Posted on 06/06/2024 10:36:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
And no Andrzej Waja? No Kanal?
One of my favorites as well.
I think part of Dad’s problem was that the “Panzers” were Patton tanks...
Those Eastwood films were masterpieces.
Also for the Pacific a 1944 Japanese film “Colonel Kato’s Falcon Squadron”. As an aviation themed true story, it blows away any Hollywood film of that era. Special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya who co-created Godzilla.
And “Wake Island” is very good, and if you read Major Devereaux’s postwar book, it turned out to be very accurate considering the paucity of knowledge when made. Tora Tora Tora, Run Silent Run Deep, Jimmy Cagney as Halsey in the Gallant Hours. Wing and a Prayer about our carrier man in the Pacific. Bogart in Sahara.
Russia made “Ballad of a Soldier” that was amazing.
And the Brits made some very good films. Sink the Bismark, 633 Squadron, and Dam Busters was gut wrenching, true, and and the ending laid out the brutal reality of what it meant to be in Bomber Command, Bridge over the River Kwai.
The list of better films is endless.
Yes. Very faithful to the book. I also liked “Battleground” (1948) with Van Johnson and James Whitmore and “Sahara” with Humphrey Bogart.
My biggest problem with “Come and See” was I thought it was poorly done. It was plodding, no character development, bizarre camera shots, and it wasn’t a good story.
Sands of Iwo Jima was good also. People give it crap but the Marine Corps gave it all out support in filming. And it was filled with cameos of actual Marines who were in the Pacific war.
Katyn was very good.
Is Paris Burning was much better than I remembered. I watched it recently and realized I didn’t appreciate it when I was younger.
Midway, both of them.
In Tora Tora Tora there was no CGI. Watch that opening scene again with the Japanese Battleship. That was actually a giant set built for the film. They went to incredible efforts.
This list is clueless. It is a crime that PATTON was not in the Top 10 list.
There’s a Dutch filmed called “Black Book” I think about occupied Holland and the underground resistance. Good movie if you can tolerate captions.
I’d rather watch that 70s documentary series, The World at War. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYxy4la9w2tfotW1Xs-7oICGflf4dJtj5
I think the veterans of the war movies depicted probably vote based on their personal experiences. I was surprised not to see Band of Brothers also.
As an Air Assault Veteran of the Vietnam era, I found ‘We were Soldiers’ to be the movie most realistic, depicting jungle warfare and training just how I remembered it in 1968. I am a war movie junky of many years and all the films in this list have been great. I think the guys that lived the battles on film which are fewer and fewer every year have their favorites. But, ‘We were Soldiers’ gets my vote for pretty well living a real life version.
The movie ENEMY AT THE GATES is really based on the novel WAR OF THE RATS by David L. Robbins.
First one at least. Surprised. Artsy list.
YAMATO was an excellent film. Largest battleship of WWII. The last thirty minutes of the film was like the first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan. Seen through the eyes of Japanese sailor who survived.
I like action ones more.
Midway, The Longest Day, Big Red One, etc.
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