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What do you guys think are the best war movies of all time? :dance

Hmm.. Probably Black Hawk Down for me..
Saving Private Ryan was pretty good too.. ^^
Platoon is the latest one that I've seen.. It was just alright..

The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Guns Of Navarrone
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Patton
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far
PT 109
The Flying Tigers
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Raid On Rommel
Thin Red Line
The Deer Hunter
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines
Flight Of the Intruder
We Were Soldiers
The Bridge On The River Kwai
All Quiet On The Western Front
Guadalcanal Diary
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pork Chop Hill
The Green Berets
Glory
Gettysburg
Braveheart
Troy

Apocolypse Now Redux was suck.. I didn't like it at all..

Star Wars lol

LoL.. I'm sure you know what he means when he asks for the best war movies..

Yeah my favorite are Saving Private Ryan Black Hawk down the band of brothers series and we were soldiers

"Black Hawk Down" isn't a war movie. It's about a downed chopper/failed rescue in Somalia. "Schindler's List", I wouldn't include that either, personally. That dealt more with the Holocaust than actual combat. "Full Metal Jacket", meh. The 2nd half of the film is the only part that deals with war, and honestly, it's not all that great. It's more an individual character study. "Apocalypse Now" bored me to tears, and that too was more of a character study in Sheen, and him witnessing the atrocities of war.

That said:

Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Pearl Harbor (**** you, I loved it)
Platoon
Manchurian Candidate (1962 - One of the few Cold War films)

Platoon, hands down. The most realistic depiction of the Vietnam war ever in a film.

I also love Full Metal Jacket with a passion, but platoon is the better film.

What about Pearl Harbour?

My vote goes to Platoon.

I said I loved "Pearl Harbor". I don't care what others think, honestly. If I did, I wouldn't have lasted here this long.

Keep in mind, the thread is "Best" war movie, not "Your favorite" war movies.

Pearl Harbour barely even falls in the "war movie" genre, it's more of a sappy soap opera love story with WW2 as a plot device.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
"Black Hawk Down" isn't a war movie. It's about a downed chopper/failed rescue in Somalia. "Schindler's List", I wouldn't include that either, personally. That dealt more with the Holocaust than actual combat. "Full Metal Jacket", meh. The 2nd half of the film is the only part that deals with war, and honestly, it's not all that great. It's more an individual character study. "Apocalypse Now" bored me to tears, and that too was more of a character study in Sheen, and him witnessing the atrocities of war.

That said:

Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Pearl Harbor (**** you, I loved it)
Platoon
Manchurian Candidate (1962 - One of the few Cold War films)
Manchurian Candidate is a war film?

Originally posted by BackFire
Platoon, hands down. The most realistic depiction of the Vietnam war ever in a film.

I also love Full Metal Jacket with a passion, but platoon is the better film.

Have you ever seen Hamburger Hill? It's a more realistic version of Vietnam than either Platoon or Full Metal Jacket.

Originally posted by *LEGATO*
Manchurian Candidate is a war film?

The original 1962 version was themed around the Cold War. It's more "war" related in the political/conspiratorial sense, but is more of a war film than "Schindler's List", IMO.

Most new age "war" films, even those that are "true", have some sort of underlying story, no matter if it's sappy or dramatic, or all blood and guts. I still think "Pearl Harbor" is a war epic, because the main focus is the war itself, and considering the actual LENGTH of the damn thing, which can really only be rivaled by "A Bridge Too Far".

Originally posted by PRO-PAIN
Have you ever seen Hamburger Hill? It's a more realistic version of Vietnam than either Platoon or Full Metal Jacket.

Wasn't impressed by hamburger hill, platoon is known as the more realistic of the two. Everyone I know who was in the vietnam war says that it not only captures the insanity of the combat, but the self destructing mentality that a lot of people had. Plus everything that happened in Platoon happend to Oliver Stone while he was serving in the war.

yeah for me it'd be:
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket (despite the fact only half the movie was in the ACTUAL war, i still think they training half helped show the mentality and develop the characters)

There are really too many to mention

The Great Escape is a great movie.

For realism you'd have to go with Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and parts of Saving private Ryan.

Two of my favourites are also Patton and The Devil's Brigade.

Platoon
Tears of the Sun
Pearl Harbour
Windtalkers

**** I love those four movies, there are other great war movies too, like:

Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Schindler's List
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Glory
Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)
Manchurian Candidate
Casshern (has war elements in the film)
Das Boot

Those are some favourites.

Hamburger Hill was much better than Platoon and was based on the true story of taking that hill by US Airborne! Saving Private Ryan was awesome too!

Here are some others:

-Midway
-Sands of Iwo Jima
-Bridge on the River Kwai
-Dirty Dozen
-Big Red One
-Boys in Company C
-Band of Brothers(TV movie but awesome)
-Pork Chop Hill
-Memphis Belle

ALL TIME BEST hmmm, SPR hands down. EVery single aspect of that movie is pretty much authentic. Minus parts of the storyline. The battles, never been done better, never been done more realistic, and personally i dont think it will ever be bested. I could go on forever about why this movie is the best war film of all time but i wont write a novel.

Deer Hunter, Platoon, We Were Soldiers, Hamburger Hill was pretty good, Casualties of War was pretty good. Windtalkers was cheesy, but had somke fun scenes.

I agree with Cinadd about BHD. It is a combat movie, not a war movie. I havent seen Tae Guk Gi, but i really really want to. If anyone has seen it, send me a message about the movie, and give it all away i dont care, i wanna know about the battles and stuff, i heard it was close to SPR but not as harsh. !!!

Oo I forgot Dirty Dozen and Casualties of War, I enjoyed those too.

Originally posted by Omegaman
Hamburger Hill was much better than Platoon and was based on the true story of taking that hill by US Airborne! Saving Private Ryan was awesome too!

Here are some others:

-Midway
-Sands of Iwo Jima
-Bridge on the River Kwai
-Dirty Dozen
-Big Red One
-Boys in Company C
-Band of Brothers(TV movie but awesome)
-Pork Chop Hill
-Memphis Belle

Hamburger Hill may have had a more realistic take on battle, but there is more to war then just the fighting, and Platoon captures the mentality of the soldiers of the Vietnam War far more then any other film.

I'd have to say Pearl Harbor. It's based on a real story and it's very gripping. Who else agrees?

the love story wasnt all that fascinating to me. I think they should have made the movie like this. The first half is the political gambling and the second half is the attack and then it should ed with our planes flying to Japan with the atom bombs and through the credits it would show live footage of it. i personally would have enjoyed that much more.

Platoon

Yeah i did mean the best not favorite i forgot I would have to say the best all time is eather We Were Soldiers or Saving Private Ryan

I don't see anything really good about Apocolypse Now..

Me either, personally. Try stomaching "Redux", which is closer to 3 hours of the damn movie. The whole thing just seems like such a non-event, and then the non-climax with crazy ass voodoo Marlon Brando hidden in a temple stating the obvious.

Agreed, always thought Apocolypse Now was way to silly or a war movie. Didn't care for it either.

the best scene in apoc now was the helicopter assault. where robert duvall stated some of the best lines in a movie ever. i love the smell of napalm in the morning and where is my surfboard!! lol even though the over all movie sucked, that scene is a classic

yea.. the guy talks too much

Originally posted by BlazingBarrells
ALL TIME BEST hmmm, SPR hands down. EVery single aspect of that movie is pretty much authentic. Minus parts of the storyline. The battles, never been done better, never been done more realistic, and personally i dont think it will ever be bested. I could go on forever about why this movie is the best war film of all time but i wont write a novel.

Deer Hunter, Platoon, We Were Soldiers, Hamburger Hill was pretty good, Casualties of War was pretty good. Windtalkers was cheesy, but had somke fun scenes.

I agree with Cinadd about BHD. It is a combat movie, not a war movie. I havent seen Tae Guk Gi, but i really really want to. If anyone has seen it, send me a message about the movie, and give it all away i dont care, i wanna know about the battles and stuff, i heard it was close to SPR but not as harsh. !!!

windtalkers isnt cheesy

i'd have to say Schindlers List hands down. i also liked lawrence of Arabia.

"Windtalkers" was silly, IMO, and honestly, not really a war film. It's along the same lines of "Black Hawk Down". Couple of marines are dropped in to protect Navajo troops once they take their smoke signal gimmick, and the rest of the movie is a pissed off, drunk Nic Cage. I love the guy, but this is John Woo's worst. I liked "Paycheck" better than this, even.

I have yet to see Windtalkers, does it concentrate, realistically, on the Navajo people or are they just a small part of the film?

Reviews said the surprise was that the thematic elements were geared towards the Navajo people and their methods of communication, and how "fair" it was to them, in this instance, smoke signals. The WW2 backstory is secondary.

Its funny how the backstory was larger than the navajo indian scenes. There was BARELY any language, one ten second clip of the japanese wondering if it was english underwater. IMO the movie is about the war, or should i say the fighting of the war, than the indian story.

I liked Enemy at the Gates

It's heaps dramatic..

Originally posted by PRO-PAIN
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Guns Of Navarrone
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Patton
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far
PT 109
The Flying Tigers
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Raid On Rommel
Thin Red Line
The Deer Hunter
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines
Flight Of the Intruder
We Were Soldiers
The Bridge On The River Kwai
All Quiet On The Western Front
Guadalcanal Diary
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pork Chop Hill
The Green Berets
Glory
Gettysburg
Braveheart
Troy


Well, this is quite a list !!!

BUT...believe it or not, you missed a few.

To Hell and Back
The Purple Heart
Air Force
Fighter Squadron
The Dawn Patrol
Dive Bomber
The Dirty Dozen
The Tanks are Coming
Twelve O'Clock High
Objective, Burma
Sargeant York
Hell is for Heroes
The Execution of Private Slovik
Paths of Glory
They Were Expendable
Bataan
Back to Bataan
No Man is an Island
Von Ryan's Express
Kelly's Heroes
The Bridge at Remagan
The Americanization of Emily
36 Hours
The Battle of Britain
Zulu
Charge of the Light Brigade
The Big Red One
When Trumpets Fade
So Proudly We Hail
The Colditz Story
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
The 49th Paralell
Battle Hell
Pursuit of the Graf Spee
Ice Station Zebra
Hell's Angels
The Steel Helmet
Retreat, Hell
M*A*S*H
Dunkirk
D-Day, the Sixth of June
Battleground
The Hill
Wings
The Enemy Below
The Devil's Brigade
Merrill's Marauders
Gung Ho
Halls of Montezuma
Take the High Ground
The D.I.
Between Heaven and Hell
From Here to Eternity
Action in the North Atlantic
Operation: Pacific
Torpedo Run
Run Silent, Run Deep
Command Decision
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Killing Fields
Wake Island
PT-109
The Blue Max
Mister Roberts
The Fighting 69th
The Desert Fox
The Desert Rats
Is Paris Burning ?
Lost Command
Where Eagles Dare
The Big Parade
The Bunker
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Gods and Generals


Sorry about the long addition here, but there were older films included.

There may be more soon.

'Antz' had a pretty good battle scene.

Originally posted by The Tired Hiker
'Antz' had a pretty good battle scene. 'RAID' !!!!!!!

Originally posted by PIZZA WARRIOR
Well, this is quite a list !!!

BUT...believe it or not, you missed a few.

To Hell and Back
The Purple Heart
Air Force
Fighter Squadron
The Dawn Patrol
Dive Bomber
The Dirty Dozen
The Tanks are Coming
Twelve O'Clock High
Objective, Burma
Sargeant York
Hell is for Heroes
The Execution of Private Slovik
Paths of Glory
They Were Expendable
Bataan
Back to Bataan
No Man is an Island
Von Ryan's Express
Kelly's Heroes
The Bridge at Remagan
The Americanization of Emily
36 Hours
The Battle of Britain
Zulu
Charge of the Light Brigade
The Big Red One
When Trumpets Fade
So Proudly We Hail
The Colditz Story
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
The 49th Paralell
Battle Hell
Pursuit of the Graf Spee
Ice Station Zebra
Hell's Angels
The Steel Helmet
Retreat, Hell
M*A*S*H
Dunkirk
D-Day, the Sixth of June
Battleground
The Hill
Wings
The Enemy Below
The Devil's Brigade
Merrill's Marauders
Gung Ho
Halls of Montezuma
Take the High Ground
The D.I.
Between Heaven and Hell
From Here to Eternity
Action in the North Atlantic
Operation: Pacific
Torpedo Run
Run Silent, Run Deep
Command Decision
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Killing Fields
Wake Island
PT-109
The Blue Max
Mister Roberts
The Fighting 69th
The Desert Fox
The Desert Rats
Is Paris Burning ?
Lost Command
Where Eagles Dare
The Big Parade
The Bunker
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Gods and Generals


Sorry about the long addition here, but there were older films included.

There may be more soon.

LoL.. a few?

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
"Windtalkers" was silly, IMO, and honestly, not really a war film. It's along the same lines of "Black Hawk Down". Couple of marines are dropped in to protect Navajo troops once they take their smoke signal gimmick, and the rest of the movie is a pissed off, drunk Nic Cage. I love the guy, but this is John Woo's worst. I liked "Paycheck" better than this, even.

Paycheck wasn't that bad
And I think that a war movie shouldn't all be guns firing, apparently that's what you people like, I think it should have a higher plot, windtalkers did have one, other than simply ppl killing each other

Originally posted by PIZZA WARRIOR
Well, this is quite a list !!!

BUT...believe it or not, you missed a few.



Sorry about the long addition here, but there were older films included.

There may be more soon.


Yeah I knew I had missed a bunch, I was just trying to remember them off the top of my head lol.

Nice list though.

Saving Private Ryan, Platoon

Saving Private Ryan and Tae Guk Gi(Brotherhood)...
I tink Tae Guk Gi is betta then other war movie!!!Dun u guy thin so?

I havent seen it.. even though I want to..

I would have to say "The Patriot" and "GettysBurg"jm

Full Metal Jacket was a good war movie

I would have to say Braveheart-- that was a great movie!

Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan
We Were soldiers

also Black Hawk Down was a killer movie,

Saving Private Ryan.

Originally posted by Dudester
I would have to say Braveheart-- that was a great movie!

Yeah, and Black Hawk Down.
Mel Gibson was good in Braveheart though

Someone in this thread said Black Hawk Down isnt really a war movie..

Depends on what you use to determine a war movie. if you mean armies battling then BHD ain't a war movie it's like a 100 americans VS 2000 or something somalies

Troy
lors of the rings
Tribunal
Schindler's list
alexander(not soo bad)
cold mountain

and some other movies..but I only know the german titles...

Is Cold Mountain considered a war movie? If so I would definitely have to count that one on my list

Black Hawk Down

It's a TV series, but it's still cool---Band of Brothers

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocolypse Now

Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
The Patriot
Hamburger Hill
Platoon, sorta.

Is Hamburger Hill about Germany?

- All Quiet on the Western Front ('30)
- The Great Escape ('63)
- The Longest Day ('62)
- Paths of Glory ('57)

band of brothers is genius

1.Apocalypse now redux
2.platoon.
3. Full Metal Jacket.
4.black hawk down

I like the smell of Napalm in the morning

I like Vietnam movies.

Originally posted by jnr hiphop
Is Hamburger Hill about Germany? It's about Vietnam
I think. Hamburger hill is a place where there was a big battle in Vietnam. But i never heard of that movie

Well when considering war movies I always 'divid' the genre into 2, see I don't classifie them as 1, 1 part I call prehistoric war movies, Spartacus, Braveheart, aso, and the other part is what most of you guys refer to as war movies, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket aso, well I'm gonna make 2 lists, one prehistoric and one list of recent war's WW1-2, Vietman

Prehistoric War Movies

1.El Cid
2.Spartacus
3.Braveheart
4.300 Sparatans
5.Kingdom Of Heaven

War Movie List

1.Lawrence of Arabia
2.Stalingrad And Apocalypse Now tie for nr.2 spot (btw why hasint anyone mentioned Stalingrad )
3.Full Metal Jacket
4.Schindler's List And Saving Private Ryan tie for nr.4 spot
5.Paths of Glory

Yayaya I know I didint mention Platoon, and some other great once, reason is because I ahvint seen them in AGES I'm currently trying to get a hold of all the great war movies I can get a hold of, so my mind may change in the next couple mounts if not weeks.

Oh

glory
The last Samurai
kingdom of heaven
gone with the wind
spartacus

The Patriot
Black Hawk Down
Delta Force
Green berets

band of brothers (if that's counted)

of many great war movies, i have to say, "Saving private ryan" is my favourite...

great movie...

btw: the band of brothers series was awesome too

The Pianist, Platoon, Black Hawk Down

DELTA FORCE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH YES CHUCK NORRIS FOREVER

"PATTON" is on tonight...dam busters is on today

a programme called "the 100 best war films" is on in between

YEEHHAA

channel 4's top 100 as mentioned in the previous post

check them out...there will be a lot you will have forgotton about

http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html

Its gotta be Lord Of The rings1,2&3 they are ujust the best includin

Its gotta be Lord Of The rings1,2&3 they are just the best including Star WarsIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

They're more of fantasy movies..

i would have to say WE WERE SOLDERS but i just watched a new one called SAINTS AND SOILDERS based on a true story and for a low budget it was really good you guys should check it out and let me know what you think although all the other movies you guys listed were great also

why do so many people think we were soldiers was good...it was totally dire...it ranks as one of the worst war movies ever... and trying desperately to push the emotion button by having the "wives with the telegrams" plot is just to obvious

Saving Private Ryan hands down. what a great movie

Uhuh

It depends what you apreciate in a war movie:
Honor, heroism, the real suffering or special effects ( because there are people who watch movies only for this ) or else.....
You name it........
I say : a good war movie is the one which makes you fear it.
Good war movies: The Pianist ( Excelent movie)
Schindler's List

Ah... The Pianist. That was a good one.

for me it would have to be black hawk down that film is soo gd!!!!! love it!!!!!1

Yeah. it's one of my favs.

platoon
apocalypse now
the great escape
full metal jacket
saving private ryan

The Great Escape? Is it a war movie? Sorry... I don't really know about war movies that I haven't seen.

Platoon....is great
so is Full Metal Jacket......

The Longest Day, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket

LOTR
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
TROY
STAR WARS

LOTR..a war movie?

In fact, "Black Hawk Down" isn't a war movie, either. That's a common misperception, though. A good movie nonetheless.

Star Wars.. a war movie?

Enemy at the Gates. Very acurrate retelling of the Battle of Stanlingrad(the Russians used suicide waves often in the early part of the war). Band of Brothers was very good, also read the book. The Omaha beach assult in "The Longest Day" is just horrendous. See Saving Private Ryan for a more accurate look.

War of the Worlds..................... hey, we're fighting martians in it.

The Longest Day should be called the Longest movie. Me and my dad rented it one night, and there were two tapes. We started watching around 7:00 p.m. and it ended at almost midnight.

I don't thnk War of the Worlds counts as a real "war" movie. My definition of a war movie is one that takes palce during an actual conflict.

Does Schindler's List count as a war movie?

Oh if that where the case then Stallone's Victory would be classified as war?

I said in my opinion. And no I mean as in an actual event that happened. An example of my definition of War movie would be Enemy at the Gates. Most of what they showed in that film happened. There was an actual sniper duel during the Battle of Stalingrad and both of the names in the film are their actual names(I read alot about WW2).The Russians were notorious for using human tidal waves and shooting their own men for retreating. If the Russians launched a 300 man assult against a fortified Nazi position, and all 300 of them died, then they would find 300 more men and have the, attack the same position.

Now they really need to make a movie about the Battle of the Hutgen Forest. Men were involved at Omaha said that the Hurtgen was even worse.

The hill was called Mamayev Kurgan and if you go their today, you canactually see bits of bone sticking out of the ground. I forgot the name of the man you mentioned. The city is now called Voldograd( the soviet people despised Stalin and changed the name to Voldograd as soon as they could).

I thought that the Longgest Day was a pretty good flick, but my earlier comment about its presentation of Omaha beach still stands. Of course that's partially becuase it was made in 1962, an era when many were denied the true scope of what happened during the war and plus the weapons don't even sound right. (I know, I have too muchfree time on my hands.)

You can see the bones from the dead soldiers? DISGUSTING! and the city is called Volgograd, named after the river that runs there yes I also hate it when guns sound like crap, thats one thing I acturly dont like about them old westerns, love Open range, it has SUPERB sounds of guns

I loved 'A Bridge Too Far' though, it has the best cast ever assembled to a movie, check out these names

Sean Connery
Lawerence Olivier
Antony Hopkins
Gene Hackman
Michael Caine
Robert Redford
Dirk Bogarde
James Caan
Edward Fox
Ryan O'neal
Liv Ullmann
Maximilian Schell
Hardy Kruger
Elliott Gould

Now thats a super super cast if you ask me, or anyone for that matter!

I was reading through the list, and realize no-one here mentioned Killing Fields.
That was a great war movie. Even though it wasn't a front-lines story, it still was a Vietnam movie simply because of what it was representing.
I don't think that a war movie has to have front-line fighting simply to be a war movie. It could be about how the war affected people or different aspects of the war. And sometimes those stories are even better than a front-line movie.

I think that Schindler's List could count as a War movie. It really standsout cause it was the first R- rated movie I saw. I thought the scene with the girl in the red dress and everything around her was in black and white was absoloutly stunning.

no it wasn't...it was set in cambodia during the ethnic cleansing by the khmer rouge

The Deer Hunter
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocolypse Now

these are my favorites although there are probobly others that i have just forgotton about.

Vietnam buff?

well they were the best war films also i liked a bridge to far a lot and where eagles dare was very good.

Great films.

Pearl harbor sucked and Ben Affleck needs acting school. Black Hawk Down is the best.

full metal jacket
apocalypse now
platoon
the deer hunter(not strictly a war movie but oh well)

Full Metal Jacket was hilarious, but my absolute favorite is:

BLACK HAWK DOWN, no doubt. That was an amazing film!

Platoon, Schindler's List, and Enemy At the Gates are all tied for first place on my list.

Schindler's List, Apocolypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Definitely my top three.

Ok lets do a change of pace list the worst war movies of all time

Enemy at the gates
Saving private Ryan
Platoon
The Pianist

What's so bad about them?

War of the Worlds!!!

Enemy at the Gates was shit. war of the Worlds is not a proper war film.
Where Eagles Dare is a very good war film that no one has metioned, did anyone else like it.

http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html

top 100 as voted by the public

Originally posted by DarkCanadian
Black Hawk Down

It's a TV series, but it's still cool---Band of Brothers

Well I think it won somehting for best miniseries/tv movie so technically you can consider it a long tv movie. Band of Brothers is hands down better then almost anything mentioned on this thread :P

I was suprised they had shots of a guy getting run over by a tak.

Originally posted by Dresta
http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html

top 100 as voted by the public

Enemy at the Gates got 28th place, not bad. Dr. Strangelove on the list is even better.

i don't agree with the list though there is no way that Saving Private Ryan is the best war film ever made. stupid Tom Hanks

It has to be either Platoon or MASH.

There should be a movie about the battle of Kursk or a trilogy about the whole eastern front, that would be good

Originally posted by Dresta
i don't agree with the list though there is no way that Saving Private Ryan is the best war film ever made. stupid Tom Hanks
Dude what makes you think Tom Hanks is stupid?

I am just going by war movies of the last 25 years:

Platoon. It is such a great drama, realistic, and really gives you a taste of what it is like to be a soldier in Vietnam. I remember after the first time I watched it with a couple of friends, we were speechless after the movie.

Originally posted by The Highlord
There should be a movie about the battle of Kursk or a trilogy about the whole eastern front, that would be good

If they did that, then I think it would cover Moscow Counter Offensive, the battle of Stalingrad, and Kursk.

Originally posted by ccoo
I am just going by war movies of the last 25 years:

Platoon. It is such a great drama, realistic, and really gives you a taste of what it is like to be a soldier in Vietnam. I remember after the first time I watched it with a couple of friends, we were speechless after the movie.
I was pretty suprised to see how many people like Platoon that much. I reckon it was alright, but I didn't like it that much, and I thought most people would think the same or either wouldn't know it, but wow. (Same with Black Hawk Down).

The only thing I liked about it was the drama.

"We Were Soldiers" was so kick ass

Gladiator, like the baddie emperors's death! :death:

Windtalkers was another classic war movie

''Windtalkers was another classic war movie''

No it was just the too typical not classic by any means, it didint surpass any war movie on any kinda field

Black Hawk Down was amazing! My favorite!

Full Metal Jacket was hilarious!

Honorable Mention: Tears of the Sun, I love Bruce Willis.

Originally posted by The Highlord
''Windtalkers was another classic war movie''

No it was just the too typical not classic by any means, it didint surpass any war movie on any kinda field

What are you talking about? Windtalkers is a classic war movie. It has everything a war movie is suppose to have and some moments in the movie were remarkable.

I got to say
Platoon
Bridge over river kwai
and pearl harbour

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction

Pearl Harbor (**** you, I loved it)


lmao


I'd say...


We were soldiers (exellent, very graphic)
Platoon
Full metal jacket
Saving private ryan
and the Band of Brothers series were great.


the thing that amazes me, before we were soldiers was edited, it was 150 hours long, amazing...


best of the best.

Platoon
Band of Brothers (if it counts as a movie)
The Thin Red Line
All Quiet on the Western Front
Patton

so many suggestions...most of the totally shit but never mind

the vietnam scenes from "dead presidents"....those were brutal...if you havent seen it i suggest you do...


as for great war films

glory
empire of the sun
das boot
the killing fields
zulu
the deer hunter
schindlers list

Originally posted by BackFire
Platoon, hands down. The most realistic depiction of the Vietnam war ever in a film.

I also love Full Metal Jacket with a passion, but platoon is the better film.

What he said....

oh ya, the deer hunter and glory were also great.