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DECORATED SOLDIER PICKS THE BEST, AND WORST, WAR MOVIES
Hollywood in Toto ^ | 7 Jan 2018 | Anon

Posted on 01/09/2018 6:18:46 AM PST by Rummyfan

I was attending a Christmas party over the holidays and, in the course of conversation, made the following statement:

“I can’t watch very many war movies anymore.”

My sister in-law, thinking I was talking about some kind of emotional issue said, “Of course…” I immediately interrupted her.

“No, it’s not some kind of PTSD thing or anything like that. It’s just that I think I’m hyper-critical and I end up taking myself out of the movie.”

This caused me to think about all the war films I watched over the years and which ones based on my experience actually bring something to the table. As a caveat, I fully admit that most of my criticisms are purely superficial. The layman would never notice or appreciate the difference if it was changed to be more accurate.

Additionally, I was a helicopter pilot for 24 years, so if I don’t notice that the guys in a stack getting ready to kick down a door weren’t oriented correctly that’s not my fault, it wasn’t my job in the Army.

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1 posted on 01/09/2018 6:18:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Agree with the choices on the classics and the new stuff both.


2 posted on 01/09/2018 6:27:19 AM PST by reed13k
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To: Rummyfan

I was watching The Green Berets and the first mortar coming in gave me a cold rush down my spine. I couldn’t stay and watch the rest with the family.

I have noticed that in other war movies, certain of the sounds make me very uncomfortable. I really only seem to enjoy comedies and musicals anymore.


3 posted on 01/09/2018 6:29:36 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Rummyfan

“Taking Chance” is my favorite. Absolutely must-see movie.


4 posted on 01/09/2018 6:30:07 AM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: glock rocks

Set in Vietnam... alow budget masterpiece, with little known actors... must see! IMHO. 84 Charlie Mopic - 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGcWdPyxbug


5 posted on 01/09/2018 6:33:01 AM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: Rummyfan
In the article he mentions Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha. Be sure to read that!
6 posted on 01/09/2018 6:33:24 AM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe not a war movie, but the last good movie I saw was “Patriots day” about the Boston marathon bombing. What surprised me was how close to the facts they stuck and didn’t make the terrorists out to be innocent victims like the left usually does. It was really good, really showed them to be the scmbags they are/were.


7 posted on 01/09/2018 6:33:26 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: Rummyfan

Halls of Montezuma was an awesome 50’s flick!


8 posted on 01/09/2018 6:33:29 AM PST by Renegade
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To: glock rocks

I think that “The Big Red One” is a better movie than “Saving Private Ryan”.


9 posted on 01/09/2018 6:39:09 AM PST by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: Rummyfan

Crimson Tide is the number one movie on top of my husbands (27 yrs a submariner) worst movie list.

It’s hard to watch anything with submarines as part of the plot line when my Husband is around. But Crimson Tide really got it all so terribly wrong, it appears as if they didn’t bother having a military advisor onset to help them get anything right.

His favorites, however, was U-571 and Hunt for Red October. They were really good entertainment.


10 posted on 01/09/2018 6:46:54 AM PST by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: Rummyfan

Band of Brothers is one of the best.


11 posted on 01/09/2018 6:47:13 AM PST by Big Mack (I love this country.It's the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: Big Mack

Best war movie I’ve seen recently is the Russian movie “Brest Fortress”.


12 posted on 01/09/2018 6:48:23 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: reed13k

Just watched Dunkirk, a total fiasco of incompetence of the Brits and French. Lack of equipment, ships, planes. Who in their right minds stands 400,000 ‘boys’ barely men on a open beach for German fighter planes to strafe and bomb at will, with very little air or Ship protection? The overcrowded evac and ‘hospital’ ships where just sunk with all aboard.

Brits wouldn’t let French on ‘their’ ships, didn’t see any French ships to evac their men stranded on that beach. Men who went overboard into the oil slick waters, many either drown or died in fires when the oil slick caught fire.

Small fishing vessels and yachts rescued many.

40,000 Brits and same for French captured.


13 posted on 01/09/2018 6:52:28 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: submarinerswife

What does he think of Das Boot? That’s a great submarine movie, imho.


14 posted on 01/09/2018 6:53:55 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: glock rocks

I agree. Taking Chance is excellent.


15 posted on 01/09/2018 6:54:21 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: glock rocks

“Taking Chance” is my favorite. Absolutely must-see movie.”

Agreed. Bacon should have been nominated for an Oscar.

L


16 posted on 01/09/2018 6:56:14 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: FiddlePig

must see! IMHO. 84 Charlie Mopic - 1989.

Those guys wouldn’t have survived 10 minutes in the war I came to know.

http://www.projectdelta.net/history.htm

http://www.projectdelta.net/the_ashau.htm

http://www.projectdelta.net/the_ashau.htm


17 posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:05 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Rummyfan

Our high school FB coach served in ‘Nam. During thunderstorms he would sleep outisde as a result of memories from ‘Nam.


18 posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:42 AM PST by ealgeone
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One little known movie, which is not exactly a war movie, but is set during WWII, is absolutely fantastic. A must see called Silent Night with Linda Hamilton, the female star of the Terminator movie.


19 posted on 01/09/2018 7:04:09 AM PST by jackibutterfly (With hilliary, we didnÂ’t dodge a bullet... we dodged a 100 megaton hydrogen bomb!!!)
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To: GailA
Just watched Dunkirk, a total fiasco of incompetence of the Brits and French. Lack of equipment, ships, planes. Who in their right minds stands 400,000 ‘boys’ barely men on a open beach for German fighter planes to strafe and bomb at will, with very little air or Ship protection?

The lines were organized to keep the evacuation from turning into a riot.

The sand helped mitigate somewhat the bombing and straffing.

There was a debate involving the RAF...use them at Dunkirk or save them for the next phase...the feared German invasion of Great Britain.

The evacuation at Dunkirk was a fairly well executed operation considering all factors.

20 posted on 01/09/2018 7:06:40 AM PST by ealgeone
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