OT My Favourite War Film

[Capitaine Vengeur]

Of course, much of these movies are amongst my favourites, with a preference to early post WW2 movies, specially US for the great role playings, 12 o'clock high or objective Burma ...French can do good war movies too, although rare :

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYHarxB13E&feature=related

 

 

About La 317e Section: Director Pierre Schoendorffer has just died today at 83. A veteran of Dien Bien Phu, among the 1 out of 3 who survived the Viet POW camps, and the Academy Award winner 1967 for Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon

[RamblingSid]

I don't think Lucas had a copy of LOTR, but

he certainly had read The Hero With A Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell.

 

All lasting stories share universal themes:

Initiation,

Trial,

Transcendence

 

etc etc

 

War films would share similar tropes

[RamblingSid]

I'm far from an expert on Japanese military history, but considering that

1) when the emperor is god,

2) and the Bushido tradition requires unquestioning loyalty to one's daimyo or feudal lord,

3) and the emporer's generals dictate a "Divine Wind" to obliterate the Americans,

4) it was considered an honor to participate..

 

I wouldn't kill myself for my political leaders...hell, I wouldn't vote for half of them.

 

 

Hi BirdDogICT,

 

fair points and sorry if my rather off-hand comments caused any offence.

I know feelings can run high over Japanese conduct in ww2.

My old dad just hated them - and I mean hate, he couldn't

forgive and forget. He saw British pows - shared a ship with

some of them on the way home in '45.

 

Did you know that here in Oz we have to vote for our

lying sobs ?

 

Cheers

[Pips]

So many good films mentioned. Personally any war film that comes on I watch, enjoy them all. But my favourites? Have to be.......

 

Dawn Patrol

Battle Of Britain

Dambusters

[Lanzfeld]

Das Boot.

 

 

 

ALARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[33LIMA]

Closer to (my) home, not your average war film, but then, it wasn't your average war - AFN Clarke's 'Contact', very loosely based on his second NI tour with 3 Para in the 1980s, as described in his book of the same name. Apart from the fact the multiple patrol has more contacts than many batallions did, their webbing looks like it was filled with expanded polystyrene, and the platoon commander's SLR has a rotating disc rear sight from a Canadian C1, a more authentic portrayal could not, and probably never will, be achieved:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOQZZ_ULPI&feature=related

[themightysrc]

BTW, did I mention Come and See?

 

Pretty sure to put you off any form of organised violence so long as the world exists.