Good war movies - your views?

[JohnTan]

How about a film about war?

"Tropic Thunder"

[video=youtube;9Pl4JNnqNaE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pl4JNnqNaE[/video]

 

[Sideswipe]

So far they have not produced a realistic movie of the Vietnam war. Only got crap like platoon and We were Patriots.... Green Berets was worse than crap.... Apocalypse Now was too surreal...
Needs a British director to come out with something better.
The killing fields was good - but it was based on Cambodia and not Vietnam :(

the Vietnam war movies of the 1980s and 90s all had some depressing anti-war or liberal contents in it. that is in accordance with the general US public opinion on the war. so they had movies like Platoon, Casualties of War, etc.

recommend the "The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)", it's a simple, no fuss, extremely high body counts, pretty absorbing movie.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Who can forget about this movie?


[video=youtube;pR5q0ajW8Ko]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR5q0ajW8Ko[/video]

[h=1]Downfall[/h]

 

[po2wq]

deer hunter ...

which introduces ze russian roulette ... :o

 

[The_Hypocrite]

This one is not too bad,,,abit 'nationalistic' but when this battle was fought, it was the beginning of the war,,when the war 1st started there was tremendous support..but as the war dragged on,,,public opinion turned,,but the politicians were to dumb to see it,,

[video=youtube;xlVcduLh6ec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlVcduLh6ec[/video]

[h=1]We Were Soldiers Deleted Scene - A Letter From Behind the Lines (2002) - Mel Gibson War Movie HD[/h]

the Vietnam war movies of the 1980s and 90s all had some depressing anti-war or liberal contents in it. that is in accordance with the general US public opinion on the war. so they had movies like Platoon, Casualties of War, etc.

recommend the "The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)", it's a simple, no fuss, extremely high body counts, pretty absorbing movie.

 

[Unrepented]

TORA TORA TORA

Battle of Midway

D day

 

[HTOLAS]

The Longest Day?

TORA TORA TORA

Battle of Midway

D day

 

[mako65]

the bridge too far, saving private ryan, longest day, battle of the bulge, midway...all nice war movies tat I truely enjoyed in my teenage years..;-)

 

[Victory2016]

I went to see the Longest Day at the Odeon even after I had seen it thrice...
Could not get enough of it as a schoolboy . Looking back it was quite unrealistic

 

[Sideswipe]

This one is not too bad,,,abit 'nationalistic' but when this battle was fought, it was the beginning of the war,,when the war 1st started there was tremendous support..but as the war dragged on,,,public opinion turned,,but the politicians were to dumb to see it,,

[video=youtube;xlVcduLh6ec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlVcduLh6ec[/video]

[h=1]We Were Soldiers Deleted Scene - A Letter From Behind the Lines (2002) - Mel Gibson War Movie HD[/h]

according to the Soviet Union declassified records, they spent hundred millions of dollars sponsoring the USA anti-war groups and organizations to turn the USA public opinion against the war. that's how stupid the USA public were then.

this movie not bad. action: 9/10. Vietnam war movies usually show small firefights at company or platoon levels only, it's quite dull. this movie's battle is on a regiment/battalion scale, it's more exciting on the big screen.

 

[steffychun]

Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
Tora, Tora Tora
Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far

 

[Victory2016]

Saw battle of the Bulge at Capitol .

Then there was a good one called Tobruk ..... Remember this?

 

[Victory2016]

I was too young to see Bridge On the River Kwai until it came back as a rerun

 

[blackmondy]

[video=youtube;J8TD6mzlTBQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TD6mzlTBQ[/video]

 

[zookeeper]

Assembly is very good movie. Watched it at least 3 times.

 

[HTOLAS]

I thought of this but felt it was too much angst.

[video=youtube;J8TD6mzlTBQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TD6mzlTBQ[/video]

 

[krafty]

The Quiet American

[video=youtube;DrQM2tNd9vM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQM2tNd9vM[/video]

 

[steffychun]

The Guns of Navarone
Cast a Giant Shadow (more history than war though)
Battle of the Bulge (crappy but nice at parts)
Midway (same as above)

 

[zeddy]

First ever war movie I watched at the old Capitol was Platoon.. My elder brother brought me to watch it with his friends.. I became a war movie buff because of that...

Thin Red Line is my all time favorite... Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Jarhead...

To End All Wars even though underated was another brilliant movie depicting the Allied POWs at the hands of their Japs captors.. Watched it at Lido and I remembered seeing an elderly man silently shedding tears at the end of the movie.. Letters from Iwo Jima was the first movie I brought my GF then wife to see at Marina Square... Brad Pitt's Fury... The American Sniper was quite good...

 

[HTOLAS]

This wasn't a movie but a brilliant double episode of Combat called 'The Hills are for Heroes'.

[video=youtube;7JDfHxzARU4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDfHxzARU4[/video]

This balances the anti-war message with the need to do one's duty very well, I think.