marklbucla
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Mel Gibson's The Patriot, though I don't like the guns in the movie.
Saving Private Ryan would be a very distant second.
Saving Private Ryan would be a very distant second.
Your ONE favorite war movie.
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There are some great ones listed here.....Saving Private Ryan, Cross of Iron, Kelly's Hero's are definately favorites.....
My current fave is a toss up between Windtalkers and Tears of the Sun....Marines kickin' but in WWII or seals sneaking around afrika doin' unto other's that deserved more than they got!!
JC45
There are some great ones listed here.....Saving Private Ryan, Cross of Iron, Kelly's Hero's are definately favorites.....
My current fave is a toss up between Windtalkers and Tears of the Sun....Marines kickin' but in WWII or seals sneaking around afrika doin' unto other's that deserved more than they got!!
JC45
I'm suprised I havn't seen any votes for
MIDWAY, nothing like seeing 4 jap carriers blown out of the water by 3 american carriers. With only 1 of our carriers lost. The yorktown.
Maybe we should start another thread so we can list our top 5 favorites. This was too tough to list just one.
MIDWAY, nothing like seeing 4 jap carriers blown out of the water by 3 american carriers. With only 1 of our carriers lost. The yorktown.
Maybe we should start another thread so we can list our top 5 favorites. This was too tough to list just one.
cliffstanc
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ALIENS
...what? That counts, right?
Sgt. Apone: A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!
- Cliff
...what? That counts, right?
Sgt. Apone: A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!
- Cliff
Matthew748
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The Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin. I actually like the movie more than the book in this case.
bogie
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What's not to like? Those were assault rifles!
Does 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' count, even though the plot is about more than just war? Old spaghetti westerns are my favorite, and this is one of the best.
In terms of war, it really got me thinking about a) the civil war and b) war in general. Brutal. Ugly. Always complicated - even when the history books try to distill it to one concrete issue later.
God, and the way that soldiers were just treated as cannon fodder in that war. It really got me thinking about the saying 'rich man's war, poor man's fight.' And I don't mean that in a peacenik vietnam-era anti-war sense at all.
Lord - and we think war is horrifying now - and it is, killing always is, even when necessary, and it's crucial to respect that - but truly, high tech war is in some ways much more humane.
In terms of war, it really got me thinking about a) the civil war and b) war in general. Brutal. Ugly. Always complicated - even when the history books try to distill it to one concrete issue later.
God, and the way that soldiers were just treated as cannon fodder in that war. It really got me thinking about the saying 'rich man's war, poor man's fight.' And I don't mean that in a peacenik vietnam-era anti-war sense at all.
Lord - and we think war is horrifying now - and it is, killing always is, even when necessary, and it's crucial to respect that - but truly, high tech war is in some ways much more humane.
Where Eagles Dare is one of my favorites. It was the first movie that I remember that showed what happens to all those bullets that get fired and don't hit someone. Up until then all I can remember is when the good guy is running and there are a bunch of puffs of dirt around his feet. I still don't know why they keep trying to shoot the good guys feet.
Jubei
Jubei
cortez kid
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One of the 10 top best movies EVER made; The Great Escape.....
kid
kid
Why ask for just ONE favorite war movie?
Anzio
Apocolypse Now: Redux
A bridge too far
American Guerrilla in the Phillipines
Air Force
The Angry Hills
Beach Red
The Beast
Big Red 1
Behind enemy lines
Black Hawk Down
The Bedford Incident
Beachhead
The bridge at Remaggen
Battleground
Bridge on the River Kwai
Bataan
Back to Bataan
BAT-21
The Dirty Dozen
The Devil's Brigade
D-Day
The Enemy Below
From here to eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Force-10 from Navarone
Fighter Squadron
Flying Leathernecks
Fixed Bayonets
Guns of Navarone
Guadalcanal Diary
Gung Ho
Go for broke
The great escape
Gray lady down
G.I. Joe
Hart's War
Hamburger Hill
The Hunters
Heartbreak Ridge
Halls of Montezuma
Hunt for Red October
Hell is for heroes
In harm's way
Ice Station Zebra
In love and war
Kelly's heroes
The longest day
Lawrence of Arabia
The mountain road
Midway
The naked and the dead
Navy SEAL's
Objective Burma
One minute to zero
Play dirty
Pork Chop Hill
Patton
Platoon
The Patriot
Run silent, run deep
Sniper
The Sand Pebbles
Sahara (original)
Sahara (re-make)
Saving Private Ryan
Twelve o'clock high
Tora Tora Tora
Torpedo Run
Take the high ground
To hell and back
Top Gun
Tears of the sun
Up Periscope
Von Ryan's Express
The war lover
Where eagles dare
A walk in the sun
Windtalkers
We were soldiers
TV series: Combat, Gallant Men, Victory at sea
Anzio
Apocolypse Now: Redux
A bridge too far
American Guerrilla in the Phillipines
Air Force
The Angry Hills
Beach Red
The Beast
Big Red 1
Behind enemy lines
Black Hawk Down
The Bedford Incident
Beachhead
The bridge at Remaggen
Battleground
Bridge on the River Kwai
Bataan
Back to Bataan
BAT-21
The Dirty Dozen
The Devil's Brigade
D-Day
The Enemy Below
From here to eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Force-10 from Navarone
Fighter Squadron
Flying Leathernecks
Fixed Bayonets
Guns of Navarone
Guadalcanal Diary
Gung Ho
Go for broke
The great escape
Gray lady down
G.I. Joe
Hart's War
Hamburger Hill
The Hunters
Heartbreak Ridge
Halls of Montezuma
Hunt for Red October
Hell is for heroes
In harm's way
Ice Station Zebra
In love and war
Kelly's heroes
The longest day
Lawrence of Arabia
The mountain road
Midway
The naked and the dead
Navy SEAL's
Objective Burma
One minute to zero
Play dirty
Pork Chop Hill
Patton
Platoon
The Patriot
Run silent, run deep
Sniper
The Sand Pebbles
Sahara (original)
Sahara (re-make)
Saving Private Ryan
Twelve o'clock high
Tora Tora Tora
Torpedo Run
Take the high ground
To hell and back
Top Gun
Tears of the sun
Up Periscope
Von Ryan's Express
The war lover
Where eagles dare
A walk in the sun
Windtalkers
We were soldiers
TV series: Combat, Gallant Men, Victory at sea
johnmcl
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Follow On To Gettysburg
Hi all,
"Gods and Generals" is very good. Being somewhat of a Civil War history buff, I thought Stonewall's character was crisply done. It also captured the meatgrinder these guys went through with tactics in the Napoleonic age and weapons just shy of those deployed in WWI.
John
Hi all,
"Gods and Generals" is very good. Being somewhat of a Civil War history buff, I thought Stonewall's character was crisply done. It also captured the meatgrinder these guys went through with tactics in the Napoleonic age and weapons just shy of those deployed in WWI.
John
Rupestris
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Das Boot
Any sub movie ranks high on my list. Crimson Tide, Red October, Up Periscope, Down Periscope, U-571, K-19 Widdowmaker...
Any sub movie ranks high on my list. Crimson Tide, Red October, Up Periscope, Down Periscope, U-571, K-19 Widdowmaker...
Hotlight
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Das Boot - Director's Cut w/sub-titles
StopTheGrays
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Well since someone posted nearly every dang war film I will pick one they missed:
Big Jim McLain...Starring John Wayne. How is it a war movie? It is about the war against the Red Menace thats how.
Big Jim McLain...Starring John Wayne. How is it a war movie? It is about the war against the Red Menace thats how.
Tropical Z
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Easy-Saving Private Ryan.
Texfire
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jsalcedo said:
Yikes!
Doing the math, anyone under the age of 16 wasn't born when the Berlin wall was still standing. Holy generational gap Batman!
Oh, and +1 on most of the movies mentioned so far. But Where Eagles Dare is my guilty pleasure of WW2 movies.
beaucoup ammo
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"Band Of Brothers"
Singularly the finest War Film ever made. Granted, as others hve pointed out, it's a "series." However, rules were made to be broken when appropriate...and this begs the exception. I view it as a Looong film!
From story line to production..from the military advisors chosen to assure accuracy to the tribute paid the fallen heros of World War 2 (take WW2 Vet to lunch today, if you're fortunate enough to know one)..not to mention the observations of THOSE WHO WERE THERE, Band Of Brothers is the quentisential War Movie and my personal favorite.
If pressed, "Breaker Morant" would be 2nd!
Take Care
Singularly the finest War Film ever made. Granted, as others hve pointed out, it's a "series." However, rules were made to be broken when appropriate...and this begs the exception. I view it as a Looong film!
From story line to production..from the military advisors chosen to assure accuracy to the tribute paid the fallen heros of World War 2 (take WW2 Vet to lunch today, if you're fortunate enough to know one)..not to mention the observations of THOSE WHO WERE THERE, Band Of Brothers is the quentisential War Movie and my personal favorite.
If pressed, "Breaker Morant" would be 2nd!
Take Care
beaucoup ammo
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Note To Williegee
I agree. There's no such thing as an "Ex" cop, soldier, Dallas Cowboy or fireman...you're merely "innactive."
Take Care
I agree. There's no such thing as an "Ex" cop, soldier, Dallas Cowboy or fireman...you're merely "innactive."
Take Care
Silver Bullet
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Enemy at the gates
Being a movie reviewer that loves war movies, I have many favorites. But, if you force me to stick with only one, it'll have to be Battleground The story of the "battered b*st*rds of Bastogne" at the Bulge.
molonlabe
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old timer
you missed 84 Charlie Mopic and Firebase Gloria. Two really good Viet Nam movies.
you missed 84 Charlie Mopic and Firebase Gloria. Two really good Viet Nam movies.
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