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The Best War Movies Ever Made
Freepers who know their war flicks
| June 25, 2002
| wimpycat
Posted on 06/25/2002 5:40:51 PM PDT by wimpycat
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To: buffyt
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT was made in 1940. Got it at the local rental place. Ann Sheridan, George Raft, and Humphrey Bogart.
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posted on
06/25/2002 6:23:41 PM PDT
by
buffyt
To: surely_you_jest; All
I have to sign off now! Carry on!
I must say, you guys have some good taste in war movies! Most of you, anyway.
To: Hoosier Patriot
B-36's? LOL!!
To: wimpycat
1. Longest Day
2. Zulu
3. Patton 4. The Train
5. Band of Brothers (mini-series) 6. Attack
7. Kelly's Heroes
8. Midway
9. A whole lot of 'em
To: Burkeman1
"Full Metal Jacket" was written by a guy that was in my Bro's Marine unit, and he knew his stuff re combat as he saw a lot of it in Okinawa, Korea and Nam
Can you believe that the Feds put him in jail for months once for having hundreds of overdue library books (they claimed, but he said he had bought them all at library auctions). He died recently. Sad! He was a good Marine!
To: surely_you_jest
>>>Well, I'd put In Harm's Way in the first tier.One of my all time favorites. What I call a very watchable movie.
A Walk in the Sun is on TCM every now and then. American battalion attacks a Nazi hideout in WWII. Great cast! Bataan and Back to Bataan were pretty good war movies too.
To: Hoosier Patriot
I remember my first flight in a Buff. I hummed the music from "Strategic Air Command"!
To: StoneColdGOP
The Alamo I'm a John Wayne fan but that movie really stunk. I once taped a piece of Alamo dialogue that was so horrible that it was laughable. I wish I could find it. And Frankie Avalon as a frontiersman? You gotta be kidding!
To: Burkeman1
Freedom and a trip to British island colonies where they WERE SOLD AS SLAVES as a reward...also, MANY hundreds of these "freed" blacks died as a result of the Brits giving them blankets....dirty/soiled with smallpox.
Yep, the Brits real heroes to slaves! HA!
To: mc5cents
Havent seen "Schlinder's List". But "Stalag-17" is a good one too!
To: mc5cents
Six turning and four burning!
To: buffyt
Pearl Harbor. Ignore the fact that Ben Aflect is in it.
I did and it still stinks.
To: PJ-Comix
Yeah, I just loved that scene with the sailorlessJapanese boats floating thru that studio bathtub.I know, I know. I was thinking of the part
where Kirk Douglas slaps what's-his-name
the PR guy. Loved it.
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posted on
06/25/2002 6:30:02 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: PJ-Comix
Pearl Harbor.
Ignore the fact that Ben Aflect is in it.
I did and it still stinks. Yea, computer generated Jap Zero's just dosen't cut it with me either. :-))
To: wimpycat
Patton
Braveheart
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Twelve O'Clock High
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
From Here to Eternity
The Great Escape
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Charge of the Light Brigade
MacArthur
Lawrence of Arabia
Sergeant York
See also, http://www.geocities.com/warmoviedatabase/index.html
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posted on
06/25/2002 6:32:11 PM PDT
by
RonDog
To: wimpycat
Gardens of Stone
Uncommon Valor
Aloha Bobby and Rose
okok, so the last one isn't much of a war movie, I still like the soundtrack
To: Young Werther
Did your arm go numb like Jimmy's did in his final flight in the flick? {;-)
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the 'ol B-52. What a workhorse.
To: tabsternager
In the same vein as Braveheart, I would also say "Spartacus"
is a great movie, with great actors in it. The best set up for battle when the Roman Army marches toward the slave Army.
But the one scene that kind've chokes me up is when the Romans demand the defeated slaves, to identify Spartacus, and the individual slaves begin to yell "I'M SPARTACUS!"
To: buffyt
LOVE IS A MANY SPENDORED THING with William Holden and Jennifer Jones. In real life, Holden and Jones HATED each other so they did some good acting to convince us otherwise. Also this doesn't count as a war movie.
To: Burkeman1
to blacks serving in the continental army
Umm...this was one of the few things the movie got RIGHT. Actually, the movie was inaccurate in that there weren't ENOUGH blacks. And actually, the one in the movie wasn't a Continental, anyway...just Marion's Militia; there SHOULD have been tons of them in the Continental troops depicted. It is true that there were plenty who fought for the British, as well. But at that point in the war, Congress's money was so worthless, and the war had dragged on so long, it was difficult to get enough whites for the Continental Army. br>
I know people are suspicious this was some sort of feel-good Hollywood PC fabrication or exaggeration, but at that point in the war, 1/6th of the Continental Army was black.<
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