Favourite War Film

UnrealQueen

Mine is Hamburger Hill. It looks so real. I know private ryan does too but i don't like that one. There's a part in it where a guy get's his arm blown off and doesn't even notice coz there's so much **** going on around him. It's just such a classy film. There's a brilliant poemy thing at the end of it as well.

daveg

I've said it many times before but the thin red line is mine. Followed closely by Platoon and Saving private Ryan.

Frank Grimes

I saw the original version of All Quiet on the Western Front in the IFI recently.
I think that this is probably the best (anti) war movie you are likely to see, ever.
The fact that it was an American movie about German soldiers made in 1930 makes it even more incredible.

projectmayhem

black hawk down is pretty nifty

Sleipnir

Das Boot.
By far the best.

ObeyGiant

Patton.
Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket.
Heartbreak Ridge ("Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah").

Beruthiel

Full Metal Jacket

Hyzepher

Dont forget Kelly's Heros - just for the fun of it.

Hyzepher

Sleipnir

And Sargeant Bilko, with Steve Martin.
Poignant.

ixoy

Full. Metal. Jacket!
Saving Private Ryan, I guess, for the battle scenes.
Can I say Aliens? After all this time it's war!

patch

Thin Red Line and then Catch-22 .

Panda

always liked the oldies,
the bridge on the river kwai

mike65

So many to choose from-

Where Eagles Dare, The Bridge at Remargan,
Patton ("you don't win a war by dying for your country...") The Great Escape, Tora Tora Tora, Von Ryans Express.

Mike.

lodgepole

Paths of Glory

xm15e3

Band of Brothers..without a doubt
Black Hawk Down
Piece of Cake (1988 BBC mini-series)..God Bless the Sound of a Merlin!

Wolfie

Saving private ryan for showing the true horrors of war.....

Nobody has mentioned 'The Longest Day' yet either?? Whaa?

echomadman

My war DVDs I cant really pick a favourite, theres a few more i want to get to flesh out the collection too.


The thin red line
The longest day
Patton
Tora Tora Tora
Saving Private Ryan
Bridge on the river Kwai
Das Boot

Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
Apocalypse Now (redux)
Platoon
BlackHawk Down
Heartbreak Ridge

Karl Hungus

Band Of Brothers definetly.
But that probably doesn't count.

Das Boot, and Schindler's List are definetly fantastic.

Honourable mention goes to Blackadder Goes Forth.
The final episode really does tug on the old heart strings.

gandalf

Catch 22
Cross of Iron
Kellys Heroes (ah cmon Hippies in WW2 is bloody cool!!!)
Tora Tora Tora
The Thin Red Line
Das Boot

Gandalf

(plus I must try and get a copy of Stalingrad somewhere as well)

orangerooster

Mine would have to be-
Hamburger Hill.
Full Metal Jacket.
Schindlers List.
Saving private Ryan.
All quiet on the western front.
Patton.
Das Boot.
The longest day.

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head-Cross of Iron is also quite good.

mike65

I forgot Cross Of Iron, also worth catching -
The Big Red One if you can find it.

Mike.

Makaveli

1 Full Metal Jacket
2 Platoon
3 Apocalypse Now

Dunno why I like the Vietnam ones better than the WW ones.

ChumpStain

Mine are:

Platoon
Full Metal Jack
Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter
Braveheart

Does the Pianist count?

I also really like Casualties of War, but its too much like Platoon. And am I the only one here who didn't really like the Thin Red Line or Black Hawk Down?

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by Sleipnir
Das Boot.
By far the best.

UTV showed the dubbed film
others showed the full series subtitled - much better.

Haven't seen the battle of midway in ages - is it any good ?

Cross of Iron - gotta agree.

Kelly's heros - was about vietnam IIRC
The eagle has landed ?

mike65

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
UTV showed the dubbed film
others showed the full series subtitled - much better.

Haven't seen the battle of midway in ages - is it any good ?

Cross of Iron - gotta agree.

Kelly's heros - was about vietnam IIRC
The eagle has landed ?

Midway is rubbish, and make sure if it comes on that its not the 3 hour version which included 60 mins of romantic subplot.

Kellys Heroes was deffo WW2 but with reefers maaaaan!.

Mike.

Buck Owens

Pearl Harbour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black hawk down
Apocalypse Now
Full metal Jacket


I really want to see Tora Tora Tora!

xm15e3

Can't forget: Enemy at the Gates

lodgepole

Originally posted by ChumpStain
Does the Pianist count?

Definitely... It's an amazing war film. One that's not afraid to keep its cameras pulled away from the action.

Senor_Fudge

id have to say apocalypse now tbh

Davey Devil

In no order:

Bridge over The River Kwai
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Schindler's List
Paths of Glory
The Great Escape
The Pianist
The Thin Red Line

You have to have Band of Brothers, just think of it as a really long film.

Senor_Fudge

platoon and hamburger hill as well get honourable mentions from me
cross of iron is a masterpiece too fair

anyone remember a tv series in the late 80s early 90s called war and rememberance
that was good

Wheeler

the great escape

Chad ghostal

paths of glory, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, cross of iron, deer hunter

if i had to pick one itd probably be paths of glory.

Caked Karen

gotta be platoon. such a brilliant film.

also full metal jacket and thin red line

also liked tigerland with colin farrell.worth a watch!

Retr0gamer

(plus I must try and get a copy of Stalingrad somewhere as well)

3 for 30 in HMV Henry Street. Bought it a few days ago but have yet to watch it.

For me it has to be Das Boot. It's far more interesting to see WW2 from the German point of view.

After that it's
Saving Private Ryan
First half of Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Schindlers list
Apocalypse now

Sleipnir

Originally posted by Chad ghostal
Cross Of Iron

That's one class movie.

Wolfie

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
3 for 30 in HMV Henry Street. Bought it a few days ago but have yet to watch it.

For me it has to be Das Boot. It's far more interesting to see WW2 from the German point of view.

After that it's
Saving Private Ryan
First half of Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Schindlers list
Apocalypse now

Hey retro, check out the film 'Stalingrad' if you want another movie from a German point of view. Well worth a look. (its in German too, like Das Boot).

Wolfie.

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by mike65
Midway is rubbish, and make sure if it comes on that its not the 3 hour version which included 60 mins of romantic subplot.

Kellys Heroes was deffo WW2 but with reefers maaaaan!.

Mike.

It's a VERY long time since I've seen midway and was just wondering - ta.

Kellys Heros was set in WWII alright - but it was supposed to be a reflection on the war in Nam.
A bit like the way "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was allegedly a commentry on the trench warefare of WWI (fighting over the bridge) and WWII (concentration camp)

mike65

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight


A bit like the way "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was allegedly a commentry on the trench warefare of WWI (fighting over the bridge) and WWII (concentration camp)

Thats a bit deep for me!

Mike.

Capt'n Midnight

Read it in a book about spagetti westerns.
=> it must be truer than if I saw it on the Intarweb.

orangerooster

Originally posted by ChumpStain
I also really like Casualties of War, but its too much like Platoon. And am I the only one here who didn't really like the Thin Red Line or Black Hawk Down?

No the Thin Red Line is a poor film,as is windtalkers-the guy who said pearl harbour-that was the worst "war" film i have ever seen in my life.Full of plot holes and that romantic crap that was tacked on for the titanic effect was riseable.

sweep_101

Gotta be Apocalypse Now Redux or Saving Private Ryan

IF Band of Brothers could count though that would be it

lodgepole

Originally posted by sweep_101
Gotta be Apocalypse Now Redux

I prefer the shorter version of the film... While elements of the Redux edition do improve, too much of it is just ****. And long... And dull... My perfect cut of the film would be somewhere in between the two.

Franky Boy

1.apocolypse now redux
2.a bridge to far
3.black hawk down.

UnrealQueen

Oh yeah! I forgot meself about Black Hawk Down and Apocalypse now:p They're klassics.

kaimera

wasn't fond of The Thin Red Line myself tbh.

FMJ
Platoon
Tigerland
BHD

older movies:

kelly heros
guns of navarone

most of the older movies

BlitzKrieg

YOu guys are the best...


-I have to do a presentation on war films in 2 weeks i'll just watch all the films you guys have named and i should be fine.

-On a technicality: Unless a war film has a large combat scene as a central scene to its storyline (d-day in SPR) then its not technicaly a war film AND it must be set in the 20th century. This is according to the "Genre and Hollywood" text by Steve Neale.


Films like Braveheart fall under the genre of EPIC

Schindlers list etc are not technicaly war genre films But other genres with war as a setting.



The question i must ask is then...What is DAS BOOT??? Though it has no major combat scene in it in a conventional manner it cannot be easily defined in other genres.


is'nt film studies interesting
(ignore this post like my last 10 were and i shall make the massacre of the boards a real life adaptation!!!!)

byte

Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Schindlers List

the raven

grr arg, haven't seen das boot...

ok though, try watchin the d-day landings in the longest day after watching saving private ryan??? its insane!! but other than that tis a great film...

tora tora tora
apocalypse now redux
von ryans express
platoon
the bits of patton that i'v seen... long story...
black hawk down but only for action sequences, american bravado pisses me off

tigerland -saw it for the first time durin the week - very poor film. can't even be rated as "war" going by blitzkrieg

thin red line... jeez, i can hardly remember it, that say enough?

man.... can't think straight... can't remember any more films...

niallith

saving private ryan
platoon
full metal jacket

sleepwalker

paths of glory
cross of iron


two amazing films