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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Mount Rushmore of War Movies
I love a good war movie. Watched Final Countdown last night. While not great, pretty entertaining.
Here is mine: The Longest Day Apocalypse Now Sergeant York The Fighting Sullivans Last edited by tarcone : 08-04-2011 at 12:41 PM. |
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08-04-2011, 12:44 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Saving Private Ryan
Platoon Glory Tough call for my fourth. I really love the movie Memphis Belle but it's not worthy enough to be on this list. Not sure if you would allow Braveheart to be a war movie but if so, that's my choice. If not, I have either Patton or The Dirty Dozen. |
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08-04-2011, 12:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Saving Private Ryan
Platoon Das Boot Kelly's Heroes Honorable mention to Gallipoli, just not well known enough.
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08-04-2011, 12:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Longest Day
Tora, Tora, Tora Das Boot We Were Soldiers
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08-04-2011, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Das Boot - Conveyed the feeling of being on a submarine
Full Metal Jacket - R. Lee Ermey with one of the most outstanding portrayals of a military person ever captured on film. Apocalypse Now - a visual tour-de-force. The well documented struggles during filming only add to the mystique. Saving Private Ryan - The beach landing is quite possibly the most realistic depiction of a battle ever used in a movie.
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08-04-2011, 12:57 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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The hardest film to leave off my list. The first half of it would have made it easily, the 2nd half cost it the spot. Way too many hard choices for me on this one though, leaving out Kelly's Heroes & Apocalypse seemed unthinkable, we really need a bigger mountain.
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis Last edited by JonInMiddleGA : 08-04-2011 at 01:04 PM. |
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08-04-2011, 01:02 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
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WOLVERINES!!!
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08-04-2011, 01:03 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Tora, Tora, Tora
Patton Saving Private Ryan Great Escape (stretching 'war movie' a bit here, but still valid, IMO) |
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08-04-2011, 02:23 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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Apocolypse new
Full Metal Jacket Saving Private Ryan Heartbreak Ridge (I know, not a lot of 'war', but still an awesome movie just for the one liners) |
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08-04-2011, 02:37 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Georgia
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Saving Private Ryan
All Quiet on the Western Front Apocalypse Now Glory
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08-04-2011, 02:50 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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If we're limiting this to movies about wars from the last 100-200 years...
Black Hawk Down Platoon Der Untergang Saving Private Ryan |
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08-04-2011, 02:54 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan Platoon We Were Soldiers Another one where it is hard to come up with a 4th. I like The Patriot as much as We Were Soldiers. My dad took me with him when he went to see Full Metal Jacket. I was 10. |
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08-04-2011, 04:46 PM
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H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pistol City
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Sergeant York
Tora, Tora, Tora Platoon Apocalypse Now |
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08-04-2011, 06:51 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Fresno, CA
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Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers Midway The Longest Day How can I leave Glory off of that list? Quote:
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08-04-2011, 07:40 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Location, Location, Location
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Bridge on the River Kwai
Midway The Alamo (John Wayne version) Longest Day
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08-04-2011, 07:46 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
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A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day Saving Private Ryan Kelly's Heroes |
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08-04-2011, 07:49 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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+1 That was easy.... |
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08-04-2011, 08:30 PM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edge of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Lots of people have already mentioned Platoon, but I'll add:
Hurt Locker Die Brucke/The Bridge (German film, 1959) Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 (not quite a war movie per se)
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