War movies!

I have to say war movies are one of my most favorite! Nam, have the best soundtracks. WW2, I find a lot of humor in some of them not in war but a lot of them are just funny in genral a part from the horror and cruelty! They also show the real life of war, and Reality that no tv show can really deliver.

 

best ww2 is not a movie but a ten part series. band of brothers. hands down best thing ive ever watched, war movie wise.

 

Here is a list of my favorite war movies
Avatar (sci-fi)
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Star Wars (Sci-fi)
Green Berets (old school)
Casualties of War
Starship Troopers (Sci-Fi)
Killing Fields
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Aliens (Sci-Fi) 1986
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Von Ryan’s Express
Chronicles of Riddick (Sci-Fi)
Patton
Run Silent Run deep (1958)
Where Eagles Dare
Midway (1976)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Sink the Bismarck
Dune (Sci-Fi) 1984
The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Desert Fox
The Enemy Below
Lifeboat
Objective, Burma (1945)
Sahara (Bogart)
Tobruk
Sergeant York (WW I)
Lost Battalion (WW I)


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My favorite WW2 movie has to be KELLY'S HEROES it's got a great story line and a fantastic cast,like Clint Eastwood,Donald Sutherland,Telly Savalas,Don Rickles,and Carroll O'Connor.

 

yeah i love that movie

 

I have seen some that you have mentioned, but I am not really into war movies.

Some of the World War I & II movies I saw as a young man (or boy on early TV) such as:

Guns of Navarone
Desert Fox
Sergeant York (WW I)

I saw Sink the Bismarck in theater

As well as two Vietnam movies
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

In fact those were probably the last war movies I saw because it is kind of upsetting to watch.

Which is why I never saw Saving Private Ryan

 

The Thin Red Line (Vietnam)

 

Disturbing or not you must have seen Avatar.

I also left out one of my other favorites Tora! Tora! Tora!


Hotwater

 

nobody mentioned the great escape with Steve McQueen

 

That is one of my favorite songs to play on the trumpet, or whistle

 

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

 

Only saw Avatar about 7 times now.

I only refer to movies depicting real wars on earth. I left out all the sci-fi war movies. Those do not disturb me like ones that are part of our history or in the case of Nam, my history.

 

I like Green Berets. A different message for a change.
The anti-war war movies are such a bore.

 

BLACK HAWK DOWN! i found that to be an amazing war film. i am watching it right now.

 

The Dirty Dozen was a great flick.

 

Please tell me that's not the Tobruk (if I remember correctly) with Rock Hudson in it!! The one where Americans defeat Rommel there.

 

That's the movie and don't forget George Peppard :2thumbsup:


Hotwater

 

Dammit, this was on TV the other day. I thought about watching it, but I didn't know much about it, so I ended up on HF instead, regretfully

 

For some reason, I've been wanting to see A Bridge Too Far again.

And @ whoever mentioned Peppard...The Blue Max

 

The Thin Red Line; hands-down the best war movie I've ever seen. One of the only movies I can say has really changed the way I think about the world. The suffering is real, and so is the absurdity. The all-star cast represents about six or seven different paradigms and ideas about war, and about life. It makes Saving Private Ryan look ridiculous