What's your top 5 War movies?
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Dantu00e8s — 15 years ago(October 25, 2010 10:49 AM)
That's a very odd list. And not just because Come and See is turd.
No Patton? Tora Tora Tora? The Best Years of our Lives? The Counterfeiters?
Where Eagles Dare is a horrendously bad action movie, and to put that one but omit The Guns of Navarone is ridiculous. Not that Guns of Navarone is a great movie, but "Eagles" is an inferior "men on a mission"-type adventure.
Also, Flags of Our Fathers? No way that belongs.
I was happy to see that Life is Beautiful didn't make it on there, but otherwise that's a terrible list. -
Dr_Greenthumb — 15 years ago(December 02, 2010 11:32 PM)
Trolling in here for some much needed advice and assistance, I'm looking for a film that i watched as a young nipper, hopefully you guys can help with a name.
It would have been late eighties, as i remember it was a two part tv show, set in Vietnam perhaps, some jungly atmosphere, and followed a group of american soldiers through battle until they were eventually captured AND BEHEADED into little holes in front of their kneeling bodies, was a good movie as i recall.
Appreciate any titles
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Criti-Cal — 14 years ago(August 23, 2011 03:41 AM)
What no-one's mentioned Tarkovskiy's "Ivan's Childhood"? Similar theme to Look and See but done in a more polished and lyrical manner.
Don't get me wrong though Look and See is a slightly flawed but great and moving war movie.
The US has made some great war movies too with perhaps Paths of Glory taking the honours but the Russians tend to make them more realistic and horrifying.
My five
Ivan's Childhood
Paths of Glory
Downfall
Come & See
D Day 5th of June (mainly for the fantastic tracking shot when the Allies take the French village) -
tobias_681 — 12 years ago(January 12, 2014 10:05 AM)
What no-one's mentioned Tarkovskiy's "Ivan's Childhood"? Similar theme to Look and See but done in a more polished and lyrical manner.
I didn't mention it because it does not make my top 5. It would come in somewhere around 10. I think it's the same way for many. I think it dragged slightly at times. Thats my main complaint.
From your's I've only not seen: D Day 5th of June
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say Why not? -
MisterGumby — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 01:12 PM)
Using my lax definition of a war movie, my top 5 is as follows:
- Apocalypse Now
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Thin Red Line
- Come and See
If you would be willing to consider Ran or Lessons of Darkness war movies, then they would make the list.
www.imdb.com/list/TNxI-Raigt0/
My Top 100, suggestions & comments welcome.
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nishnishnish — 14 years ago(September 21, 2011 06:23 PM)
I do like the Thin Red Line.
Yet I still can't get over the grenade scene.
Completely unrealistic, comes to mind.
No one person could survive that. Grenades were designed to do more than that.
I think the director let his realism, slip into cod hollywood territory there.
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ilpohirvonen — 14 years ago(December 26, 2011 03:07 PM)
I find it hard to see A Man Escaped which is a masterpiece as a war film. But I do understand if someone does. Hard work, figuring out the genres and their limits. In some sense I feel that a war film must contain some war, even a second of it. I don't know why. Rome, Open City is another tricky one for me I think it's more of a description of the anti-fascist resistance than a WWII film. I don't know anyways here's my take on this:
- Ivan's Childhood (1961, Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)
- The Cranes Are Flying (1956, Mihail Kalazotov)
- The Great War (1959, Mario Monicelli)
- Kanal (1959, Andrzej Wajda)
Russians do it best. No offense intended towards amazing American war films such as Paths of Glory or Apocalypse Now.
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Badlands1 — 14 years ago(January 01, 2012 01:14 PM)
Anybody who says; FMJ, Apoc Now, SPR, or In'Basterds is clearly a western teenage boy, or somebody who has no grip of History, Military or Relatity.
Platoon
Black Sun (Men Behind the Sun 3)
Come and See
Stalingrad
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billyblackwood — 14 years ago(January 17, 2012 05:30 AM)
You sir are smoking crack if you think this is a top war film! Lol
Maybe top Russian war film, and even then I'd say The Bomber was much better!
I liked the cinematography, but to put it with any of the movies below is a joke. The movie was a snooze fest until the Einsatzgruppen entered the village.
top war films all time should be at least some of these in no particular order
The Great Escape
The Big Red One
The Dirty Dozen
On a midnight clear
All's quiet on the western front
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Longest Day
Full Metal Jacket
Hell in the Pacific
Stalingrad
A Bridge too far