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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Sand Pebbles, From Here to Eternity, Slaughterhouse Five, The Blue Max, Das Boot, C47 with marines goes down on bypassed Jap island, can't remember the name, Heaven Help You Mr Allison, Mr Roberts, All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr Zhivago, anything with Lee Marvin,
The chick was Janet Leigh.
Oh no! You didn't put Kelly's Heroes in there! That was a great one!
That "hot redheaded chick" was Janet Leigh. It was directed by Josheph Von Stenberg, his last film as a director I believe.
Yes, she really filled out her flight suit. WIsh she didn't do that terrible russian accent.
i missed that one i need to see it.
i won't let my wife watch flight 93.
just talking about 9/11 see wierds out on me.
God love her!
In "Night of the Generals", Tanz[Peter O'Toole] goes from the Wehrmacht to the Waffen SS between the part in Poland, and his divisional command in France. I was never aware he was modeled on Reinhard Heydrich. Could you provide a source for that?
Man who would be king is AWESOME. Anyone that has not seen it must add this to their Netflix list.
I forgot Wings and worse... In a previous answer, I miscredited Howard Hughes as the film's producer. His WW1 flying film was Hell's Angels (1930)...
I also, thankfully, forgot that Hell's Angels in Vietnam flick... {...loud ick sound...}
Don't think it was a movie but Jerzy Kosinski's novel "The Painted Bire" , about a Polish orphan in WWII, is worth looking at
Yeah. So who's listening? LOL. All these years later JL is still eye candy with that figure.
I believe you are correct.
The flying scenes were well done.
Another movie worth watching just to see the hardware was "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart. Loads oif great aircraft.
I added your name to the post simply as a historical perspective for a sweet 16-year old as yourself...
I have a thing for redheads so....
Wow...all that off the top of your mind?
Great book and great read! The tie in to Cpt John Birch (yes of JBS) and the escape of the survivors through China is heartstopping reading!
If you ever get to read a book called "Hell in a very small Place" do not pas it up. Its about the French at Dien Bien Phu. Incredible read.
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