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(Poll) What's your favorite war movie?
(Poll) What's your favorite war movie?
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snozzberries
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I'm currently watching Full Metal Jacket. I consider it to be 2 movies though, 45 minutes at boot camp, and then the rest in-theater.
Not necessarily my favorite, but the first 45 minutes is probably some of the best movie footage of all time.
EDIT: Holy shit you guys named at least 103 movies. I took the ones with the most mentions and put them in for a vote via a poll.
Here is a list: 12 O'Clock High 13 Hours '71 A bridge too far All's Quiet on the Western Front Apocalypse Now Army of Darkness Band of Brothers Battle of Britain Beau Geste Black hawk down braveheart Breaker Morant Bridge Over The River Kwai Casualties of War. Catch 22 Clint Eastwood's two films on Iwo Jima Courage Under FIre Crimson Tide Das Boot Dirty Dozen Down Periscope Downfall Dr. Strangelove Enemy at the Gates Fighting Seabees Forrest Gump Full Metal Jacket Fury Gallipoli Gettysburg Gods and Generals. Good Morning, Vietnam Green Berets Gunga Din Heartbreak Ridge Henry V. Epic war movie and Shakespeare play Hogans heroes Humphrey Bogart's Sahara In Harm's Way Inglorious Bastards Kagemusha Kelly's Heroes Kilo Two Bravo Last of the Mohicans Lawrence of Arabia Longest Day M*A*S*H Mad Max Master and Commander Mega Force Memphis Belle Midway Ministry of Fear Pacific. Paths of Glory (Kirk Douglas at his best) Patriot Patton Platoon Predator Red Dawn Run Silent Run Deep Sands of Iwo Jima Saving Private Ryan Schindlers List Sergeant York So Proudly We Hail! Spies like us Stalag 17 Tae Guk Gi The Beast The Bridge Over The River Kwai The Charge of the Light Brigade The Dam Busters The Dirty Dozen The Dogs of War The Good the Bad and the Ugly The Great Escape The Green Berets The Guns of Navarrone The Hunt for Red October The Killing Fields The Kingdom The Longest Day The Pacific The Patriot The Thin Red Line The Wild Geese They Marched Into Sunlight They Were Expendable Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Three Kings To Hell and Back Top Gun Tora! Tora! Tora! Troy U-571 War of the Roses When Trumpets Fade Where Eagles Dare White Tiger World at War narrated by Laurence Olivier Zulu
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kf7mjf
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Humphrey Bogart's Sahara.
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GeekWithGuns
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Wow picking one is an incredibly tough choice: The Thin Red Line
Runners-up: All's Quiet on the Western Front 12 O'Clock High Bridge on the River Kwai Lawrence of Arabia Das Boot The Longest Day Saving Private Ryan Memphis Belle
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Usually watch Full Metal Jacket from the haircut scent until they play "These Boots Were Made for Walking: . Didn't really care for the rest.
"Band of Brothers" is great.
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Duke EB
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Right now, I'd say Fury
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Fri Oct 07, 2016 4:40 pm |
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Old Jim
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"To Hell and Back" Audie Murphy had the lead role about himself and his actions during WWII.
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L_O_G
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FMJ Top Gun is pretty good too, although not sure it's considered a war movie.
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GeekWithGuns wrote: Wow picking one is an incredibly tough choice: Agree sir! 1 - Run Silent Run Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKM7CzLytxcRunner-up: Bridge on the River Kwai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4NEAIk3PUBoth take me back to watching them as a little boy with my father. Favorite war documentary - World at War narrated by Laurence Olivier 1st Episode- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3H0K0Afk20
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GeekWithGuns
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World at War is a fantastic documentary series. I remember watching most of the episodes as a kid in Elementary School and discussing it with my Dad at the time. One of the things I remember most were the interviews with veterans and survivors on all sides of the conflict.
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leadcounsel
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Can't pick one really. There are some great ones, middle tier, then all the rest.
All have minor errors if you want to nitpick, but thinking big picture: In the "great ones" category I'd say: Band of Brother series. 10 mini-movies if you will. Outstanding on all accounts and for the variety and character development. Saving Private Ryan. Strong action and acting performances, excellent character development. Platoon. I enjoyed the narration, the chaos, the senselessness of Vietnam, etc. Full Metal Jacket (1st half is fantastic, 2nd half pretty dull and borderline stupid at times). Black Hawk Downs is a solid film, beginning to end.
Middle Tier - A few that were alright, but not great: The Pacific was disappointing, with some good sections. The Lost Battalion is an okay WWI movie staring Ricky Schorder. It's slow but I enjoyed it. More about a person and his struggles with the war. We Were Soldiers. I wanted to like it and it had some good moments, but some really hokey moments too. Hamburger Hill - I wanted to like it since I served with the 101st, but it was just really dumb in spots. A lot of bad over-acting. Enemy at the Gates gets a nod as I recall it being a good film. American Sniper was decent, albeit it seemed like a propaganda film for 1 individual.
Waiting to see: I've yet to see "Lone Survivor" but read the book. Waiting for it on free streaming. I've yet to see Fury but it looks good.
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Beer Hounds
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The Beast and Fury are two of my favorites.
Edited to add Saving Private Ryan.
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Sinus211
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If you consider a series to be a movie then Band of Brothers, pretty much hands down.
Memphis Belle is an old favorite as I really enjoy planes and the utter chaos of the aerial campaign. Fury is a current favorite as I've gotten really into World of Tanks Blitz gaming lately. Saving Private Ryan is another favorite showing what the troops on the ground went through.
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the_chadman
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Good Morning, Vietnam because fuck it why not.
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golddigger14s
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Enemy at the gate Memphis Bell Green Beret. And a bunch of others.
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jdhbulseye
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Band of Brothers. Excellent story and excellent character development. The book is amazing too.
The Pacific was good too but not as good a BoB in my opinion.
I have yet to see Unbroken so that may be a runner up. But I can say the book was very good. I cant believe what those guys went through....and survived.
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