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Best war movie of all time

gregm13gregm13 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭
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Since we're on the topic of movies, what is your favorite war movie of all time. Mine is "Downfall" which is a 2004 German movie (English subtitles) which is partially based on the memoirs of one of Hitler's secretaries. I'm a WW 2 junkie, and it's the most historically accurate movie that I've ever seen.

Thoughts?

Rgs,

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  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    Patton.
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,990 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WWII Saving Private Ryan
    Vietnam Platoon
    Both incredible movies in my opinion!
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    The Longest Day...classic...
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  • CubsFan41CubsFan41 Posts: 513 ✭✭


    << <i>WWII Saving Private Ryan
    Vietnam Platoon
    Both incredible movies in my opinion! >>



    Couldn't agree more.
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  • gregm13gregm13 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭


    << <i>WWII Saving Private Ryan
    Vietnam Platoon
    Both incredible movies in my opinion! >>



    Great choices...both are incredible movies!

    Rgs,

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  • VictorLaszloVictorLaszlo Posts: 101
    Here's what I would have:

    Civil War: Glory
    WW I : All Quiet on the Western Front.
    WW II: Saving Private Ryan
    Korean War: The Manchurian Candidate
    Vietnam: Platoon
    Cold War: Threads
    Anti-War: Johnny Got His Gun
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bruno Ganz was brilliant in Downfall.

    Love the scene with Brando in Apocalypse Now.


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  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭
    When I read the responses it's hard to disagree, especially Saving Private Ryan, but when I read the question, the first movie to come to mind was The Great Escape.

    Love that cast, especially McQueen and Bronson.

    And while we're on prison camps and since it is a Sports Forum, Victory.

    But compared to some of the movies mentioned it's kinda like saying Cat in the Hat is the greatest graphic novel.


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  • hammeredhammered Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭
    Downfall was terrific
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  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Patton, Saving Private Ryan, The Big Red One for WW2
    Platoon and Full Metal Jacket for Viet Nam.

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    I don't know if it counts as a movie, but Band of Brothers!!
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  • eyeboneeyebone Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭
    I love the old ww2 classics like von ryan's express, bridge on the river kwai and the great escape. saving private ryan's beach scene was very good but after that the movie was not for me. among the more contemporary ww2 movies downfall is very good, and the pianist is outstanding re: the nazi invasion of Poland and the subsequent persecution of polish jews.

    surprised nobody has mentioned the deer hunter when it comes to 'nam. and I also thought the original johnny Rambo movie (stallone's character) called first blood was pretty darn entertaining.

    good topic. eyebone
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  • cincyredlegscincyredlegs Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭
    Kinda hard not to like any of the movies you have all put down. All are classics. Here is another one when I am flipping though the channels and come across it I have to watch..........We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson and Sam Elliott). Awesome movie. Love the line where Gibson says "I know now what Custer felt like at the end" and Sam Elliott said "Colonel, Custer was a P***Y, your not".......LOL

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  • JaktJakt Posts: 573 ✭
    My vote would be Band of Brothers. If that is on, I'm watching it.
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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    Band of Brothers is excellent. Another excellent Vietnam film is The Killing Fields. No Man's Land is a good film about the Bosnian war.
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  • jmoran19jmoran19 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭
    Downfall was really good

    Some that haven't been mentioned yet are Midway and Tora Tora Tora. Remember my Dad taking me and my brother to Midway in surround sound in the 70's, frickin was awesome

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    Saving private Ryan, enemy at the gates, we were soldiers
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    Patton
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    The Longest Day. Had the great fortune two years ago to visit the U.S. Cemetery overlooking the beaches. Humbling and wonderful experience

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    << <i>Funny: Stripes, Dr Strangelove
    Serious: FMJ, Apocalypse Now

    Yes, I'm a Kubrick fan. >>



    And no mention of Paths of Glory?

    Lots of great films already mentioned. I would add:

    Dark of the Sun
    Come and See
    Bridge on the River Kwai
    A Bridge Too Far
    Tae Guk Gi
    Lawrence of Arabia
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    I have to go with Platoon. I watched it with my father (a Vietnam vet) and he was very moved by how authentic it was.
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    I've always been partial to "Gettysburg"

    Excellent score and very good cast. I particularly thought Jeff Daniels was excellent as Col. Joshua Chamberlain and that all of the actors involved in the Battle of Little Round Top were very good.

    I like FMJ better than Platoon.

    Midway is always cool to watch as is The Longest Day, although Saving Private Ryan does a better job of making you feel that you are on the beach.

    Patton has about the best opening scene in movie history.

    "Be seated. I want you to remember, that no ba$t@rd EVER won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ba$t@rd die for his country."
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    << <i>

    << <i>Funny: Stripes, Dr Strangelove
    Serious: FMJ, Apocalypse Now

    Yes, I'm a Kubrick fan. >>



    And no mention of Paths of Glory? >>


    'French soldiers' is an oxymoron.
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    << <i>

    << <i>Funny: Stripes, Dr Strangelove
    Serious: FMJ, Apocalypse Now

    Yes, I'm a Kubrick fan. >>



    And no mention of Paths of Glory?

    Lots of great films already mentioned. I would add:

    Dark of the Sun
    Come and See
    Bridge on the River Kwai
    A Bridge Too Far
    Tae Guk Gi
    Lawrence of Arabia >>




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  • 1966CUDA1966CUDA Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭
    Loved "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson & Sam Elliot...lots of good lines in this Viet Nam flic!

    lines from movie:

    Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: "I wonder what was going through Custer's mind when he realized that he'd led his men into a slaughter?"

    Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: "Sir, Custer was a pu($$)y. You ain't."

    reporter who was in the filed during the battle, narrating at end of movie: "Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the
    men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them
    to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, they fought for each other."



    Also good WWII was Bridge Over the River Kwai about the railway between Thailand and Burma..remember watching this one as a kid back in the 70's
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    I've seen a couple specials on the cemetaries in Europe with U.S. soldiers ...BEAUTIFUL.
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    << <i>Loved "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson & Sam Elliot...lots of good lines in this Viet Nam flic! >>



    There's an awesome deleted scene that helped set up the introduction of Plumley.
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  • kmnortonkmnorton Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    Mine are, in no special order:

    Band of Brothers (again, not a movie)
    Full Metal Jacket
    A Bridge Too Far
    Saving Private Ryan

    Well, now that I type it, I would probably rank them that way.
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bottom line Full Metal Jacket was one of the most overrated war movies of all time IMO
  • LogPotatoLogPotato Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭
    Gettysburg (I've always been partial to it since I have lived within an hour of there my whole life.)
    Band Of Brothers (not a movie, but epic)
    The Pacific (see above)
    Saving Private Ryan

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  • mbz430embz430e Posts: 237 ✭✭
    Tough call on this one but I'll choose 2 not in any particular order
    1.Bridge on the River Kwai
    2.Patton
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    For the baby boomers .... The Dirty Dozen or The Great Escape
  • 1966CUDA1966CUDA Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭
    I forgot about The Dirty Dozen....just caught it a couple weeks ago. Great cast with Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, Donald Southerland, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown.
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    Civil War: Gone with the Wind
    WWI: All Quiet on the Westen Front
    WWII: Casablanca
    Korean War: Manchurian Candidate
    Vietnam War: The Boys in Company C
    Cold War: Fail Safe
    Anti War: Duck Soup
    Wild Card War: Galaxy Quest

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