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Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:27 pmby JC_81
Full metal jacket gets my vote, but to be honest I'm not a huge war films fan, so I haven't seen all the films on the list
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:04 pmby Cool Hand Luke
Saving Private Ryan
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:03 pmby 66-1120597113
I like all the movies mentioned above! Never seen Papillon though.Black hawk down gets my vote,well that or Platoon!A tough call!
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:32 pmby drummerphil
i voted other.......
non war films are
highlander and life of brian
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:52 pmby Mikz
The Dirty Dozen for me..
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:28 amby 2520years
Oh, I've seen U-571 too...the one where they took what the British did and claimed Americans did it (except in the small print at the end!) Typical really, they'll be doing the same with that rescued Russian submarine next. (How did the British get there first when Siberia is so much closer to America anyway?!)
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:48 amby Woollyback
2520years wrote:Oh, I've seen U-571 too...the one where they took what the British did and claimed Americans did it (except in the small print at the end!) Typical really, they'll be doing the same with that rescued Russian submarine next. (How did the British get there first when Siberia is so much closer to America anyway?!)
is that before or after the film about how the americans built the pyramids, beat napoleon at waterloo and then invented the english language? 
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:08 amby Judge
dear hunter
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:42 amby SouthCoastShankly
For me undoubtedly the greatest film of all time is The Shawshank Redemption
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:12 pmby woof woof !
SouthCoastShankly wrote:For me undoubtedly the greatest film of all time is The Shawshank Redemption
What War was that in ?
Always a good idea to read the intro post on a thread .
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:32 pmby The Ace1983
As far as war films go, you can't beat The Longest Day. The true events of D-Day portrayed by the best actors (you know where a film usually boasts a couple of big names? Well this one just has written on the box something like "48 International stars"). John Wayne, Richard Burton, Robert Michum, Sean Connery and a lot more. It humanises the war and takes it from the text book and makes it a personal thing. From the German Watchman who rides a donkey to his post every morning, played by the guy who would later become best known as Eurich Goldfinger (the German, not the Donkey) to the British chief on the beach who takes his Bulldog named Winston everywhere he goes.
No War film can ever match the Longest day for quality of acting, plots (true life being greater than fiction) and a sense of pride one gets having watched the movie. Sorry people, but nothing else compares.
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:47 pmby JC_81
Forgot about the Deer Hunter, easily the best war film I've seen, the roulette scene is one of the most intense scenes I've ever seen. De Niro's best fil to this day
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:58 pmby woof woof !
The Ace1983 wrote:No War film can ever match the Longest day for quality of acting, plots (true life being greater than fiction) and a sense of pride one gets having watched the movie. Sorry people, but nothing else compares.
Longest Day was sanitised and btw Ace the war wasn't actually fought in Black and White . As for big name actors ? I don't get the point . The opening sequence to Saving Private Ryan had it all if you want to talk about the normandy landings and Tom Hanks' performance left John Wayne ,Richard Burton et al for dead . (no pun intended )
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:31 pmby The Ace1983
woof woof ! wrote:The Ace1983 wrote:No War film can ever match the Longest day for quality of acting, plots (true life being greater than fiction) and a sense of pride one gets having watched the movie. Sorry people, but nothing else compares.
Longest Day was sanitised and btw Ace the war wasn't actually fought in Black and White . As for big name actors ? I don't get the point . The opening sequence to Saving Private Ryan had it all if you want to talk about the normandy landings and Tom Hanks' performance left John Wayne ,Richard Burton et al for dead . (no pun intended
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Ok. Yes the Longest Day is "Sanitised" but that is because it was made in an era where there was more to films about War than extreme circumstances and special effects. The Longest Day deals with the loss of humanity in war and the way that people are usually branded good guy and bad guy, and are rubber stamped into innacurate catagories.
What do you not get about Big Name actors?
What is wrong with black and white?
As for Shaving Ryan's Privates having everything about the Normandy landings, I don't think so. It featured Omagha beach. There were a few others as well, all with their own, individual stories.
Saving Private Ryan deals with an American war. The Longest Day deals with a World War (well, European and American anyway) and shows what can happen when people work together to overthrough evil.
But that is just my opinion... 
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