…perhaps? i was wondering about that after i watched
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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.
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WarrenPeace — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 03:15 PM)
I hate war so why would I want to watch any war movies?
The majority on that list are pro war that justify its OK to murder each other.
The only ones that would interest me are those that show how wrong and retarded war is.
Such as Catch 22
Which is a catch 22 because you can’t show how wrong war is in a movie without having it take place in a war.
Another one might be Tropic Thunder which kind of pokes fun at the genre.
Coincidence or did you mean to time this with our American holiday of Memorial Day which is based on remembering those murderers who gave up their lives for corporate greed?
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:10 PM)
The majority on that list are pro war that justify its OK to murder each other.
eh, please point me to every single movie here that you think is "pro-war" and i will immediately delete them from my list, if i agree with you that is. -
WarrenPeace — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 06:12 PM)
If the message is that war is bad and we should end them that gets lost being subliminal.
They may not be, “Rah rah, yay for war!” types of movies but they may be sort of showing the glory of it or if they show how it is with the horrors, like All Quiet, then it looks like it is just documenting what war is like.
Those of us who don’t like war movies don’t like war to begin with and never find justifications for it.
America is a pro war country and most Americans have no problem with that **** and those are the types of war movies we are going to get.
Except for Catch 22 I have yet to see any other WWll movie that shows how retarded and bad that war was.
What movies, if any, are more obviously anti war that you think someone who doesn’t like war movies would watch?
List a few if you got any.
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 06:20 PM)
yes, WP.
i agree with you from the bottom of my heart.
What movies, if any, are more obviously anti war that you think someone who doesn’t like war movies would watch?
List a few if you got any.
all of the above tbh -
JohnnyBoy — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 07:05 PM)
You forgot All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930…the mother of all anti-war movies.
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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 04:50 PM)
I don't understand this thread. What aspect of a war movie are we assuming people don't like, that is also not present in the movies in your list?
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