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Forums favourite films - Lets sort them out
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:07 pmby woof woof !
Folllowing on from the current "Favourite Films" thread we have running ,lets try and sort out this forums favourites .I think we should do it by category .I'll start with war films ,someone else can do another category , crime ,comedy , horror , foreign etc etc .
don't forget to vote or else it's just a waste of time .
ps my own favourite is "Casualties of War " with Sean Penn and Michael J Fox , but thats only because I'm in it . 
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:03 pmby andy_g
saving private ryan has the most amazing open sequence of any war film ever - visceral. but out of that list i like 'cross of iron' and 'gallipoli', both hard as f*ck, 'gallipoli' just amzes you at the scale of waste of life. moving.
but an absolute classic you left off the list is 'all quiet on the western front'.
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:21 pmby Judge
you seen stalingrad then andy??
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:26 pmby woof woof !
Andy there's so many mate , Paths of Glory ,Lawrence of Arabia , In which we Serve ,Sink the Bismark,Das Boot, The Deer Hunter etc etc , the one's listed immediately sprang to mind . I also missed out Hot Shots part deux in which Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen ) scores the highest personal body count in any war movie ,314 .
in case you're interested
2nd place ,Captain Janders ,the wild geese , 242
3rd place , William Wallace ,braveheart , 237
4th place , Door Gunner ,full metal jacket , 133
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:28 pmby woof woof !
The Return of the Judge wrote:you seen stalingrad then andy??
Major disappointment for me judge , got the dvd , it doesn't convey even 2% of what went down in possibly the pivotal battle of ww2 .
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:34 pmby stmichael
I'll vote for Full Metal Jacket, even though I don't consider it a "war film", more a military film that happens to be set during a war. 
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:52 pmby andy_g
or bridge over the river kwai which happened to be an ill fated construction project that happened to take place during a war.
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:17 pmby 2520years
Bridge Over the River Kwai is the only one I've seen!
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:23 pmby Woollyback
Enemy at the Gates is a very good film with Jude Law, all about the Russians desperately trying to keep hold of Stalingrad
anyone else seen it?
PS Woof why isn't Where Eagles Dare on your list
I voted for Black Hawk Down, for no other reason than it's the war film i watched most recently which actually shocked me in it's brutality
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:06 pmby IstanBuL-FenerBaHce
Cool poll and great movies woof!..I'm just considering to choose a film......... 
Blackhawk down and SavingP.R. are really great, but vote for another movie, which makes me feel unusual whenever i watch. It's a Kubrick classic, "Full Metal Jacket"
"This is my rifle and this is my gun,
This is for fight and this is for fun..." 
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:17 pmby woof woof !
Woollyback wrote:I voted for Black Hawk Down, for no other reason than it's the war film i watched most recently which actually shocked me in it's brutality
They showed a documentary on tv about the real events of "Blackhawk Down" It was bloo'dy amazing ,Out of respect for the people involved the makers (of Blackhawk Down) didn't do another "hollywood war flic" 99% of the movie was spot on . Every death shown was actually how it happend all main characters were for real . With that in mind ,watch the movie again , it's even more amazing .
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:17 pmby Pablo_Escobar
Apocalypse Now Redoux, great new input Love every sec of this movie.
BHD is also good, soundtrack is off the hook - "RPG" !!!
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:18 pmby A.B.
Saving Private Ryan gets my vote, Enemy At the Gates is a good movie as well.
