Best Military Movie

[Amused]

Originally posted by: bearxor

Originally posted by: Fmr12B
I see now that no one on this baord watched any movies older than 2000 with all the votes for Saving Private Ryan, while good, the ones below are much better nad would implore people to expand their viewing to some older classics.

Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece.

Patton is also ridiculously good.

Apocalyspe Now got my vote.

I agree - think its sad that most of these people think SPR is the best movie ever. I love Patton, and it got my vote.

I wouldn't be as disgusted if things like AN, FMJ and Platoon were up there as they are also excellent movies but the old saying is true here, they just don't make 'em like they used to.

Patton is a great movie, but it just does not have the message, character development and incredibly real battle scenes of SPR.

Just because people are voting SPR the best does NOT diminish many of the other greats.

Apocalypse Now is a horrid drugged out parody of a war film that does everything it can to make the common soldier look bad. Just like Jarhead, it's not just anti-war, it's anti-soldier. Written, acted and directed by anti-war activists, none who ever served. It's portrayal is pure fantasy and has very little to do with reality.

 

[meltdown75]

Saving Private Ryan & Glory.

I also love Apocalypse Now. Deer Hunter was messed up!

 

[Golgatha]

Although it isn't a combat movie, Schindler's List was pretty well made.

 

[ForumMaster]

saving private ryan FTW. such a good movie.

 

[Bartman]

PATTON... say no more

http://imdb.com/title/tt0066206/

 

[amish]

WTF, no 'devil's brigade'????

 

[ballmode]

Private Ryan for the super win and can't lose

 

[CKXP]

some pretty tough choices...but I went with Apocalypse Now.."i love the smell of napalm in the morning"-classic

 

[maddogchen]

Goddamnit, now I feel like going out and buying some of these war movie dvds i've never seen before and watching it on my dvd-rom at work.

Screw you guys, I'm going home.

I say SPR over We were soldiers because of that 20 min Omaha beach landing. that was intense and well done. I also liked Black Hawk Down but that movie was too sad. If we had the full force of the military there, M1 tanks, apache gunships, better air support, we woulda pwned them

 

[GDaddy]

Patton, Battle of the Buldge, Bridge To Far, We Were Soldiers, were all very good i thought.

But the best i would have to say is Gettysburg, the whole feeling to the movie, the realism, the whole epic scale of the battles, very good all the way around, did very good justice to the book.

 

[rudder]

Is Top Gun even a war movie?

 

[Feldenak]

I voted for We Were Soldiers because I've met General Moore.

 

[crownjules]

A couple of classics not on the list:

The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Guns of Navarone
Das Boot
Midway

While not a classic and not a direct portrayal of the war, except for a few scenes here and there, Downfall is a great movie too.

 

[sao123]

Out of those choices... A few good men...

where the hell is IRON EAGLE?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would vote "The Outlaw Josey Wales" as it is the greatest movie ever, and Josey was a Rebel Soldier fighting against American Soldiers, however, it wasn't really a "war movie" as he was a one man army fighting for vengeance against a specific group of Kansas soldiers who butchered his family and killed a bunch of POWs in cold blood.

So, I instead will vote for Apocalypse Now.
That said Full Metal Jacket, Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo (Brotherhood of War), Tora Tora Tora, Patton, Schindlers List, Paths of Glory, Der Untergang, Braveheart, The Bridge over the River Kwai, Das Boot, and Spartacus are also all among my favorites.

"Saving Private Ryan" was good, but IMO not even close to the best.

 

[jlbenedict]

The Patriot, Crimson Tide, Heartbreak Ridge, GI Jane are a few other good ones.

 

[Molondo]

I voted Full metal jacked. Why would anyone Vote Tears of the sun? "White man saves africa again"

 

[nakedfrog]

No Stripes or Starship Troopers?

 

[cw42]

In the Army Now


jk.

 

[dbk]

Tears of the Sun. j/k

 

[mezrah]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
No Stripes or Starship Troopers?

Haha...you beat me to it...I was about to say Stripes

 

[Trianon]

Stalingrad is a great movie done by same dude that did Das Boot

 

[gerwen]

No mention of Band of Brothers in the thread? I don't care that it's not a theatrical film, it's one of the most impressive pieces of wartime storytelling I've ever seen. Kills me everytime I see one of the vets get choked up talking about his experiences. If you haven't seen it, buy it! You'll watch it more than once i guarantee.

Favourite films?
Tora Tora Tora
Bridge too Far
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Guns of Navarone
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List

From reading the thread it looks like i need to pick up stalingrad.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Band of Brothers

But since I had to vote for a movie I decided to go with 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'. I would have picked Private Ryan before seeing Band of Brothers but for some reason that series made my opinion of P.R. drop quite a bit.

 

[lupi]

Hmmmmmmm; kinda a tough toss up between the classical grandeous movie stykle of Patton and the realistic action driven themes od SPR /BoB.