General Chat / War Movies

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Apocalypse Now
Pearl Harbour

My favorite war movie is We Were Soldiers.

LOL.

No seriously, LOL.

Okay, my top three.

Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

^ That was for hanging onto your precious madmax trilogy box set for so long, wasn't it? ;_;

P.S. - The thing with thin red line wasn't that it was particularly one-sided as much as it was a telling of the story through a small number of different people, and then bringing it together.

No, I just think Apocalypse Now is highly overrated as a movie. It's few good moments are really memorable though, I'll give it that. And I'm a big fan of The Thin Red Line, I've just gotten really tired of war movies from an American point of view is all. It's a great movie, but then it occurs to me now that the ultimate message of it is a lot less profound than I once thought it was. The rare war movie which breaks down people's xenophobic barriers and prejudices rather than reinforcing them is what I'm looking for. That would be truly anti-war in an opinion changing kind of way. Thin Red Line doesn't reinforce them at all, but it's definately not outside the box. On the other hand, it does have some of the best cinematography ever put to film AND the script hits me right in my philosophical soft spot.

And for the record, you never did find 2 parts of said trilogy (which wasn't a box set, there is no box set, I had to buy them individually), or my precious Fallout games (which I may or may not have mentioned are my favorite games of all time, and they're now out of print because the company got sold)....but who's counting
You did help me realize how silly such a thing as a "prize possession" is though, so I thank you for that wise zen master.

I thought Jarhead was very good.
And Downfall, yes.

Jarhead, Pearl Harbor, and i thought the Patriot was pretty damn good too.
-JDP

LOL.

No seriously, LOL.

Not cool.

No, I just think Apocalypse Now is highly overrated as a movie. It's few good moments are really memorable though, I'll give it that. And I'm a big fan of The Thin Red Line, I've just gotten really tired of war movies from an American point of view is all. It's a great movie, but then it occurs to me now that the ultimate message of it is a lot less profound than I once thought it was. The rare war movie which breaks down people's xenophobic barriers and prejudices rather than reinforcing them is what I'm looking for. That would be truly anti-war in an opinion changing kind of way. Thin Red Line doesn't reinforce them at all, but it's definately not outside the box. On the other hand, it does have some of the best cinematography ever put to film AND the script hits me right in my philosophical soft spot.

And for the record, you never did find 2 parts of said trilogy (which wasn't a box set, there is no box set, I had to buy them individually), or my precious Fallout games (which I may or may not have mentioned are my favorite games of all time, and they're now out of print because the company got sold)....but who's counting
You did help me realize how silly such a thing as a "prize possession" is though, so I thank you for that wise zen master.

Well, don't go blaming thin red line for the american POV, as there are worse movies out there that do it even more blindly. Seriously, the movie was a PURE POV, in the sense that you literally see only through the american soldiers eyes. Like when they storm the village, the interactions between the americans and the japanese is very accurate, as is the actions of the japanese being overtaken (the one guy sitting there, holding his dead friends head and crying, the one guy laughing going fucking nuts, the one guy who is extremely agitated and badgering the one american soldier). So the movie is only slanted in as much as the people in the movie are being characterized, and it IS done quite realistically. So if you are going to have a gripe with american POV war films, atleast don't extend that to thin red line. It deserves to stand on it's own.

On Apoc Now: Well, yeah it is a bit overblown, but as a war film it works. It's definitely my least favorite of the movies I listed (but I still like it over full metal jacket, platoon, etc).

Star Wars

Full Metal Jacket, how could I forget that one!

Oh, how about the "Jack Ryan" series by Tom Clancy? The Hunt for Red October was pretty good, as well as the 2 with Harrison Ford, my fav actor

FMJ first half is orsm.

Edited by Nic, 30 October 2006 - 11:17 AM.

FMJ first half is orsm.

"There are many like it, but this one is mine"

<<< loves the smell of napalm in the morning.

Pearl Harbour? That thing was the biggest peice of shit crapped out by an anorexic monkey that ive ever seen. If you want a good pearl harbour movie, try torah torah torah..

Braveheart, Gettysburg, and Saving Private Ryan are probably my tops..

Edited by minnimee85, 31 October 2006 - 12:12 PM.

Band of Brothers, no contest. If you disagree, it's only cuz you haven't seen it yet!

In terms of war movies... I'd say Cold Mountain is pretty good just because it shows a lot of the horrors of just living in the South during the Civil War and how desperate some people were and how cruel acts went unpunished. My dad says it's a really good book too.

I actually just got done watching the first 4 episodes of Band of Brothers...

Band of Brothers
Platoon
Hamburger Hill

Music is the key to a good war movie. Anything John Wlliams wrote is gold (Schindler's list, Saving Private Ryan, etc.....). Platoon has the best soundtrack by far, though. When the helicopter is leaving without Willem Dafoe, Barber's Adagio for Strings is playing... Incredible.

Yeah, ive only seen bits and peices of platoon. Dont really have much of an opinion as such

You have all forgot one of the best.... 'Glory'

"Give 'em hell '54!"

Good call, Mike. Awesome ending, and amazing soundtrack.