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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How about 30 Seconds over Tokyo
Starship Troopers
Cold War: By Dawn's Early Light: 1990, made for TV
Its a Bug PLANET!
I love Denise Richards. Gotta see the Cat fight with Denise Richards in "Undercover Brother" . Good stuff.
Hope you are talking about Channel 4's list, not mine!
Otherwise, as soon as I finish this cigar and jug of martinis, I'll have to hunt you down and spare no mercy!
Don't worry, #2's thinks he's a mean drunk... But he a pussycat...
I think he's a tomcat!
In no particular order, Patton, Braveheart, The Caine Mutiny, and Full Metal Jacket until R. Lee Ermy gets killed.
dang, that's quite a list, captain.
Yes, my pardons. I am talking about Channel 4's.
Yep, I missed the boat again. Great Sam Peckinpah film on the Eastern Front with James Coburn!
Really great movie. I can not figure out the ending however.
The Wild Bunch is not a war movie but I love it.
Thanks...
And many of these are availabe from NetFlix...
This is a great list. I have been putting a bunch of these on my NetFlix list. I just bought a 42 inch plasma and a Bose Lifestyle Sound System fo rmy new house.
The neighbors are gunna be really mad at me!
We Were Soldiers
But I was trying to keep with films about war from the Revolution to date...
Guess I need to add The 300 Spartans (1962), too, eh?
How about Roger's Rangers. Was that a Revolutionary War or French and Indian War movie?
Congratulations. Best war movie list I've ever seen. And thanks for your comments on Apocalypze Now.
I couldn't find it, but the only one I would add is Mrs. Miniver, if it's not there.
the light horsemen about the australian mounted rifles and the battle of beersheba in ww1
Sooo Sooorry about that...
Great one. Loved that . How about "Breaker Morant".
That was about the Boer War. One of the best overall movies.
The little 45 minute documentary on D-Day that the D-Day museum in NOLA has is as good as anything that I've seen. Lots of old footage, plus reminiscences by some of the guys that were there. Narration by the guy who wrote the Adams bio, I'm blocking on his name at the moment. but an excellent little film.
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