Your Favorite War Movie

tarcone · 03-01-2020, 04:11 PM

Your favorite. Not the best. Not the rotten tomatoes favorite. Your favorite.

Mine is Sergeant York. This is my all time favorite. Gary Cooper is amazing as usual. But the story is one that I love. And in black and white. yes sir.

Kodos · 03-01-2020, 04:31 PM

Star Wars.

tarcone · 03-01-2020, 04:39 PM

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Star Wars.

Good one. Still like Sergeant York better. And a true story to boot.

Although, Star Wars may be true, and we just dont know about it.

ColtCrazy · 03-01-2020, 04:45 PM

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Your favorite. Not the best. Not the rotten tomatoes favorite. Your favorite.

Mine is Sergeant York. This is my all time favorite. Gary Cooper is amazing as usual. But the story is one that I love. And in black and white. yes sir.

Kelly's Heroes. Not a serious war movie, of course, but I can sit and watch Eastwood, Savalas, Rickles, and Sutherland all day.

tarcone · 03-01-2020, 05:13 PM

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Kelly's Heroes. Not a serious war movie, of course, but I can sit and watch Eastwood, Savalas, Rickles, and Sutherland all day.

Nice choice. Underrated. The cast is fantastic. And a great story.

Edward64 · 03-01-2020, 05:18 PM

Battle: Los Angeles - Aliens go one-on-one with the good guys

Aliens - same

Groundhog · 03-01-2020, 05:33 PM

JPhillips · 03-01-2020, 05:54 PM

I don't really have a favorite, but all of these are good,

Paths of Glory
Patton
Stripes
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Platoon

Warhammer · 03-01-2020, 07:44 PM

Casablanca

Lathum · 03-01-2020, 08:33 PM

White Christmas

Jas_lov · 03-01-2020, 08:40 PM

Patton
Inglorious Basterds
Bridge on the River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan

thesloppy · 03-01-2020, 08:47 PM

I have always liked Apocalypse Now.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-01-2020, 09:00 PM

Soooooooo many options.

The Kelly's Heroes call is a solid one. Patton is always fun.
The Longest Day is always and stop and watch a while for me.
First half of Full Metal Jacket.
Cast A Giant Shadow is awfully underrated as a film, ditto In Harm's Way

I could go for quite a while on this

tarcone · 03-01-2020, 09:08 PM

Apocalypse Now in the right state of mind.
Patton is just a good movie. Patton is the epitome of THE American Hero.
I love the Longest Day. Talk about an all star cast.
Im surprise no one has mentioned Platoon.

War movies are the best.

Radii · 03-01-2020, 09:41 PM

Good Morning Vietnam

JPhillips · 03-01-2020, 09:59 PM

Odd that there's no great American Civil War film.

BYU 14 · 03-01-2020, 10:17 PM

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Heartbreak Ridge
Bridge on the River Kwai
1917

Carman Bulldog · 03-01-2020, 10:38 PM

Inglourious Basterds
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
The Imitation Game

Galaril · 03-02-2020, 12:26 AM

A Bridge Too Far
Dunkirk
1917
Platoon
Lord of the Rings Return of the King (LotR was a Tolkien's view of WW 1)
Dr. Strangelove How I Learned to Love the Bomb
Honorable mention
Thin Red Line

thealmighty · 03-02-2020, 12:49 AM

The Dirty Dozen

Breeze · 03-02-2020, 06:49 AM

Stalag 17

NobodyHere · 03-02-2020, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips

Odd that there's no great American Civil War film.

I'm a big fan of Gettysburg

Bobble · 03-02-2020, 09:20 AM

Saving Private Ryan kinda changed the game for me. You saw how less than realistic most of your favorites were.
The Great Escape
Where Eagles Dare
Enemy at the Gates
The first half of Full Metal Jacket
The first half of Good Morning, Vietnam

Bobble · 03-02-2020, 09:24 AM

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I'm a big fan of Gettysburg

For my 50th birthday, I had Mrs. Bobble take me to Gettysburg. We got a personal tour (you have a licensed historian drive your car around the battlefield). I mentioned that movie and he could not stifle an eye-roll. I like the movie but apparently it's pretty loose historically.

Edward64 · 03-02-2020, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Bobble

Saving Private Ryan kinda changed the game for me. You saw how less than realistic most of your favorites were.
The Great Escape
Where Eagles Dare
Enemy at the Gates
The first half of Full Metal Jacket
The first half of Good Morning, Vietnam

Thanks for the reminder, some more on my list

Enemy at the Gates

and

Eagle has landed
Bridge too far
13 Hours
Blackhawk Down

cubboyroy1826 · 03-02-2020, 09:28 AM

Mine would be in no certain order

Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
13 Hours
The Longest Day
Band of Brothers - I know not technically a movie but I had to mention it
Bridge on the River Kwai
Kellys Heroes - always loved this goofy movie
Patton

JPhillips · 03-02-2020, 09:48 AM

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I'm a big fan of Gettysburg

I'm thinking more the 2 hourish traditional film.

And there should definitely be a movie about John Brown. Jordan Peele could do something great with Brown.

revrew · 03-02-2020, 09:48 AM

Not sure my "favorite," but I haven't seen Fury mentioned yet, so I thought I'd give it some love here.

Also, Patriot and Braveheart, for the Mel Gibson fans (oops, and then there's We Were Soldiers).

JonInMiddleGA · 03-02-2020, 10:40 AM

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and then there's We Were Soldiers).

Some fantastic scenes in that movie and the book it's based on is a solid read in the genre.

I. J. Reilly · 03-02-2020, 11:20 AM

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Odd that there's no great American Civil War film.

Glory? It's been a long time since I watched it but I remember it as really good.

JPhillips · 03-02-2020, 12:39 PM

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Glory? It's been a long time since I watched it but I remember it as really good.

Yeah, that counts.

stevew · 03-02-2020, 12:59 PM

Edge of Tomorrow

Edward64 · 03-02-2020, 01:02 PM

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Edge of Tomorrow

Oh yeah, that's a pretty good movie.

Tom Cruise, the actor, is great (and I hope I age as well as him).

tarcone · 03-02-2020, 04:45 PM

The Beast. This is about a Soviet Tank crew that becomes separated from their patrol in Afghanistan. It was made in 1988. It was a good movie that has stuck with me.

The Way Back. Prisoners of war during WW2 in Siberia escape and walk 4000 miles ti India. This was a tense and thrilling movie.

CrimsonFox · 03-02-2020, 07:44 PM

No contest

Catch-22

CarterNMA · 03-02-2020, 07:52 PM

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The Way Back. Prisoners of war during WW2 in Siberia escape and walk 4000 miles ti India. This was a tense and thrilling movie.

Thank you, tarcone! I was trying to remember the name of the movie and you serendipitously provided it! Found it on Amazon Prime and hope to watch it this week. I love epic journey movies.

For me, Stalag 17 (especially for Christmas time) and The Longest Day. I love learning/reading/watching all thing D-Day.

NobodyHere · 03-02-2020, 08:00 PM

Future War

It doesn't take place in the future, and there isn't really a war, but I don't like to complain.

Edward64 · 03-02-2020, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by tarcone

The Beast. This is about a Soviet Tank crew that becomes separated from their patrol in Afghanistan. It was made in 1988. It was a good movie that has stuck with me.

The Way Back. Prisoners of war during WW2 in Siberia escape and walk 4000 miles ti India. This was a tense and thrilling movie.

These 2 sound interesting. I'll try catch them one weekend.

tarcone · 03-02-2020, 08:11 PM

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Future War

It doesn't take place in the future, and there isn't really a war, but I don't like to complain.

There is a lot of crazy stuff going on int hat one.

Carman Bulldog · 03-02-2020, 08:50 PM

Kramer vs. Kramer

Bobble · 03-03-2020, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips

I'm thinking more the 2 hourish traditional film.

And there should definitely be a movie about John Brown. Jordan Peele could do something great with Brown.

Gettysburg was 1993 with Martin Sheen as Lee, Jeff Daniels as Chamberlain. You might be thinking North and South or The Blue and the Grey which were miniseries.

Reminds me the Ken Burns' The Civil War documentary series was awesome but I'm not sure you can count it as a "movie".

Bobble · 03-03-2020, 08:02 AM

If we're allowed to bleed over into series, two I liked were X-Company that was a Canadian series I think I caught on Netflix about OSS agents. Following on that, Netflix had a 5-episode series called Churchill's New Recruits where they took about 15 modern randos and put them through realistic OSS training. It's reality-TV-adjacent but I enjoyed it.

revrew · 03-03-2020, 09:28 AM

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And there should definitely be a movie about John Brown.

Did you know there's a movie coming out later this month about John Brown's co-conspirator (for lack of a better word), called "Emperor"?

Includes actor James Cromwell ("That'll do, Pig. That'll do") as John Brown.

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