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Slartibartfast 
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 Topic: Greatest War MoviesPosted: December 29 2011 at 14:14 |
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Not in the list or a conventional war movie, but Failsafe.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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dwill123
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 13:09 |
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Midway
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fuyuakiworld
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 01:56 |
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may not count but Downfall
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FordPrefect
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Posted: November 28 2010 at 17:40 |
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Best on the list definitely 'Das Boot' (What a superb theme by Klaus Doldinger BTW!
 )But others are even better. I think the very best is 'The cross of iron' directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring James Coburn, Maximillian Schell and James Mason. Close second is original 'Die brücke'. I also enjoyed 'Gettysburg' very much. It's only true weakness is clumsy and poorly co-ordinated fighting scenes. (Especially portraying "Pickett's charge") |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: November 09 2010 at 03:48 |
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All Quiet On The Western Front
The Dirty Dozen
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Das Boot
Between those 5...... I'll go for the first one, because it's the least likely to get a vote.... But I find Platoon the only war movie I've had an urge to see a second time...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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steppenfloyd
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Posted: November 06 2010 at 18:45 |
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Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down are probably the most accurate war movies.
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yanch
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 14:36 |
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I'm with you! I laugh at how bad that movie is. Though Dina Meyers is cute in it!
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BaldJean
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 13:27 |
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"Battleship Potemkin" a war movie? it is a movie about a mutiny which leads to the Russian revolution, but a war movie? Sergej Eisenstein would probably cringe if he read that
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Hawkwise
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 06:38 |
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Star Wars
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 02 2010 at 21:59 |
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I'm sorry, that is disqualified as that is a wars movie. Most atrocious war movie, sci-fi category: Starship Troopers. A huge insult to the Yes song. Who's with me on this? Edited by Slartibartfast - November 02 2010 at 22:08 |
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Leo J.
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Posted: November 02 2010 at 21:51 |
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Star Wars
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Theriver
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Posted: November 01 2010 at 22:27 |
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Where is that one in the list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(1965_film)
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Hawkwise
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Posted: October 29 2010 at 15:46 |
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Bridge Over the river Kwai
 and The Great Escape |
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yanch
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 15:54 |
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^Good movie and great book, but I think it's more about the choices people make and how they deal with them as opposed to a war movie. My favorite ongoing bit in the book is Orr trying to convince Yossarian to fly with him. Yossarian never considers that as a possible choice, in the end that was the wrong choice, as Orr gets himself out of the war!
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TODDLER
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 13:59 |
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I'm not too sure if people would consider it a war movie but "Catch 22" is my favorite. It's not on the list so maybe it might be considered a dark comedy about military life in the 40's. I remember the dispute between Art Garfunkel and an old Italian fellow. Art was telling the old guy that the American solider was the best fed and so on, while the old guy persists in saying that all great countries have been destroyed. What makes you think your country could not be destroyed? I believe this film influenced the TV series MASH....but, don't quote me it's been years.
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EatThatPhonebook
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:22 |
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Well, definitely one of the main concepts of the movie is the human nature and also about madness, but the war scenes are present, and the main character is IN the war, so it's kind of hard to not define this a war movie.
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jampa17
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Posted: October 22 2010 at 13:48 |
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"Saigon... sh*t... I'm still only in Saigon..."
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Garion81
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Posted: October 22 2010 at 13:15 |
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Add me to this as well. Brilliant movie. Very good acting with Tom Beringer, Richard Jordan, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Kevin Conway, and Sam Elliot. The fact they actually received permission from the Gettysburg Historical Society to do principle filming on the battlefield made this more special. The screen play was adapted from Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel The Killer Angels (Which is a very good read as well). I watch this move every year on the 4th of the July. Off Topic: Stacy took me back there a few years ago and I finally saw all the landmarks I had so dreamed about. Here is a picture I took of Little Round Top as a Confederate soldier would see it before he made a charge up it to meet the Union soldiers holding the ridge. Now they hold a prog festival there in town called Rosfest.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 22 2010 at 11:07 |
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It's strange but I don't see The Deer Hunter as a war movie; I know a section of it is set in Vietnam, after which it concentrates on how the experiences shape the lives of the characters, but I don't see it as a war film per se, hence my non vote... now, if I had to vote (subjectively) for the best film on that list... |
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: October 22 2010 at 10:52 |
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Of course
 "You know, half of these gook whores are sworn members of the Vietcong. The other half got tuberculosis. Make sure you only f*ck the ones who cough" Master Kubrick rules. Iván
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Slartibartfast wrote:
Easily the best film here on any level.