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Your Favorite War Movie
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Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2014 - 11:39 PM UTC
I have to say 'Apocalypse Now'!

It was so twisted, confronting and dark, and I thought the performances of Marlon Brando & Martin Sheen were superb!

Just one of my favorite clips from the movie:

'Terminate with extreme prejudice' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjB8z0Bvi14
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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 07:41 AM UTC
Fury - "Best job I ever had"....
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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 09:04 AM UTC
yep,saw Fury this afternoon,great film,nice to see a genuine Tiger in motion

Can't believe nobody's mentioned 'Went The Day Well?' fantastic film made during WW2 about disguised German paratroopers infiltrating an archetypal English village in advance of the full blown invasion.Saw it on afternoon TV years and years ago,loved it ever since.....

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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 09:54 PM UTC
Just saw Fury and it is definitely at the top of my list. I rank it with Das Boot and Battle of Britain as one of the most accurate movies. And, for those of you complaining that SS grenadiers did not use panzerfaust: It was late '45 and they used anything they could get their hands on.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 10:30 PM UTC

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Definitely "A Bridge Too Far" and "Tora Tora Tora"



Ditto. I think that the were enough actual dramatic events with real people in most wars to make movies about them without the need to make up fictional stories.

Fow WWI I like 'The Lost Battalion', and 'Glory' for the American Civil War.
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Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 - 06:32 AM UTC
Here's another one for the watch list: 'The Book Thief'
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Posted: Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 07:41 PM UTC
My favorite is Patton, followed by Flying Leathernecks
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Posted: Monday, November 17, 2014 - 05:33 AM UTC
Tunes of Glory

Blackhawk Down

Zulu
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Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 01:56 AM UTC
Glory outside of Col. Shaw and the attack on Fort Fisher is almost entirely fictional. It is an excellent generalized vision of the African American experience in the American Civil War but the actual people presented are entirely fictional.

Most war movies are like that. They take true stories and create composite characters to experience them all as opposed to one or two. Big Red One is actually a composite of the experience of a few dozen soldiers in different units but all the events happened. Just not to one squad.

Fury is full of actual events. The whole tank 50 caliber machine gun against a German company single handed is Audie Murphy's CMH exploit. Just that it's put together with the experiences of several battalions worth of tank crewmen.

Audie Murphy's own movie To Hell and Back actually watered down much of drama of his exploits and generalized other experiences to make a cohesive story.

Many lose sight of these motion pictures as a continuation of telling war stories that goes back to at least Homer. Everyone is made an Achilles. Events are lumped together to make a good story and heroes become larger than life. Alexander's life was made int myth while he lived with exaggerated stories of his exploits that were actually the exploits of many forgotten soldiers across his army. War stories have always been this way and Hollywood merely continues a tradition of story-telling as old as story-telling.

Yeah but are all the rivets accurately depicted? No Achilles is always a bit larger than life so those rivets aren't precise but damn is it a good story. Everything that happened over the course of a dozen campaigns and to a dozen soldiers all happens in one attack to one hero. (Irony intended as Brad Pitt also played Achilles
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 - 04:31 AM UTC
I've been a real "couch potato" lately ... watched 'Fury' a couple of times; 'Sahara' and 'The Longest Day' for the umpteenth times and I just got back from seeing 'American Sniper' ... WOW!!! That's definitely one to add to the favorites list!

—mike
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 - 06:28 AM UTC
I intend to watch American Sniper. I will try to catch US Sniper, while it is in theaters.
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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 - 09:07 AM UTC

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I've been a real "couch potato" lately ...



I actually did get up off of the couch to see 'American Sniper!' in a theater! It was well worth it!
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Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015 - 03:47 AM UTC
Two Men Went to War is an enjoyable and light hearted war film. It stars Leo Bill and Kenneth Cranham as a young trainee dentist and and older Sergeant and WW1 veteran, who get sick of the monotony of camp and decide to launch a 2 man invasion of occupied europe. Apparently it's based on a true story.

Jack Boots on Whitehall is another great movie and an imaginative retelling of World War II and filmed entirely with 1/6th action figures and models. It's British cinemas answer to Team America. Churchill's speech 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much buggered up by so few, for so many' kills me everytime I hear it.
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Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015 - 07:50 PM UTC
WWII: Enemy at the gates

Vietnam: Apocalypse now

Modern: Black hawk down
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Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 08:03 AM UTC
This would have to be the most harrowing depiction of war ever released on film. No hero's or bravery just death & destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See.

I'm seriously into film and post reviews on FB and IMDB with rating but I couldn't even rate this film as it's beyond normal parameters for judging a film. [
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Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 11:01 PM UTC
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
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Posted: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 01:28 AM UTC
Zulu

Blackhawk Down

The Hill

Sahara
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Posted: Sunday, December 06, 2015 - 08:31 AM UTC
I know it is not technically a movie, but Band of Brothers is without a doubt my favorite. Enemy at the Gates is a very close second along with almost every John Wayne movie. :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 07:03 PM UTC
Fury
Heartbreak Ridge
Kelly's Hero's
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Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 01:43 AM UTC
The Devil's Brigade

The Canadians rock in it. Peacock was the best.



Cheers,
From New Scotland Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 08:08 PM UTC
Mine are, in no precise order:

Apocalypse now
Stalingrad
Das boot
Fury
the thin red line
Letters from Iwo Jima
the deer hunter
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 08:20 PM UTC
The Final Countdown
Lone Survivor
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 11:35 PM UTC
I agree with most here Saving Private Ryan for it's visaral portrayal of how brutal war can be, as is Fury. A Bridge Too Far is another favourite, as is the Longest Day. Kelly's Heroes is the film that got me into modelling. But there's a few other lesser known war films I like like When Trumpets Fade and the Korean War movie Brotherhood very Private Ryanish but an excellent movie one I can highly recommend.
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Posted: Saturday, April 09, 2016 - 11:13 AM UTC

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I agree with most here Saving Private Ryan for it's visaral portrayal of how brutal war can be, as is Fury.



I see a lot of guys mentioning Fury. Granted it was great to see a real Tiger in action but in my opinion, I thought the movie was as pile of dung. Especially after the scene when the tank hit a mine and was crippled laying in the path of practically a brigade of Germans of which at least a dozen were carrying Panzerfausts. Is it really going to take them that long to knock out that tank?

Hollywood trash at its finest. INMHO
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Posted: Saturday, April 09, 2016 - 11:29 PM UTC
Plus the fact it is supposedly April 1945 would you really have a battalion of SS marching in daylight singing with vehicles? With Allied air superiority I'd think this would be highly unlikely.