Good World War II movies?

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Bacardi151

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: Tabb

Originally posted by: Deslok

Originally posted by: Schrodinger
The Thin Red Line is the best of all those you listed in the OP IMO.

Saving Private Ryan, while a good show on a home theatre, isn't nearly as powerful as The Thin Red Line.

THR is Crap.
For realism SPR and BOB

SPR for realism? You've got to be kidding me...

As for World War II movies, I try to stay away from those that are out done...

Band of Brothers - Absolutely Amazing
Thin Red Line - Watched it once and thought it was werid. Will have to watch it again
Saving Private Ryan - Lots of historical inaccurracy and other inaccurracy, still a damn good movie...
We Were Soliders - Absolutely Amazing, I don't care if it's vietnam. It's a good war movie.

Ive never been in a war so I dunno, but SPR seemed pretty damn realistic to me...more so than the dozens of other WWII movies out there.

the photography part and the special effects is realistic, but i think the people are referring to the portrayal of the war

oh, well...I don't think you can discredit SPR as not having realism b/c of historical inaccrracies. OR is historical accuracy a component of realism?

 

[Bacardi151]

i dunno much about WWII when it comes to microscopic details, but it seemed real to me overall, and i think these guys have just heard that SPR is inaccurate from other guys and they take their words for it

 

[whistleclient]

Where Eagles Dare
Hell is For Heroes

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Titanic

World WAr 2 movie'

 

[BlueWeasel]

I'd take Windtalkers off that list....I thought it was horrible.

 

[Lonyo]

U-571.
Good WW2 movies.
Opposite statements?
Do you mean good as in, they represent WW2 well, or good as in, they are good films (from an enjoyment POV), and are set in WW2?

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Patton

 

[UglyCasanova]

Thin Red Line is one of my favorites.

 

[spacejamz]

1941???

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

when harry met sally

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Patton -- One of the best generals in WWII (good, not perfect portrayal of him)
Das Boot -- Subs from the German side, very good
Stalingrad -- German point of view, very depressing (but I guess accurate)
Kelly's Heroes -- Great light hearted movie
Where Eagles Dare -- Richard Burton is great!
Operation Petticoat -- Not realistic, but funny. Cary Grant rocks!

Horrible movies -- U571, Pearl Harbor

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
when harry met sally

at least my attempt at humor was about a WW2 movie...

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

1984

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: GarfieldtheCat
Patton -- One of the best generals in WWII (good, not perfect portrayal of him)
Das Boot -- Subs from the German side, very good

:thumbsup: Seconded.

I'd recommend Band of Brothers too, if it were a feature-length film in the first place.

 

[whistleclient]

Hell is For Heroes is great because it's a tough Steve McQueen movie, but it has a young Bob Newhart in a comic relief role.

 

[Bv3]

A Midnight Clear

 

[Iron Woode]

A Walk In The Sun - a pretty realistic movie, not the greatest, but not bad either.

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: clamum
You've seen a lot of good ones... I really like Band of Brothers. :thumbsup:

yep

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: tangent1138
Where Eagles Dare

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Sandor]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: tangent1138
Where Eagles Dare

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I'm glad so many people liked this movie too! (I didn't think it was that popular)

 

[StevenYoo]

Europa Europa was a great movie

 

[Armoth]

BOB is frickin awesome.

Memphis Belle
The Longest Day
Sands of Iwo Jima
Guns of Navarone
The Dirty Dozen
Midway
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sorry if I repeated any of these. Some oldies but goodies from what I hear, haven't seen all of these...

 

[LordMorpheus]

Das Boot

 

[Schadenfroh]

TORA TORA TORA

my fav. ww2 movie

 

[bandana163]

Cross of Iron
Das Boot
Stalingrad