IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
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Every forum needs to have an expert on gay porn, thanks for being there for us.
sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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K1052
Elite Member
- Aug 21, 2003
- 46,046
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Paths of Glory
Das Boot
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Deer Hunter
Fury
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
Full Metal Jacket
Courage Under Fire
Das Boot
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Deer Hunter
Fury
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
Full Metal Jacket
Courage Under Fire
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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I can't say I enjoy a single John Wayne movie.
Hunt for Red October
The Battle of Algiers
Seven Samurai
Huh? Havent seen 1917, but I totally dont get the love/hype for Dunkirk. I saw it and just was not drawn into the story. My wife felt the same way.
sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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Good, but a long way from flawless. Mostly an inferior attempt to copy Band of Brothers.
Band of Brothers > The Pacific > Generation War > Generation Kill.
KMFJD
Lifer
- Aug 11, 2005
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Thin Red Line is my favourite movie of all time because it is not a war movie, but anti war, it's one of the few movies i will watch again and again, the older i get the more i hate the violence in our world and wish people would just get along
SteveGrabowski
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Same here. These are my top two war films, which look at the cost to the people instead of glorifying the killing.
- Threads (1984) - A young couple in Sheffield England (Ruth and Jimmy) find out they're having a baby right after the CIA topples the Iranian government via coup. The Soviets invade eastern Iran which causes the US to invade western Iran. We follow Ruth and Jimmy and their families plus the local leadership in Sheffield who have been given expanded wartime powers in a journey to the four minute warning and beyond. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - A 14 year-old boy Seita is left to raise his 4 year-old sister Setsuko after they escape (by the skin of his nuts) to a shelter during the 1945 firebombing of Kobe. But once they reach safety Seita finds out their mother didn't escape and has horrific burns all over her entire body, with no real chance of survival. Father was in the navy and is almost certainly dead. It's a struggle just to eat and death is around every corner. But Seita puts on a strong face, wanting to still give Setsuko a childhood, and does everything he can to make her smile while hiding the fact those are mommy's ashes he's carrying with him as his most important possession. Really enjoyed how this movie mirrored a lot of the struggles with poverty and starvation my grandmother, great uncle, and great grandmother dealt with in Aomori, Japan in a single parent household after my great grandfather was killed mining for the war effort. Also 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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SteveGrabowski
Diamond Member
- Oct 20, 2014
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Shouldn't a film set in an environment of mass killing be soul crushing though?Fuck that movie and fuck you for reminding me of it
MrSquished
Lifer
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Fenixgoon
Lifer
- Jun 30, 2003
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Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Zero Dark Thirty - more the unseen and ugly parts of war vs brutal combat..I left the theater with a very uncomfortable feeling)
Dunkirk was a great movie with some epic scenes, but I don't think it hit quite like the three above.
I was also really impressed with Fury.
Black Hawk Down
Zero Dark Thirty - more the unseen and ugly parts of war vs brutal combat..I left the theater with a very uncomfortable feeling)
Dunkirk was a great movie with some epic scenes, but I don't think it hit quite like the three above.
I was also really impressed with Fury.
Mr.IncrediblyBored
Lifer
- Jun 18, 2000
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All of human existence is soul crushing enough, that flick is just overt punishment.
It's like Ghibli waterboarding.
SteveGrabowski
Diamond Member
- Oct 20, 2014
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- Oct 10, 1999
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BurnItDwn
Lifer
- Oct 10, 1999
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Shoah.
I did not enjoy suffering through this.
Too real. Too much suffering. Painful to watch and listen to their stories.
It's too important not to watch.
We must ensure there is never a 4th reich at any and all cost.
I did not enjoy suffering through this.
Too real. Too much suffering. Painful to watch and listen to their stories.
It's too important not to watch.
We must ensure there is never a 4th reich at any and all cost.
Dr. Detroit
Diamond Member
- Sep 25, 2004
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Thin Red Line is a masterpiece. Terrence Malick is a genius Director and the cinematography is amazing, so beautiful.
Empire of the Sun does not get enough love as a war movie, its another film I rewatch every few years and I should have had it on my original post from 2019 - below.
Jarhead is another war-movie that continues to suck me in with multiple rewatches.
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