Posted on 10/31/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by w1n1
Zero credibility if Tropic thunder didn’t make the list.
“The bullets run out. The bloody spears don’t!”-ZULU DAWN
-The Sands of Iwo Jima- John Wayne (shows battle footage)
-Midway- (Shows Battle footage)
-Battle of the Bulge
-To Hell and Back
-Hell in the Pacific (Lee Marvin/ Toshiro Mifune)
“3. 20 Seconds over Tokyo”
That was the trailer, full movie was “30 Seconds...”
I would also recommend “The Dawns Here are Quiet”. .................. The first one, not the remake. The Black and while version.
Everything about that film was perfection. The director went to infinity to make every detail real and poignant, even to confine the acting crew to be out of sunlight for 40 days to get their skin and eyes to have a real sickly look, and then to bring them topside in the sunlight where their eyes could barely stand the glare.
For anyone that’s ever been a combat submariner, they ‘were there’ in that film. Very moving film. I bought it too. Watch it every few years just to be reminded of filmmaking at its very best.
The Normandy landing was excellent and the sound
was recorded using actual ww II weapons.
The MG42’s high rate of fire earned it the nickname
Hitler’s buzz saw.
In ‘52 PI, me old DI often spoke Mister Needledik The BugFvgger!
That one apparently never caught-on w/the mass herd. Never heard the term again!
Semper Fidelis (No Such Thing As A Fi!)
GyG
*****
Surprised there is not more appreciation of “Patton” on this site.
It encapsulates and had defined for subsequent generations the essence of a very complex warrior. Brilliant use of primary source material in Francis Ford Coppola’s screenplay (his first academy award). Depiction of something unique in the American character, sadly probably lost forever. Demonstrates the concept and potential costs of “political correctness” before it was widely understood as such.
In my opinion, probably the most compelling performance by an actor in a biography of any genre.
Agreed. That is one of the most powerful war films, IMO. It shows both the frailty and strength of men under the strain of command.
It deals with subjects non-military people are often unaware of, the strain of having to condemn the leadership skills of good men who have just seen too much stress and have to be relieved, good men who are promoted to leadership positions out of necessity who might not be suited to it, good men who crack under pressure, and good men who become sons-of-bitches in war because it is necessary to do so and someone has to do it.
One of my favorites “The Gallant Hours” (Adm. Halsey brilliantly played by James Cagney) deals with some of those issues as well, his relief of Admiral Ghormley who was a good man (and friend) and a young naval aviator who can’t take the stress of command and wants to return to being just another pilot because he feels responsible for the deaths of his men.
I was informed that the 111 was a total loss in an accident. I was at the ft Myers Air show about 13 years ago looking for it, they told me it was gone.
Although not a war movie The ambush scene in Forrest Gump had me diving under the seat dodging tracers. It was more realistic than entire movies with their stupid CGI and slo-mo special effects (except the tracers should have been green).
“The Best Years Of Our Lives”
The war of return.
Agreed. One of the most horrible and affecting parts of that movie was when they finished off the tanker with the crew still aboard.
One could easily see them feeling anger that the crew hadn’t been rescued, but...as anyone who has read anything about war on the ocean in the 20th century, rescue was a luxury often not available due to the vulnerability of the rescuing crew to possible submarine action.
Happened with The USS Juneau. The Bismark. And countless merchant men.
I agree. They captured most of it accurately especially the absurdity of some events like the general’s special cargo convoy.
Hacksaw Ridge
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
LOL, I can assure you, when I joined in the Seventies, that was an occasional epithet one heard!
That is my all-time favorite war movie.
Timeless themes. Great story. Great acting.
Growing up a military brat, I was privy to many a military party overseas during the Vietnam War, and that party at the opening of the movie “In Harm’s Way” rang very true for me. I nearly felt like I had been there, it rang so true.
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