War Films

[Red-Dot]

Gods and Generals

 

[pardus]

Bridge on the River Kwai

Just so everyone knows, this movie was a disgraceful, huge insult to the memory of the Brit commander. He in NO WAY acted the way he was portrayed in the film. The veterans of the bridge building are highly pissed off about it.

 

[CDG]

Just so everyone knows, this movie was a disgraceful, huge insult to the memory of the Brit commander. He in NO WAY acted the way he was portrayed in the film. The veterans of the bridge building are highly pissed off about it.

Really? I had no idea.....

 

[pardus]

Really? I had no idea.....

Yeah, it's kind of a big deal for the vets. I didn't know for years either. I totally understand their outrage though. Slandering the reputation of a decent guy.

 

[x SF med]

Tribes
Siege of Firebase Gloria
the Last Detail
Ensign Pulver

 

[CDG]

Ensign Pulver

Just looked this up and didn't realize they had made a sequel to Mister Roberts. I'm gonna have to check it out. I enjoyed Mister Roberts.

 

[Deleted member 2517]

Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Flags of Our Fathers
The Longest Day

Honorable mention: Apocalyspe Now

Now I may get hate for these but-
Jarhead and The Hurt Locker had INDIVIDUAL SCENES that were good when taken out of context of the entire film. For me the scenes in Jarhead that stand out come at the end. Specifically Jaime Foxx's speech about why he stays in the Marines, and that final depiction of the former Platoon mates in their post military life.

Hurt Locker- the final scene of him home, and then heading back has always struck me as powerful.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Just so everyone knows, this movie was a disgraceful, huge insult to the memory of the Brit commander. He in NO WAY acted the way he was portrayed in the film. The veterans of the bridge building are highly pissed off about it.

Was there a book or other film that depicted him more accurately? If so, I'd sure like to check it out.

 

[pardus]

Was there a book or other film that depicted him more accurately? If so, I'd sure like to check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Behind-Br...096&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Man+Behind+the+Bridge

 

[CDG]

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Behind-Bridge-Colonel-Toosey/dp/048511402X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415721096&sr=8-1&keywords=The Man Behind the Bridge

WTF is with those prices? I saw some in excess of $200.

 

[pardus]

WTF is with those prices? I saw some in excess of $200.

I'm guessing it's out of print. Just have to get a used copy before they go/increase in price.

 

[LogDog0402]

I'll add in The Dirty Dozen and Heartbreak Ridge for pure entertainment purposes.

 

[Scubadew]

Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.


I do love Patton (when I have an entire day to watch it).

 

[Gunz]

If you've never seen the movie Zulu, (1964) starring Michael Caine, Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins, I highly recommend it. Great British Army war drama about the incredible battle of Rorke's Drift, where 150 British soldiers, many of them wounded and sick, held off an army of 4,000 Zulu warriors. They kick ass.

 

[SpitfireV]

Das Boot.

Tropic Thunder

Down Periscope

Red Dawn

 

[pardus]

If you've never seen the movie Zulu, (1964) starring Michael Caine, Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins, I highly recommend it. Great British Army war drama about the incredible battle of Rorke's Drift, where 150 British soldiers, many of them wounded and sick, held off an army of 4,000 Zulu warriors. They kick ass.

An action that saw the awarding of 11 Victoria Crosses too!
Agreed that it's a great movie too.

 

[Red Flag 1]

What a great topic, and around Veterans Day, it really is the perfect thing to think back on. My favorites are, of course "Rambo", "Hot Shots parts 1&2," the most riveting "Top Gun":-". There are just so many wars, and so many movies to reflect on. Most of the ones mentioned pretty much fill my favotes list too. There are others that have held my eye too, and they take us away from WW II, and even the Viet Nam subjects. Again, there are so many wars:

Paths of Glory....the young bar room singer becomes Mrs. Stanley Kubrick in real life.
Kingdom of Heaven
Lawrence of Arabia
55 Days in Peking
The Sand Pebbles
Das Boat
Master and Commander, Far Side of The World
Breaker Morant
Young Lions
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Morituri
Zulu
The Cruel Sea
Fort Apache
The Alamo, the latest version with Billy Bob Thornton


To name a few

 

[pardus]

Stalingrad

Das Boot

Saving PVT Ryan

Blackhawk Down

A Bridge Too Far

The Eagle Has Landed

Gallipoli

Lawrence of Arabia

Memphis Bell

All Quiet on the Western Front

 

[Muppet]

Tribes
Siege of Firebase Gloria
the Last Detail
Ensign Pulver

I just watched siege of fire base Gloria last week. Good movie.

F.M.

 

[Gunz]

I just watched siege of fire base Gloria last week. Good movie.

F.M.

Yeah, vintage R. Lee.

Here's another great WW2 movie, The Enemy Below, technicolor, great score, Robert Mitchum as a destroyer skipper hunting a U-boat in the South Atlantic with Kurt Jurgens as the U-boat kapitan. It set a standard for sub pictures and The Hunt for Red October and Das Boot both stole a few ideas from it.

My dad used to always quote one of Kurt Jurgen's lines. When the sub is descending below it's maximum depth and seawater's squirting out the pipes and all the Krauts are sweating and glancing around nervously at one another, Jurgen's calmly says to his XO: "Ve build zem goot in Chermany, eh, Heinie?"