Top 10 War Movies of all Time

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 10/31/2017 | J Hines

[doorgunner69]

Platoon and Apocolypse were both phantasm movies, not war.

[doorgunner69]

As was “Hamburger Hill”.

[sparklite2]

First saw Das Boot in a theater with a terrific sound system. The parts where the hull of the sub could be heard crackling under the increased sea pressure sounded like the walls of the theater were getting ready to blow in. It was unnerving.

[buffaloguy]

Flyboys is one of my favorites. It is about the Lafayette Escadrille in early WWI.

[Albion Wilde]

Finally, some war films – particularly those made during the classic Hollywood era – are simply adventure films with war providing a compelling setting and situation. The Great Escape, for example, remains a classic not because of its grand ideas about the nature of war, but because it is a ceaselessly entertaining spectacle.

I totally disagree -- it would be my Number One, because it featured the ingenuity characteristic of the Yanks and Brits in WW2.

[sparklite2]

+1
Patton tops my list.

[dsc]

“that party at the opening of the movie “In Harm’s Way” rang very true for me.”

You didn’t think the music was unrealistically good?

That band was hot!

[BlueLancer]

Along the lines with “On the Beach”, I was always partial to the movie “The Bedford Incident”. But then, again, I was always a sucker for a Richard Widmark movie.

[Albion Wilde]

And that doesn’t even touch the Civil War (Journey to Shiloh, Shenandoah, Gone with the Wind) or the Revolution (The Patriot).

I loved the long Civil War epic, Cold Mountain, which focused on the family members left behind and the fates of war deserters.

[itsahoot]

Then the film was unrealistic

And you would know?

[SoFloFreeper]

The Longest Day
Hacksaw Ridge
Saving Private Ryan

[a little elbow grease]

Top 10 War Movies of all Time/War of The Roses

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[forgotten man]

If you thought that Apocalypse Now was fake, you should see Apocalypse Now Redux, with some of the edited parts put back into the movie. Did you know that one of the crewman on the boat had.s sex with one of the Playboy bunnies? The bunnies helicopter ran out of gas and the guys on the boat traded their diesal boat fuel for Playboy bunnies.

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you for your service, Chainmail. And your movie reviews.

[rlmorel]

LOL, perhaps...I was caught up in the appearance...the uniforms, the swimming pool, the lights strung up...the behavior of the people.

I was a sub-teen/teen, and I saw adult behavior that really made me think these weren’t people like my parents...pretty rowdy, fully uniformed (and un-uniformed) people of all ranks and both sexes being thrown into swimming pools, etc.

Except they WERE like my parents...I just never saw them caught up in it all.

[morphing libertarian]

<y father was in world war two. He was not accuser, but his Sgt and lt were. Now tell me how you know my dad was lying.

[apocalypto]

Gods and Generals

[apocalypto]

Gods and Generals

[rlmorel]

OMG. I admit, I did like the way that whole scene got out of hand with the guys hanging on the skid, one losing his pants...

[doorgunner69]

200 post with far too many goofball films like Apocolyps and platoon,

Not one mention I saw of "Big Red One" with Lee Marvin. Had goofy moments, but overall pretty good.

Really liked the terror they got across on the D-Day beach landing and being frozen with fear.