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What's your favorite war movie, and why?
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I'll second 'Sgt. York', and although The 'Great Escape' is more entertaining for most I think that 'Stalag 17' is a better movie. Another one that I thought that pretty was well done was 'Battleground'. 'Fail Safe' was unnerving for me as I remember the Cuban missile crisis, even though I was just a kid on an Air Force base in Japan at the time.
I really liked the movie "Braveheart" great action scenes albeit historically flawed.
Can't forget "Apocolypse Now"; "Full Metal Jacket"; "Patton"; "Platoon"; and many others.
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Can't forget "Apocolypse Now"; "Full Metal Jacket"; "Patton"; "Platoon"; and many others.
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"The bible is no mere book, but a living power that conquers all that oppose it"
*Napoleon Bonaparte
Gal 6:7
Gotta weigh in on this one...
Last of the Mohicans and Gallipoli, along with Saving Private Ryan, show how terrifying and horrible war can be.
No one has mentioned The Warlord, with Charlton Heston and Richard Boone. It's the 11th C., and a young lord comes to take possession of his lands. Gets involved with a girl in the village. Before you know it, the peasants are revolting, with help from Frisian invaders. Heston and his men hole up in their tower and endure a siege. Spear fu, ax fu, sword fu, arrow fu, torch fu, burning oil fu, battering ram fu, and fireball and catapult fu. Four stars. Dirty Bob says check it out.
My absolute favorites, though, are Das Boot (in the original German with subtitles, although the dubbed version is pretty good), and Zulu. Just 140 of the 24th Regiment of Foot of the South Wales Borderers face 4,000 Zulu warriors at the station at Roarke's Drift in 1879. Stanley Baker plays Lieutenant John Chard, who is in charge of this desperate situation. Facing thousands of opponents with single-shot Martini-Henry rifles and bayonets gives a new meaning to courage. The scenes with the Zulu tribesmen chanting, singing and pounding their shields are awesome, and the score has a wonderfully menacing quality. Both this and Das Boot really should be seen on the biggest screen possible. Yes, my friends, Zulu is the reason that you must buy a home theater system.
Honorable mentions:
Guns of Navarone
Cross of Iron
Platoon (in spite of Oliver Stone's politics)
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Hearts of Darkness (documentary about making Apoc. Now)
Red Dawn
Uncommon Valor
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Last of the Mohicans and Gallipoli, along with Saving Private Ryan, show how terrifying and horrible war can be.
No one has mentioned The Warlord, with Charlton Heston and Richard Boone. It's the 11th C., and a young lord comes to take possession of his lands. Gets involved with a girl in the village. Before you know it, the peasants are revolting, with help from Frisian invaders. Heston and his men hole up in their tower and endure a siege. Spear fu, ax fu, sword fu, arrow fu, torch fu, burning oil fu, battering ram fu, and fireball and catapult fu. Four stars. Dirty Bob says check it out.
My absolute favorites, though, are Das Boot (in the original German with subtitles, although the dubbed version is pretty good), and Zulu. Just 140 of the 24th Regiment of Foot of the South Wales Borderers face 4,000 Zulu warriors at the station at Roarke's Drift in 1879. Stanley Baker plays Lieutenant John Chard, who is in charge of this desperate situation. Facing thousands of opponents with single-shot Martini-Henry rifles and bayonets gives a new meaning to courage. The scenes with the Zulu tribesmen chanting, singing and pounding their shields are awesome, and the score has a wonderfully menacing quality. Both this and Das Boot really should be seen on the biggest screen possible. Yes, my friends, Zulu is the reason that you must buy a home theater system.
Honorable mentions:
Guns of Navarone
Cross of Iron
Platoon (in spite of Oliver Stone's politics)
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Hearts of Darkness (documentary about making Apoc. Now)
Red Dawn
Uncommon Valor
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The Longest Day, and Patton, both because of their factual accuracy and their faithfulness to the books.
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You guys who keep citing "Red Dawn" must be joking. That has to have been one of the stupidest premises that I have ever seen. The footage was good, but the whole thing was so stupid in concept that I nearly vomited.
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I still see that nobody has mentioned Stalingrad. This is a color German import with subtitles that was made in 1993 from the producer of Das Boot. Everyone who appreciates war movies owes it to themselves to see this movie. It's in the foreign section in alot of Blockbusters. Some very rough street fighting. Enjoy... well maybe thats not the right word, how about experience it.
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It's embarassing to admit that I live in the town that was the model for the town in Red Dawn - Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The movie was silly.
I'm also surprised that nobody else has mentioned "A Midnight Clear", one of the most moving stories I've ever seen. An American patrol encounters a German patrol at Xmas: the Americans want to be left alone, and the Germans want to live long enough to get home.
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I'm also surprised that nobody else has mentioned "A Midnight Clear", one of the most moving stories I've ever seen. An American patrol encounters a German patrol at Xmas: the Americans want to be left alone, and the Germans want to live long enough to get home.
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Hey, Hugh!
You're right that Red Dawn is silly, but it's what I call a "guilty pleasure." It's an admittedly mediocre movie that I still enjoy, probably because it echoes a high school fantasy that my buds and I would talk about sometimes, back in the 70s, when the USSR was a serious threat. "What would you do if...?" Besides, it was directed by John Milius, who is definitely "one of us." He's a firearms collector, and along with very few others, is a Hollywood figure who believes in the 2nd Amendment.
You're right that Red Dawn is silly, but it's what I call a "guilty pleasure." It's an admittedly mediocre movie that I still enjoy, probably because it echoes a high school fantasy that my buds and I would talk about sometimes, back in the 70s, when the USSR was a serious threat. "What would you do if...?" Besides, it was directed by John Milius, who is definitely "one of us." He's a firearms collector, and along with very few others, is a Hollywood figure who believes in the 2nd Amendment.
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Two films I almost forgot are the Akira Kurosawa epics "THE SEVEN SAMURAI" and "RAN". It gets my blood moving to see thousands of arrows flying across the sky and landing beside sword wielding samurai. I hope I don't come across as a freak for saying this.
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