Favorite war movies

Platoon.They got Elias!

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could some one give me a brief run down on The Guns of Navarrone[1961]? I have heard so much of this movie and keep forgetting to go and find it. I'm surprised it's not mentioned more frequently in this thread.

[At LS]: Also, yes. Gallipoli and The Lighthorseman are quite revered back in my home country. We seem to have an unhealthy infactuation with WWI(for historical reasons i'm sure you all won't want me to enlightened you on). I didn't particularily like The Lighthorseman that much even though i get it crammed down my throat regularily 'cos it was filmed in the same state i live in. As with Picnic At Hanging Rock, another local film i was sorely dissapointed by

Ahem..


FULL METAL JACKET
Apocolypse now
Paths of Glory
All quiet on the westernfront
Platoon
Bridge of the river Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
Hamburger Hill
Tiger Land
Black Hawk Down

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A small group of Allied commandos are sent to destroy two massive guns blocking a narrow passage of the sea.

Worth checking out.

Strong performance by Anthony Quinn.

The Guns of Navarone is a good adventure flick, concerning a small and elite band of experts going on a suicide mission behind enemy lines. It's the prototype for others like The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, The Wild Geese and even The Great Escape, which basically took all the poetry and scale out of The Bridge on the River Kwai and reduced it to more mainstream action. The reason it isn't brought up in such a discussion very often is because it isn't a "serious" War picture, it's more shoot-em-up adventure and escapism. It's good for what it is, but it wouldn't likely be mentioned in the same breath as Paths of Glory or Apocalypse Now.

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Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
The Pianist
Schindlers's List
Strangelove
BraveHeart

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Patton
4. The Longest Day
5. A Bridge Too Far
6. The Patriot
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Platoon
9. Sands of Iwo Jima
10. Gettysberg
11. The Alamo (The Dukes Version)
not in any order
not to get off topic, but Tour of Duty was an awesome tv show!
I'm sorry if this makes a fiasco of the thread.

My one favourite would have to be Apocalypse Now. It was like looking into a mirror and seeing a madman looking back at me.

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the thin red line is great, and i really liked catch 22 - underrated movie, that. in a similar vein i quite liked the 70s adaptation of kurt vonnegut's 'slaughterhouse five'.

a recent favorite that i havent seen listed yet was 'the life and death of colonel blimp'.

for the 'war-action/adventure' type movies that holden mentioned, i'd go with sammo hung's 'eastern condors' with himself and yuen biao.

I tottaly agree with that statement

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Zulu
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Where eagles dare
Cromwell
Bridge of the river Kwai
Battle of britain
Excalibur
Great escape
Platoon
Hamburger hill
Alfred the Great

The greatest war story ever told: Lord of the Rings.

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Hmm, I have only a few actually. Not necessarily ww2 or vietnam, but influential and great war pictures nonetheless.

Battle Of Britain
Full Metal Jacket
Casualties of War
Starship Troopers
Green Berets
Das Boot
Stalingrad
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Flesh and Blood
Guns Of Navarone
Enemy Mine
Sink the Bismarck

Stick a fork in me, I'm done.

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Top 5 in order.

1.We Were Soldiers
2.Braveheart
3.Saving Private Ryan
4.the Green Berets
5.Hamburger Hill

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I really enjoy the Band of Brothers series. As far movies go I would have to say FMJ, and Saving Pvt. Ryan.

While not really a war film (in terms of a real historical war), Red Dawn had a method to it's madness, as John Milius tried to create an alternate reality parallell to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and he was trying to show the audience what teens in Afghanistan may have gone through and went through at the time, and how they may have reacted, living in a world where a foreign oppressor tried to take over. Sort of a "what if" but applied to America.

Not the most realistic of films, because no kid in ther right mind would suddenly know how to use an RPG-7 or an Ak-47 or a good old fashioned semi-auto Russian SKS, but the reality hit home that in a situation like that, experience was the best teacher, because you get the test first and the lesson afterwards.

Band of Brothers hands down.

"We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." -Carwood Lipton [During Interview]

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I'm currently writing an essay on masculine and feminist constructs in this book. The book is so much better, i liked this version but it just doesnt convey the amazing spirituality of the book. Awsome read that i reccommend to anyone.

"And so we sit facing one another, Kat and I, - We don’t talk much, but we have a greater and more gentle consideration for eachother than I should think even lovers do. We are two human beings , two tiny sparks of life; outside there is just the night, and all around us, death. We are sitting right at the edge of all that, in danger but secure; our hearts are close to one another, time and place merge into one - the brightness and the shadows of our emotions come and go in the flickering light of the gentle fire. Before the war we wouldnt have had a single thought in common - and now here we are, sitting with a goose roasting in front of us, aware of our existence and so close to each other that we can't even talk about it."

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Patton and Apocalypse Now

Most Definetley The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King. The battles were the Largest ever waged on Screen. My favorite is at the black gate. Its just amazing.
And if the Pianist is considered a war movie then that too, and the Patriot.

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