Ryan started a fun thread about westerns. What about war movies? Westerns and war movies are two of my favorite genres and I'm always looking to find another great one to watch. Some of my favorite include We Were Soldiers - One of the very few movies that does the book justice. Incredibly powerful. Blackhawk Down Band of Brothers series Full Metal Jacket The Lost Battalion (Ricky Shroeder is excellent in this) All Quiet on the Western Front (original and John Boy version) Das Boot Downfall - not really a war movie, per se, but still damn good and certainly war related. The Deer Hunter - this is the movie that hooked me on the genre. Sergeant York Apocalypse Now - more of an anti-war movie, but still... The Great Escape What are some that you enjoy?
Run silent run deep The Enemy Below Tora Tora Tora The Cruel Sea Desert Rats Midway Gone With The wind
The Pacific, A Bridge Too Far, The Thin Red Line, Hamburger Hill, Platoon, Restrepo, Enemy at the Gates, The Sand Pebbles ( maybe not a war movie), Days of Glory (French film about the Arabs they recruited), Glory, The Alamo (old and new), Brothers at War, Act of Valor, The Patriot, Tears of the Sun, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Longest day, Patton, Tae Guk Gi (Korean movie about the war), Home of the Brave.
Heroes with Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford. I like war movies that deal with how they return and try to adjust to civilian life. A lot of the time, the Army trains us to kill and be gone but don't know how to train us to become civilians again. I was deployed and was lucky to have a supportive family otherwise who knows what mess I would have gotten in. I didn't have it as bad and I'm grateful, but I will go over again and put myself in harm's way if I have to.
More recent We were Soldiers Platoon Full Metal Jacket Band of Brothers Got a little mad about some of Black Hawk Down. Think they need to tread more carefully about a person actions before they decide to make it commcial instead. Someone expereicned that nightmare. Older Das Boot TO HELL and Back The Desert Fox I could go on n on. Grew up with Sunday morning or afternoons if we were home watching western and WW2 movies being with pops telling me about the different actors who really served and where.
Glory, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, The Longest Day, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Patton, The Blue Max, The Alamo, Saving Sgt. Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Gallipoli, Run Silent Run Deep, Braveheart, El Cid I'll be back later to finish this.... On TV: Combat, The Grey Ghost, Swamp Fox, Mash, Sir Francis Drake
Platoon, We Were Soldiers, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and there's this Civil War movie I can't think of the name right now but, it Stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. It was a fantastic movie.
The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, Stalag 17, Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, The Guns of Navarone, Twelve O'Clock High, Empire of the Sun, The Dawn Patrol, Master and Commander, Rescue Dawn, Captains of the Clouds, Wings (1927).
Das Boot Director's Cut. I'm still pissed that they never subtitled the 10 hour miniseries they made the movie from. The Great War, another BBC series about WWI never released in the U.S. but it was downloadable. The World at War, great WWII documentary. Saving Private Ryan, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Apocalypse Now, Black Hawk Down, Full Metal Jacket, Schindler's List, Heartbreak Ridge, Stripes, Battle of the Bulge,Battle of Britain, K-19, U-571, Band of Brothers, Lawrence of Arabia, El Cid, Patton, The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Dead Presidents, Pork Chop Hill, Bridges at Toko-Ri, Remagen, Stalingrad, Winter in Wartime, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Battle for Haditha, Passchendaele, Company 9, The Killing Fields, Lebanon.
Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox! Tail on his hat, Nobody knows where The Swamp Fox's at. Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox! Hiding in the glen, He runs away to fight again. We got lead, and we got powder. We don't fight with an empty gun. Only makes us shout the louder. We are men of Marion. (Chorus) Got no blankets, got no bed. Got no roof above our heads. Got no shelter when it rains. All we got is Yankee brains. (Chorus) Got no cornpone, got no honey. All we got is Continental money. Won't buy bacon, hominy or grits. Roasted ears and possum is all we ever git. (Chorus)
A lot of movies here I haven't seen! So these are all favorites, right, not just war movies off the top of your heads?
