Favorite War Movie?

[Guest jsunC]

why was it a horrible movie?? It had great fight scenes

[bishopx]

Battle Cry, great war movie.

[sodamntired]

i want to see the two new Clint Eastwood movies, and the one from the Japanese perspective more than the other one.

[prototypepariah]

big trouble in little china?

 

 

saving private ryan. hands down bar none.

[Some Random]

i know it's not a war movie, but band of brothers was awesome.

[HoboFactory]

why was it a horrible movie?? It had great fight scenes

I'm not so huge on being true to the original, so I won't go into that, but for me, the movie seemed to really drag on, until it seemed pointless. It was something like 3 hours long, but I honestly thought if one were to cut it down to 2 hours, it wouldn't feel like anything was left out.

[bishopx]

The Halls Of Montezuma

[HoboFactory]

The Thin Red Line ...and also some foreign-made movies like Stalingrad and Tae Guk Gi.

Tae Guk Gi is an amazing movie

Definitely. Very moving.

[silentshadow]

In order from best to not the best.

 

Saving Ryan's Privates

Black Hawk Down

300

Enemy at the Gates

[matrix]

Saving Ryan's Privates

You saw that porno too, huh?

[silentshadow]

 

Saving Ryan's Privates

You saw that porno too, huh?

Haha. I was waiting for someone to catch on to that. ;)

[matrix]

I am observant, and knowledgeable.

[bishopx]

Black Hawk Down was good. (Love the ryan's privates bit)

 

Wake Island was an amazing telling of the Japanese assault on the Island. There were just over 300 defenders on the Island...sound familiar?

[garsk]

band of brothers (yes i know it is mini-series)

platoon

jarhead

Dr. Stranglove (it's a cold war movie)

enemy at the gates

Patton

[shade]

I am observant, and knowledgeable.

And yet you still think Donnie Darko is a great film.

[garsk]

I am observant, and knowledgeable.

And yet you still think Donnie Darko is a great film.

hey, i enjoyed it

[marx marvelous]

Hearts and Minds, if we're counting documentaries.

[heyrabbit]

i forgot the bridge on river kwai, classic

 

schindler's list, too

Edited March 19, 2007 by heyrabbit

[sodamntired]

i forgot the bridge on river kwai, classic

 

schindler's list, too

well, i wouldn't say Schindler's List is a "war movie" when compared to Saving Private Ryan or Glory or Platoon

[sockcrotch]

Dr. Strangelove

300

Lord of the Rings (yeah, shut up)

 

And do documentaries like Uganda Rising and Why We Fight count? If so, I'd put those in there too.

[Crusader]

dr strangelove wasn't really a war movie.

[garsk]

oh come on, it had B-52's, crazy generals (that kinda look like President Bush), nuclear weapons, nazis, and commies. How can it not be a war movie?

[Crusader]

there wasn't an actual war ;)

[shade]

Dr Strangelove was a war movie in my opinion. Pretty good satire.

 

 

Edit: A War doesn't make a war movie...there are many different ways to do it. Jean Renoir called his film "Rules of the Game" a war movie...and the whole movie is a bunch rich high class of people fucking around in a house...while the lower class is off fighting (which you never see).

 

pretty kickass movie.

 

but whatever.

Edited March 20, 2007 by shade

[heyrabbit]

i forgot the bridge on river kwai, classic

 

schindler's list, too

well, i wouldn't say Schindler's List is a "war movie" when compared to Saving Private Ryan or Glory or Platoon

sure it is. almost every war movie focuses on one side of the conflict. in that movie it just happened to focus on the jews and the 3rd reich. I mean, that's the source of the conflict for the entire war. concentration camps, genocide, watching every family member getting shot in the head. what's more "war-ish" than that?

 

it's not a battle movie, just a war movie. although saving private ryan was better, I thought, even though they're two very different movies.

Edited March 20, 2007 by heyrabbit