Yes, I miss that one, but the main intent of this old fud was to list the war films from before 1970 so the younger FReepers could check them out...
And #2 is really an old fud! Older than dirt!
Posted on 02/08/2006 7:32:44 PM PST by Bender2
Channel 4 brings you the results of the 100 Greatest War Films of all time, as voted for you.
1. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a visual assault, acclaimed as one of cinema's most accurate realisations of warfare. Capt John Miller (Tom Hanks) is among the US troops storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. Thereafter, you follow this everyman soldier on a humanitarian military mission to rescue the surviving brother of three soldiers killed in the same week. Spielberg crafts a shocking and moving illustration of the Second World War.
2. Apocalypse Now, 1979 Francis Ford Coppola's epic hallucination of the Vietnam War, in which Martin Sheen journeys through Vietnam and Cambodia to terminate a flipped-out renegade US colonel played by Marlon Brando. The shoot was notoriously troubled, but the result is a war movie unlike any other: a spectacular opera, a straightforward plot blown up by rampant imagination, and a deft comment on America's Vietnam folly.
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That was None But the Brave (1965) with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi & Tommy Sands... Pretty good flick showing the Japs in a fresh light.
WOW! Great list. Thanks for the post.
Yes, I miss that one, but the main intent of this old fud was to list the war films from before 1970 so the younger FReepers could check them out...
And #2 is really an old fud! Older than dirt!
See Post 157...
Breakthrough-Definately my #1.....
Cross Of Iron
Gettysburg
Das Boot
Wings
On The Beach
The Bridge-Die Brucke
Red Dawn
Hunt For Red October
THREADS- The British film that made "The Day After" look like the Sesame Street version. EASILY the most distrubing film I have ever seen...
Notice my choices aren't the propogandic, or comedy movies. They are, for the most part, dark and realistic......
Yep! Right off the top of the old noggin! When I die from smoking, drinking and chasing women too much, I plan on having an open skull service...
Yes, he knew more useless movie crap than any human I ever knew!
The Big Red One is in the 90's?
Bad list.
I assume you are speaking of Channel 4's list? I thought about it, but when I got to their #2 Apocalypse Now my gag reflex stopped me cold!
Yes, she could still play Carmen Ibanez, but she'd have to shave her head...
Can I hold the razor?
Hush, Bender! I'm getting psyched up for Denise's audition...
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein should be required reading starting in the 5th grade!
Anything with M-24 Chaffee's scooting around.
Bridge at Remagen is best,.....Battle of the Bulge is next.
A Bridge too far is also good if one likes armor.
Siege of Firebase Gloria is my fav war movie.
R Lee Ermey walking the perimmeter with heads of G.I.s who got zapped ,
V.C.commander comenting that his mortar platoon could not hit his grandmothers ass.
If I had a million or so dollars to burn,....would do Dewey Canyon II [Lam Son 719] from 1971.
Hundreds of U.S. helicopters and gunships got smacked as they flew into quadrant anti air batteries over Laos.
Charlie overrunning Firebases,.....downed aircrews from U.S. helo's and Jets making there way thru the Jungle while Charlie hunts them.
ARVN Mechanised divisions stopped near firebases ,....smoking cigs and looking at Playboy while buddies get the chop on the adjacent hill.
Alot of heroism and drama to be found in this operation.
Here is some 'Right Stuff' trivia. William Goldman ( screenwriter for The Great Waldo Pepper, A Bridge Too Far, The Princess Bride, Harper & Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to name a few) was supposed to do the screenplay for 'Stuff.' In his Adventures in the Screen Trade, Goldman tell some tales!
He was really excited to be able to write a great script about the excitement, wonder and courage of the American space effort. However, when he started talking to director Philip Kaufman, he found Kaufman planned on doing the film as the failure of America to get it right! Kaufman wanted to show that the best of America had passed us by.
Goldman left the project in disgust only to find out later that 'Stuff' was to be written by... Yes, Philip Kaufman!
While the film did survive to be better than Goldman's fears as it more focused on Yeager's part rather than the actual Seven, it does have many scenes that make fun of the American endeavors. Such as the two black suits (Jeff Goldblum & Harry Shearer) played for poking fun at US efforts.
IMHO While parts of The Right Stuff do hit the mark, I found the film more of a bummer in contrast to Tom Wolfe's epic book.
BTW get a copy of Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade. It is an enjoyable roller coaster read on the highs and lows of Hollywood...
Just answer your damned door! Bender has four cases of Heineken in his chest cooler! We've got to support the Danes, ya know!
#2, Heineken is brewed in the Netherlands, you ninney! Carlsberg is Danish beer.
Okay! Okay! We'll drink Carlsberg when we run out of Heineken...
What about supporting the Danes?
Looks like they are on their own until we get to the Carlsberg...
I thought Tom Hanks did a more than excellent job in Saving Private Ryan and deserved an Oscar. In real life one would find most of the heroes look more like Hanks (or even more regular guy normal) than a young John Wayne. Audie Murphy and Jimmy Stewart are the exception rather than the rule, no matter what Hollywood shows...
The scene where his hands were giving him trouble is dead on...
By George, I blew it! You are right, The Lighthorsemen (1987) is about the cavalry charge against the Turkish guns at Beersheba. Sorry, I am not the expert on Aussie film I thought I was...
Boy, that charge was well done!
I recall seeing Attack Force Z and thinking the web gear was good but the silenced grease guns was over done and not accurate. You burn out a suppressor real fast on full auto! Yet a lot of Hollywood and/or Aussie films show weapons doing impossible things!
Well, buff... that makes you 90% of the old fart I am...
Doesn't that just really make your day?
Missed that one, too. I did not mean to dis any British or foreign films, I was just trying to mainly list war films made before 1970 for our younger FReepers...
I do not recall Rome, Open City, but I do The Human Comedy and This Land is Mine. Both of those need to be on the list. Thanks for ringing my memory bell...
Yep, those Martini-Henry Rifles were not easy to find in large quantities even back in 1964... Thought they did find a passel of them for 1979's Zulu Dawn.
Jack... Jack... Jack! Read past the 1st post...
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