War Films

[Grimfury160]

I am going to go with:
(1) Black Hawk Down
(2) Lone Survivor
(3) Glory

What would you choose and yes its okay to post your responses.

 

[medicchick]

Uh, that picture contradicts your title. Do you want ones that made you cry (follows your picture) or top whiniest one (follows the title) since you call a whambulance for a whiny bitch?

You call a whambulance for a whiny person who is annoying...

 

[Grimfury160]

I fixed it, I needed a whambulance when I watched........for maybe a few seconds, or more.....depending on who you talked to.

 

[medicchick]

I fixed it, I needed a whambulance when I watched........for maybe a few seconds, or more.....depending on who you talked to.

I was just a bit confused by your picks when I read the title...lol

As a wife I have to choose We Were Soldiers. The scenes of bringing around the telegrams gets me every time. I think every AD wife can relate.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

I misread your original title as Top Whumpulance films...which thought was code for movies that featured helicopters involved in rescues. I was immediately going to go with The Guardian, featuring Kevin Costner as a Rescue Swimmer.

As for saddest film, I'm going with Private Ryan. There are some gut wrenching scenes there. Both the beginning, and then at the end. I can no longer watch the tail end when that incompetent fuck does not bring the ammo up, and the dude gets stabbed with the dagger. Such amazing acting, I kept waiting for him to go 80's Movie on the bit and flip the German over and kill him...nope. Honest terror in that scene.

Under the Criteria of best War Film...I'm always going to go with the opening half of Full Metal Jacket. The 2nd half is "just okay"

 

[Muppet]

The Longest Day
The Green Berets
Sand of Iwo Jima
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan

The series, Band of Brothers and Generation Kill.

F.M.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

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The series, Band of Brothers and Generation Kill.

F.M.

Great calls! I didn't even think of the HBO films.

 

[goon175]

1) Saving Private Ryan
2) Black Hawk Down
3) Fury

 

[Deleted member 2517]

1) Saving Private Ryan
2) Black Hawk Down
3) Fury

Fury was amazing.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Tropic Thunder

 

[Etype]

I would list Glory as my #1. I might include Gettysburg in my top 3.

What we need is a historically accurate Revolutionary War film on par with The Patriot, production wise.

 

[pardus]

What we need is a historically accurate Revolutionary War film on par with The Patriot, production wise.

That would be awesome.

Get Spielberg and Tom Hanks involved, it'll be done right.

 

[CQB]

Tripwires fave, Battleground. (RIP Trip)

 

[x SF med]

Jacob's Ladder... if you want to know about BZ testing and PTSD.

 

[RetPara]

The Longest Day
The Green Berets
Gettysburg
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
A Bridge Too Far
Fury
Band of Brothers (mini series)

Not in order

 

[CQB]

Jacob's Ladder... if you want to know about BZ testing and PTSD.

I'd forgotten about that one, clever film that.

 

[racing_kitty]

The Wild Geese
Platoon
Patton
The Green Berets
We Were Soldiers Once
Band of Brothers
The Siege of Firebase Gloria

 

[Ooh-Rah]

I know this is going old school, but Stalag 17 is one of my all time faves. Usually catch it once or twice during the Christmas season - William Holden was a bad mother f-er and I never watch the flick without thinking what the character "Animal" had gone through to get him to the mental point he was in the movie.

The other one that I just love, was To Hell and Back, the Audie Murphy story.

 

[Kraut783]

A lot of what everyone has mentioned....adding,

The Cross of Iron (1977)

 

[CDG]

My list would look the same as most of the ones already put forth. There are some movies that wouldn't make my top 5, but they deserve an honorable mention.

Great Escape
Guns of Navarone
Force 10 From Navarone
9th Company
Bridge on the River Kwai