In honor of Memorial Day...Whats your favorite War/Military movie?

[Deberg_1990]

Post your faves....

[listopencil]

The Green Beret, In Harm's Way, The Longest Day, The Dirty Dozen, All Quiet On The Western Front, Kelly's Heroes, Catch 22.

[Frazod]

Glory.

[Saulbadguy]

"In the Army Now" with Pauly Shore.

[listopencil]

"In the Army Now" with Pauly Shore.

You are going to Hell.

[Saulbadguy]

You are going to Hell.

Ok, I'm sorry. It also starred Andy Dick and David Allen Grier, with Brendan Frasier making a cameo.

[listopencil]

Ok, I'm sorry. It also starred Andy Dick and David Allen Grier, with Brendan Frasier making a cameo.


Boo.

[Braincase]

Patton

[Rasputin]

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I've got several favorites but this one and it was a pretty powerful movie to watch.

[RealSNR]

Gettysburg a vastly underrated war movie. Martin Sheen as Robert E Lee. Awesome.

[Rasputin]

Glory.

yes great movie

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[Bugeater]

I don't find death to be entertaining.

[notorious]

For some reason, whenever Heartbreak Ridge is on I watch it.

It's a damn good movie.



My favorites are Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and for the crazy factor I like Apocalypse Now Redux.

[In58men]

Saving Private Ryan

[RealSNR]

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[Deberg_1990]

No Platoon and Born on the 4th fans in here?

And yes, I'm aware they are anti war movies....but still great.
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[Pasta Little Brioni]

Saving Ryan's Private

:eek:

[Frazod]

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I've got several favorites but this one and it was a pretty powerful movie to watch.

Band of Brothers is obviously the gold standard, but you can't really call it a movie.

You can call it the best thing ever put on TV, though.

[Deberg_1990]

Glory.

Yes this. Great flick.
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[Frazod]

No Platoon and Born on the 4th fans in here?

And yes, I'm aware they are anti war movies....but still great.
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I didn't really care for either one of them. I mean, they're both good movies, but I've got dozens of war movies in my collection and neither of these is among them. I personally like Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill much better.

[Rasputin]

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This is a full length movie well worth the watch. watch it at the 27:00 mark is true grit of war.

[In58men]

:eek:

Full Metal Jacket?


My age could be a factor lol

[lewdog]

Full Metal Jacket for sure. I also liked Hamburger Hill.

[Ming the Merciless]

Braveheart

Killing Fields

Seven Samurai

[Frazod]

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This is a full length movie well worth the watch. watch it at the 27:00 mark is true grit of war.

I've never seen this. I'll have to watch it later.

[Ming the Merciless]

Gallipoli

[In58men]

Feel free to call me a queer, but Pearl Harbor was phenomenal .

[Deberg_1990]

Not really a war movie but Last of the Mohicans is one of my faves. Daniel Day Lewis version.
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[tredadda]

We were Soldiers or Glory.

[Frazod]

Feel free to call me a queer, but Pearl Harbor was phenomenal .

:spock:

I guess if you like butchered history, bad acting and shitty CGI, yeah, it's great.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Feel free to call me a queer, but Pearl Harbor was phenomenal .

Might be the most historically inaccurate military film of all time.

[Easy 6]

Patton

Great call, the action was ahead of its time in many ways, far better looking than any war movie before it, imo. Great locations, often on the very spots where the battles were fought, like kasserine pass being recreated & of course Great Scott just killing his role.

But for my new school money, its hard to top Platoon or Full Metal Jacket.

[Frazod]

Not really a war movie but Last of the Mohicans is one of my faves. Daniel Day Lewis version.
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Lot of good movies sort of fall into this category - not really war movies, but set with war as a backdrop. Last of the Mohicans is great. From Here to Eternity is another one of my favorites. I guess you could even include Casablanca.

[Miles]

Das Boot.

[tredadda]

Feel free to call me a queer, but Pearl Harbor was phenomenal .

If you insist..............queer

[Ming the Merciless]

Feel free to call me a queer, but Pearl Harbor was phenomenal .

That is probably the worst war movie ever made in terms of $$$ per minute

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[Ming the Merciless]

Not the movie, the series....shit was cash

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[Buehler445]

Saving Private Ryan.

[Aries Walker]

Limiting it to the US, Saving Private Ryan, and Gettysburg, of course.
Black Hawk Down was amazing.
I also liked Flags of Our Fathers, Act of Valor, and The Kingdom.

[Ace Gunner]

no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country -patton (the movie)

[In58men]

Lots of hate on Pearl Harbor.


If it didn't turn into a love story I think most of you would have different views. Oh, and most fellas don't like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Jealous sons a bitches

[Kyle DeLexus]

Band of Brothers is obviously the gold standard, but you can't really call it a movie.

You can call it the best thing ever put on TV, though.

All of this.

[Rasputin]

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[Cheater5]

Check out Restrepo.

Documentary, not a movie though.

[Rasputin]

Red Dawn staring Patric Swayze. Not a true story but it's a hell of a what if we get attacked by Russians movie breaking into WWIII.

[Aries Walker]

Lots of hate on Pearl Harbor.


If it didn't turn into a love story I think most of you would have different views.
A) But it did, and B) I wouldn't.

[In58men]

A) But it did, and B) I wouldn't.

And you my friend are a liar

[FlaChief58]

Full Metal Jacket. Hands down, my favorite war flick.

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

Am I the only asshole here who likes The Patriot?

[Rasputin]

Am I the only asshole here who likes The Patriot?

I'm an asshole who has not seen that movie, or that I remember if I did. Ok happy asshole?

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

I'm an asshole who has not seen that movie, or that I remember if I did. Ok happy asshole?

Then watch it asshole, it's worth it


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[Aries Walker]

And you my friend are a liar
I don't like being called a liar. Don't do that.

On the other hand, I'm certainly not in the habit of getting into movie arguments in threads about Memorial Day.

[Brock]

I'll still watch Kelly's Heroes if I catch it on TV.

[Frazod]

I'll still watch Kelly's Heroes if I catch it on TV.

Same here. Part of the great Donald Sutherland triple feature - Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes and M*A*S*H.

[Deberg_1990]

No love for the Rambo saga?

[Cornstock]

4th page and no mention of The Great Escape? Ya its kind of old, but its a classic. It makes my day when they air it on AMC every once in a while.

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

No love for the Rambo saga?


Fuck Rambo...Independance Day


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[Frazod]

No love for the Rambo saga?

They're okay. I consider them more straight action movies, though. I actually really liked the last one.

[chefsos]

Same here. Part of the great Donald Sutherland triple feature - Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes and M*A*S*H.I remember my parents taking us to the drive-in movies on occasion. The only double feature I recall was Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen, mostly because we kept saying, "Hey look, it's the same guy!" when Sutherland appeared (and again with Telly Savalas).

[Rasputin]

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This is a full length movie well worth the watch. watch it at the 27:00 mark is true grit of war.

Only if you watch this asshole. K off to work now see you assholes tomarra.
Enjoy the kick ass war movie if you aint got nothing better to do other than being assholes. Night. Piece out.

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[BillSelfsTrophycase]

Apocalypse Now, Yeah I know they replaced The Ride of the Valkyries but this is more awesome

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Rep if you can identify the chopper pilot

[Deberg_1990]

They're okay. I consider them more straight action movies, though. I actually really liked the last one.

I kind of dig them for what they are. 1st one still holds up pretty well and makes a nice statement for PTSD

[chefsos]

This one wouldn't qualify as my "favorite" (I suppose that would be Kelly's Heroes) but there was a TV movie in 1982 called World War III that's been apparently forgotten, mostly because it's not really very good.

But it made an impact on me. It seemed pretty realistic and frankly, scary. (This was 1982 after all; Cold War and all that.)

Wow, there it is. Ain't much that isn't on YouTube.

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[dirk digler]

No Platoon and Born on the 4th fans in here?

And yes, I'm aware they are anti war movies....but still great.
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Platoon is my favorite, then Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, We were soldiers.

I had never heard of Apocalypse Now Redux but I caught part of it today and it was pretty crazy as notorious stated but good.

Love Heartbreak Ridge as well...

[Ming the Merciless]

OMG


I just thought of a movie


STRIPES


That movie was so much fucking win

[Ming the Merciless]

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[007]

Saving Private Ryan and Glory

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

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[Chiefs Pantalones]

My Grandpa's WW2 stories.

[In58men]

I don't like being called a liar. Don't do that.

On the other hand, I'm certainly not in the habit of getting into movie arguments in threads about Memorial Day.

Liar liar lair liar liar

[wazu]

The Pacific

[griZZly64]

Braveheart.. Lock thread..

[JOhn]

The Pacific:thumb:

And a close second, Band Of Brothers.

[Cheater5]

Bridge Over the River Kwai.

Stalag 17 Great acting, and just a cool movie to watch.

Twelve O'Clock High

[kpic]

The person earlier in the thread that mentioned Pearl Harbor, I think he actually meant Tora! Tora! Tora!

A movie about Pearl Harbor starring Ben Affleck & Matt Damon? That sounds made up, no way that was an actual movie. Unless they were babies in some scenes of the people running?

[Crush]

Do POW movies count? Stalag 17.

[BoneKrusher]

Saving Private Ryan

[KCinNY]

"Hell is for Heroes" is absurdly underrated.

Steve McQueen in top form.

Probably the first post-war Hollywood movie that didn't sanitize the horror of combat...Director Don Sigel(who went on to do the original "Dirty Harry") seemed to be saying to the audience "maybe this isn't so much fun afterall."

[KCUnited]

Missing In Action
Missing In Action 2
Uncommon Valor

[Fire Me Boy!]

1. Schindler's List

Others:

Saving Private Ryan
Paths of Glory
Das Boot
Empire of the Sun
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Deer Hunter
Patton

[Mama Hip Rockets]

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[boogblaster]

Patton .. man had big balls .....

[cardken]

That is probably the worst war movie ever made in terms of $$$ per minute

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Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some of its scenes were among the last to be filmed in Technicolor. Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor was a box office smash, earning $449,220,945 at the world wide box office.
Budget $140 million
Box office $449,220,945

Not too Shabby Money wise.

[scho63]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

It was the first war movie I saw in a theater when I was very young-still remember the impact it had

[MOhillbilly]

FMJ

[Frazod]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

It was the first war movie I saw in a theater when I was very young-still remember the impact it had

I really wish they'd upgrade the special effects and re-release this. This is probably the most accurate war movie ever made, but the model-ships-in-a-bathtub special effects are really dated.

[Deberg_1990]

This is probably the most accurate war movie ever made,

Yea, probably this and Patton.

If i remember correctly, Tora was directed by both American and Japanese directors respectively.

[Rasputin]

Tom Berenger in Sniper was pretty good movie.

[Frazod]

Yea, probably this and Patton.

If i remember correctly, Tora was directed by both American and Japanese directors respectively.

Patton is actually fairly inaccurate - I read his biography a few years ago and was shocked at how much so. The scene where he shoots at the strafing plane with his pistol was a complete fabrication, and the rivalry with Montgomery occurred largely in Patton's mind and in the mind of the writers. The movie was also very favorable to Bradley, who was the technical adviser, and wasn't nearly the wonderful guy Malden portrays him as. Also, there were two slapping incidents, not one.

Don't get me wrong - it's a great movie and one of my favorites. But it takes a ton of liberties with the facts.

[Setsuna]

Stalag 17/Saving private Ryan. It's close.

[bevischief]

Heartbrake Ridge and Patton.

[Donger]

All of them, but:

Tora Tora Tora
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Where Eagles Dare
Hamburger Hill
Apocalypse Now
Patton
Boys in Company C

[Jethopper]

Mars Attacks

[Frankie]

In honor of Memorial Day...Whats your favorite War/Military movie? Post your faves....

I love many of them, but my IMMEDIATE answer to this question has always been "Guns of Navarone."

Too many pages to read to see if it has been mentioned already.

[HonestChieffan]

Patton
Saving Private Ryan

Plus love the clips from the ongoing wars seeing jihadis blown to smithereens.

[kysirsoze]

Am I the only asshole here who likes The Patriot?

Ugh. Sorry, but I thought that movie was fucking awful. I almost walked out.

[kysirsoze]

No Platoon and Born on the 4th fans in here?

And yes, I'm aware they are anti war movies....but still great.
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I think about any good war movie is an anti-war movie.

[LiveSteam]

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[LiveSteam]

Have to add this one.
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[J Diddy]

:thumb:

And a close second, Band Of Brothers.


Meh, don't think the Pacific was anywhere close to as good as Band of Brothers

[Frazod]

Meh, don't think the Pacific was anywhere close to as good as Band of Brothers

It was in the same ball park, but not as good. Which is nothing to be ashamed of. Being in the same ball park as BoB is enough.

Mainly it lacked the cohesion of BoB, because it followed three different people doing different things instead of a core group that was together from start to finish.

[Deberg_1990]

Meh, don't think the Pacific was anywhere close to as good as Band of Brothers

No, but it was handsomely produced. The battle scenes were great.
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[rico]

Apocalypse Now
Born on the 4th of July
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Deer Hunter
Hamburger Hill


The Vietnam War interests me, obviously.

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some of its scenes were among the last to be filmed in Technicolor. Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor was a box office smash, earning $449,220,945 at the world wide box office.
Budget $140 million
Box office $449,220,945

Not too Shabby Money wise.


Pearl Harbor would have been great if they ditched the whole retarded love triangle storyline. As it is it was kinda meh

[crispystl]

Red Dawn staring Patric Swayze. Not a true story but it's a hell of a what if we get attacked by Russians movie breaking into WWIII.

Wait... that wasn't a true story?

[Aries Walker]

Pearl Harbor would have been great if they ditched the whole retarded love triangle storyline. As it is it was kinda mehIt was made right after Titanic. A love story set in a historical event was the thing to do back then.

[Bane]

Full Metal Jacket.

[Molitoth]

Starring: Fisty McTatt's transgender sibling

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[Frankie]

Full Mental Jacket.

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[Easy 6]

This movie is incredibly underrated imo, it gets to the nitty gritty with a true story, enemy human waves like that, not seen since korea... scary, with Col. Hal Moore himself as an on set adviser...

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[KcMizzou]

I still love Glory.