…perhaps? i was wondering about that after i watched
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:06 PM)
Yeah, that's all I can think of other than some of the ones you've listed. Maybe The Deer Hunter? But this is a genre I tend to actively avoid.
My favorite military movie would be The Last Detail (1973).
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:11 PM)
yep, gotcha. i've seen The Deer Hunter but i did not like it mostly bc of the demonisation of the Viet Cong here when Americans clearly were the aggressors and invaders in that war. it's just a dishonest perspective and made me not caring for any of the characters here. same applies to pretty much every American Vietnam war film.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:19 PM)
Agree on that, and it's one reason why I tend to avoid the genre. Much of it is mindless flag-waving bullshit. But what I actually liked in The Deer Hunter all happened before and after the war scenes, especially Meryl Streep's character. It actually reminded me, in part, of Wanda (1970), but far less interesting because, again, it's interrupted by war ****.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:34 PM)
Not surprising. It definitely seems like something you'd like. It's certainly better than any war movie I can think of offhand lol. I do want to see Warfare, though. I just rewatched Men the other night and tend to enjoy Garlands work.
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:57 PM)
Barbara Loden is a treasure, truly.
as with Alex Garland, same. i think i've seen everything he's directed so far and liked Ex Machina the least. his other films were really good imo. i was wondering, have you read his novel, The Beach tho? i picked up a copy from the side of the road the other day bc i know the movie but didn't know Garland wrote the source novel, so i was curious as hell. i haven't gotten around reading it yet tho. -
cryptoflovecraft — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 12:03 PM)
Love and Death (1975)
Terrific Woody Allen comedy. (It's Woody's send-up of Bergman's Persona and The Seventh Seal, actually, with references to Russian literature.) It takes place during the Napoleonic era and there's one battlefield scene, but I never considered it to be a war movie per se. -
HollyJollyHanukka — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 02:44 PM)
I’ve seen most of them, but my personal favorites are
The Four Feathers
Casablanca
Mrs. Miniver
The Best Years of our Lives
Paths of Glory
War and Peace (although it was badly miscast- Fonda, Hepburn, Ferrer, Gassmsn, Ekberg, to name a few)
The Battle of Algiers
Chronicle of the Year of Embers
The Killing Fields (very disturbing and excellent)
Full Metal Jacket
Hope and Glory
Au revoir les enfants
Grave of the Fireflies (I cried)
Black Rain
The Last of the Mohicans (great cinematography, great acting, very strong)
Stalingrad
Cold Mountain (I cried)
Hotel Rwanda
Pan's Labyrinth (SOOOOO good and dark)
The Hurt Locker
All Quiet on the Western Front
Honorable Mention - The Deer Hunter
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:06 PM)
cool! but as for War and Peace, while i have seen the version with Audrey Hepburn, i was actually referring to the Russian version directed by Sergei Bondarchuk which is 6 and a half hours long:
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soapbox original gangster — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 02:54 PM)
i don't like (mainstream US-centric) war movies in general,
why not? dont you know that War, what is it good for? absolutely EVERYTHING! war's benefits trickle down, up, sideways, and forward.
your list is intricate. I would add " The Train" starring burt lancaster. kinda weird film involving priceless works of art and the french underground deteremined to deny Hitler the pleasure! also, two films which deal with " domestic" war need inclusion:
Z
and also
State of Siege
, both by noted hardcore Leftist Costa Gravas
ive seen some of the movies on your listing
Casablanca
is one of my favs. a little too much on the romance, but still a great film. it's also a film almost devoid of action, other than the shootout at Rick's and then Rick plugging major Strasser at the airport. instead, dialog drives the movie. i think only special effect was the airplane taking off with Ilsa and Viktor: it was a tiny model plane.
Potemkin
: naked soviet lies and propaganda aside, great film. the baby carriage sequence gets fast forwarded 60 years into the future as the set-piece in De Palma's " The Untouchables", as Costner and Garcia engage in a shootout against Capone's hitmen.
Tobe
or not to be: i didnt really like it.
hangmen
: i think directed by fritz lang?
rome
man, those Italians in the immediate aftermath really knew how to make movies!
algier
:spellbinding film.
chimes
: another weird Orson film, just like his " the stranger": nazi's in Connecticut!
night porter
: one of dirk bogarde's creepier performances
seven beauties:
wertmuller? fellini? i saw it once but dont remember.
and others….
