In Platoon,there are 2 scenes[both in the final battle]that I don't get.Before the NVA attack,they show an NVA putting a "punchi stick"up in a tree limb hardly 10 steps from Bunny and JR's hole,which JR ran in to.Funny that they got that close before the attack and would'nt you want to run back instead of forward.Secondly,when the air strike comes,is that not napalm they're dropping?If so,why is the jungle full of vegetation afterwards[deer grazing]?What am I missing?Seen it 20 times as it's one of my favs.FramerT.

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A few in no particular order.

Stalingrad - After getting arrested and assigned to prisoner squads (?) The main characters lay in wait for the Russian tanks and infantry. Also when GG gets killed That film allways gets me, I keep watching it hoping that maybe this time they'll have some luck

Saving Private Ryan - Assaulting the machine gun emplacements around the ruined outpost, nasty stuff that.

633 Squadron - The test flights in Scotland.

Memphis Belle - When the bombadier resists dropping early and takes another pass.

Platoon - When the soldiers are terrorising and then burning the village. This was a real moment for me as I first watched it, aged about 14, and thought 'wow'. Then when I watched it a year later I thought 'Oh my god'. I must have done some growing up between viewings.

Good topic!

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All right guys, I need to post here because I've just decided on a new favorite scene:


The Scene in the Movie ZULU where the Zulu's are forming up for a final charge, and begin their primative tribal chant.

Lt. Chard: "Do you think the Welsh can do better Private?"
Private: Hard to say sir, they have a mighty good bass section. No top tenors though, thats for sure."

*Silence*

Private: "Meeeen of Harlech stop your dreaming, cant you see their spear points gleaming?..

And the whole group joins in.


*I feel a shiver down my spine when i see that scene, it possessed me to purchase the film on DVD.


Damn good scene


CvM

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Well, gotta revive this thread:


"I'm watching him, I'm a lifeguard..."


from the Great Escape

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"The Bridge on the River Kwai"

When Sir Alec Guiness' battalion gets into the camp whistling. [img]smile.gif[/img] GREAT SCENE!

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How can you have a favourite scene from in war movie thread and not mention the helicopter attack scene, with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" playing over the loudspeakers? A fantastic piece of filmaking.




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Steiners confrontation with the SS Officer commanding troops overseeing the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto.

"He reminds me of something that I occasionally pick up on my shoe in the gutter! Very unpleasant, on a hot day. And if you have the dubious honor of commanding the senseless slaughter, then I'd advise you to keep him downwind at all times! That is, of course, if you can tell the difference anymore."

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Hell Is For Heroes! Final scene of Steve Mcqueen's self-sacrifice by hurling himself and the satchel charge into the bunker. What was that one? Bataan? where the movie ends with a tough as nails soldier manning a MG against Japanese, knowing his end is near. I really liked Revolution with Al Pacino at the end of the battle where woman who fought with cannon crew takes vigil over a somber battfield and sings beautiful song of liberty.

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Bump!

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OK!

'Too Late the Hero' when Michael Caine and the other guy, can't think of his name, run zig zag across the field to the British base.

'Saving Private Ryan' All the Paras jump on the tank trying to kill the crew and a 20mm gun comes around the corner.

'Saving private ryan' opening scene.......come on what a scene, if ever you wanted to be put off joining up that would be it!

'Thin Red Line' The closing Credits, thank Christ what poor, poor movie I don't care who was in it!

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With you on The Thin Red Line... Apart from when Woody Harrelson gets his arse blown off... That made me giggle...

Anyway, best scenes...

Black Hawk Down... Most of it but one of the best is when the base wallah takes out the techincal truck with his grenade launcher. Great film...

When We Were Soldiers... The sniper from Saving Private Ryan showing up as a photo journalist and showing that he aint lost any of his weapons skill in the years between WW2 and vietnam... Nor has he aged...

Cross of Iron... Many scenes again! But the best is the start! Taking out the Russian mortar bunker is fab, specially the slow mo! 'Good kill..'

Kellys Heroes... ALL OF IT! But the Wild West walk down the high street of Claremont gets me giggling everytime!

Enemy at the GAtes... Anytime when the Russians get shot! Why didnt Ed Harris pop Jude Law and put us all out our misery! But I like the start... Maybe the Stukas had something to do with that...

And Hellboy... The SS assasin...

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fav movies Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Full Metal Jacket (GO R LEE!!!), umm Stalingrad, Black Hawk Down, and er....... Apocolypse(sp?) Now i know i cant spell [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The scene in Enemy at the Gates in which Khruschev meets the political officers of the Stalingrad army. Both Hoskins and Fiennes did great work in that scene.

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Stalag 17-The escape scene at the end when Sefton reveals that Price is really a krout spy. Then they throw Price out of the barracks and the German's shoot him. Then Sefton and Lt. Dunbar escape. After they escape comes the best ending line of any movie in the history of the known world:"Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. Did ya ever think of that?"

The Finnish movie "Winter war" : all the Red Army attacks with the waves of men attacking and getting shoot dead. ( surprised?)

Stalingrad: T-34 attack and fighting in the city.

Enemy at the gates: the view over Volga to Stalingrad, getting over Volga, and the first sniping scene at the beginning of the film when Zaitsev gets coolly several kills after getting the rifle from the commissar.

Pearl Harbor: The uncut scene of the main attack.

Saving private...: The landing phase to the beach!! Awesome footage!

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in band of brothers,the bit where lt spiers runs toward the troops pinned down and the germans fire an '88 round at him and only just misses!
then he runs through the german lines to link up to the second platoon then runs back again the germans were so shocked they never fired staight away!! brilliant and true!!

Shmoozy I know, but Elliot Gould waving the armour over the Bailey Bridge at Son? In A Bridge too far, 2nd is same movie, the armour moving over Nijmegan bridge towards the Yank paras, tension and music in both scenes was a bit of a rush...

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Band of Brothers: In Crossroads at the end when the men are marching off to fight the Germans in what would be the Battle of the Bulge.

Battle of the Bulge: When the "Panzers" launch their attack through the forests.

Patton: When his troops are marching through the forests with the tanks, and being fired upon by the Germans, plus when the Germans invade the Ardennes.

I pitty the man tha hear the pipes an isna a scotsman
Red Beret.

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In honOUR of the up-coming release on April 22nd, to DvD of Merrill's Marauders: My favorite scenes in that movie were when Merrill and his Marauders sneak up to the railyards at Myitkyina (SP?) and pronounced: "mit chin aw." They rush through a concrete maze fighting the Japanese garrison there. Really were some great scenes. From one moment to another, they did not know who was in front of them and who was behind them.

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You guys mentioned a lot of scenes that I liked so here is one scene from the movie Big Red One that comes to mind.
The scene is Omaha Beach (again!) with Lee Marvin shooting at Mark Hamil to force him to go on with his bangalore explosives.
Another would be from the Bridge Too Far where US paratroopers were rowing across the river chanting "Hail Mary, full of grace" to keep time.

Private Ryan.....at the end, when "rabbit" gets back from luring the German column their way. The ground is shaking, everyone is getting set for the attack.

Kelly's Heroes......when Oddball leads his squad of Shermans out of the railroad tunnel, music blasting away and attacks the rail station.

Where Eagles Dare.....the fight on the cable cars and the chase at the end.

A Bridge Too Far......when 30 corps first starts out and runs into a German ambush.

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