The Movieforums Top 100 War Movies Countdown

It means what you voted for didn't make the countdown. I would also mostly avoid watching countdown films that received 1 measly point, as opposed to a movie that someone might have ranked high up that nobody else voted for.

OK thanks for explaining.

Just to clarify my #25 (which was a 1 pointer though I didn't plan it that way) was The Siege of Firebase Gloria. I think highly of the film. I can even prove it My review from seven years ago.

I looked at all the 1 pointers when they were posted and I plan on watching 6 of them, starting tonight. Most of the one pointers looked interesting to me...Well maybe not the Pauly Shore one, but then again I haven't seen it so maybe it's wickedly funny

Fully stand behind my #25 in "Sisu", just because of its intense cartoonish brutality.

There can be great movies that get zero points. It's just that on a countdown like this, whatever gets the least points would get my least attention.

I don't believe you!

That's cool.

So these are the one-pointers I have seen.

13 Hours isn't exactly great, but it's leagues ahead of Michael Bay's other war movie.

Journey's End isn't a stand-out, one that is based on a play and it shows.

K-19: The Widowmaker goes alright. I do like a good submarine movie.

[o]Overlord[/i] has such a great X-meets-Y concept (war/horror genre hybrids in general are a rarity) that I'm disappointed I don't like it more.

The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a film I apparently liked quite a bit but don't remember all that well, though there's something to be said for a Soviet epic dedicated to following the exploits of an all-female unit of soldiers.

The Man Who Would Be King is great, though I definitely didn't think of it as a war film - an adventure film with colonialist overtones, perhaps, but this one really stretches the definition of war film in my estimation.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is good, though I don't remember too much of it. Perhaps it's time for a rewatch.

Windtalkers is a film I didn't exactly care for (especially when John Woo has made better war movies before and since), though part of me does want to give it a second chance.

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Every one of the One-Pointers I've had for the various lists have been movies that genuinely made my top 25 of whatever the topic is. I always cull my lists down to the 25 I like best and then choose one that want to highlight to put at 25.

I chose In the Army Now specifically because I don't like war movies. I don't like how heavy war movies are and they're generally heavy in a way that I can't really connect with. In the Army Now, on the other hand, is fun and light hearted. It's not a favorite movie, by any stretch (though Pauly Shore's Encino Man is in my personal top 100), and very few of the movies I voted for are overall favorites (because, again, I don't like war movies) but I'm far more likely to watch In the Army Now again than something like Apocalypse Now, which didn't make my cut at all.

Actually, I think I might just watch it again tonight. Had a crap day at work so winding down with something stupidly entertaining sounds appealing.

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Egads. When I first scanned the list I assumed it was not a vote for the 2018 zombie flick but for the 1975 micro-budgeted but incredibly effective British WWII piece shot in glorious black-and-white culminating with the D-Day Invasion, made by Stuart Cooper. But maybe this means THAT Overlord will make the actual countdown?



Agree completely. One of my all-time favorite flicks but I never even considered it for such an exercise. I DETEST that John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King qualified but I had to re-do my ballot because somehow Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues wasn't a War Movie...when it so very clearly is.

Dumb, dumb system.

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Given a do-over, I'd make my 1-pointer A Perfect Day (2015). Raul's choice of The Lucky Ones with Tim Robbins in it reminded me about it. It's about humanitarian aid workers in war torn Yugoslavia trying to fish a dead body out of a well - a task that becomes more and more complicated every step of the way.

But perhaps someone else has voted for this as well.

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Good choice! I really liked this movie. All the acting was top drawer but I loved McAdams the most.

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I'll second that, I forgot that I had seen The Lucky Ones but it was a film nom in the 10th HoF. The entire cast was great and Rachael McAdams is a charmer in it. A worthy film.

Hope @KeyserCorleone is still alive. Nothing from him two days already...
Hiding somewhere in the trenches maybe...

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I'm going to try and watch as many of the countdown war movies as possible. I started last night with @Yoda 1 Pointer.

I get it. It's a cold war...countdown.

It's been almost two weeks since this thread was started. When are we going to get the actual countdown?

I completed the basic tech work a day or two ago, so it wasn't possible until then. I can go into detail about what this work entails and why it sometimes takes some time, if people are interested.

The delays look longer than usual in part because we usually post the thread when the prep work is nearly done, but in this case it went up very shortly after voting ended instead. Time-from-end-of-voting, on the other hand, isn't usually much longer than this has been, I don't think.

Anyway, need to go over one final thing with Keyser, after that we're free and clear.