The Best War Movie

[Dinner]

Das Boat was a good naval story told from the German point of view.

[Zopperoni]

Lawrence of Arabia was very good too.

[Dinner]

Not enough death and destruction in Lawrence of Arabia. Plus Lawrence was a bit on the psycho side with his god complex.

[Pekka]

saving private ryan was IMO pretty good because of the combat scenes that were good. One of the best scenes I've ever seen, looked kind of realistic, even though I've never seen real combat so I can't compare. Other than that, it was average. Doesn't even come close to Apocalypse now (redux)!

It's pretty funny, that perhaps two of the biggest Vietnam movies, Platoon and Apocalypse now, the stars are father and son.. martin and charlie sheen.

In Platoon theres good thing going on between Elias and Barnes.. and then people just being divided between them.

[Traianvs]

Das Boot is a helluva good movie..

the intensity of the life in a primitive submarine.. how people behave in such conditions etc... great piece of art

[Ted Striker]

I don't know if this counts as a war movie but The Man Who Would Be King was really good.

[Pekka]

Agreed. Das Boot is great.. Though it focuses on facial expressions for about 1.5 hours, it's still great. It shows the horror in the men pretty good.

[JohnT]

SPR wins for best combat footage filmed by people who have never been in combat before*.

To name one not listed, though it is kind of dated now in some themes and cultural assumptions is Bridge on the River Kwai. Today anybody making a movie about British superiority in engineering and manufacturing over the Japanese will get laughed out of the box office.

*Most probably not true, but true for most of the principals.

[Pekka]

Uh oh, now I remember. We Were Soldiers.. now there's some great combat scenes too! Plus I like it better than SPR in other things as well. I think it's one helluva movie.
Favourite scene is where choppers comes and shoots the (don't know english word) mark so the planes can shoot napalm.. that's impressive. I mean technically, not that people burn because of it. It's just one big explosions.

Also the leading of Gibson is quite realistic I believe, and that kind of battles are rare to be in movies where you can see the whole area and see how he commands his troops at all times.

[monolith94]

Paths of Glory

[VetLegion]

I saw a very good movie about winter war. It got me flamed on many a internet board because I claimed that Finns won, based on knowledge from it

There are very good so called 'partisan movies' from ex-Yugoslavia, but I doubt anyone heard of them.

Of american films... apocalypse now is good, we were soldiers is good..

anyone seen that one where a russian T-72 is fleeing afghanistan, chased by the locals? interesting.

[Provost Harrison]

Pearl Harbour

Not really

[Boris Godunov]

"A Bridge Too Far." Best WW2 movie I've seen.

The old black-and-white "All Quiet on the Western Front" is also excellent.

[Sandman]

Another vote for Lawrence of Arabia.

[st_swithin]

Austin Powers in: Goldmember!

Yeah, yeah, I know what you're all thinking: not a war movie.

Ok, how about "Hitler Sucks"?
Or maybe, "Fvck Off, Puritan!"