Posted on 10/31/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by w1n1
The Battle scenes from Barry Lyndon were Kubrickianly great.
Not movie but Band of Brothers takes the cake in terms of story line, music, acting, camaraderie.
bkmk
Wait a minute, I thought Germans spoke with an English accent, like Richard Burton. No wonder I couldn't understand anyone when I visited Stuttgart!
Oh yes, I will never get some of those scenes out of my head. Definitely not a movie for everyone.
“Tae Guk Gi”
Excellent, I agree, or “Brotherhood of War”, I think “Flowers of War” (about Nanking) is also excellent. The only thing I can say is I think both are very influenced by “Saving Private Ryan”, SPR sort of broke the mode on war movies.
Also, a side point here on the OP, if “300” is included, then, why not “Braveheart”. I like “Gladiator” but except for the opening part, I can see, it doesn’t really fit into being a war movie.
The thing is, is any really good movie list should probably have room for about 30 films.
I like the World War I movie “Joyeux Noel” too. That deals with that first Christmas on the front lines, when the soldiers on opposing sides actually celebrated some together. How much of the movie itself is faithful to what actually happened, I don’t know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsyqBILoVg
Found it in the videos at Walgreen’s. What a pleasant surprise.
Mine too!
Platoon sucked. When we were Solders.
If you’re going to mention TV series, I would throw in Winds of War/War and Remembrance. It can be a bit soap-operish at times, but some of their Holocaust scenes were brutal.
Growing up I liked “A Wing and a Prayer-1944” and “Battleground-1949” on TV in Black and white.
Another favorite was “The Sullivans-1944”—the last scene made an incredible impression on me as a kid.
“Love that movie. Classic American film. WWII was just a backdrop...”
Definitely. Sorry if that song is now stuck in your head.
Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
They all tried to tell me
But I guess I didn’t care
I turned my back and
Left them standing there
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Joey tried to help me find a job
A while ago
When I finally got it I didn’t want to go
The party Mary gave for me
When I just walked away
Now there’s nothing left for me to say
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Years have passed and I keep thinking
What a fool I’ve been
I look back into the past and
Think of way back then
I know that I lost everything I thought I that could win
I guess I should have listened to my friends
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Deer Hunter
Heartbreak Ridge
U571
The Enemy Below with the infamous Curt Jergens
A lot of good foreign films not on the list.
Stalingrad.
Alatriste.
Assembly.
Brest Fortress.
9th Company.
I would add the following:
The Lost Batallion
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Bridges at Toko Ri
“Apocalypse Now is a joke...”
Yeah. It’s not a war movie. It’s a fantasy surrealist movie.
Similar with Kubrick’s piece of melodramatic trash.
I remember tuning in to Winds and Remembrance not expecting much. I was surprised at how good it was.
And yes, the holocaust scenes were harrowing.
Apocalypse Now was basically “Heart of Darkness” in Vietnam.
Soldier of Orange.
“Mission to Moscow” and “Northern Star”, Hollywood’s finest hour, LOL s/ s/
Thanks for reminding me folks, I just found G.I. Joe on You Tube. Been looking for it for quite some time. I’ll handle the Polish sub titles. (The original 1945 movie G.I. Joe, with Robt Mitchim and Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle.)
Second that motion. Great psychological thriller that humanizes the German and American captains, while holding the Nazi beliefs as ridiculous and inhuman. Das Boot adds more realism and does much the same ridicule of the Nazi political angle.
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