The Best War Movie Ever

[calsnowskier]

The original Red Dawn...

 

[calsnowskier]

TV movie, and more of a post-apocalyptic movie, but...

The Day After

 

[calsnowskier]

1942
War Games
Producers (stretch, granted)
Born on the Fourth of July (meh)
Spies Like Us
M.A.S.H. (how has this not been mentioned yet?)
Top Secret

 

[PatsFan2003]

''where eagles dare'',........and that kirk douglas flick where he blows up the water-plant that produced ''heavy-water'' for future/atomic bombs?..for Germany [guns of telemar?].

I think The Heroes of Telemark.

 

[germanjohn]

Saving Private Ryan

Enemy at the Gates

Zero Dark Thirty/Hurt Locker (Tie)

Full Metal Jacket

 

[craigk217]

same here,indrid,....i'll put it on [American-Heroes-Ch.] when I'm on the treadmill too,.....it's a shame there's not much to see about the Korean-War.....*less cameramen?*.

M*A*S*H

 

[craigk217]

Here are a few more that I appreciate (I linked the titles to IMDB):

1.) Where Eagles Dare(BOOM, this movie is the shit! Haven't seen it mentioned yet, either. Clint and Rich Burton)
2.) The Enemy Below
3.) Run Silent Run Deep (Burt Lancaster is awesome in this movie)
4.) Sahara (Maybe Humphrey Bogart's best World War 2 performance, rather obscure too)
5.) Casablanca (tells a good story, even if it's overly dramatic)
6.) Morituri (Marlon Brando impersonates an SS officer on a cargo ship)
7.) Stalingrado (It's in German, so.. subtitles)

Run Silent Run Deep

 

[craigk217]

BoB is tremendous.

If you haven't read Ambrose, Id highly recommend.

Read it ... one of my all-time faves, Smitty!

 

[olympicoscar]

So many to choose from.

All Quiet on the Western Front
Sergeant York
Patton
Deer Hunter
Schindler's List
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan

I'll probably think of more as I read more of this thread.

 

[olympicoscar]

Sergeant York #1
Saving Private Ryan #2
Full Metal Jacket #3

"The Best Years of Our Lives" is the BEST Post-WW2 movie.

Not many of us have seen that one and I agree with you. I have it as one of my top 15 movies of all time.

 

[antone112]

Down Periscope

 

[olympicoscar]

Full Metal Jacket is absolutely great in the first half of the movie in training camp. I felt it dropped off in quality in the Vietnam part.

I thought I was the only one that liked Midway. I never can turn it off when I see it on tv.

 

[jjc2009]

The correct answer was Dr. Strangelove.

A very underrated movie about an amazing and true war story is The Great Raid

 

[PatsFan2003]

Full Metal Jacket is absolutely great in the first half of the movie in training camp. I felt it dropped off in quality in the Vietnam part.

I thought I was the only one that liked Midway. I never can turn it off when I see it on tv.

The second half was still pretty good imo but the first half was just unbelievable. Every Marine I've met seems to LOVE that movie.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

The second half was still pretty good imo but the first half was just unbelievable. Every Marine I've met seems to LOVE that movie.

the entire 2nd half could be shit on a stick (which it wasn't) but it would be made up for by the Boots Are Made For Walking bit.

We make ficky fick, Me sooooo hooooney...... Etc.

 

[PatsFan2003]

the entire 2nd half could be shit on a stick (which it wasn't) but it would be made up for by the Boots Are Made For Walking bit.

We make ficky fick, Me sooooo hooooney...... Etc.

Lol me love you long time.

 

[calsnowskier]

Lol me love you long time.

Brothers are too beau-coup. Too Beau-coup.

 

[KansasSooner]

Here are a few more that I appreciate (I linked the titles to IMDB):

1.) Where Eagles Dare(BOOM, this movie is the shit! Haven't seen it mentioned yet, either. Clint and Rich Burton)
2.) The Enemy Below
3.) Run Silent Run Deep (Burt Lancaster is awesome in this movie)
4.) Sahara (Maybe Humphrey Bogart's best World War 2 performance, rather obscure too)
5.) Casablanca (tells a good story, even if it's overly dramatic)
6.) Morituri (Marlon Brando impersonates an SS officer on a cargo ship)
7.) Stalingrado (It's in German, so.. subtitles)

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