War movies

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A topic which has been talked about in sporadic bursts and moments. Its good to have its own thread.

So...do you like em?

I have a pretty good list of movies which I actually loved - Platoon, The Longest Day, Where Eagles Dare, The Guns of Navarone, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Das Boot, A Bridge Too Far, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, etc.

Most of you know I rank Platoon very highly, and it is in my all-time Top 10 Favs. I felt really close to Charlie Sheen's character, and Tom Berenger as Barnes & Willem Dafoe as Elias really carry the movie from beginning to end on their very powerful characterisations. A more hard-hitting and raw portrayal of the Nam was never done. Hats off to Oliver Stone.

So, which ones have you watched and really liked? And, would you like to recommend any of those?

[urgeok2]

i enjoy them when i watch them - but i'm rarely in the mood for them.

one of my favorites is A Midnight Clear

others are

M*A*S*H
Platoon
Memphis Belle
Full Metal JAcket
Gallipoli

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i enjoy them when i watch them - but i'm rarely in the mood for them.

one of my favorites is A Midnight Clear

others are

M*A*S*H
Platoon
Memphis Belle
Full Metal JAcket
Gallipoli

Haven't seen A Midnight Clear yet.

M*A*S*H is great!! :D I loved it.

[illdojo]

Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket are my favorites.

I would also recommend The Deer Hunter. and Saving Private Ryan.

[Ferox13]

Not really sure why this is in the ' Modern Horror Movies' section but yeah i'm a big film fan and some of those that i love are war films. so ones i really like (for the weirdest reason):

All Quiet on the Eastern Front: This really set the bar for the horro fil - i really cannot imagine the impact it had on audiences in the 30's. It fucking horrible and hard hitting - the scene with the german soldier spending the night in the fox hole with the guy he killed is harrowing. I love Saving Private Ryan but watch this first and reassess.

Sands of Iwo Jimo: Ok I always though this as a macho pro america flick from my chilhood memories but it far surpasses this. Great film - great depiction of the futility of war and it has judo in it too..

The Eagle has Landed: Ok Donald Suderland as the Irish guy - thats it and i love it..

Where Eagles Dare: Another childhood fave. Clint steals the show to a very entertaining Richard Buton.

[Despare]

I like a lot of the films mentioned but I didn't see anybody talk about Tae Guk Gi (sp?) which I rank very highly among war films.

[freddy69]

1 apocolspe now
2 platoon
3 full metal jacket
4 hamberger hill

[alkytrio666]

I think Apocalypse Now is as powerful as a movie comes. Sheer, gripping suspense adventure,and horrifying war sequences. I love it.

I also like Platton, Patton, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter...

The Great Escape is a blast.

[Roderick Usher]

I love war movies. Some of my favorites are...

THE DIRTY DOZEN
KELLY'S HEROES
THE STEEL HELMET
I really dig FULL METAL JACKET, but prefer Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
ZULU

[urgeok2]

i never think of apocalypse now as a war movie.



i forgot about The Great Escape - thats a good one

[Roderick Usher]

i never think of apocalypse now as a war movie.



i forgot about The Great Escape - thats a good one

I never think of THE GREAT ESCAPE as a war movie...I love the flick, but for me it falls into the prison-break subgenre of action films... which is another subgenre I dig

hell, I even liked VICTORY which hits the war/prison-break/sports film subgenre (not too many of those, I'm guessin')

[roshiq]

Bridge on the River Kawai
Apocalypse now
Platoon
The Dirty Dozen
Saving Private Ryan
Jarhead

[pinkfloyd45769]

Glory is my one of my faves.Its a Civil War movie,i'm a Civil War nut.
We Were Soldiers
U571
Gettysburg

[Ferox13]

Glory is my one of my faves.Its a Civil War movie,i'm a Civil War nut.

Yeah i love this film too..

Others I like:

The Inglorious Bastards
Dirty Dozen
The Last HUnter

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The Inglorious Bastards
Dirty Dozen

Forgot those two. Great movies.

The Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down...two of the recent good ones.

[Mr. Grady]

Some good war pics mentioned here. Have to put Apocalypse Now at the top. Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon are excellent, too. I also liked Hunt for Red October. Saving Private Ryan was decent. I like some of the classics mentioned here as well - Bridge Over the River Kwai, Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navarone, Big Red One, All Quiet on the Western Front, and even Patton if that qualifies. Love it that someone mentioned Victory. In addition to being in Gallipoli (which many people here seem to like, and I do too) Gibson did a couple of war films that are entertaining in The Patriot and Braveheart - if you can classify those as war pictures- maybe Last of the Mohicans (1992) fits as well. The war/battle scenes at the beginning of Gladiator were awesome, too.

[neverending]

To these I would add The Longest Day.

I'm trying to remember the names of a few others...

[Ferox13]

Big Red One

Nice one - i forgot that....

Its amazing how much Band of Brothers took from that.

[jaybomb]

love alot of these titles that have been named

others that have not been mentioned
enemy at the gates
we were soldiers
glory

[neverending]

Catch 22 of course. Can't believe no one else has mentioned it.

Destination Tokyo is very suspenseful.

[The_Return]

I'm VERY green when it comes to this genre...I could count the war movies I've seen on one hand. Its strange too, because I've enjoyed all the ones that I've seen, just never got around to watching more.

My favourites of what I've seen:

- Full Metal Jacket
- Kelly's Heroes
- Platoon

[Amalthea_unicorn]

Underground

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I went and bought some interesting-looking titles and want to know if any of you have seen these :-

- Midway

- Heaven & Earth

- Coming Home

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

- Charlotte Gray

- Flight of the Intruder


Having a peek at my LONG list of must-watchs, any of these good enough to pop into the player sometime in the near future?

[zwoti]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000E5N63Y.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000E5N63Y.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Looks interesting, and it's Peckinpah. Whats it about, Z?

[zwoti]

Looks interesting, and it's Peckinpah. Whats it about, Z?

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you have got to be kidding me

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you have got to be kidding me

lmao...

I havent seen it yet. :o

[urgeok2]

might have something to do with world war II :)

like Das Boot - another great film - it is from the germans point of view

[zwoti]

from imdb

The film opens with a squad of seasoned German soldiers, led by a disillusioned but skilled sergeant, on a patrol on the Russian front in WWII. They return to base to find a new commander, a traditional Prussian officer who wants only one thing from his command - An Iron Cross to maintain his family honor. The scene is set for a graphic portrayal of the horrors of war and of the conflict between two men of differing backgrounds. Written by Michael Lawn (http://uk.imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?Michael%20Lawn%20%7Bmlawn@attmai l.com%7D)


"Set in 1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) on the Eastern Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_%28WWII%29) of World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), Cross of Iron is the story of the class conflict between a newly-arrived, aristocratic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocratic) officer who covets the Iron Cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross) and a cynical, hardened infantry platoon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon) leader in a Wehrmacht (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht) regiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment) during the German (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany) retreat from the Taman Peninsula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Peninsula) on the Black Sea coast of the Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union). Cross of Iron is based upon the novel The Willing Flesh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willing_Flesh), by Willi Heinrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich), published in 1956; it might be loosely based on the true story of Johann Schwerdfeger. As typical of Sam Peckinpah's action films, much of this war movie's action is in slow motion, iterating the anti-war message."

[Elvis_Christ]

Cross Of Iron is a great flick.


Flight of the Intruder



I really dug this when it first came out but haven't seen it since. I remember it being a lot better than I thought it would be.

Anyone mentioned Saigon or Casualties Of War yet?

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from imdb




"Set in 1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) on the Eastern Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_%28WWII%29) of World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), Cross of Iron is the story of the class conflict between a newly-arrived, aristocratic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocratic) officer who covets the Iron Cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross) and a cynical, hardened infantry platoon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon) leader in a Wehrmacht (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht) regiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment) during the German (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany) retreat from the Taman Peninsula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Peninsula) on the Black Sea coast of the Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union). Cross of Iron is based upon the novel The Willing Flesh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willing_Flesh), by Willi Heinrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Heinrich), published in 1956; it might be loosely based on the true story of Johann Schwerdfeger. As typical of Sam Peckinpah's action films, much of this war movie's action is in slow motion, iterating the anti-war message."

Very interesting. I must get this one.



I really dug this when it first came out but haven't seen it since. I remember it being a lot better than I thought it would be.

Anyone mentioned Saigon or Casualties Of War yet?

It looks way cool, too. But now with Elvis recommending, it is a surefire must-see. :D

Casualties of War was good. I wasnt impressed much though. I thought they overdid it a bit.

Havent seen Saigon yet.

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Any idea about this...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FX2WBMJ1L._SS500_.jpg

It lies on the shelf of a downtown store I visited yesterday. Looks tempting too...and is priced at about 14 bucks.

Anyone else got it? And if so, how are the movies in it?

[urgeok2]

i've got the horror and sci-fi ones ... but i think i'd hesitate before getting the war one.

bad horror and sci-fi is passable because they have atheir charms ..

i cant think of anything more tedious than a bad war film.

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Not to mention the movies listed are some which I have never heard of, except some such as the Iwo Jima one, Battle of Britain etc...

I ll give it a skip till I get a favorable report.

Gotta admit, some of these 50 movie packs were so tempting that I used to get very impulsive while buying em. Only when I realised that the transfers and pic/audio quality are very shoddy on some, which put me off from buying these for awhile now.

[paws the great]

Enemy at the Gates

Blackhawk Down

Uncommon Valor