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  • #31
    Best:

    Saving Private Ryan
    Black Hawk Down
    Patton

    Worst:

    Thin Red Line
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Giancarlo
      Best:

      Saving Private Ryan
      Black Hawk Down
      Patton

      Worst:

      Thin Red Line
      What? Not land and freedom?
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      • #33
        Paths of Glory

        Cross of Iron

        Platoon

        Apocalypse Now

        The Bridge on the River Kwai

        Patton

        The Dirty Dozen

        The Guns of Navarone (its one of my favorites, even if it is not as good as the others)

        The Great Escape

        Glory (with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman)

        These are the best ones I can recall right now.
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        • #34
          Oh, I forgot The Thin Red Line.
          I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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          • #35
            Patton - George C Scott was great and I really like the epic scope of the movie., e.g., the Battle at El Guitar.

            Tora Tora Tora - By far the best version of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While the recent version got a big star, they made the mistake of focusing too much on him. That time was better spent focusing on the leaders and decisions of both forces like T T T with better special effects.

            Kelly's Heroes - Just downright entertaining, what a GREAT cast with Donald Sutherland and "Moriarti" (Gavin McCloud? the guy from Mary Tyler Moore show)stealing alot of the best scenes. And the Tiger Is were cool...

            Saving Private Ryan - Just on the initial D-Day scene alone, but the battle at the end was good too with great mock up units we hardly ever see in WWII movies.

            We Were Soldiers - very realistic, like SPR but the action is nearly constant. This movie shows why the N Viets changed more to guerilla warfare because they got slaughtered in more conventional battles.

            Das Boot - very realistic, the best sub movie.

            Platoon

            Full Metal Jacket

            Glory - great musical score and great cast - Denzel was Oscar worthy and Freeman was good (hell, even Broderick was good).

            Sink the Bismark - considering it was made in 1960 and black and white it had pretty darned good battle scenes.
            Watching the Hood blow up was awesome.

            Braveheart

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            • #36
              Another great war film: The Cranes Are Flying

              although we don't actually see that much of the war.

              I also really liked Cold Mountain. I think I'm in the minority though.
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              • #37
                nm.


                ACK!
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Alex

                  The Bridge on the River Kwai
                  Just watched this morning. It really is an interesting study about how project can triumph over purpose...almost.
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                  • #39
                    seven years of filming, $100 million dollars in 1967(!), each battle recreated using tens of thousands of soldiers thus giving this film a truly epic scope and appearance which isn't likely to ever be duplicated if simply because of the cost.

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                    • #40
                      All's Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
                      Paths of Glory, 1956

                      These two are my favorite war movies. MOst good WW1 films tend to be anti-war films, and I am fine with that. Plus the battle scenes are great.

                      I would like to see Westfront, from 1930 as well, German. Never have seen it.
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Boshko

                        What? Not land and freedom?
                        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...video&n=507846
                        Never seen it, let alone heard of it. Interesting story line. However, is it anti-Franco? Cause my grandfather served under Franco.

                        Anyways, We Were Soldiers was also a great movie. Tora Tora Tora I saw on AMC a bit ago.. very good. Too bad the recent Pearl Harbor was a stupid love flick, rather then a war movie.
                        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                        • #42
                          Fez, Franco was not a good man and he did some very horrible things to Republicans in Spain. It would have been much better for the people of spain and for Spain as a nation if the Republicans and not the Facists had ruled the country for those 35 years.
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Oerdin
                            Fez, Franco was not a good man and he did some very horrible things to Republicans in Spain. It would have been much better for the people of spain and for Spain as a nation if the Republicans and not the Facists had ruled the country for those 35 years.
                            Neither side were good, and committed horrific crimes. It would have been much better for the people of spain that we be ruled by the "republicans"? The "republicans" were ****ing stalinists, they were going to set up a dictatorship anyways. Joseph Stalin had it all figured out. It would of ruined our country. We would of ended up like some eastern bloc countries, like Belarus.
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #44
                              There were three Factions to the civil war that I know of The Republicans who were backed by France and to a lesser extent the UK, the Facists (who called themselves Nationalists) backed by Nazi Germany & Mussolini's Italy, and the smallest group were the communists who were backed by the USSR.

                              Near the end the Republicans and the Communists did make common cause against the larger facist armies but that was simply an act of desperation instead of ideological unity.
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                              • #45
                                Facism or communism? That was the choice? What a sh*thole that must have been to live in.

                                Just kidding G
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