anyone disagree with me on this?
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JohnnyBoy — 9 months ago(July 04, 2025 09:05 PM)
Best? No. There are better ones in each category:
https://thecineviewer.com/BestCourtroomFilms.html
https://thecineviewer.com/BestMilitaryFilms.html
https://thecineviewer.com/BestWarFilms.html
For tons of movie reviews, 60+ genre lists, best of the year lists, and other content, check out:
www.thecineviewer.com -
Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 03, 2025 11:15 AM)
Rather than a "pro" -military theme, such flicks are practically "anti-" military in that they skewer military discipline and regulations.
My choice for this type of movie is "
THE HILL
" by Sidney Lumet.
Palm d'Or Winner
1965. Shot in B&W.
I'll tell a story about this flick sometime.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player -
Melton1 — 4 months ago(November 13, 2025 08:59 AM)
I don’t know about ‘military movie’ but it’s certainly the best courtroom drama.
It’s also the last classic that Rob Reiner made on his unstoppable run:
Spinal Tap
Stand By Me
Princess Bride
Harry Met Sally
Misery
A Few Good Men
Each a totally different genre, each a stone-cold classic if not the greatest film ever made in that genre.
After that he made mediocre light comedy for boomers for the rest of his career, while turning into an obnoxious political mouthpiece for the Democrat party.
One non-comedy he made was Ghosts Of Mississippi, a courtroom drama about race with Alec Baldwin, Whoopie Goldberg and James Woods. It’s OK but a
major
step down from AFGM. It’s also stuffed with racial politics designed to make boomer Liberal women gush. James Woods’ snarling white supremacist was a hilarious cartoon, the likes of which would have inspired Sean Penn’s ridiculous villain in PTA’s woke-a-thon One Battle After Another.
AFGM respects the intelligence of its audience, Ghosts Of Mississippi has disdain for us. Reiner is a textbook lesson in how the mighty can fall. -
lukejbarnett — 4 months ago(November 17, 2025 07:53 AM)
You forgot to mention his other early film The Sure Thing (1985).
I did hear that the new sequel to This is Spinal Tap from this year is good.
I have always been amazed by how many all time classic films Rob Reiner and Ron Howard made in the '80s.
For Howard it is Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, and Parenthood.
And Penny Marshall directed Big. So these 3 former '70s TV young actors ended up being great directors later in life in the '80s.
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cryptoflovecraft — 4 months ago(November 13, 2025 05:09 PM)
anyone disagree with me on this?
i mean there are war movies but this is not that it is a civil, courtroom, law military movie.
Never seen it but it sounds a lot like The Caine Mutiny (1954), an excellent military courtroom drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer and Fred MacMurray.