Five favorite war movies

I know everyone's giving serious war movies, but I'll nominate a few war comedies:

Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams is excellent in it, although I've always thought the middle of the move drags)

Biloxi Blues (Christopher Walken is great as the drill sergeant, and I've always found the scene where they talk about what they would do if they knew they were going to get KIA in a week to be very funny and poigiant at the same time)

The General (A Buster Keaton flick that had my son and I cracking up. Plus it had one of the first incredible movie special effects with the train crashing off the bridge)

 

An average spag western at best.

 

Patton
Kelly's Heroes
The Great Escape
Dirty Dozen
Destination: Tokyo

 

1. Battle of Algiers
2. Wooden Crosses (A French World War I film from the early 30s. It follows a group of gung ho recruits as they get decimated in their first battle. Way ahead of its time in terms of realism.)
3. The Great Escape
4. M*A*S*H
5. Paths of Glory

 

1 The Great Escape
2 Force 10 from Navarone
3 Patton
4 Tora, Tora, Tora
5 Saving Private Ryan

HM: Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket.

 

Patton
A Now
Black Hawk
Saving PR
We Were Soldiers.

Honorable mention to Kelly's Heros and The Dirty Dozen

 

The boot camp movie could have its own category:
Biloxi Blues
Stripes
Full Metal Jacket
Boys in Company C
GI Jane
Heartbreak Ridge

 

The EM-50 Incident of 1981 was America's great unknown war.

JOHN WINGER: "It's Czechoslovakia. It's like going into Wisconsin."

RUSSELL ZISKE: "Hey, I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin once."

 

Great call. This would probably be number one as well.

 

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Deer Hunter
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Patton
5. Platoon


So many of them (great idea for a thread). I think some of those listed are a bit of a reach to be considered war movies. Some are movies about other things that happen to be going on during war time.

Killing Fields is another great one. I really loved Hurt Locker. Three Kings was really good. Black Hawk Down was just awesome.

 

1) All Quiet On The Western Front. Based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel. A 30's film on the horror of WW1 which, for good reason, was called "The War to End all Wars"

2) Apocalypse Now

3) Deer Hunter

4 The Great Escape. A bunch of hokum loosely based on a real incident

5) Bridge on River Kwai (see above)

 

You already voted. It's a 3 day voting period before we start the laundry list of every war movie that you can think of