There are so many great War Films. What's your favorite? Pick one of the Following: 1) Saving Private Ryan 2) Thin Red Line 3) To Hell and Back 4) Platoon 5) Full Metal Jacket 6) Das Boot 7) The Longest Day 8) Bridge on the River Kwai 9) Three Kings 10) U-571 Personally, I like the Vietnam Era war films. Platoon is a great one, and Full Metal Jacket is such a great look at life in boot camp. However, for a WW2 Film, I'd say my favorite is probably a toss-up. Either The Longest Day or To Hell and Back. Both are great films. ------------------ "Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!" - Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe (Guadalcanal, January 13, 1943)
Full Metal Jacket, the Thin Red Line, The Longest Day... I like those movies. SPR is too much Hollywood IMHO, and i saw Das Boot so many years ago i frankly don't remember. I was a child. I suppose all those movies are good "entertainements", but i never saw to hell and back, 3 kings and u 571.
In no particular order SPR - I don;t like the Hollywood, I love the opening scene. Das Boot - a classic beyond reproach Thin Red Line - solid all round Kelly's Heroes - the first time realistic Tigers were used, and the Germans spoke german Stalingrad - a little boring, but realistic Apocalypse Now - favourite war film of all time
Platoon was very inaccurate and made by an anti-war director (although olli stone did serve he was suposed to be the main charecter, doubtful of the cause and heavily into drugs) the Movie paints an inacurate picture of the men fighting the war were all poor and and of the working class fighting a war for the rich and spoiled. Almost like the Communist wars. It just wasn't something that really gave an accurate picture, aside from the message i love the movie. Apocalypse now, get the over all point? Col. Kurtz is truly enlightened and he knows he cant spread the enlightened word so instead Martin sheen is leaving at the end bearing the knowledge of this "madman" kurtz to lead the newer younger generation into a new age (the symbolism of the young natives looking at him and dropping their weapons) ------------------ Out side is America!
1. Saving Private Ryan (the opening scene is one of the best in the Cinema History) 2. Full Metall Jacket 3. A movie wiht Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, about a group of British-american spies in austria: I don't remember the name, something about "eagles", but I'm not sure
One film I both hate and love; The Dirty Dozen. I mean c'mon, a black GI posing as a Wehrmacht soldier?!?!
Although not characterized as a "WW2" or "war" film (supposed to be 1936 and more of an action/adventure genre), how about Raiders of the Lost Ark? It gave us all kinds of Nazi aspects. Just to name a few: -Gestapo agents -Luftwaffe -U-boats -Hundreds of Afrika Corps soldiers -authentic weapons (i.e mp-40s - I love these) Hey, what more could a WW2 enthusiast ask for
10 best war movies, thats tough. 1)Stalingrad 2)To Hell and Back 3)The Enemy Below 4)A Bridge Too Far 5)The Longest Day 6)The Battle of Britain 7)Zeppelin 8)Hannible Brooks 9)Hell To Eternity 10)Halls of Montezuma 11)Devils Brigade 12)Where Eagles Dare 13)The Great Escape 14)The Guns of Navarone 15)The Sands of Iwo Jima 16)The Desert Rats 17)Anzacs: "The War Down Under" 18)Alls Quiet On The Western Front 19)Desperate Journey 20)Lafayette Escadrille 21)Sink The Bismarck 22)The Edge of Darkness 23)Battle of the Bulge 24)Escape From Colditz 25)U-571 26)Too Late The Hero sorry-I couldnt stop. PS: The Thin Red Line, sucked big ones, both new and old versions.