Best war movies

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.