The Best War Movie

[BeBMan]

VetLegion: Well, Das Boot and Stalingrad are not sooo old. But you´re right, they do not make war movies here quite often - mainly a question of money, not many movies here have a big budget (which you need for good war movies).

[Sandman]

If we're going to include Braveheart, a semi-fictional account, then I nominate Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

[BeBMan]

Oh and I thought it is primarily about 20century wars.

Gladiator is certainly great too

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Japher
"Glory" is one of my all time favorites... Too bad Matthew Brodric has turned into such a pansy though.

GIVE 'EM HELL 54!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[st_swithin]

Oooh, I forgot all about "Star Wars". Then does "Dune" count? That's gets my vote.

[Winston]

I'm not much into war movies, but I would recommend a somewhat overlooked classic war/commando movie, Where Eagles Dare with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, great movie.

I also liked The Killing Fields, but that's not really a war movie, although there's still plenty of human suffering and desperation in it...

[Gangerolf]

Maybe I'm biased because I saw it 4 hours ago, but "The Last Lieutenant" is ****ing good. It's about the first days of WW2 in Norway. some info:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...836516-4847201

[Sava]

Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down... only because they belong to the "realistic" club in terms of accurate portrayal of combat. All those old movies are silly. The John Wayne ones suck to high heaven.

[Gangerolf]

yeah das boot is great

[Sava]

I thought Das Boot was kind of lame...

[Gangerolf]

have you seen it?

[Sava]

have you seen it?

uhh yeah...

[Winston]

The best thing about Das Boot was the music.

[Timexwatch]

DP

[Timexwatch]

IRT The Thin Red Line was pretty much a poetry reading set in WWII.

Tigerland was compelling from the perspective of troops preparing to go to 'Nam. Collin Farrell was superb as Roland Boggs...