The best war movies

[elo]

Just watched Full Metal Jacketimo one of the best war movies ever.Its shows very good the psychical and physical abuse of recruits.The gunnery seargeant is brutal and kind of funny at once(when you are not one of the recruits.A lot of good sayings.Not only by the gunnery seargeant.Who could forget:"me so horny", "me love you long time" or "me sucky sucky" and other sayings mostly by the gunny.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you private?
Cowboy: Sir, five foot nine, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five foot nine? I didn't know they stacked shit that high! You tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh?
Cowboy: Sir, no sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit. It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated! Where in the hell are you from anyway, private?
Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?
Cowboy: Sir, no sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you a peter puffer?
Cowboy: Sir, no sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I'll bet you're the kinda guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket

http://www.reelwavs.com/movies/fullmetaljacket.html

Saving Private Ryan

Unfortunately the story is just moderate but the combat scenes are the best ever made.You never saw such realistic combat scenes.First class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan


Whats your suggestions and opinions?

[GroobySteven]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0444182/
Indigenes. (Days of Glory)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0344510/
A Very Long Engagement

[stillies77]

Three Kings is always a guilty pleasure of mine.

[Night Rider]

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Apocalypse Now

[Toro]

... other than the ones mentioned...

Blackhawk Down (true story)
The Thin Red Line
We Were Soldiers (true story)
The Great Escape (based on a true story)
The Longest Day (based on real events)
The Deer Hunter
Glory
The Patriot (Mel Gibson is a fruitloop, but the motherfucker makes good movies)
Zulu (based on a true story)
Bravo Two Zero (based on a true story)
Tora Tora Tora (based on a true story)

honorable mention:
Jarhead
The Dirty Dozen
Hamburger Hill
Anzio
The Battle of the Bulge

[ler]

All Quiet on the Western Front

[JohnnyVee]

Das Boot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LECLOpqYZNw

[TomSelis]

The Big Red One

[hondarobot]

Not a feature film, but a mini series:

Band Of Brothers. Beats everything else on the list.

[iloveshemales77]

Das Boot, the only German war movie ever to be mentioned, great movie shot on a low budget, unlike "Saving Private Ryan". All war movies are anti war movies. Unlike porn movies.

[iloveshemales77]

it has, it's called "Cross of Iron" by Sam Peckinpah

[Jericho]

it has, it's called "Cross of Iron" by Sam Peckinpah

and "Enemy At The Gates"

[tonkatoy]

30 seconds over Tokyo was good, I also liked Sink the Bismark. And while it is kind of cheezy, I have a copy of In Harms Way. I also like the movie The Beast.

[tonkatoy]

I also liked that movie about the battle between a salvage boat captain and a U-boat in the waining days of the war, I can't think of the title, but the salvage boat finally uses a crane to drop a torpedo on the U-boat.

[elo]

What i miss is a really good first world war movie.

We were soldiers:I watched it.And it was so "patriotic"that i get almost the impression that the government wrote the script.

[iloveshemales77]

yea, I remember that movie. "Cross of Iron" was great for its time because it was totally iconoclastic, as all art is meant to be. Doesn't stand up to the "realism" we expect today though as supplied by Spielberg and Co. It was surreal and grotesque in a very Peckinpah way...and as I imagine war must be

[iloveshemales77]

What i miss is a really good first world war movie.

We were soldiers:I watched it.And it was so "patriotic"that i get almost the impression that the government wrote the script.

You could do worse than see "All quiet on the Western Front"

[elo]

What i miss is a really good first world war movie.

We were soldiers:I watched it.And it was so "patriotic"that i get almost the impression that the government wrote the script.

You could do worse than see "All quiet on the Western Front"I know the version from the thirtees and seventies.And i can´t decide wich was worse.

[iloveshemales77]

agree, both can be accused of sentimentality. WW1 is a difficult subject. Best take on it I ever found is by the poet Philip Larkin.

[Pirate]

I know it's also cheesy, but a good b movie is Errol Flynn in "Operation Burma"........non stop action...plus so many also mentioned.

[hondarobot]

WW1 would have been a really bad situation. Paths Of Glory is a great movie as far as that goes.

All Quiet On The Western Front is the best book I've read on the subject. I never saw the film adaptations.

[s-fme]

A couple of good war movies left out I think are The Devils Brigade and Jarhead.

[Mikeyj01]

I also liked that movie about the battle between a salvage boat captain and a U-boat in the waining days of the war, I can't think of the title, but the salvage boat finally uses a crane to drop a torpedo on the U-boat.

[Mikeyj01]

I also liked that movie about the battle between a salvage boat captain and a U-boat in the waining days of the war, I can't think of the title, but the salvage boat finally uses a crane to drop a torpedo on the U-boat.

called Murphys war with Peter O,Toole

sorry about the other post my bad :oops:

[hondarobot]

This isn't really related to this thread, but it's close.

One of the worst losses during the first World War: H.H. Monroe, aka Saki. One of my all time favorite authors. The guy was the punk rock version of the three page long, kick ass short stories for his time. I don't think he's ever been beat in that field.

"The Open Window", good story to start with. He also wrote my favorite short story of all time. It's not "The Open Window", but he did write it, and I'm not posting what it is.

Oh, H.H. Monroe's last words, while hiding out in the trenches trying to avoid German sniper fire, said to a fellow soldier:

"Put that bloody cigarette out!"

The glow off the cigarette cherry, that's how German snipers see you. Sucks. They saw it, and hit "Saki".

RIP

[tonkatoy]

I also liked that movie about the battle between a salvage boat captain and a U-boat in the waining days of the war, I can't think of the title, but the salvage boat finally uses a crane to drop a torpedo on the U-boat.

called Murphys war with Peter O,Toole

sorry about the other post my bad :oops:


Yeah, that was it.

[Chaotic]

30 seconds over Tokyo was good, I also liked Sink the Bismark. And while it is kind of cheezy, I have a copy of In Harms Way. I also like the movie The Beast.

I liked Sink the Bismarck as well, WW 2 naval history is something of an interest of mine, and they got most of right. I also enjoyed Midway, for much of the same reasons.

Full Metal Jacket makes the grade as my favorite Vietnam war movie, but then again, I never met a Stanley Kubrick movie I didn't like! ;)

[peggygee]

... other than the ones mentioned...

Blackhawk Down (true story)
The Thin Red Line
We Were Soldiers (true story)
The Great Escape (based on a true story)
The Longest Day (based on real events)
The Deer Hunter
Glory
The Patriot (Mel Gibson is a fruitloop, but the motherfucker makes good movies)
Zulu (based on a true story)
Bravo Two Zero (based on a true story)
Tora Tora Tora (based on a true story)

honorable mention:
Jarhead
The Dirty Dozen
Hamburger Hill
Anzio
The Battle of the Bulge

Great list, loved all the movies above, but the all-star cast with Steve
McQeen is a fave.

[tonkatoy]

so, who else liked Pearl Harbor? Micheal Bey should have been keel hauled on the Exxon Valdez for that one. I thought he should have had Aflack and dumbass go ahead and pilot Bockscar and Enola Gay and go in for the big win.

[hondarobot]

so, who else liked Pearl Harbor? Micheal Bey should have been keel hauled on the Exxon Valdez for that one. I thought he should have had Aflack and dumbass go ahead and pilot Bockscar and Enola Gay and go in for the big win.

From what I've heard, Micheal Bey is an asshole. That's just what I've heard, but it's probably true.

[Falrune]

so, who else liked Pearl Harbor? Micheal Bey should have been keel hauled on the Exxon Valdez for that one. I thought he should have had Aflack and dumbass go ahead and pilot Bockscar and Enola Gay and go in for the big win.

From what I've heard, Micheal Bey is an asshole. That's just what I've heard, but it's probably true.

I liked his "The Island" and "Transformers." "Transformers" did involve a lot of military equipment (Warthogs, AC130, F22, Stealth bombers, Ospreys) so it almost counts as a war movie, LOL.

[SarahG]

All Quiet on the Western Front

Quite agreed!

Patriot on the other hand, I have never really found that appealing. It is so filled with historical inaccuracies it is not even funny. There are so few revolutionary war movies, they could have at least TRIED to get it right. :banghead

[Dino Velvet]

All war movies are anti war movies. Unlike porn movies.

Which porn movies are pro war? I'd like to see one of those.

[tsluva]

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MINE:

Blackhawk down

Gladiator

Enemy at the Gates

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Glory

Troy

Indepence Day

Brave heart

Full Metal Jacket

Apocalypse Now

By Dawn's Early Light

War of the Worlds

Zulu Dawn

Rambo

Crimson Tide



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[SexyBeast1]

*****
The Cruel Sea
Where Eagles Dare
Ice-Cold in Alex
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan

*****
Cross of Iron
Battle of Britain
The Dambusters
Guns of Navarone
Zulu

***
The Desert Rats
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
The Deer Hunter
The Great Escape

[iloveshemales77]

All war movies are anti war movies. Unlike porn movies.

Which porn movies are pro war? I'd like to see one of those.

Yep, got me! What I meant of course is an anti porn, porn movie!...duuuhh

[Clind]

The Thin Red Line
Cross of Iron(Sam Pekinpah)
Saving Private Rayan
A Bridge Too Far
The Great Escape

[Jericho]

Kinda 'war' films, if you want to drop down a gear, "The African Queen" and "Knight Without Armour" [watch the film, then read the book]

[ptyseminole]

here's my list:
1. Full Metal Jacket, the Gunnery Sargent ruled!
2. Dirty Dozen,
3. Saving Private Ryan, cool scenes...
4. The Green Berets, John Wayne need I say more?
5. A Bridge too far
6. The bridge over the river Kwai (or something like that!), the scene of the POWs marching is a classic.

[tvfan]

All this talk of war movies and not one mention of possibly the greatest and most disturbing war film ever made. Directed by Elim Klimov and called Come And See.

[Wombat]

A good Eastern front movie needs to be made, if it hasn't already been made.

'Stalingrad'

[Wombat]

'Stalingrad'

Did you see it Wombat? What did you think of it?

Low budget and it shows, and some how that just had to work a woman into the story, but other than that it was a pretty good movie.

It certainly conveys the sense of hopelessness and the horrific conditions that the German 6th Army went through.

In the end it also shows what a waste war is.

[tonkatoy]

I would like to see a movie made about the Battle of Jutland. With todays CG stuff that would be pretty neat. Good naval combat movies are hard to come by, probably because of the enormous cost involved in recreating or gaining access to the equipment needed. I would like to see a good movie about the naval battles off Guadalcanal also.


While not a movie, the episode of dogfights covering Taffy 3's fight against the Japanese center force at Leyte Gulf was pretty neat. Although it is never neat to think of or imagine the suffering that soldiers and sailors inevitably go through, and for what.

[Wombat]

My favourite 'war' movie is Gallipoli. Basically about two mates who join up for an adventure and then are confronted with the reality of what they have got themselves into.

[SkyTwo]

I would like to see a movie made about the Battle of Jutland. With todays CG stuff that would be pretty neat.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but the BBC series Battlefield has a great episode on Scandinavia at the start of the war with tons of archival footage.

And since no one has mentioned either one, I'll mention Paul Verhoeven's films Starship Troopers (no, I'm not kidding) and Black Book. Although they're more anti-war films.

It's no classic, but the movie with Audy Murphy re-enacting his own exploits is fun.

[bobjohnson6]

Two that I don't think got mentioned here are:

"Hell In The Pacific" - (Lee Marvin! & Toshiro Mafune). A Japanese naval officer and an USN aviator get stuck on the same little island in the middle of the Pacific. At first, they are trying to kill each other, then they calm down and just start fucking around to annoy the other guy more than anything else, then they start working together to try to get off the island. Its a trippy movie, because unless you speak Japanese, you only understand what Lee Marvin is saying. In real life, Lee Marvin (who actually saw combat with the USMC in WW2 as a scout/sniper and was badly wounded) spoke no Japanese and Mafune spoke no English, but they got along great as they shared an appreciation for booze and would get stinko together when not filming.

"Below" - a very trippy movie about a US submarine. It's actually a supernatural thriller combined with a war movie (I know, weird combination, but trust me). The details of the sub are hyper-accuate and the plot is just plain spooky. It's really well written and made, but the studio fucked up on the marketing end and no one ever heard about it. I highly recommend. Netflix has it.

As to my personal favorite war movie (and all-time movie): Dr. Strangelove. 'Nuff said.

[SkyTwo]

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