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Five favorite war movies

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Dick Whitman, Mar 11, 2012.

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  1. lantaur

    lantaur Well-Known Member

    Tough to make a list of top 5, but one which would definitely be in mine which I have not seen listed here yet is The Big Red One.
     
    lantaur, Mar 12, 2012
    #37
  2. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

    1. Patton
    2. The Great Escape
    3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
    4. Kelly's Heroes
    5. Stalag 17
     
    spaceman, Mar 12, 2012
    #38
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    La Grande Illusion
    Battle of Algiers
    Wings (first ever Academy Award Best Picture)
    Paths of Glory (Kubrick, Kirk Douglas)
     
    Michael_ Gee, Mar 12, 2012
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  4. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Saw a piece about that on CBS Sunday Morning the day of the Oscars. The actors apparently did their own flying, which is an incredible risk when you think about it.
     
    Steak Snabler, Mar 12, 2012
    #40
  5. Pete Wevurski

    Pete Wevurski Member

    Longest Day
    Tora, Tora, Tora
    MacArthur
    Saving Private Ryan
    Patton

    HM: The Deer Hunter; Band of Brothers series; The Pacific series; Catch-22; Apocalypse Now Redux; Run Silent, Run Deep; 30 Seconds Over Tokyo; The Naked And The Dead; A Bridge Too Far; Midway; Dirty Dozen; Hogan's Heroes (still need to see Clint's Iwo Jima films)

    And I'll just throw out three you've probably never heard of but are damn fine:
    Five Graves to Cairo
    Dieppe
    A Foreign Field (a '93 episode of TV series Screen One)

    And where do we put Dr. Strangelove?
     
    Pete Wevurski, Mar 12, 2012
    #41
  6. PeterGibbons

    PeterGibbons Member

    How has this thread gone this far and The Green Berets no have been mentioned?!?

    Apocalypse Now
    Platoon
    The Great Escape
    Full Metal Jacket
    Glory
     
    PeterGibbons, Mar 13, 2012
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  7. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Anyone else ever watch "Final Countdown"? As a child, whenever I briefly tried of watching F-14s blow up random Commies in Top Gun, I'd switch up and watch F-14s blow up random Japanese in Final Countdown.

    It has no business on this list, but it reminded me. I watched Top Gun so many times on the crappy dubbed-over tape my mom got for me, to this day it's weird when I watch a DVD and the sound doesn't go wonky in the same places. I used to get grounded specifically from watching Top Gun.
     
    Pilot, Mar 13, 2012
    #43
  8. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    I agree, but they're the kind of movies people need to see at least once.
     
    TrooperBari, Mar 13, 2012
    #44
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Because liberals despise The Green Beret.
     
    Boom_70, Mar 13, 2012
    #45
  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    And because it's a terrible, terrible movie. Quoting Michael Herr from Dispatches, "'The Green Berets' wasn't about Vietnam, it was about Santa Monica."
     
    Azrael, Mar 13, 2012
    #46
  11. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Greatest movie mistake ever: the sun setting in the east over the South China Sea at the end of The Green Berets.
     
    Steak Snabler, Mar 13, 2012
    #47
  12. kingcreole

    kingcreole Active Member

    Does "Star Wars" count? No? OK ...

    1. Full Metal Jacket (if for no other reason than Lee Ermey ad-libbed almost everything)
    2. Saving Private Ryan
    3. Platoon
    4. Apocalypse Now
    5. Stripes
     
    kingcreole, Mar 13, 2012
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