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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
As a companion to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/705904/posts' The Worst War Movies Ever Made thread, I offer you the best war movies ever made, and I wanted to get mine in first. Here's my list, in no particular order.
1. Battleground (love James Whitmore in this!)
2. Full Metal Jacket (love the DI, R. Lee Ermey. "Hard core, man! F***ing Hard core!")
3. Glory (even though it's not quite historically accurate and it's about Yankees, it's a very moving film, IMHO. Great musical score, too.)
4. The Boys in Company C (same DI as in Full Metal Jacket. Made very soon after Vietnam, but it's still pretty good.)
5. Tora! Tora! Tora! (forget Pearl Harbor, the movie, this is the definitive Pearl Harbor movie)
6. Das Boot (definitely one of the all time great war films--great camera work, great sound effects, it makes you feel claustrophobic. Best viewed on DVD with SurroundSound system. Make sure you watch it in German, with the subtitles, not dubbed! Awesome!)
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To: wimpycat
Fail Safe. Not a conservative movie, but brilliantly written.
To: wimpycat
Actually- no drill instructor has ever been murdered by any cadet in either the Marines or the Army intentionally. So I call "Full Metal Jacket" a joke and one of the worst ever made.
To: wimpycat
They Were Expendable
Operation Burma
Battleground
Bridge on the River Kwai
12 O"Clock High
Paths of Glory
The Longest Day
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
To: wimpycat
In Harm's Way
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Day of the Jackal
To: wimpycat
The Deer Hunter was filmed on the River Kwai. I liked it because you got to know the characters very well before and after the conflict. To me it has all the ingrediants of a fine war movie.
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posted on
06/25/2002 5:51:51 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: wimpycat
Platoon
To: wimpycat
Believe it or not Das Boot was originally a 7 hour German TV mini series.... the movie is a cut down of that.
To: wimpycat
I love war movies. In my opinion the best ever was...Twelve O'clock High
To: wimpycat
In no special order:
Zulu
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?
The Longest Day
To: Alberta's Child
Breaker Morant Good movie!
To: wimpycat
In Harms Way, Battle of Midway, From Here To Eternity
To: wimpycat
Casa Blanca
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posted on
06/25/2002 5:53:06 PM PDT
by
buffyt
To: tophat9000
Yes, I'd heard that about Das Boot. I have a copy of the novel, AND a coffee table book of photos taken by the author while he was serving on U-Boats.
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06/25/2002 5:53:40 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
To: Jagdgewehr
No question: From Here to Eternity.
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posted on
06/25/2002 5:54:06 PM PDT
by
gaspar
To: wimpycat
The Dirty Dozen and Dr. Zhivago.
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posted on
06/25/2002 5:54:06 PM PDT
by
lara
To: wimpycat
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
The Alamo
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
To: wimpycat
"Glory"
"Patton"
"Kelly's Heroes"
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posted on
06/25/2002 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: Reagan Man
Great list!
Forgot a couple of those.
Apocalypse Now, Redux also pretty good. Haven't decided which one I prefer.
To: wimpycat
Best anti-war movie: Paths of Glory.
To: StoneColdGOP
Damn, forgot Patton!
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