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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Come to think of it, I cannot think of any film, war, peace or whatknot, that Alec Guinness was not excellent in the part he played...
Damn! You're good, Tulsa!
Yes, Twelve O'Clock High is listed #1 in my 1947-1967 listing...
As to Bombers B-52 I found it mainly a vehicle for Efrem Zimbalist Jr. to smooch with comely Natalie Wood while Pappy Karl Malden smoldered. However, there were some good footage of the BUFFs...
Never heard it called 'Tank' but yes, one of my favorite George Dzundza, Jason Patric & Stephen Baldwin films, The Beast of War aka The Beast (1988) was a little seen film about the Russian adventure in Afghanistan when a Soviet tank crew runs afoul of the Mahjadeen... This was of course before they turned their sights on us.
I must have missed When Trumpets Fade but I will watch for it. As to Hamburger Hill, I was on the Left Coast trying to peddle some of my screenplays and went to the postproduction screening of 'Hill' with a buddy of mine more connected in the screen trade than me. I found the film very realistic for the times, very patriotic and very moving. When the film, ended, I stood up and applauded. I was the only one doing so. My friend pulled me down, saying, "Stop it! Don't get the liberals on my case!"
The film was released without any studio backing and thusly did poorly at the box office.
BTW My friend is out of the biz now and currently breeds dogs up near Reno... Sal, I know you are not lurking here, but I just had to say, "Hi!"
Try to read past the 1st post...
***Of course, I haven't seen Brokebutt Mountain yet...***
That's NOT a WAR MOVIE,unless it can be refered to as "the battle of the 'little big horn'".
"Open the breach and let me shove this shell in there before it goes off!"
Seen them! enjoyed them! got them on tape or dvd!
Spartacus is just a little long.
Add also ALEXANDER! The RICHARD BURTON VERSION!
RICHARD III. Sir Laurence Olivier version
How about THE LOST PATROL from the 1930's. Soldiers fighting arabs.
THE 4 FEATHERS. Alexander Korda and the earlier b&w version.
AN AMERICAN GURILLA IN THE PHILIPINES! Tyrone Power. I learned how to make a homemade shotgun from this movie!
EL CID!
55 DAYS AT PEKING!
LAST OF THE MOHICANS . All versions!
WAKE ISLAND! SAW IT LAST WEEK AND IT STILL MAKES ME MAD!
All of the great films made during WWII!
TOO LATE THE HERO'
TOBRUK
PLAY DIRTY! Michael Caine ( "Don't do it again!")
Garsh.........Bender............I think you left out two.
For me, it is "We Were Soldiers" and "Black Hawk Down"
Having never seen a war first hand, I can't judge what is realistic and historical.
But, these two moved me in a way that Saving Private Ryan did not.
Now, my husband could go toe-to-toe with you on this list.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe"
I would have to add " Master and Commander".
Excellent catch on "Threads", tcrlaf! The most British of Cold War/Apocalyptic Documentaries. Very disturbing. One of the last films I saw on PBS ages ago.
Jack.
Breaker Morant
Das Boot
The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Full Metal Jacket.
3. The Patriot.
4. Downfall.
5. Tora Tora Tora.
6. They Died With Thier Boots On.
7. Paths of Glory.
8. The Alamo (John Wayne Version).
9. Major Dundee.
10. A Bridge Too Far.
What a powerful book that is. Good flick, too.
Oh hell no. If they'd really made the book Starship Troopers into a movie, I'd probably put it near the top, but Verhoeven's "Bug Hunt" (as it was originally titled) completely sucks as a war movie. It's sci-fi action/gore flick.
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