My top 10 favorite war movies

MontanaBB · Mar 1st 2018, 3:24am

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1963 - Best Picture Oscar)

"Jimminy. Never seen a man hacked to death with a sword before."

2. Das Boot (1981)

"She's rising!"

3. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 - Best Picture Oscar)

"Madness!"

4. Patton (1970 - Best Picture Oscar)

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country."

5. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

"Tell her when you found me here, I was with the only brothers I have left."

6. Zulu (1964)

"Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors, that's for sure."

7. Black Hawk Down (2001)

"Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man?"

8. Master and Commander (2003)

"After all, Surprise is on our side."

9. The Great Escape (1963)

10. A Bridge Too Far (1977)

"Christ, not us again."

Honorable mentions:

11. The Pacific (2010 miniseries)

12. Band of Brothers (2002 miniseries)

13. Henry V (1989)

"We few, we happy few. We band of brothers."

14. Dunkirk (2017)

WiseOdin · Mar 1st 2018, 3:54am

#1 "The All-Time-Favorite" Platoon

#2 Saving Private Ryan

#3 Inglorious Bastards

#4 The Hurt Locker

#5 Full Metal Jacket

#6 Braveheart

#7 Three Kings

#8 Good Morning, Vietnam

#9 The Dirty Dozen

#10 The Pianist

Special shout-out to my favorite war TV Shows:

enochen · Mar 1st 2018, 6:04am

the big red one
platoon
full metal jacket
sands of iwo jima
das boot
saving private ryan
downfall
the dirty dozen
bridge over the river kwai
apocalypse now

K.Rokossovski · Mar 1st 2018, 1:29pm

1. Enemy at the Gates
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2. Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day)
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3. Casablanca
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4. Der Untergang (Downfall)
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5. Eye in the Sky
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6. Das Boot
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7. Семнадцать мгновений весны (Seventeen Moments of Spring)
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8. Apocalypse Now
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9. La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful)
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10. Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
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Honorable mentions (discarded for messing up history):

Cross of Iron
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Kelly's Heroes
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Inglourious Basterds
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Guns of Navarone
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'Allo 'Allo
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SuomiHunajaa · Mar 1st 2018, 2:03pm

1. The Unknown Soldier - in Finnish - Tuntematon Sotilas - the 1950s version.
2. Apocalypse now
3. Good Morning Vietnam
4. Jarhead
5. White Tiger linked
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Talvisota 'the Winter War'
8. The Enemy at the Gates
9. Black Hawk Down
10. Gallipoli ( with Mel Gibson)

also Zulu, Bridge Too Far, Vietnam (Australian TV series), Glory (US Civil War, 1989)...

Perkele. Tulta munille!

Quasi-duck · Mar 1st 2018, 3:04pm

I just hope documentaries count, they're basically movies.

1. Dr. Strangelove

2. Das Boot

3. Full Metal Jacket

4. Apocalypse Now

5. The World at War

6. World War II in Colour

7. Hitler's Bodyguard

8. Restrepo

9. Generation War (before any of you say it, no not Generation Kill)

10. The Wipers Times

Honourable Mentions:

Lord of the Rings trilogy

injinji · Mar 1st 2018, 3:36pm

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi

3. Saving Private Ryan

4. Firefox

5. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if this counts as it takes place in peacetime)

6. Braveheart

7. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

8. The Interview (but only because it has the scene I dream of)

9. Star Wars Rebels: Zero Hour (TV movie)

10. Star Wars IV: A New Hope

WiseOdin · Mar 1st 2018, 7:12pm

injinji wrote:

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi

3. Saving Private Ryan

4. Firefox

5. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if this counts as it takes place in peacetime)

6. Braveheart

7. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

8. The Interview (but only because it has the scene I dream of)

9. Star Wars Rebels: Zero Hour (TV movie)

10. Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Should star wars count? In not sure about this, lmao

Quasi-duck · Mar 1st 2018, 7:41pm

WiseOdin wrote:

Should star wars count? In not sure about this, lmao

I was going to say it, but it is favourite war movies, and it is called Star *Wars* so I think it's okay. I did say LOTR as an honourable mention.

WiseOdin · Mar 2nd 2018, 12:50am

Quasi-duck wrote:

WiseOdin wrote:

Should star wars count? In not sure about this, lmao

I was going to say it, but it is favourite war movies, and it is called Star *Wars* so I think it's okay. I did say LOTR as an honourable mention.

Fair enough

NukeRaider33 · Mar 2nd 2018, 11:57pm

1. Red Cliff

2. Passchendaele

3. Captains of the Clouds(only because William Avery Bishop was involved)

4. The Wind Rises(Not sure if this counts but whatever)

5. Saving Private Ryan

6. The Red Baron

7. The Eternal Zero

8. Red Tails

9.The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers

10. Dunkirk

injinji · Mar 3rd 2018, 12:01am

I forgot about Red Tails and Flyboys, at least the former should be on the list, the other is an honorable mention.

StrangeTalent · Mar 3rd 2018, 5:55am

You missed the besterest one of all, A Bridge Too Far.

Stormbringer50 · Mar 3rd 2018, 8:47am

Saving Private Ryan

To Hell and Back

Midway

PT 109

Apocalypse Now

Platoon

Bridge on the River Kwai

MASH

Fury

We were Soldiers

injinji · Mar 3rd 2018, 2:43pm

StrangeTalent wrote:

You missed the besterest one of all, A Bridge Too Far.

Never seen it :tumbleweed:

MontanaBB · Mar 3rd 2018, 3:48pm

injinji wrote:

Never seen it

@injinji, here's a link to the full movie on Youtube:

You will note that @StrangeTalent's avatar is actor Sean Connery in the role of Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart, the commanding officer of the British 1st Airborne Division, as portrayed in the movie.

StrangeTalent · Mar 3rd 2018, 6:39pm

Also, Band of Brothers is my favorite.

injinji · Mar 3rd 2018, 6:51pm

Another honorable mention is The Rat Patrol.

MontanaBB · Mar 3rd 2018, 7:20pm

StrangeTalent wrote:

Also, Band of Brothers is my favorite.

I would have ranked both Band of Brothers and The Pacific among my top 10, but both are technically classified as television miniseries and not cinematic motion pictures.

Funny anecdote about the production of A Bridge Too Far . . . At the time Sean Connery (relatively fresh off playing James Bond in five movies from 1963 to 1971) was cast in A Bridge Too Far in 1976, Roy Urquhart was still living. Being the crusty old bastard that he was, Urquhart allowed that his daughters were excited to see Connery cast as their father, but he claimed not to know who Connery was before he accepted the role.

K.Rokossovski · Mar 4th 2018, 12:39am

I was a kid when this movie was shot in my home town. I'm actually even IN this movie, being an extra when XXX corps enters Eindhoven and is slowed down by celebrating Dutch civilians. I'm one of the waving flags. Earned me 20 guilders which was quite a lot of money back then. I remember the whole cinema was more focused on recognizing Deventer streets than on the story, going, "that's the Assenstraat!" when para's were advancing into "Arnhem". It was such an exciting summer... cardboard houses being built around the bridge, the Leopard (pretending to be a Panther, shame shame!) destroying one of them, (there's about three hours between the house standing and the shot being fired and the next shot when the house has a big black hole in it, I waited for that). The Son bridge which was blown up was at the recreation lake where I used to surf... so many memories about that summer!

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