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PINBALL
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Best war movies

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

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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..


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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


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


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


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


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"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)

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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.


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What about Pearl Harbour? laughing out loud

My vote goes to Platoon.

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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.

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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.


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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?


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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.


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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".

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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.


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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)


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There are really too many to mention

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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.


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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

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