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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The missing A Midnight Clear really stuck with me, and I'd put Das Boot much higher, but I can watch it in German so it was probably better for me.
Of course, we also seem to be missing a certain foreign war film, Braveheart.
Damn, you beat me.
I gotta go with "Band of Brothers" (WWII) and suprisingly "The lost Battalion" (WWI)
My list:
#1 - Band of Brothers
#2 - Saving Private Ryan
#3 - Patton
#4 - The Longest Day
#5 - We Were Soldiers
#6 - Gettysburg (top 5 if they cast someone other than that idiot martin sheen who ruined the R. E. Lee part)
#7 - Blackhawk Down
#8 - Full Metal Jacket (I've loved that movie since the first time I saw it)
#9 - The Dirty Dozen
#10 - Das Boot
my 2 favs are
#1 ZULU
totaly awesome film of a brilliant defensive victory.
#2 Pork Chop hill.
the major thing in common with these 2 movies............
no gratuatis love scenes. actually hardly any women in them at all. just great battle scenes start to finish.
P.S. i love women but get tired of hollywierds frail depiction of them and the constant saving they need in most movies.
That is one of those movies that really did nothing in the theater and is not well known.
How about Kelly's Heros.
Thrash me good, Mike! I completely forgot about Mel Gibson's most excellent We Were Soldiers. It showed, like no current films I know of, that a very religious man can make an excellent warrior.
Besides the very effectively presented combat scenes, the segment when the wives were delivering the telegrams worked on my emotions like few films have ever done.
War and Peace. 1968 Sergey Bondarchuk Russian version.
Waterloo. 1971 Sergy Bondarchuk version aain.
All the other good ones have been named.
Yep, I did! Sorry about that, I don't think Howard Hughes' ghost will forgive me...
This is a tough call, but off the top of my head I'd pick (last to first):
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
The Bridge Over The River Kwai
Sargeant York
Patton
Awesome list.
You have this twice.
30 and 51. Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Great list! I would add 'Wings' to the WWI group, made in 1927, and has incredible stunt flying. (Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers, Gary Cooper)
I know it.
We went as a group from my work. There was one guy named Tom. He was an older guy, was wounded twice in Vietnam.
He didn't make it through the movie. It was hard to watch.
No, missed that one... But I'll take your word.
yes to adding we were soldiers to the list.
P.S
too some it may not belong but i count the recent flight 93 as a war film. very few films make me cry but when i watched it i sobbed with pain and anger at least on 10 different scenes.
"The people who did this will be hearing from us" G.W.Bush
sept 2001
Have you seen Memphis Belle? With a list that comprehensive I thought you would have had that in there somewhere.
How about "They were Expendable"
sorry sweetheart but way before my time... .
;)
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