 Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,821
Bar Shake
|
Bar Shake
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,821 |
Quote:
Another couple of good films are "waterloo" which had an amazing amount of extras made up of soviet soldiers and "The battle of Britain" which used so many planes that the film makers had one of the worlds largest fleets of warplanes available to them.
I can't believe people have missed "Where eagles dare", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Bridge on the river Kwai" and "The eagle has landed", all of em classics.
Mind you some of the old British black and white films were quite good as well. "The dambusters","cockleshell heroes" and "Dunkirk" were pretty good.
But I guess that quite a lot of old British films don't actually get aired in the US very much.
Look back a few posts, mate  I got one of 'em anyway.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,164 Likes: 1
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,164 Likes: 1 |
Patton
Dirty Dozen
Green Beret
Kellys Heros
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,459 Likes: 1
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,459 Likes: 1 |
Paths of Glory, was on the telly the other night, did not know it was banned in France till 1970something.
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 110
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 110 |
Ok, some good war movies sure but no one here yet mentioned the greatest of them all: Tuntematon sotilas ( The Unknown Soldier) of Väinö Linnas war novel.
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,096 Likes: 2
Fe Butt
|
|
Fe Butt
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,096 Likes: 2 |
Quote:
...But I guess that quite a lot of old British films don't actually get aired in the US very much.
Actually Graham, TMC(Turner Classic Movies) channel plays quite a few british films over here. In fact one of my favo(u)rites is 1942's "In Which We Serve", directed by David Lean, and starring Noel Coward and John Mills.
And, without question, another of my all-time favs ever is one that while not strictly a "war picture" per se, it does have a military theme, 1943's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", directed by british film industry greats Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,096 Likes: 2
Fe Butt
|
|
Fe Butt
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 20,096 Likes: 2 |
And BTW folks, I haven't noticed anybody mentioning "Three Kings" yet. I think that's one of the better war films made somewhat recently.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 232
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 232 |
Letters from Iwo Jima... Ken Watanabe is a fantastic actor.
I really enjoyed the way Eastwood blended it with Flags of our Fathers so that there were points in the movie where you were seeing the same scene/action but from the other point of view.
ArGee
14 Thunderbird LT
Wasn't sure if Red or Black was faster, so I got a Red & Black one...
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 23,227 Likes: 62
Fe Butt
|
Fe Butt
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 23,227 Likes: 62 |
No0t really a war movie in the classic sense but Soldier with Kurt Russel is a good one.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 8,639 Likes: 3
Old Hand
|
|
Old Hand
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 8,639 Likes: 3 |
I can't remember the name if it, but I always liked the movie that featured wallace Beery as a destroyer captain. He spotted a Uboat charging it's batteries just out of range of the ships guns. When he went after it, a cable got tangled in the screws (propellers), stopping the ship. Wallace Beery threw his hat on the deck and said, "I volunteered into this mans navy and I'm volunteerin' out!"
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 436
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 436 |
Quote:
I can't remember the name if it, but I always liked the movie that featured wallace Beery as a destroyer captain. He spotted a Uboat charging it's batteries just out of range of the ships guns. When he went after it, a cable got tangled in the screws (propellers), stopping the ship. Wallace Beery threw his hat on the deck and said, "I volunteered into this mans navy and I'm volunteerin' out!"
Was it "This Man's Navy" (1945)?
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,419
Oil Expert
|
|
Oil Expert
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,419 |
Enemy At The Gates - great movie about a Russian sniper.
Cheers, Richard
~~~~~~~~~~~~
09 America, Staintune Pipes, K&N, Breathe, Hagon Nitros, AI & O2 removed, tune 20184 (modified), MTX-L a/f gauge
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 23,227 Likes: 62
Fe Butt
|
|
Fe Butt
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 23,227 Likes: 62 |
Quote:
Enemy At The Gates - great movie about a Russian sniper.
Is that the one with Jude Law as the sniper? If so very good flick.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 10,730 Likes: 6
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 10,730 Likes: 6 |
Yeah, him and Ed Harris. Really good movie.
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,883
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,883 |
I'm not really into War Movies, but I really like
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Good Morning Vietnam
oh and
Sahara (Humphry Bogart not Matthew McConaughey)
~Brent
Last edited by BCarnage; 11/13/2009 10:06 PM.
~Brent
-----
"Nothing you can be is more terrible than what I am." ~ 2007 Black Speedmaster!!
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385 |
The Longest Day.
And on the lighter side, The War of the Roses.
06 in Mulberry. AI, Dunstalls, Nology coils, TTP
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
-Oliver Cromwell
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 5
Complete Newb
|
|
Complete Newb
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 5 |
only saw one other mention of this movie but hands down
The Big Red One
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 591
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 591 |
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385 |
06 in Mulberry. AI, Dunstalls, Nology coils, TTP
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
-Oliver Cromwell
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 2,647
Loquacious
|
|
Loquacious
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 2,647 |
06 America 904
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 385 |
There are great documentary(s) called WWII in HD running on the history channel now. If you miss the early ones, they run again late.
06 in Mulberry. AI, Dunstalls, Nology coils, TTP
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
-Oliver Cromwell
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 380
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 380 |
going thru a devorce so my vote is "war of the roses"
Scottie
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,690
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,690 |
|
|
|
Re: Favorite War Movie?
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 283
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 283 |
633 Squadron
Battle of Britain
****** Busters
(****** = large retaining wall with lots of water behind it. So refreshing to see their efforts to retain freedom of speech were not in vain!!)
|
|
|
|
|
