Just wondering what are poeples fav films.

My top 3:
Cross Of Iron
Saving private ryan (the first 40 mins WOW)
Enemy at the gate.

What are your favs???

When are the re-runs of tour of duty on???
I loved that series.

I saw Black Hawk down at the weekend, and I was glued to the TV the whole way through. Saving private Ryan was an andrenelin rush for the first 20 minutes , but this was a rush the whole film after the first 20 minutes. I thouroughly enjoyed this film. Favourites would have to be the dirty dozen, Gladiator and number one is the wild geese. A brilliant movie from the 70s with Roger Moore, David Niven etc. etc. Another good one was Kellys Heros.

My all time favorite war movie is The Longest Day.

Next is The Mummy, because the hero carries enough hardware to get the job done.

My favorite war movie was Battleground, but after being completely blown away by Band of Brothers twice, it's the new champion, IMHO. The DVD's are out already, and have made no.1 on my X-mas list...hope I was a good boy this year .

cheers,
Mike

Here are my favorite war flicks in no particular order:

Apocalypse Now
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Stalingrad
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Black Hawk Down

In no order:
12 O'clock High
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
Sahara
Casablanca
Psycho

Eric

cromwell--You might want to check out this thread. We had a lot of good films listed there.

Best War Films

Nic

By the way, I'm surprised your favorite film isn't "Cromwell" with Richard Harris

Hi all,
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape - Steve McQueen, James Garner, James Coburn, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum
Hell is for Heroes....Steve McQueen, Bob Newhart, James Coburn, Fess Parker, Bobby Darin
The Naked Runner...cold war flic starring Sinatra....wow

Hey Captain Plastic Battle,
the Wild Geese is good, the Dogs of War (same story) technically better but I don't think David Niven ever appeared in the WG it starred: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger.......Sir Dave was nowhere in sight....except of couse blowing up The Bridge Over The River Kwai...
cheers
Dave

Uhhh... I thought it was Sir Alec (Guinness) that blew up the bridge on the River Kwai

Nic

Today´s top ten (in no particular order)

Deer Hunter
Seven Samurai
Chaplin´s The Great Dictator
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon A Time In The West
Taxi Driver
The Big Blue
Die Hard
Hard Boiled
Le Cercle Rouge

Hmm...funny. It looks a lot different than my yesterday´s list. Must be a mood thing.

Toni

Just saw - We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson

Talk about non stop war action - WOW

But for my money the BEST war picture must be Saving Private Ryan
Followed by: Enemies at the Gate
The Patriot
Blackhawk Down
And Patton with George C Scott -

Im not arguing, its so long ago since I saw it I might have gotten mixed up. This was the first movie I ever went to on my own. I was 8 years old in 1978. as well as being a great movie, it was that experience probably that would sway my decision for fav movie.

I saw Black Hawk Down at the weekend and I was blown away. I was riveted to the screen for the entire movie. Although I enjoyed private Ryan, it plodded along in bits, but BHD was great start to finish! I will definately buy this one.

Hi Captain Plastic Battle and Folgore,
I'm eating crow on this David Niven wasn't in Kwai; it was Alec falling on the detonator...as for Mister Niven, I only remember him in the Guns of Navarone..THE war movie for a kid growing up in the 60's.....
cheers,
Dave

What I meant was war films.

It's been a long time but I think Big Red One was good.
And I'll go with the Longest Day as well.

And as far as serials goes, Band Of brothers......TOP.

My favorite war movies are:
Cross of Iron
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Battleground
Das Boot(though the ending was a bummer)
Starship Troopers(for Sci-fi battle scenes)
Kagemusha(for great Samurai battle scenes)

Chris Pig no.1

My top few are:

Blackhawk Down
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Red Dawn

Iam guesing this is just General for everything so heres mine

War:
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Platoon Leader ( anyone see this movie before?)
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the gates
When Trupets Fade (great WWII movie, some cool tanks in there)

For other movies I dono how long the list would be, Martial Arts movies, Action, Comedy
but heres a few
Martial Arts:
Black Mask The One Twin Warriors Drunken Master Fists of fury

Mike

One of my favorite movies is 'Sink the Bismark' it was, and is still a great film, and the only movie on that subject besides documentarys.

I assume you mean only WAR oriented movies... so I'll have to leave out "Biker Momma Ninja Nuns vs Swedish Highschool Cheeleaders in Heat".... So without further adue, and in order:

Saving Private Ryan
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heros
The Big Red One
The Blue Max
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Enemy At the Gates
Stalingrad
The Thin Red Line
Full Metal Jacket

Would "Gladiator" count...? If so, gotta be in the top ten somewhere!

And one more goodie... in case my wife is reading this message thread (yeah - right!) - the only gift I'm really hoping Santa put's under my tree is the DVD collection of Band of Brothers.... I have an Uncle who was one of the "Battlin' Bastards of Bastogne". He said Rat doesn't taste so bad if you cover it with ketchup and a little salt.

Without a doubt my all time favorite is:
Kelly's Heros
S. Pvt. R.

my top:
- Stalingrad
- Das Boot
- We were soldiers
- The great escape

Here are mine in no order:
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Patton
In Harms Way
Midway
Full Metal Jacket
Flight Of The Intruder
Starship Troopers

Favorite war movies:
* Winter War (get the 3hr version)
* Black Hawk Down
* Enemy at the Gates
* First 40min of Saving Ryans Privates

Mika

Okay Top 30-Favorite movies

Military films:
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Das Boot
Gettysburg
Glory
Braveheart

General Drama:
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Casablanca
Sudden Impact
Lord of the Rings

SciFi
Alien & Aliens (3 in desparation and 4 isn't worth the time)
Mad Max & Road Warrior (Thunderdome only in desparation)
Terminator & T2 (especially #1)
Predator

Horror:
Dracula (Lugosi)
Eight Legged Freaks (just out in video)

Comedy:#:-)
Airplane!
Raising Arizona
Christmas Vacation (:-) (the best of the bunch)
There's Something About Mary

Westerns
Outlaw Josie Wales
The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
High Noon
Shanghai Noon