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Favorite movie military moment

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Originally posted by: K1052
In Gettysburg the charge of the 20th Maine when Col. Chamberlain yells "Bayonets!" and they charge down the hill at the incoming Confederates.

Runner up has to be the grave scene at the end of SPR where the old Ryan asks his wife to tell him he's a good man. (god damn you Spielberg)
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That scene always makes me shiver! One of the best!

From Gettysburgh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDhAmjmxYk

From Black Hawk Down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=781eSbj9oZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfb0fjLXclg

Band of Brothers, Breaking Point Ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGcNIwlVTE

From Patton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDecLiA_Qbw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7mbK5cuaA

From Empire of the Sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTINdZF-wGE (Damn you Spielberg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bej9Pmx7U0c

From We Were Soldiers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_bJoK7HXkQ


 
That shot in Transformers where the camera was behind the AC-130 gunship as it was pounding the scorpion guy on the ground. That was pure badassery.
 
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
That shot in Transformers where the camera was behind the AC-130 gunship as it was pounding the scorpion guy on the ground. That was pure badassery.
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i dont know, that was difficult to believe for me that they could accurately hit that target while moving in the air with US troops just 20 feet away.
 
Originally posted by: K1052

Runner up has to be the grave scene at the end of SPR where the old Ryan asks his wife to tell him he's a good man. (god damn you Spielberg)
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Ugh, I cry like a baby during that scene, I'm getting weepy eyed just thinking about it. What those guys did puts my military career to shame.

I think my favorite moment from a movie has to be the opening of Saving Private Ryan. Once again, makes today's conflict look like child's play.
 
Full Metal Jacket - when that one guy snaps and does a murder/suicide
Taps: The end where everyone gets slaughtered and Tom Cruise's character goes psycho
 
Originally posted by: Kwaipie
The BoB Bastogne episode has been mentioned a couple of times now. I was recently in the area and decided to drive down and have a look. The city is enormously pro-American, there are tributes all over the city, there is a nice memorial and a museum exhibit that has a section that recreates the environment and atmosphere of the battle of the bulge, with trees all over, loud artillery and dense fog. Afterwards, I visited a US Army cemetery in Belgium, the sheer number of gravesites instantly brings a tear to the eye. Very emotional place.
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and yet....somehow...90% of American's remain decidedly anti-French...😕

 
Originally posted by: KMc
Originally posted by: K1052

Runner up has to be the grave scene at the end of SPR where the old Ryan asks his wife to tell him he's a good man. (god damn you Spielberg)
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That one scene was the first time that I really appreciated the dichotomy of the feelings about world war between those who fought and those who didn't.

Those who were at home only saw the end result - victory for the US, heroism, freedom, etc.

Those who served relived the fear and trauma of battle, the loss of fallen comrades, and the hopelesness and frustration of a long military campaign. When they returned home, they were seen as heroes, but to themselves, they were physically and emotionally ravaged people who questioned their value to society every day for the rest of their lives.
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I swear...I've read this in an Ebert before...
 
Well, here I am, anonymous all right. With guys nobody really cares about. They come from the end of the line, most of 'em. Small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Van, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it, maybe if they're lucky a job waiting for them back at a factory, but most of 'em got nothing. They're poor, they're the unwanted, yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? They're the bottom of the barrel and they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves grunts, cause a grunt can take it, can take anything. They're the best I've ever seen, Grandma. The heart & soul.
 
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
That shot in Transformers where the camera was behind the AC-130 gunship as it was pounding the scorpion guy on the ground. That was pure badassery.
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I was thinking more of the part where the fighters took out Blackout.
 
Originally posted by: maddogchen
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
That shot in Transformers where the camera was behind the AC-130 gunship as it was pounding the scorpion guy on the ground. That was pure badassery.
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i dont know, that was difficult to believe for me that they could accurately hit that target while moving in the air with US troops just 20 feet away.
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If thye can't do that, then why does such a plane exist? It's not like it can hover.

Besides, we can launch a virtually unguided nuke around the world and have it accurate to within 9 ft (source: NOVA episode). I'm pretty sure we can shoot shells from low altitude and be accurate to within 20 ft.

Also, the plane was circling around the scorpion thing, so it only had to aim for one central point (roughly). It also probably slowed down for the run, and had computer assistance.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: Kwaipie
The BoB Bastogne episode has been mentioned a couple of times now. I was recently in the area and decided to drive down and have a look. The city is enormously pro-American, there are tributes all over the city, there is a nice memorial and a museum exhibit that has a section that recreates the environment and atmosphere of the battle of the bulge, with trees all over, loud artillery and dense fog. Afterwards, I visited a US Army cemetery in Belgium, the sheer number of gravesites instantly brings a tear to the eye. Very emotional place.
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and yet....somehow...90% of American's remain decidedly anti-French...😕
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We're not anti-french because of WWII.

Also, I can't speak for everyone, but I'm against the French Gov. Not the French people.
 
Originally posted by: adairusmc
The "Why We Fight" episode of Band of Brothers. When they are walking through the woods Picante (sp?) asks "Doesn't this remind you of Bastogne?". Then Luz replies "Yeah, now that you mention it. Except there is no snow, we have warm food in our belly's, and the trees arent fucking exploding from kraut artillery. Other than that, yeah, it kind of reminds me of Bastogne"
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Hahaha, that was a great part. :thumbsup:


I also liked the part when Spears runs right through all the Germans without shooting them, and gets in behind them all 🙂
 
All of Christopher Walken in Biloxi Blues.
All of Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge.

Oh, and how could I forget Chris Walken in Deer Hunter.
 
Originally posted by: Chunkee
what is a jelly doughnut doing in your footlocker!!!?
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lmao.

God I loved that movie. At least the first 40 minutes when they're in boot camp.


"I should castrate you so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world"
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: Kwaipie
The BoB Bastogne episode has been mentioned a couple of times now. I was recently in the area and decided to drive down and have a look. The city is enormously pro-American, there are tributes all over the city, there is a nice memorial and a museum exhibit that has a section that recreates the environment and atmosphere of the battle of the bulge, with trees all over, loud artillery and dense fog. Afterwards, I visited a US Army cemetery in Belgium, the sheer number of gravesites instantly brings a tear to the eye. Very emotional place.
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and yet....somehow...90% of American's remain decidedly anti-French...😕
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You do realize Bastogne \= french.
 
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