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Top 10 Military Movies
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| William Briggs
Posted on 11/26/2008 4:39:25 AM PST by mattstat
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To: Boonie
wow....Welcome Home! and thank you for your service.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:04:27 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Paths of Glory should definitely be on any list.
I forgot about The Battle of the Bulge, too.
The rest looks like my TiVO list...
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:05:29 AM PST
by
gridlock
(Bill Clinton will be offered the job as Obama's Secretary of State.)
To: ZinGirl
Why, thank you...It was my honor...
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:06:20 AM PST
by
Boonie
To: mattstat
A Bridge Too Far is a great, great movie.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:09:44 AM PST
by
freemike
To: ZinGirl
Going a little futher back, I nominate Spartacus. The strange relationships around Crassus knocked down its quality, but when the legionary Triplex Acies marched out of my Latin textbook and over that ridge, I was in hog heaven.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:10:35 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.)
To: mattstat
Very interesting list. I would add The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, my favorite Cold War movie. The moral ambiguity of the decadent West arched out to the extreme, Burton on the Berlin Wall, not sure which way to jump. The greatest actor to never win an Oscar.
For contemporary, I wonder what Briggs would make of Tears of the Sun? I thought it was a good portrayal of our modern day special ops guys—what they do and how they do it.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:10:44 AM PST
by
PaleoBob
To: Boonie; All
That's a great one - the whole movie is available on youtube now, btw.
Here's Part One
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:11:02 AM PST
by
DemforBush
(Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
To: N. Theknow
Wow, 15 posts, and yours is the first mention of band of Brothers?
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:11:51 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Triplex AciesI caught that from a flight attendant. The doctor gave me some salve and it got better.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:12:26 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
To: mattstat
There is also an old black and white silent movie,,, I wish I could remember the name. It was about the the air war in WWI. Just absolutely incredible air shots even by today’s standards! The story is so so ,, little cheesy,, but the effects are so great. You are in the cockpits of these air aces and it is as though you are really there. They literally were risking their lives making this movie.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:12:29 AM PST
by
freemike
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
“Spartacus” - excellent. May I add “The Three Hundred Spartans” (original version with Richard Egan) and “A Walk in the Sun”.
To: mattstat
What, no “Full Metal Jacket”. C’mon, how many of you Marines were laughing at the memories of boot camp?
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:13:57 AM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
To: mattstat
U-571./Just Asking - seoul62........
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:13:59 AM PST
by
seoul62
To: mattstat
The D.I. starring Jack Webb.
The recruit was told to remain motionless but he slapped a mosquito. Jack Webb makes them all
search through the sand to find that damn dead mosquito. I only saw it once on tv and don't
remember if they found it.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:14:33 AM PST
by
greedo
To: Joiseydude
I’ll second that. Battleground is one of my all time favorite war movies. Sahara, with Humphrey Bogart, should be on that list as well.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Don't forget "300".
OK, it's not a great movie. But it sure is a good one!
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:14:59 AM PST
by
gridlock
(Bill Clinton will be offered the job as Obama's Secretary of State.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
never watched all of
Spartacus...probably should.
(of course, I'm posting to someone who put a heck of a lot more thought into his screenname......way beyond me. mine is based on a wine...and not even REAL wine if you ask a lot of people!)
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:15:08 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
To: mattstat
They Were Expendible
Saving Private Ryan
Sink the Bismark
and one of my favorites even though I don’t care for Robin William’s liberalness ...
Good Morning, VietNam
To: mattstat
On Parris Island in 1989, we were shown two movies: Sands of Iwo Jima, and The D.I., with Jack Webb.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:16:10 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Wow, 15 posts, and yours is the first mention of band of Brothers? Thank you.
And especially thank you for not mentioning my misspelling of "Band" in the title.
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posted on
11/26/2008 5:17:27 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
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