i havent seen many...apocalypse now...saving private ryan....we were soilders are the only 1s ive seen and they are all pretty good films...actually apocalypse now is AMAZING
Gladiator's an awesome film, they were showing it a lot on USA i think (one of those channels ) and I watched it a few times Braveheart is also one of my favorites I enjoy the movies about wars way back when, rather than happening in the past hundred years
We Were Soldiers Full Metal Jacket Apocolypse Now Wind Talkers Gone With The Wind Casablanca Bridge on the River Kwai Dr. StrangeLove Deer Hunter The Killing Fields Three Kings Life Is Beautiful Black Hawk Down
I forgot about enemy at the gates, I saw that one in theaters, good flick. And I agree totally with FMJ and Saving pvt ryan, both very good war films.
Platoon is my faovorite If your letting Black Hawk Down count (not being a war in all), that would be my second favorite otherwise it's probaly Braveheart and if you don't wanna let that count since it's all medieval an' shit it's Saving Private Ryan
Did anyone see A Bridge Too Far? It's about the war in Arnhem, Holland during WWII. It's a bit of an old film, but it's got a superb cast: Robert Redford, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Michael Caine, Derek Bogarde, Elliot Gould, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery(I'm sure I've missed a few others). I've got the DVD of this, but I remember seeing it as a lad with my dad and brother at The Dominion in Tottenham Court Road when it doubled up as a cinema, as well as a theatre and it was, how can I put it? Awesome! Worth seeing if you can get a copy. If anyone's played Medal of Honor Allied Assault then they have to see this. The music score and final scene will stay with you.
Best: Enemy at the Gates. Russian history kicks ass, so much more romantic yet stilll more violent than US history. Worst: The Green Berets. Biggest piece of propagandist bullshit I've ever seen. They used John Wayne to convince the American Public that Vietnam was a worthwhile action.
l'm not really a war person, but history really interests me, and unfortunatly war is a major part of history... History still happens and war still happens...
Enemy at the Gates seems to be quite popular. Have any of y'all who like the movie read the book by William Craig? It's not a novelization of the movie, but the, IMO, excellent history of the campaign in Southern Russia in '42-'43 upon which the movie was rather loosely based.
"The War at Home" is probably my favorite movie of all-time, and it doesn't have to do much with the war, but it's about a draftee who comes back from Vietnam, has a nervous breakdown, pulls a gun on his father, and gets kicked out the house. It's such a sad movie...
I know you'll enjoy the movie, Bedlam(love then name BTW). For all it's bravado, in all essence, it's an anti-war movie and perhaps more honest, though I'll have to admit according to people's stand on human conflict and consequent loss, obviously some people revel on it and others pretend to be repulsed by it, ie. the colloseum descendants who slow down to get a full view of a road accident. Incidentally, I had Enemy at the Gate on DVD, too, and although I can't say I'm exactly a Judd Law fan, since I appreciate actors that possess a quality known as 'acting', the film was based on a true story and would not have been shown 30, 10, or 20 years ago! Reasons: The most important and truest scene scene in the movie was how the Soviets butchered their own people. Do you remember that scene toward the begining? When everyone who turned back was mowed down by their own? Recap on history: up until WWI soldiers advanced in comformed lines. There were few marksmen. Vassili, though a great sniper, was obviously a propaganda tool for the communist manifesto and if we were still living in the Cold War this precious movie would not have been shown. Am I wrong? But in all essence this should not be seen about the advantages of one political system over another. The root, as I saw it and as I've experienced it having some form of military background, is that to the powers we are almost all considered as expendable. A soldier is actually trained that way and I, and I don't care if I'm the only one to say this, cannot accept that. If we can sit behind a keyboard and communicate with each other across a lonely globe floating in space through an infinity, where no other life form has positively made its presence evident, then I cannot think of a greater crime than to squander that existence as if it was something irrelevant. I totally agree with Zoomie on his view about The Green Berets and with total respect to John Wayne, who just did his job and earned his living, it was the biggest load of wank and even an insult to the Americans who were drafted and sacrificed in that pointless war. We wouldn't think of an Ebola epidemic as being glamorous, so why should we as, supposedly, a conscious species accept war as such?
Bridge over the river Kwai. Sir Alec Guiness plays a british officer in a POW camp. He brings the prisoners together and helps their captors build a bridge over the river Kwai. The challenge of building the bridge brings the men together and when the Allies attack he defends the bridge instead of helping the allies destroy it. The bridge had come to symbolize the teamwork and effort of the prisoners and he doesnt want to see it destroyed. An older film but definetly one to check out if you havent seen it.
