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100 Greatest War Film -- What is your favorite war movie?
Channel 4 ^ | 2-6-006 | Channel 4

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: betweenthestates; civil; film; indian; mini; movie; one; series; terror; tv; war; world
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To: MikeinIraq

I keep leaving out Band of Brothers, since it wasn't a theatrical release, but it definately deserves being near the top.


221 posted on 02/09/2006 10:55:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Emmet Fitzhume
"We Were Soldiers"

Good movie. I saw that one in the theater.

222 posted on 02/09/2006 10:56:46 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 ("It's turkey jerky. Want some? Come on take a pull. No? Okay, more for me.")
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To: razorback-bert
I would have to add " Master and Commander".

Great flick, that should have gotten more notice, I am still hoping for a sequel.

223 posted on 02/09/2006 10:58:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: beachn4fun
Re: Now, my husband could go toe-to-toe with you on this list.

Hi ya, Beachy! Yes, We Were Soldiers and Blackhawk Down were excellent films... The scene of the wives delivering the telegrams in 'Solders' still haunts me when I think about it... And likewise at the end of 'Blackhawk' when Eric Bana's Detla guy was telling Josh Hartnett's character why he was going back out...

Yet many such moments in 'Saving Pvt. Ryan' also effected me, too!

Well, you pays your nickle and takes your chances, right?

However my main intent was to list war films made before 1970 for our younger FReepers.

Now, as to me going toe-to-toe with your hubby, how tall is he? I don't want any Brokeback moments happening during our tussle!

Like that would matter!

224 posted on 02/09/2006 11:03:17 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: Bender2
Enemy at the Gates, should get a few stars.
225 posted on 02/09/2006 11:03:48 AM PST by smug (Tanstaafl)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah...

it was a mini-series, but it was a very well done miniseries....


226 posted on 02/09/2006 11:04:19 AM PST by MikefromOhio (Brokeback Mountain: The ONLY western where the Cowboys GET IT IN THE END!!!)
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To: MikeinIraq

I enjoyed "War and Remembrance" as well.


227 posted on 02/09/2006 11:05:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: beyond the sea
Re: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe"

Well, when Bender and I saw it... Liz Taylor scared the hell out of me!

Me, too!

228 posted on 02/09/2006 11:08:50 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Re: My past: "Starship Troopers the novel by Robert A. Heinlein is one of the best military books every written past, present or future!"
anti's It's on the reading list at all four military academies, the only sci-fi novel to get that distinction, plus on the Army and Marine Corps reading lists.

Now, if we could only get it into the public schools as required reading, half the battle would be won!

229 posted on 02/09/2006 11:13:48 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: dfwgator

No kidding, a very well made, acted and with great effects film.


230 posted on 02/09/2006 11:17:20 AM PST by razorback-bert
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To: righttackle44
Re: "I love to watch it with someone really young who look askew when the characters all rise at the dance when they play "God Save the Queen."
My daughter caught that they were in Britain during WWII. I explained what was happening.
Her question: "Dad, why are they standing? They're playing 'America.' I thought they were English.

Kids! What ya gona do?

Beat 'em with a crowbar, that's what!

231 posted on 02/09/2006 11:18:33 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: Bender2

Brokeback? I won't touch that one with a 10-foot pole.

I meant when it comes to old films. Mr. Beachy is a war buff and loves to watch movies. So, of course, he knows a lot about those old war films.


232 posted on 02/09/2006 11:20:52 AM PST by beachn4fun (FR Canteen. The happenin' place. Whatz happenin, we haven't a clue.)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
Re: "Twelve O'Clock High"

"Now I am not one for this 'Why Are We Fighting' stuff, but we are in a war. And some of us are going to die. Consider yourself dead already. Put it behind you. Fear is normal, but we have a job to do." - paraphrasing Peck's General Savage in his first talk to the Group.

I think the attitude along those lines is why you were watching the film for leadership. When you have to send men under your command into sometimes certain death, it is called command.

Greg Peck was a raging liberal, but he was one hell of an actor and was never, ever better than in '12 O'clock' and 'Pork Chop.'

BTW Peck was one mean SOB in The Bravados (1958).

233 posted on 02/09/2006 11:29:46 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: tuffydoodle
Re: I don't like war movies so...

Gad! For someone who is always poking us with a Q-Tip over and over again, you'd think they loved war movies!

234 posted on 02/09/2006 11:36:16 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: razorback-bert; Gay State Conservative; hattend; MotleyGirl70; dfwgator; smug; Maximus of Texas; ...
Ya'll have all mentioned fine war films, but...

Remember... my main intent was to list war films made before 1970 for our younger FReepers.

Sooooooooo... I want to see each and ever FReeper under the age of 40 to watch all the films and make 7-page reviews on each one. This assignment will be 60% of your final grade. All "Slackers" will have their failures put into their permanent records!

Those falling behind will be given over to tuffydoodle and her Q-tip for punishment...

235 posted on 02/09/2006 11:45:43 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: PzLdr

No source. I noticed several similarities that lead me to believe this, i.e. Tanz commands tanks in battle / Heydrich goes flying in a combat aircraft and nearly gets killed, both are tall blond models of Aryan manhood, both are sociopathic killers, etc. Maybe the author didn't mean to model Tanz on Heydrich but there are sure a lot of coincidental likenesses.


236 posted on 02/09/2006 11:48:01 AM PST by 43north (Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
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To: Bender2
GETTYSGURG

never been a better war movie

237 posted on 02/09/2006 11:48:03 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Bender2

Star Wars


238 posted on 02/09/2006 11:48:25 AM PST by YourAdHere (Viking kitties taste like chicken.)
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To: Bender2
GETTYSBURG

never been a better war movie, SPECIALLY SPELLED RIGHT

239 posted on 02/09/2006 11:48:45 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: beachn4fun
Re: Brokeback? I won't touch that one with a 10-foot pole.

What is it with you and the tall Polish guys? Does you hubby know about this?

240 posted on 02/09/2006 11:50:56 AM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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