In
'The War Lover', where Steve McQueen's character takes his B-17 and 'beats up' the airfield - some simply incredible scenes of a Fortress flying mere feet above the ground, literally flying
between hangers - and he goes up, turns around and does it again! Amazing stunt flying.
The knife fight in
'Saving Private Ryan' was incredibly realistic and personal - that was a real horrifying scene for me to watch.
In
'Band of Brothers', the defeated German General's speech to his POW soldiers while the men of Easy languished in the jeep and listened to the translation - and the speech was about 'brothers in battle', and it just kind of completed the circle for me as far as soldiers on both sides experiencing similar emotions and experiences.
And all of
'Catch-22', which just demonstrated the abaolute madness of war.
"You can only get out of the war if you're crazy.... and if you WANT to get out of war, well..... you CAN'T be crazy, because war is madness, and EVERYBODY wants out.. Catch-22 - it's beautiful, isn't it?"
The scene in
'Saving Private Ryan', where the corpsman gets hit, and they're all gathered around him trying to help as he fades away and dies, crying for his mother...... jeez, what a powerful and moving scene.
and there are many more....
.... nice thread....
-whatever
-Lou