I'm watching Saving Private Ryan, or at least half of it tonight. That opening beach scene was intense.
I haven't thought about it much, but definitely an outstanding war movie. What's your favorite?
I'm watching Saving Private Ryan, or at least half of it tonight. That opening beach scene was intense.
I haven't thought about it much, but definitely an outstanding war movie. What's your favorite?
Both my favorite and least favorite, b/c IMO it's still the most poignant: Apocalypse Now.
Hard to go wrong when you take one of the best short stories ever written and put it in a framework that captures all the depth and darkness and arguably adds to it by creating the grand irony and contrast of it all.
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Saving Private Ryan is a technical masterpiece and a real tearjerker. It's the best, IMHO.
Now my favorite? I have a soft spot for the John Ford "Cavalry Trilogy" of Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande. Especially She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. Definitely worth a watch if you've never seen it before--John Wayne as an old officer on his way to retirement, trying to pass on some wisdom and lead his Troop on one last patrol.
Being a lawyer, I'll put in my top 5 courtroom war movies, in order of my preference:
--Breaker Morant
--The Caine Mutiny
--A Few Good Men
--Paths of Glory
--Judgment at Nuremberg
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Schindler's List is certainly in there as is Saving Private Ryan. As a kid I loved Sink the Bismark. Other classics are Tora, Tora, Tora and Midway.
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Hard to pick a favorite but "Platoon" was on last night. It has to be up there with the best.
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We Were Soldiers, Thin Red Line, The Great Escape, Full Metal Jacket
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"Band of Brothers" in a runaway...
but if that gets disqualified, I gotta think about it some more.
okay Foreign" Das Boot" American "Saving Private Ryan".Originally Posted by bigsky
My first thought, too, but it's a miniseries.
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Full Metal Jacket is just behind Apocalypse Now for me. "If I'm going to die for a word, my word is...."
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Lest we forget the flyboys, in Twelve-O'clock High, and Pearl Harbor( except for the back story)
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Band of Brothers, because it is a true story. Saving Private Ryan, although I'm mot sure the actual storyline had much merit in that time period after the five brothers that were in the Navy(the O'Sullivan brothers?) died when their ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Inglorious Basterds was very good. Windtalkers was very good, and, a true story.
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Have not seen Inglorious Bastards, but have it at the house. I need to watch it.
Top Gun. When Tom Cruise sings "You've lost that loving feeling", well, I cry.
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I've always sort of identified you with "Goose."
Boy in the Striped Pajama's is quite good for an off the beaten path one.
in the Classic Catagory
1) Gone with the Wind
2) African Queen
3) Patton
4) Casablanca
5) From Here to Eternity
6) The Great Escape
7) Bridge over the River Kwai
Non-traditional
1) Braveheart
2) The Patriot
3) Hotel Rowanda
4) Red Dawn (WOLVERINES!!)
5) Team America: World Police
Cold War
1) Hunt for Red October
2) K-19 Widowmaker
3) Firefox
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Take the time to do so. You will enjoy it a lot.
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Inglorious Bastards is a very good movie. Liked it a lot more than anticipated. Saving Private Ryan wins overall for me though. Cannot change the channel every time it's on.
Band of Brothers though is EPIC!! However comma a miniseries so does not fit.
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good call on Red October.
We were Soldiers, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket.
Dances With Wolves while probably not considered a traditional war movie as war movies go it does cover the two most important wars in the history of the US, and should be in consideration for one of the best movies of all time.
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If we're going to go back to historical war related films I'll put The Outlaw Josie Wales in there. I don't really think of it as a "war movie" but if you do it has to go in the mix somewhere b/c it's a really good movie.
Thinking of them that way really expands the category.
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I'm inclined to agree with "The Outlaw Josey Wales". And if not as a war movie, then certainly was a Western movie. Someone above also mentioned "Das Boot", which is an excellent movie. That was the first movie I ever remember seeing Jurgen Prochnow in. Good movie!
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Josey Wales is one of the greatest movies ever but I never thought of it as a war movie ... But point well taken
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Great Escape
Empire of The Sun(excellent movie)
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I'm watching Lone Survivor right now. Pretty good so far.
Richard Attenborough who played in the Great Escape passed today
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also Sand Pebbles, Flight of the Phoenix.
Also directed A Bridge Too Far, along with Ghandi (not a war movie really but when you win an Academy Award you should get a mention).
Thought he made Jurassic Park. Played the character brilliantly, as usual.
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