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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It is called flossing you long eared calculating machine! 
Yes, it was hard for Tony to play against type... That's why he had that huge putty nose so he could get his role in The Boston Strangler. The producers didn't buy him until they saw him with the snoze...
What did Janet find in him that she couldn't have found in me?
Good looks for one... Lots of money for another... He was a real bobcat in the sack...
Well! That's whay I hear!
Red Dawn and The Longest Day are my two favs.
Favorite Movie period...Full Metal Jacket.
Thanks, MG...
Wow -- you like 'Patton'? 'Signs'?
You really have some good retro taste yourself -- a renaissance woman I see?
We Were Soldiers"
BOTH excellent.
Just rewatched it two nights ago. Better the second time around. I don't think it cracks my top ten though.
These are my favorites:
The Longest Day
Sink the Bismarck (I love Johnny Horton's song, too)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Great Escape
Zulu
Say, ez, aren't you forgetting The Boys in Company C, Purple Hearts, Mississippi Burning, The Siege of Firebase Gloria, Toy Soldiers, Dead Men Can't Dance, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... just to mention a few of my 100 plus roles! Drop down and give me fifty, you short memory maggot!
See Post #2 where it says Made 1947 - 1967: 22. In Harm's Way (1965)
You can lead a john to a hooker... But you cannot make him think! Or, it appears, get them to read past the 1st post either!
Not your list, yours is great. The top 100 survey this thread was about.
Opps! Can you ever forgive me, john?
I've been a naughty, naughty bot!
Kinda shaky for a M&C2... The box office for #1 wasn't that hot and the period flick was expensive to shoot.
Well Bender2, it is obvious to me that you have a much more thorough knowledge of these historical details than I do so I defer to you, sir. Where'd you learn all this stuff?
BTW, the author who wrote Night of the Generals also wrote Crack of Doom. You ever read that one? I wish I could recomember his name. Willi something? I knew I should have kept those books but that was 25 years ago or so.
Gotta feed the face...
Later
Okay, okay, How bout "Run Silent, Run Deep"
It is my understanding the "Enemy at the Gates" was pretty historically accurate.
Well, 43, I've always been both a film and history buff and even tried to make it in Hollywood as an actor and screenwriter... To no avail!
I have taught both WW2 History and Film classes, but I find I have learned most from just keeping my ears open, reading a lot of books and seeing a shinola pot full of movies. I'm sure smoking and drinking like a fiend has had some merit in my wicked, wylie ways! It also helps to be 58 years old...
(To all the girls I've told I am 22, I am just fibbing to 43...)
"The Night of the Generals is a 1967 World War II film adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst."
However, I find Robert Cromie's The Crack of Doom mentioned in The History of Nuclear War in Fiction as being written in 1895. Is this the book you mean?
Let me know and I'll see what else I can find after I've had some din-din...
Later
Quite perceptive. My favorite war movie ever, by a wide margin.
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