Skyviper Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 In the spirit of best Vietnam Film thread started by the clever macelena What do you think are some great war films in general? WW1 Sergent York WW2 (For me) Battle of Bulge The Big Red One Stalag 17 To Hell and Back Fantasy war stuff Three Kings Quote
Nightshade/PR Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 Personal Choices: WW1: All Quiet on the Western Front The Lost Battalion Paths of Glory The Blue Max WW2: Das Boot Tora, Tora, Tora Enemy at the Gates Cross of Iron Korean War: The Brotherhood of War Pork Chop Hill Steel Helmet Taeguki Sayonara Fantasy War Stuff: The Bedford Incident Threads Fail Safe Quote
+JediMaster Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 Well, there are more WWII films than all other war films put together, so that makes it hard. Perhaps we should eliminate some? Like Pearl Harbor, or Inglorious Basterds? 1 Quote
hrc Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 My humble list: WW2: Where Eagles dare Objective, Burma! Saving private Ryan Das Boot Uprising Other: The Beast Brave Heart (if considered a war movie) Quote
+Wrench Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 http://wrench1smog.com/wrench7.html and incomplete list, at best Quote
Snailman Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 No1: Letters from Iwo Jima No2: 9th Company No3: Hunt for caravans (Ohota na karavanami) No4: Braveheart (yea I consider it a war movie) No5: Talvisota (Winter war) No6: Tali-Ihantala 1944 (finnish) No7: Das Boot No8: Kelly's Heroes No9: Isoroku (Yamamoto) No10: Ogniem i Mieczem (Polish, medieval) No11: Grozovye Vorota 1-4 (chechniya) No12: Proriv (Vysota 776) (chechniya) Quote
macelena Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 Saving Private Ryan is probably what made the genre reborn. Mixed the grittiness of Vietnam war movies with the epic of 2nd world war movies. I don´t think it is fair to call it Pro American propaganda. I don´t remember a nother films wich portrayed terror that way. IMO, a good war film must be terrorific. Nuuf said about the landing. Look at all the scenes of US soldiers killing surrendering germans, "Don´t shoot, let them burn!" or the scene in wich two groups of soldiers corner a fleeing german squad in a trench near the beach and unload on them. Look at the messenger who runs to the killzone of an MG42, or vin diesel getting hit by the sniper with the kids so close and dying in front of his powerless fellows Look at the whole scene at the radar station, the death of the medic and the show of the german prisoner. The tanks scaring the living crap out of you just making the earth shake, the tracks noise was worse than the Jaws theme. The tanker who tries to escape just to get the haed shot up by the paras, who then get shredded by the automatic flak, or when the translator freezes on the stairs while the Jewish guy and the SS guy are fighting desperately with Max Martini bleeding to death. While it is often compared to the Thin Red Line, wich is as good, if there is one advantage i find in SPR is that you don´t need the voiceovers to deliver the message. If somebody needs a voiceover to get the point after watching either film, he wasted his time. 1 Quote
MAKO69 Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) You noobs what about this little flick. "JUST DON'T STAND THERE GET ONE UP"! William Holden taxied the panther on the deck, he insisted on it. His brother a Corsair pilot was killed during WW2. Edited February 2, 2013 by MAKO69 Quote
fallenphoenix1986 Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 As others have said portraying the horror of war is vital to a good war film, so I'm bringing "We Were Soldiers" into this one as well, if for no other reason than the scene where Jimmy gets picked up to be loaded into the medivac. Otheres worth mention, though admitedly all TV series or made for TV movies: "Das Boot", "Bravo Two Zero", "Band of Brothers" & "Mission of the Shark". Craig Quote
shotdown Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 So I'm I the only one who liked "A bridge too far"? Quote
Capitaine Vengeur Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 I love the films of the Sixties. Of course, you have 'The Blue Max', 'The Battle of Britain', or 'The Longest Day' which just lacks original colors to be perfect. But you also have older war episodes like 'Alamo', 'Zulu', 'Khartoum', 'Waterloo'... Few such super-productions on non-20th Century war episodes have been made before the 2000s... Quote
Skyviper Posted February 2, 2013 Author Posted February 2, 2013 So I'm I the only one who liked "A bridge too far"? Nope. Loved that film. That and the Great Escape I know that film was long but it was great to watch. Quote
FalconC45 Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 The Hunters. Granted they used F-84s as MiG-15s but hey the footage was awesome. Falcon Quote
+Fubar512 Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 No1: Letters from Iwo Jima No2: 9th Company No3: Hunt for caravans (Ohota na karavanami) No4: Braveheart (yea I consider it a war movie) No5: Talvisota (Winter war) No6: Tali-Ihantala 1944 (finnish) No7: Das Boot No8: Kelly's Heroes No9: Isoroku (Yamamoto) No10: Ogniem i Mieczem (Polish, medieval) No11: Grozovye Vorota 1-4 (chechniya) No12: Proriv (Vysota 776) (chechniya) I just picked up 9th Company on BluRay. It was very good, in fact, amazing in some respects, when one considers that it was done on a 9.5 million dollar budget. 1 Quote
Snailman Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 I just picked up 9th Company on BluRay. It was very good, in fact, amazing in some respects, when one considers that it was done on a 9.5 million dollar budget. Glad to hear )) Well I have seen it 30+ times... not because it is so good, but I was the translator for the hungarian subtitles :D Quote
+JediMaster Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 DSOHILTSWALTB is one that always makes me laugh. "...and ANIMALS that will be bread for SLAUGHTER!" Quote
B52STRATO Posted March 9, 2013 Posted March 9, 2013 Rather than start a new thread it would be better that I ask you here if anyone know one or more films/TV movies about the Falklands/Malvinas war ? While searching a bit better in my films I realized that "Illuminados por el Fuego" was the only one I have that dealt with this episode of History. Quote
macelena Posted March 9, 2013 Posted March 9, 2013 It took me a while to find it, but i once watched this on a short films show in TV. Quite haunting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEY1s7Y7mDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WFn96sxpSg Quote
B52STRATO Posted March 9, 2013 Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) Thank you, I will try to find it. And sorry about the "Iluminados" with only one "L" fault. May the BBC or HBO got some of their pretty nice TV films talking about this conflict. EDIT: I just remember of Tumbledown... Edited March 9, 2013 by B52STRATO Quote
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