Best War Movie?

[HonkeyDonk]

GLORY!!!

 

[rbhawcroft]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: rbhawcroft

Originally posted by: CzarDefinetly Full Metal Jacket for me

good but not enough action for me.guns of navarone was good. ap now, platoon,does anyone know if there were sequels to platoon?commando (joke)

havent seen guns of navarone, but platoon was good, mostly because they showed THE CANNON in action

this post should be changed to the best war movie one liners:

mine is:

Full Metal Jacket where the green reporter is in the chopper, and the machine gun man is shooting peasants in the fields

geek: 'are you sure that thay are VC?'

gunman: 'nah, but I dont pay for the ammo.'

 

[Anubis]

tora tora tora
bridge on the river kwai
guns of naverone
Zulu

 

[syzygy]

all quiet on the western front (1930)
paths to glory (1957)
battleship potemkin (1925) - technically about a naval mutiny.
platoon (1986)
gone with the wind (1939)
saving private ryan (1998)
beach red (1967)
apocalpyse now (1979) - forget the recent redux version
the bridge on the river kwai (1957)
das boot (1981) - short version
grand illusion (1937)
the killing fields (1984)
braveheart (1995)
kagemusha (1980)

 

[CraigRT]

Full Metal Jacket.

 

[goob2k]

Not mentioned yet:
Gettysburg (made for TV but had a theatrical release, I believe)
Andersonville (made for TV- TNT Original)
Three Kings

Already mentioned:
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
The Big Red One
We Were Soldiers
Apocalypse Now Redux (better than the original because of the French Plantation scene, IMO)
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes

EDIT: Add "The Lost Battalion"- excellent movie that was on A&E a while back

 

[HombrePequeno]

I'd have to say Tora Tora Tora and The Lost Battalion.

 

[OatMan]

How could I forget

Paths of Glory - Douglas and Kubric, waaay ahead of its time

All's quiet on the western front


Sorry if someone already got these, i kinda kept seeing the same ones over and over and might have missed 'm

 

[DorkBoy]

The Thin Red Line gets my vote

 

[montanafan]

Can't say what's the best, but just wanted to add a few good ones that haven't been mentioned:

Shenandoah - Jimmy Stewart (1965)
Schindler's List
Casablanca
Mister Roberts
Mrs. Miniver
The Deer Hunter
Fail Safe
Red Dawn
Testament
Three Kings
M*A*S*H
The Patriot

 

[kami]

SPR no contest

 

[YetioDoom]

Full Metal Jacket
Glory

Tigerland? I enjoyed it, but no one else has mentioned it, so maybe there's something wrong with it that I didn't notice...

 

[Hellblast]

Das Boot

Hllblast

 

[Lola]

Schindler's List

 

[440sixpack]

Sometimes ya gotta look past the big-budget films (although I did think SPR and BHD were good).

Stalingrad
Platoon
Johnny Got His Gun - y'know, from the Metallica "One" video.
Sgt. York
The Lost Battalion
Zulu Dawn
Glory

 

[Buddhist]

Das Boot (Long Version, in German with Subtitles.)

It really hits what war is about on many different levels.

My second choice would probably be either Stalingrad or Saving Private Ryan.

-M.T.O

 

[TallBill]

it have to be an action based? or simply war?

if not action...

life is beautiful


otherwise... gosh.. i dunno

 

[microAmp]

I've always like Red Dawn.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: webnewland
Saving private ryan. Altho i havn't see we were soldiers and windtalkers

To my knowledge, Windtalkers is complete and utter crap.

we were soldiers was OK.. it was SO frickin obvious in trying to bring out emotion.. GHEY.. and windtalkers was for polesmokers..

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: 440sixpack
Sometimes ya gotta look past the big-budget films (although I did think SPR and BHD were good).

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn? Wasn't it the sequel to the original Zulu? Haven't seen Zulu Dawn, but I have heard ALOT of bad things about it. Clearly, it's not as good as the original Zulu.

 

[Whitecloak]

bridge on the river kwai and saving ryan's privates were good.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

return of the jedi... no other war movie had a glowing light sabre

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

well except for the 4-5 other star wars movies and all the parodies out there

 

[jjones]

Too many great war movies to pick just one. I like most of those already mentioned but a great one that's missing is Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17".

 

[snow patrol]

Thin Red Line
Stalingrad
When Trumpets Fade
Saving Private Ryan
Tigerland
Band of Brothers