Favorite war movies?

[Heller]

Need some suggestions on some good war movies. I've seen quite a few over the last few years but im sure i missed some. I like dog-fighting scenes as well as infantry.

What does ATOT suggest?

 

[purbeast0]

saving private ryan is mine.

 

[KMFJD]

Thin Red Line , The Pacific , BoB

 

[brainhulk]

full metal jacket
saving ryan's privates
black hawk down
band of brothers
tour of duty

that's all i can remember for now

 

[MiniDoom]

Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger hill, Red Dawn, Apocalypse Now..

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Glory
Pork Chop Hill
Das Boot
The Guns of Navarone
Gallipoli

 

[WaTaGuMp]

saving ryan's private's is mine.

Fixed.:biggrin:

 

[oddyager]

Platoon, Glory, Full Metal Jacket are some good ones off the top of my head

Some really bad ones to avoid:

Pearl Harbor
We Were Soldiers

 

[KeithTalent]

My favourites:

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Bridge on the River Kwai
Deer Hunter

KT

 

[zinfamous]

A lot of good ones mentioned, and great ones to absolutely avoid (Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers).

My favorites:
The Thin Red line
Deer Hunter
Band of Brothers (series)


also should check out:
Paths of Glory
Joyeux Noel
(WWI flicks)
Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad sniper flick)
A Bridge Too Far (about Operation Market Garden)

 

[Homerboy]

besides many of the ones mentioned here:

Glory
A Bridge to Far

 

[soulcougher73]

The german movie "Stalingrad" was really good i thought. You get a germans perspective of the war fighting Russia. Not a mainstream movie by any means, but still really good.

 

[zinfamous]

The german movie "Stalingrad" was really good i thought. You get a germans perspective of the war fighting Russia. Not a mainstream movie by any means, but still really good.

I'm currently watching a nice 3-part doc on Stalingrad. pretty awesome (I thought it was actually the flick when I put it in my Netflix queue. )

 

[Homerboy]

Oh shit I almost forgot!
Der Untergang !!! it is a must see!

 

[7window]

bride on the river kwai
tora tora tora
longest day
rommell
patton

 

[Train]

Platoon, Glory, Full Metal Jacket are some good ones off the top of my head

Some really bad ones to avoid:

Pearl Harbor
We Were Soldiers

What was your beef with We Were Soldiers? While I thought it was slightly "disneyfied "for dramatic effect, it was one of the few well done war movies from a technical/historical perspective

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Silmido

Tae Guk Gi.

 

[KeithTalent]

bride on the river kwai

Is that the sequel? I'll have to check it out. :hmm:

KT

 

[7window]

Is that the sequel? I'll have to check it out. :hmm:

KT

yup kwai cheng went to usa and became a monk. Fought a lot of cowboys.

 

[7window]

geronimo is a good one too.

 

[oddyager]

What was your beef with We Were Soldiers? While I thought it was slightly "disneyfied "for dramatic effect, it was one of the few well done war movies from a technical/historical perspective

I can't comment on the historical perspective (I'm sure you're right it's about as accurate as they come) but as a film it was just overly schmaltzy. Another film that came to mind that suffered the same problem was Gettysburg. Technically it was done well but the overbearing speeches and some ham acting ruined it.

 

[Josh123]

Stripes
Spies Like Us

 

[rudder]

Pearl harbor
U-571
Windtalkers
Navy SEALs

We need to know what you have seen already... I could make recommendations all day.

 

[zinfamous]

Is that the sequel? I'll have to check it out. :hmm:

KT

It's slightly better than Bride of Frankenstein, but worse than Bride of Chucky, unsurprisingly.

 

[rudder]

Crap how could I forget Tunnel Rats by Uwe Boll.