Favorite Wartime/Western Movies?
 

Hondo: Movie based upon Louis L'amour's novel The Gift of Cochise starring John Wayne.

The Lost Battalion: Great made for TV movie, but definetly worth a rent if not a buy. This deals with a platoon that gets stuck due to the Nazi regime. The men suffer great casualties not only from the Germans, but also from friendly mortors.

Dances With Wolves: Kevin Kostner does a great job in this movie and all the characters are believable. The Sioux kick the shit out of the Pawnee..

Platoon: Common..you gotta love this movie. Willem Dafoe, Tom Berrenger, Charlie Sheen. Tom Berengers a dickead though in this movie (sadface). I also enjoy the whole smoking pot out of the rifle deal.

Full Metal Jacket: "Shoot me....shoot me.." K that part dragged on awhile. But the intensity of the movie makes up for it. "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION NUMBNUTS!"

Rough Riders: Last but not least. Tom Berrenger is in this one as well playing President Theodore Roosevelt. This is nearly a flawless performance. Plus it has Gary Busey in it playing a delirious Typhoid victim! :D

I'll combine the two and say my favorite wartime western is The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly


Other than that,
War: Tigerland
Western: Once Upon a Time in the West

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Not much of a stretch.

Pvt. Ryan
Enemy at the Gates
Black Hawk Down
The Big Red One
Tora Tora Tora
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Full mETAL jACKET
Once Were Soldiers


Pick a Clint western...any one will do
Silverado
Tombstone
Wyat Earp
The Wild Bunch
Once upon a Time in the West

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HAHAHHA i love busey though, i wish his show was still on. Oh and i heard "We Were Soldiers" or something is really good. I also still need to see "Band of Brothers."

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"We were Soldiers"...that is correct....I don't know what I was thinking......Once were soldiers....I feel so stupid now.........DAMN IT.



AND IT WAS PRETTY GOOD.

The Good,The Bad and The Ugly is the best film in either genre.


other westerns-

Unforgiven
Once Upon A Time in the West
Tombstone


other wartime-

Empire of the Sun
Tigerland

best war movie is either combat shock or men behind the sun

heaven and earth

Westerns...

any Clint Eastwood movie
Once Upon A Time In The West
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp

War.....too many to list....here's a few

The Blue Max
Twelve O'Clock High
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Saving Pvt Ryan
The Longest Day
Battle of Britain
Patton
Where Eagles Dare
Tuskegee Airmen
Platoon
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Das Boot
The Great Escape

Any of Clint Eastwood...all his westerns were brillant. To my mind there has not been one down-right shit western that ClintEastwood has starred in.

Does Dr. Strangelove count?

Hope and Glory for wartime.

For a Western:
Open Range

I've heard so many cool things about Clint Eastwood westerns that I'm going to have to check them out.


Oh yeah, for another Western: Blazing Saddles.:D

haha, i love that movie....

The sherrif's a ni*DING!*

What?

He says the sherrif's near.



And rather than writing out a list, i will just say see newb's list for me :)

most of the British Classic wartimes.... full metal jacket, black hawk down, platoon, apocylapse now from modern war films.

spaghetti westerns and sergio western, some john wayne and other oldie westerns.... tombstone and a few other modern westerns.

some more titles......


war - a bridge too far, morning departure

western - deadly companions, pat garret & billy the kid, django

war : galipolli
western : tombstone.

War - Apocalypse Now

Western - "The Cowboys" or anything with Clint Eastwood, in particular High Plains Drifter

i'd have to add Das Boot as a favorite War pick.

My favorite war movies are:

Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Alamo-one with John Wayne
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
All Quiet on the Western Front

My Favorite Westerns:
Young Guns 1 & 2
Unforgiven
Tombstone
Dances with Wolves

Are any of you Charles Bronson fans? I watched one of his movies today. I don't know the name of it, however.

Bronson was almost as cool as Clint.If the movie in question was a western it could have been "Once Upon a Time in the West", but he was in quite a few of them.

bronson let his career slide at the end ,,, but for a long time - especially in the 70's - he was def the man.

i have his autograph on a prop business card from when he did a movie here in toronto a few years back ..

Agreed...he should have quit after "Death Wish 26"

jesus i tried to correct my spelling mistake and quoted myself instead

i just got back from 'playing' beach volleyball.

it was a disaster .. freezing cold and a huge wind.

my hands and feet are still frozen

So thats it....no more quote game?

sorry bub .. too tired ..

you get my PM ?

Beach vollyball.....outside? I'm way down here in R.I. and the weather is still cold....well maybe not cold..but definately not where it should be.

no...let me go check

its crazy cold here.
people - including me - were wearing shoes and socks .. pants and coats - over their other stuff.

thats not what volleyball is all about ..

not to mention putting a ball 2 feet over the other side of the net, and having it blow right back on your side ..

WAR:


Saving private ryan

We Were Soldiers

The Patriot

Black hawk down


WESTERN:


Tombstone


Open Range

Dances with wolves


jeremiah johnson(if it counts)

Dead Man,
Good sound track as well


western

most anything clint
rio bravo
wild bunch



and



apocalypse now
the great escape
von ryan's express
full metal jacket
patton