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What's the Best War Movie?

Discussion in 'Music, TV, Movies & other Media' started by longknife, Jan 24, 2015.

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  1. longknife

    longknife New Member

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    longknife, Jan 24, 2015
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    Panzerkampfwagen New Member

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    A Bridge Too Far

    Probably the most historically accurate war movie I've seen. Sticks really close to the source material.
     
    Panzerkampfwagen, Jan 25, 2015
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    longknife New Member

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    I enjoyed it very much. A good example of political goals versus military goals.
     
    longknife, Jan 25, 2015
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    Hotdogr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can watch Kelly's Heroes over and over again, and I still love it. May not be the most historically accurate, or best effects, or whatever. But it's a damn good and entertaining war movie.

    As an aside, I just finished watching the "VietNam in HD" series on Netflix. I thought it was awesome.
     
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    longknife New Member

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    One I didn't see was The Guns of Navarone. What a great move with awesome actors/acting. I still laugh at seeing such a young Clint Eastwood
     
    longknife, Jan 25, 2015
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    The Great Escape
     
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    Troianii, Jan 25, 2015
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican. "Business is business," right? :clapping:
     
    Aleksander Ulyanov, Jan 25, 2015
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    I don't like "Stars and Stripes" choices, most are recent.

    "Saving Private Ryan" was good because the producers used the best military advisor in the business, Capt. Dale Dye, he got the uniforms right, patches right, weapons right, equipment right but the movie is fiction, there never was a Private Ryan.
    FYI: The P-51 wasn't the tank buster but the P-47 was known as the tank buster.
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/ >


    Missing from Stars and Stripes list was "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" both are based upon real people and real incidents, historically correct and again Capt. Dale Dye was the military advisor.
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/ >
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/ >

    "Guadalcanal Diary" that was made during WW ll is considered one of the most historically correct WW ll war movies ever made.
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035957/ >

    My favorite WW ll movie is "Mister Roberts." Though it's a comedy starring Henry Fonda and James Cagney, it's based upon one naval officers personal experiences during WW ll. < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053849/ >

    Another good WW ll movie, favorite of many WW ll sailors and Marines was "The Gallant Hours" starring James Cagney, a movie based upon the biography of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey.
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053849/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 >

    Best WW l movie would have to be "What Price Glory" again with James Cagney. It's fiction and a comedy but it was entertaining.
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045323/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19 >

    The worst war movie ever produced is hands down, the most historically incorrect, politically correct and total fiction is "Pearl Harbor." Liberals revisionism of history. Not one cigarette seen in the entire movie, Army Air Corps pilots taking physicals at a Navy hospital. :roflol:
    < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213149/?ref_=nv_sr_1 >
     
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    Catch a re-run of Rawhide and be shocked :smile:
     
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    Diuretic Well-Known Member

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    The Longest Day was great, saw it as a kid and I am still impressed with its scope and scale. Just a wee bit off topic but there were a couple of series on tv that were documentary-based and brilliant - Victory at Sea (the theme music was superb too) and The World at War. Not films so possibly not in tune with the thread.
     
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    "Enemy an the gates"

    Is the best WW2 movie ever!
     
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    Yeah, a bit off topic but there were some awesome TV shows about war. I caught these yesterday:

    The Rat Patrol
    12o'clock High
    Blacksheep Squadron
     
    longknife, Jan 26, 2015
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    Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Beneath Hill 50, etc.

    I enjoy the movie, however I really wish it would have been historically accurate. Majestically meeting the German sniper is fine for film, but nearly as interesting as the historical account.
     
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    In reality there was no German sniper.
     
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    Apocalypse now was amazing!
     
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    ly boring.
     
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    Letters from Iwo Jima. A movie that most have probably not seen. Another movie by Clint Eastwood that came out after Flags of our Fathers. Shows the Japanese side of Iwo. A really good movie.
     
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    I love a good war movie. In my youth it was films like The Longest Day and Pork Chop Hill and The dirty dozen.

    As I got older my favorite war movies tended to be anti-war or at least ambiguous movies like apocalypse now, thin red line, saving private ryan and my all time favorite "The bridge" a German movie with subtitles.
     
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    The BEST war movies are those that don't glorify war.

    So I'd throw in "Das Boot" with some others mentioned here.
     
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    "Midway"....hands down.
     
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    I like movies that capture the range of experience of war. So my list of best war movies ever, in no particular order:

    Saving Private Ryan
    Band of Brothers
    Black Hawk Down
    Das Boot
    Hurt Locker
    A Bridge Too Far
    Platoon
    Hamburger Hill
    Letters from Iwo Jima

    "The Longest Day" is okay, but it's not one of my Top 10. I think it suffers from the era in which it was made, in terms of acting and filming conventions.

    There's also a German film, "Stalingrad", that is a pretty good depiction of the descent of a German platoon from heady victories in Africa to their end in Stalingrad. It gets kind of surreal near the end, and it is a fairly nihilistic film -- everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, dies. But interesting for its point of view.

    As an ex-tanker, I have a special fondness for tank movies -- of which there aren't that many.

    "Fury" is pretty good -- if you discount the ridiculous final battle scene, and the fact that all the German anti-tank gunners were apparently drunk, because they couldn't hit anything. But it gives a great feeling for the claustrophic closeness of a tank turret, and the realities of riding a Sherman in 1945 -- like, you could expect to lose four Shermans for every Panther or Tiger you took out.

    I also have a weak spot for "The Beast" -- about a Russian tank crew that gets lost in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Not super realistic, but highly tense and entertaining.
     
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    I'd forgotten "Die Brucke"! From 1959, about a group of German teenagers defending a bridge in the final days of the war. Easily as nihilistic as "Stalingrad", but a well-done exploration of kids stuck in an impossible situation.
     
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    Rickles was awesome in that movie!
     
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    Saving Private Ryan for the Dday scene alone, wow when i first saw it in the Movie theater it was awesome. Felt like I was there with the invasion.

    Glory is not too bad, Full Metal jacket is awesome for its dark humor, Brave heart just cause Brave Heart.
     
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