.but i really liked this one

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[TomPoo]

Saving Privat Ryan and Full Metal Jacket, are by far the best war movies ever.

Ask anyone who served in Vietnam or Korea and they will tell you it is scary how well they were made.

And I am not afraid to say Saving Private Ryan had me crying like a baby at the end of it. And Anyone who says they didn't is an F'n Liar.

REEKING of AWESOMENESS
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[skullcrush]

just got done seeing schindlers list again.what a deep,deep story.

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[vegeta]

Even though I was too young to see it when it originaly came out in theaters, I loved Apocalypse now. It had slight doses of comedy, sickening reality and powerful drama. And it's definite proof that someone in the Sheen family has talent.

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[Pootertoot]

I'm somewhat relieved no one caught me on it on a thread I started, but "Wages of Fear" has nothing to do with war, it's a french film about four men transporting a highly explosive chemical over a an extremely rough landscape. Masterful use of suspense, go see it, rent or buy the Criterion release DVD.

I was TRYING to say it was "Paths of Glory", a Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas. Go see that, too.

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[skullcrush]

wages of fear a war movie?wasnt that movie about four men transporting a highly explosive chemical over a an extremely rough landscape?

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-me

[Pootertoot]

You caught me. Bastard!

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[The Blowhard]

The French? In a war movie? I thought they always ran away.

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[Sarutama]

I'll have to say it s a tie between The longest Day, The Dirty Dozen, and Apocalypse Now. Every director making an action film should be mandated to watch Jim Browns Death scene in DD and take notes.

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[erinmoran]

Platoon!...Dont forget it!! and Pearl harbor!!..if you take out the goddamn love story..(trust ol' shortcake....its good)

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[The Blowhard]

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[Gwen]

" Saving Privat Ryan and Full Metal Jacket, are by far the best war movies ever."

thank you tom poo i agree


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[IkeaBoy]

Pearl Harbor sucked. Saving Private Ryan overated.

The best war movies though---
Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalpyse Now, Paths of Glory, The Longest Day, Bridge on the River Kwai, and one of the first but still the best ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

And there's probably a lot I'm forgetting.

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[Se7en]

Full Metal Jacket. It's simply the finest Vietnam War comedy ever made.

I also dig Saving Private Ryan, Patton, and for sentimental reasons, Sands of Iwa Jima.

And the original Star Wars.

You DID say war movies. Technically that applies.

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[IkeaBoy]

can't believe i forgot Patton. And for some reason I don't consider Strangelove a war movie though it's probably one of the greatest dark comedies (my personal favorite genre) ever made

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[The Blowhard]

I watched "Patton" today for the 100th time. What a great film and performance by George C. Scott! And the theme music kicks ass!

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[NewYorkDragons80]

I would have to go with the Memphis Belle and Independence Day as my #1 favorites. There are 2 classics I like whose names I don't know.

The first is about World War II and a bunch of Americans who defend the Phillipines from the Japanese. If anyone might know the name, here's a key scene: The Japanese capture a young Philipino kid, but while they are driving him, he flips over the car that is trying to find Americans who are hiding.

The second is a biography of The Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. It ends with Rommel getting executed for trying to kill Hitler.

"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff

"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
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[radio junkie]

I agree with most of the movies mentioned. The ones I liked best were the ones I saw in the movies as a kid. Patton, The Green Berets, and The Sand Pebbles (with Steve Mcqueen). They just left more of an impression on me as a kid in the movies than the ones I saw when I was older. (would Flying Duces with Laurel and Hardy count? They were in the French forigen legion).

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[Circus Boy]

3 Words

Full Metal Jacket

no one mentioned this one but A Thin Red Line was really good too

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[flavorsaver]

You just beat me to it. "The Thin Red Line" is definately one of my favorites. "Apocolypse Now" never gets old.


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[Captain Rooster]

Hamburger Hill

Black Hawk Down (not yet released but my unit is portrayed in it)

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[jafter]

the great escape
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
1st half of Full Metal Jacket
Stalag 17
the Dirty Dozen

Southern Comfort was pretty cool

[IkeaBoy]

The Thin Red Line is probably one of the best war movies--cinematographically. As far as the rest of the movie goes it's just dull. The narration sounds the same for everyone (whether Mallick was going for the "every body is the same in war" feeling I don't care). The dialogue was lame, the movie was too slow. And it was extremely, extremely, extremely pretenious.

Guy coughs, shot of an owl for like 30 seconds. why an owl? an owl has big eyes, eyes see all, wide-eyed innocence of youth. an owl says "hoo" who's the people in war, no one knows, they're all faceless, nameless.

I'm not a SPR fan either. Other than the opening sequence it was just nothing. But as I said cinematographically it was fantastic.

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[reeshy]

How "bout "Deerhunter"? Although the whole movie is not about war, the feel and the sense of the movie portrays that era of our country like no other film has since or before.
The great scene in that movie is the whole Russian Roullette sequence-had me riveted to my seat the whole time.

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[IkeaBoy]

I too have always wodnered why Deer Hunter is not considered one of the major 'Nam flicks along side FMJ, AN and Platoon

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[reeshy]

Great scene!!

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[NewYorkDragons80]

I can't believe there isn't more love for Memphis Belle

"THOSE BASTARDS"
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"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
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[Brooklyn Stroonze]

Midway; Tora, Tora, Tora!; Apocalypse Now; The Longest Day; Guns of Navarone; Von Ryan's Express; Das Boot; The Deer Hunter; The Best Years of Our Lives; Gallipoli; and of course Victory!


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[The Blowhard]

I liked Memphis Belle but it loses points because of Harry Connick Jr.

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[cozmokramer]

Deer Hunter , Apocalypse Now , Full Metal Jacket

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[A.J.]

Patton
Apocolypse Now
The Longest Day
The Deer Hunter
Where Eagles Dare
The Guns of Navarone
Full Metal Jacket
The Dirty Dozen

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Full Metal Jacket


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[Tall_James]

Paths of Glory by Kubrick is also awesome!

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[Ryan the Great]

gotta go with Full Metal Jacket

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[Cybersoldier]

I thought the battle scene in stat rek first contact was good..Too bad it wasn't longer, but saving private ryan, and Braveheart are my favorite war movies

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Platoon
Private Ryan
One with Michael J Fox and Sean penn
There was one with an American(Lee Marvin) and Japanes soldier isolated on an island. It was kind of funny how they attempted to get each other... Lee Marvin actually pee'd on the Japanes soldiers head while Lee was high up in a tree...when the Japanese soldier realized what was going on he started screaming and jumped in the ocean to clean himself off...
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[WrongWay]

Tora, Tora, Tora
Midway
Bridge On A River Kwai
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy At The Gate

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[markjk]

Expand your horizons, folks. Rent the movie
Tiger Land.

Don't continue to be sheep.

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i dunno if anyone said this but a true classic...IN THE ARMY NOW with pauly shore and andy dick..hehe

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Full Metal Jacket

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[grlNIN]

I always liked:

Apocolapse Now
and
Saving Private Ryan
also, the scenes between De Niro and Walken when hes trying to take him back to America in the Deer Hunter

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Full Metal Jacket
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Dirty Dozen
Braveheart
Gettysburgh
Patriot (the battle scenes were incredible)




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[dcpete]

apoc. now
braveheart
there is nothing that compares

[cherry ice]

Henry V
and On the Beach ( more of a
sci- fi situation but today could
be war)


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[SuperDave]

Aside from the obvious ones listed, here are a couple of more obscure ones that i thought were great movies,
A Midnight Clear and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

There was one with an American(Lee Marvin) and Japanes soldier isolated on an island.

that movie was Hell in the Pacific, caught most of it on TV the other day and loved it, have to rent it to see how it ends



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[HordeKing1]

The war movie that had the greatest impact on me (and is thus my favorite) is saving Private Ryan.

The moment at the end when the aged Ryan is weeping at the cemetary and looks up at his wife and asks if he's been a good person - wow. Powerful stuff.

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[Steels]

"Born on the 4th of July" "Deer Hunter" "The Last Emporer"

yes pootertoot.....I would bang that asian honey quite nicely....

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[El Mudo]

--Saving Private Ryan(best battle scene ever)
--A bridge too far(made me hate the british)
--All Quiet on the Western Front(the original)
--Sergeant York
--The John Ford Cavalry Trilogy(She Wore a yellow ribbon, Fort Apache, and Rio Grande)
--M*A*S*H
--Full Metal Jacket
--The Fighting 69th
--Zulu was an awesome movie(i love that gruff english sergeant...suh! yes suh!)


The second is a biography of The Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. It ends with Rommel getting executed for trying to kill Hitler.


Dont mean to nitpick, butRommel wasnt executed, he wouldve been, but he was given the honorable choice of suicide


Go rent tigerland


They show that movie all the time on cinemax and it is really awesome..an excellent movie i will purchase one of these days

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I'm going with Saving Private Ryan..and Black Hawk Down..Of course I dig the "other" ones too....Platoon..Apocolypse Now....blahblahblah.

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[NewYorkDragons80]

Black Hawk Down, Memphis Belle and the most underrated war movie ever: Flight of the Intruder.

From every vet I've spoken to, Hamburger Hill is the most accurate war movie.

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-General Douglas MacArthur

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[TheKnicks23]

I haven't seen that many but i loved full metal jacket and private ryan

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[Doogie]

I have to go with saving Private Ryan, that shows that war is hell...it is a dirty buisness and invasion is part of the duties of that dirty buisness...also loved the use of the Panther, Sturmgatz Tank Killer and Konigstiger (King Tiger)tanks

The Longest Day is next, it is a lil more accurate in showing everything that encompassed the D-Day invasion from the army to the navy, etc...

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The Guns of Navarone Platoon Full Metal Jacket Stalag 17 The Great Escape <P>


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For me;

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Gettysburg
Midway
Shaka Zulu
Braveheart
Dr. Strangelove
Dirty Dozen
Great Escape

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[LiddyRules]

What is the best war movie per war? Some of them might be easy- MASH for Korea; Paths of Glory for WW1; Three Kings for Gulf War 1 but then it starts to get difficult when you get into stuff like Vietnam or WW2 (where there are so many good movies) or Civil War (where some movies might be around that time but not directly about it e.g. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) or Revolutionary War (was there one good movie about the Revolutionary War ever?) Just posing the question.

[pennington]

Well, for WWII, I nominate:

"Patton" for a good overview of the European theater.

and

"Saving Private Ryan", especially the beginning, for what's it's like to be in the middle of a battle.

[MobCounty]

Star Wars?

[sailor]

for the coming man-machine war...the matrix.

[TheMojoPin]

For EVERY war?

Jesus, we're gonna be here forever.

[El Mudo]

What is the best war movie per war? Some of them might be easy- MASH for Korea; Paths of Glory for WW1; Three Kings for Gulf War 1 but then it starts to get difficult when you get into stuff like Vietnam or WW2 (where there are so many good movies) or Civil War (where some movies might be around that time but not directly about it e.g. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) or Revolutionary War (was there one good movie about the Revolutionary War ever?) Just posing the question.



MASH is more of a Vietnam movie than a Korea movie....sure its set in Korea, but its really a Korean War movie in name only...Pork Chop Hill (starring Gregory Peck) is an excellent Korean War movie

[El Mudo]

For EVERY war?

Jesus, we're gonna be here forever.


Yes...we need a good Cresap's War movie

[LiddyRules]

MASH is more of a Vietnam movie than a Korea movie....sure its set in Korea, but its really a Korean War movie in name only I know but because it's set in Korea, I consider it a Korean War movie. But that's "my" rule you can use your own rules in which war a movie is I guess.

[TheMojoPin]

Are talking only "American wars" or any war throughout history?

[Fezticle98]

The Iraq War - That Larry the Cable Guy Movie

[LiddyRules]

Are talking only "American wars" or any war throughout history? Any war.

The Iraq War - That Larry the Cable Guy Movie Delta Farce. I broke into sobs when I saw that trailer.

[marky2bucks]

Glory

All Quiet on the Western Front? (can't think of any others)

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Blackhawk Down

[MadMatt]

Any war.



Any war seems to be too much - and there simply aren't enough films out there to cover every war. At least not that EVERYBODY would be familiar with (maybe history geeks like El Mudo and myself, but the average person would be stuck).

I say we keep it to American wars where the US/Colonies participated.

[El Mudo]

Glory might win as best civil war movie by default...there really haven't been a lot of good ones...there have been good elements to some civil war movies (First Manassas and Chancellorsville in Gods and Generals for example, were amazingly well done, and the rest of that movie was pretty much a lot of hooey)


I'm not really sure why there haven't been a lot of good ones....maybe its too tough a thing to pull off? But there's also not a lot of good Revolutionary War movies either. I'm just not sure whether massive, sweeping Napoleonic style battle lines is really something that lends itself to the big screen all that well

[El Mudo]

Don't get me wrong on Glory...it has some cheesiness to it, but it really does have some amazing scenes and good acting performances...I would go as far as to say Matthew Broderick peaked as Col. Robert Gould Shaw. I can't imagine anyone else who could have played that role better than he did. And I still get goosebumps every time when I watch that movie in the scene before the assault on Wagner, when he walks down the battle line looking every man in the eye, and finally turns, points to the color bearer and asks "If this man should fall, who will pick up the flag and carry on?" Great stuff...

[TheMojoPin]

Are looking in terms of these are the best acted/written/shot/directed/etc. or whether or not they're historically accurate?

[weekapaugjz]

Glory might win as best civil war movie by default...there really haven't been a lot of good ones...there have been good elements to some civil war movies (First Manassas and Chancellorsville in Gods and Generals for example, were amazingly well done, and the rest of that movie was pretty much a lot of hooey)


I'm not really sure why there haven't been a lot of good ones....maybe its too tough a thing to pull off? But there's also not a lot of good Revolutionary War movies either. I'm just not sure whether massive, sweeping Napoleonic style battle lines is really something that lends itself to the big screen all that well

what about andersonville? i know its a made for tv movie, but i thoroughly enjoyed it.

[IMSlacker]

The only Revolutionary War movie that's coming to mind is The Patriot. There have to be some other ones though.

[weekapaugjz]

my personal list:

french and indian - last of the mohicans
revolutionary - only one i can think of seeing is the patriot, but that does not deserve anything
civil war - glory
wwII - tora, tora, tora
korea - have not seen any
vietnam - we were soldiers (one of the few movies that made me tear up)
cold war - hunt for red october
iraq - jarhead

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Interplanetary War: Mars Attack

:king:

[MobCounty]

The only Revolutionary War movie that's coming to mind is The Patriot. There have to be some other ones though.

Does last of the Mohecans count?

[weekapaugjz]

Does last of the Mohecans count?

that's the french and indian war.

[IMSlacker]

that's the french and indian war.

Apparently, there was a movie called Revolution (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089913/), which starred Al Pacino in 1985. I sure don't remember it though.

[weekapaugjz]

Apparently, there was a movie called Revolution (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089913/), which starred Al Pacino in 1985. I sure don't remember it though.

yeah, i checked wikipedia about revolutionary war movies and the patriot was the only one i had seen.

[TheMojoPin]

Apparently, there was a movie called Revolution (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089913/), which starred Al Pacino in 1985. I sure don't remember it though.

Oh man, I saw that within the last year for the first time. It's not a terrible movie, but Pacino is horribly miscast. It's like colonial Scarface.

[ppanda]

Im not going to do all wars- but my fave of all time is Full Metal jacket.
I think it might have been a popular choice that everyone is avoiding since I didnt see it in previous posts

[LiddyRules]

Any war seems to be too much - and there simply aren't enough films out there to cover every war. Not everyone has to pick one for every war, it's more a general question.

Oh man, I saw that within the last year for the first time. It's not a terrible movie, but Pacino is horribly miscast. It's like colonial Scarface.Colonial Scarface? Now I'm interested. But yeah, there has never really been any good Revolutionary War movies for some reason. It's odd considering how many awesome characters are involved. And The Patriot, though the most popular, was terrible.

Are looking in terms of these are the best acted/written/shot/directed/etc. or whether or not they're historically accurate?Personal choice.

[TheMojoPin]

Colonial Scarface? Now I'm interested.

Heh, probably bad choice of words. It's not nearly as entertaining...Pacino just looks and sounds like it's the 20th century and he's some weird mix of Cuban and Italian. He sticks out like a sore thumb...otherwise, the production values on the film are interesting and its history is really accurate.

[El Mudo]

what about andersonville? i know its a made for tv movie, but i thoroughly enjoyed it.


Blah.....too gimmicky, and historically inaccurate to the point where it bugged me (Andersonville is an extremely controversial subject, and even today is still completely misunderstood and misrepresented). I think it would fall into the "some good parts, but overall not good" platform...the stuff with the Raiders was very well done

[Bay Ridge Tim]

There are just SOOOO many WWII movies. Would you consider Army of Shadows a WWII movie? It was amazing.

I'll always love The Thin Red Line. It was so lyrical and beautiful, yet also tragic and heartbreaking.

[HBox]

Can anyone point me towards a fitting tribute to the towering heroes of Grenada?

[reformed]

WWII - Life is Beautiful and [/I[I]Casablanca]

The Free Peoples of Middle Earth vs. Sauron's Army - Return of the King

[Crispy123]

Can anyone point me towards a fitting tribute to the towering heroes of Grenada?

I nominate Heartbreak Ridge.

Vietnam: Even though its Oliver Stone I would say Platoon.

First Iraq War: In the Army Now

Civil War: Gone With the Wind

[moochcassidy]

Platoon is my personal favourite Vietnam flick. full metal jacket close behind
Bridge over the River Kwai for WW2

Cold War ..gotta be 'Stripes'

[El Mudo]

Can anyone point me towards a fitting tribute to the towering heroes of Grenada?




Ask and ye shall receive


http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/6/11076-large.jpg

[Yerdaddy]

Revolutionary: Only one I think I've ever seen is "The Patriot". I'll choose nothing.

I love "Last of the Mohicans".

Civil: There's so many different categories by which to judge, (and I don't want to debate el Mudo on the accuracy of any of them). I love Ang Lee's "Ride With the Devil". "Glory" is probably better. I've never seen Buster Keaton's "The General" but it just made AFI's top 100 list so I'm looking for it in the pirate DVD markets. I think I acually saw it in a shop in Cambodia, but I didn't buy it because the list hadn't been released yet. Eh. It's hard for me to place "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" as a Civil War film as I don't remember how relevant the war was to the subject and the themes. Would love to see it again and find out. I guess I'll say "Glory" is the best.

WWI: I saw "All Quiet on the Western Front" in my hotel room in Cambodia and it became one of my all-time favorite movies. For WWI it's better than Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" by far and I love that movie. I might have chosen "Lawrence of Arabia" if I hadn't read Seven Pillars of Wisdom and learned how full of shit the movie was.

WWII: "Thin Red Line" comes to mind for it's factoring humanity into the subject. It's the "All Quiet..." for WWII. "Catch 22" beats it, but the best is "Casablanca" by a longshot.

Cold War: Obviously this category has to be for second place after "Dr. Strangelove." For second I think I like "Good Night and Good Luck" and then "Three Days of the Condor".

Korea: "MASH" easy.

Vietnam: Tough call between "Deer Hunter" and "Apocolypse Now" but I have to say Apocolypse.

Gulf War: I think "Three Kings" is a borderline great movie for it's ability to have huge popular appeal while dealing with war more inteligently and honestly than most other American war movies.

[weezcase]

Civil War - Glory

WW1 - Legends of the Fall: when they are fighting and the mustard gas rolls over them and the guy gets caught in the barbed wire is an amazing scene

WW2 - Kelley's Heroes or Saving Private Ryan

Korea - ? MASH I guess

Vietnam - Platoon

Desert Storm - Three Kings was a good flick

thats all i can think of i guess

[weekapaugjz]

I just finished watching the desert fox (1951). Ive never watched any old war movies like this and really enjoyed it. What are some good old war movies you would recomend?

[Hottub]

Tora Tora Tora
The Longest Day
From Here To Eternity
Bridge On The River Kwai
Kelly's Heroes
Zulu

[El Mudo]

Pork Chop Hill
Zulu Dawn (even tho it came out in the 70s)
A Bridge Too Far (ditto)
Any of the John Wayne/John Ford US Cavalry Trilogy
Sands of Iwo Jima
Paths of Glory

[KC2OSO]

Twelve O'Clock High

[mdr55]

The Four Feathers

[Freakshow]

A Bridge Too Far (ditto)


A Bridge Too Far--Hackman and Caine in the same movie. This is my thesis. This is my closing argument. I can stop watching TV...

If you want a crazy war movie that borders on fantasy--Where Eagles Dare. It has some serious Clint Eastwood and a British guy (Burton?) kicking ass and fighting on cable cars. Not exactly the most historically accurate film i've ever seen.

The Dirty Dozen
The Great Eascape
classics.

[Judge Smails]

For old whore movies, you can't beat:

http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/muze/dvd/1024321.jpg



Wait . . . what? . . . Ohhhhhhhhhh . . . that's different. . . Nevermind!

[El Mudo]

A Bridge Too Far--Hackman and Caine in the same movie. This is my thesis. This is my closing argument. I can stop watching TV...

If you want a crazy war movie that borders on fantasy--Where Eagles Dare. It has some serious Clint Eastwood and a British guy (Burton?) kicking ass and fighting on cable cars. Not exactly the most historically accurate film i've ever seen.

The Dirty Dozen
The Great Eascape
classics.


I never liked Hackman as General Sosabowski...

*But Ginneral Browning...what about the Grrrrrmans???*


Best scene in that movie is the end, where the British have surrendered, and theyre all sitting around the field hospital waiting for the Germans to cross over, and everyone starts singing "Abide With Me" very quietly as they come into the picture...gives me goosebumps every time i watch it

[TeeBone]

Do you have a favorite?
When I think of war movies, I think of 3 wars:
WWII, Vietnam and The Civil War.

My question to you is; Out of these 3 wars, which one has produced the best collection of movies and what is your favorite war movie?



For me, its WWII and my favorite is A Bridge Too Far.


Honorable mention for Platoon and the Outlaw Josie Wales. (which technically could be considered a Civil War movie)

[Dan 'Hampton]

WW2
Band of Brother.
It's ruined every other war movie for me. Other than Letters from Iwo Jima

[tbonesteak]

Vietnam generated some incredile movies. Platoon, Apocolyse Now, Full Metal Jacket. The WWII movies that come to mind (Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, etc.) don't hold a candle to the Vietnam flicks.

[Chigworthy]

http://www.filmforum.org/films/morricone/For_Few_Dollars_More_8.jpg

Are you sure?

[pennington]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/PhotozOnline/PattonMoviePosterLarge.jpg

[docgoblin]

WWII has obviously produced more movies, and probably the best overall:

Patton
The Bridge On the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Das Boot
Midway
Sands of Iwo Jima
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers
The Guns of Navarone
Kelly's Heroes

This is only a partial list of the great movies made about this war. There are dozens more. No other war can touch WWII movies in quality and quantity.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

World War II is the only war with great films told from the enemy's perspective, mainly Das Boot, Cross of Iron and Letters From Iwo Jima. It might not be my favourite, but Cross of Iron might be the most underrated war movie ever.

You could make an argument for Vietnam since the 'big 3' are amazing, but after that the selection really tapers off. I see people trying to throw in The Killing Fields to bolster their Vietnam movie list over at Amazon. Come on!

[Chigworthy]

Despite some weirdly edited-in stock footage and an almost psychedelically-odd flamethrowing scene/continuity nightmare, The Deerhunter was a damn good flick. Not the best, but damn good.

[bobsnin]

Us vs the bugs.
Starship Troopers.
The mother bug looked like a vagina.


Honorable mention- Hot Shots part deux.

[Mike Teacher]

WW 1 not allowed? Damn.

All Quiet on the Western Front beats 80% of the movies listed so far, in my arrogant opinion.

[Chigworthy]

WW 1 not allowed? Damn.

All Quiet on the Western Front beats 80% of the movies listed so far, in my arrogant opinion.

Even Starship Troopers?

[Mike Teacher]

Even Starship Troopers?

Thats tough coz Starship Troopers fucking rules. Klandathu is my kinda place.

WW2 rocks movie wise, but this All Quiet is epic in the literal sense, has an awesome story arc [i loathe that term], and, like all the good ones, is about a guy who is going 'What the fuck?' as all the insanity around him unfolds. And the closing scene? Holy fuck.

And was Band of Bros a movie or a Cable Miniseries? Friggin amazing is what it is, but anyway.

The best WW2 movie ever; many say the greatest movie ever, doesnt have a single battle scene in it...

The Best Years of our Lives (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/)

and best movie about World War 3: On the Beach

[voice in head] Stop de-railing the threads you teacher hack.

[JDE]

Thats tough coz Starship Troopers fucking rules. Klandathu is my kinda place.

WW2 rocks movie wise, but this All Quiet is epic in the literal sense, has an awesome story arc [i loathe that term], and, like all the good ones, is about a guy who is going 'What the fuck?' as all the insanity around him unfolds. And the closing scene? Holy fuck.

And was Band of Bros a movie or a Cable Miniseries? Friggin amazing is what it is, but anyway.

The best WW2 movie ever; many say the greatest movie ever, doesnt have a single battle scene in it...

The Best Years of our Lives (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/)

and best movie about World War 3: On the Beach

[voice in head] Stop de-railing the threads you teacher hack.


Wow, I always enjoy when you're on the show Mike, but now you're near the top of my cool people on this site list.

The Best Years is my favorite movie of all time.


All Quiet is an amazing film as well, the ending is perfect, another great war film with an ending that's perfect is Gallipoli.


Oh and BOB was a cable mini series, but I think it should be counted as a film just the same.


Jason

[Mike Teacher]

The end of Gallipoli?? I cant even think about it.

The Best Years... is a very different movie from just about anything else; so its not fair to lump it in with say Midway, which is riveting, but a different beast entirely. Best Years just rang true, the world was still reeling from the war itself when it came out and resonated so much with it, I mean how many nominations? Seven? And winning Best pic? And one of the first films the Library of Congress chose to preserve?

And Harold Russell as Homer Parish? Holy living fuck what a performance. The guy never acted except an army documentary and the next thing you know he wins two Oscars for the role. The academy awarded him two oscars for the same role; never happened before, may never happen again. Amazing story behind an amazing man.

Harold Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Russell)

[docgoblin]

WW 1 not allowed? Damn.

All Quiet on the Western Front beats 80% of the movies listed so far, in my arrogant opinion.

All Quiet is a great movie. I'm very fond of Sgt. York with Gary Cooper. It won't make anyone's top ten but I love it. There are some very good WWI movies. I really like The Razors Edge with Bill Murray. Even though it's not really a war movie it's his experience in the war that changes his outlook on life. It was completely panned when it came out but I like it and think Murray is very good.

[WhistlePig]

My top faves (but I love most any war movie):
Deer Hunter
Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Catch 22
Kelley's Heroes
Dr. Strangelove

[TheMojoPin]

The end of Gallipoli?? I cant even think about it.

The Best Years... is a very different movie from just about anything else; so its not fair to lump it in with say Midway, which is riveting, but a different beast entirely. Best Years just rang true, the world was still reeling from the war itself when it came out and resonated so much with it, I mean how many nominations? Seven? And winning Best pic? And one of the first films the Library of Congress chose to preserve?

And Harold Russell as Homer Parish? Holy living fuck what a performance. The guy never acted except an army documentary and the next thing you know he wins two Oscars for the role. The academy awarded him two oscars for the same role; never happened before, may never happen again. Amazing story behind an amazing man.

Harold Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Russell)

If you guys want a WW2 with a devastating ending, try A Midnight Clear.

[Mike Teacher]

All Quiet is a great movie. I'm very fond of Sgt. York with Gary Cooper. It won't make anyone's top ten but I love it. There are some very good WWI movies.

Whoa! It's would probably be on my top ten; Cooper is great [like when is he not] and I dont know how much liberty they took with truth vs movie, but what the man did, pretty friggin amazing. Love the flick.

Anyone see The Blue Max? Great flying sequences, the usual terrible love affair back story all these movies seemed to require [like Midway]. You dont need always need a romantic backstory, Michael Bay you suck.

Any worsts yet? The movie version of Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' is so abyssmal. And of course, Pearl Harbor, except for the attack and the Doolittle raid.

[Mike Teacher]

If you guys want a WW2 with a devastating ending, try A Midnight Clear.

Ooooh nice havent seen it I need a new war movie.

How do we convince Ron to watch Band of Brothers? He mentioned he hadnt seen it. I didnt watch it either in the first run, or second, then one day, picked it up, put it on, and anyone who has seen it knows the rest.

[docgoblin]

Ooooh nice havent seen it I need a new war movie.

How do we convince Ron to watch Band of Brothers? He mentioned he hadnt seen it. I didnt watch it either in the first run, or second, then one day, picked it up, put it on, and anyone who has seen it knows the rest.

I can't believe he hasn't seen it. I know he'd love it once he viewed the first episode. I know he playfully puts down Tom Hanks, but you have to give him credit for his work in this series.

[docgoblin]

I just watched The Good, The Bad And The Ugly for the 200th time. Can we count that as a Civil War movie? It does play a big part in it.

[TeeBone]

Are you sure?


Yeah, are you familiar with the history of the Civil War?

[Furtherman]

It's been mentioned here of course and Matthew Modine has been on the show a number of times I believe (I recall two), but I read this and thought it was just great:

Matthew Modine on how he got the role in Full Metal Jacket: (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/random_roles_matthew_modine/2)

October 16th, 2008
Full Metal Jacket (1987)—"Pvt. Joker"

MM: It would be easier to tell people to go pick up the diary I wrote about Full Metal Jacket (NICE PLUG) and read about how that came to be, but Val Kilmer might be responsible for how I got the part in Full Metal Jacket, because I didn't know anything about it. You had to audition. You had to send a videotape to Stanley Kubrick to audition for the film. That was back when people didn't have cameras and stuff like that. That was a brand-new technology. Clearly Val had auditioned for the film and sent his tape, and he was pissed-off at me and wanted to get into a fight with me, because not only had I done Vision Quest and Mrs. Soffel, which were two films he had maybe auditioned for, but now I was doing Kubrick's film, and he was pissed off and wanted to get into a fight. I told him I wasn't going to apologize, and if he wanted to take it outside, I was happy to do that, and I was in shape from Vision Quest. I would have kicked his ass. [Laughs.] So I ran out of the restaurant that we were at in Los Angeles and called my manager and asked if he knew anything about my getting the role in Full Metal Jacket, and he didn't know anything about it.

Alan Parker was editing Birdy in London and Vision Quest was a Warner Bros. picture and Stanley Kubrick made his pictures with Warner Bros., so I said "Let's call Warner Bros and get them to send Vision Quest, get Alan Parker to send some footage over to Kubrick in London," and I got the part. So had Val Kilmer not sort of gotten pissed-off and challenged me in a restaurant and been angry at me for getting Full Metal Jacket, I would have never known about it.

[El Mudo]

It's been mentioned here of course and Matthew Modine has been on the show a number of times I believe (I recall two), but I read this and thought it was just great:

Matthew Modine on how he got the role in Full Metal Jacket: (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/random_roles_matthew_modine/2)



I will argue with ANYONE the best part of FMJ is everything that happens after boot camp

[TheMojoPin]

I will argue with ANYONE the best part of FMJ is everything that happens after boot camp

People who talk like the second half sucks are morons.

Period.

[ChimneyFish]

Does "Red Dawn" count????

[El Mudo]

People who talk like the second half sucks are morons.

Period.



The Ermey stuff is great...i'll give you that...probably the best pure "boot camp" scene in a war movie

But if you cut out the 2d half you miss:

-Joker's "Ann-Margret" joke

-the Marine Colonel on the road to Hue

-8 Ball's awesomeness

-Animal Mother's insanity

-"I got me 170 dead gooks killed!! they's all confirmed!"

-"me so horny" and the guy who steals joker's camera

-"That's a negative Rafterman!"

-"how do you get 5 black guys to stop raping a white chick?"

-the death of cowboy

-Singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme


There is nothing but GOLD in the second part of that movie, and most of its a hell of a lot better than Gunny Hartman's one liners (which are fabulous themselves)

[cougarjake13]

full metal jacket

[fezident]

BAND OF BROTHERS.

Not a proper movie but, any list of war-films is incomplete without including this series.