Best war movie of all time imo and my fave of all time is the thin red line. Laughably underrated.
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Speaking of Red, The Hunt for Red October is a damn fine movie.
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Catch-22
For King And Country
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TROPIC THUNDER.
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I really liked King and Country. I saw it again last week. Catch 22 is also a classic.
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Malena with Monica Belluci is another war movie well worth watching.
In fact anything with Monica is well worth watching.
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Downloaded that a couple months back but haven’t got around to watching it yet.
A combination of Giuseppe Tornatore and Belluci can’t go wrong.
This was also excellent.
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Top Secret
Jojo Rabbit
Who says war has to be all doom and gloom?
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Jojo rabbit is a great shout! Can’t wait to watch it again when it comes out on DVD next week
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You Tube is your friend.
A collection of 50 war movie titles. Includes some authentic training films and documentaries, as well as fictional titles from around the time of WW2.
One of my least favourite genres:
- Schindlers List
- War of the Roses
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Platoon
- Life is Beautiful
- Born on the 4th of July
- Deer Hunter
- Paths of Glory
- Gallipoli
- Full Metal Jackecket
Platoon l consier more about the dehumanizing effect of army training than a real war movie. The war in this seems incidental to the main theme. At the time it came out much was made by critics of Kubrick’s ability to transform part of London to make it look like Vietnam. I have been to Vietnam 7 times and no part of it looked like the location in the movie.
Full Metal Jacket was okay to middling, but both pale by way of comparison to Apocalypse Now.
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The movies i think represent war most accurately are the ones that reflect on the impact on those that have fought. Thats why i have never rated saving private ryan at all. I thought platoon fell just short, it was too black and white, good and bad. War is very grey. Thats why i love the thin red line.
Makes for an intersting convo around movies that are most accurate tactically, emotionally and ethically?
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Apocalypse Now is close to the most overrated film of all time. The second half is excruciatingly boring.
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possibly stretching the definition
1 Gladiator - russell crowe
2 Braveheart - classic mel Gibson
3 The Patriot - Mel Gibson
4 Edge of Tomorrow - Tom Cruise
5 Independence Day - Will Smith
6 Dancing with the wolves - Kevin Costner
7 Black Hawk down - Eric Bana
8 Last Samuri - Tom Cruise
9 Gallipoli- Mel Gibson
10 Fury - Brad Pitt
Apologies
Alexander the great - ColinFarrell
Troy - Brad Pitt & Eric Bana
This thread would not be complete without…
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For those who want to see more war movies, here is a list of 222 titles on IMDB of movies made in the 1950’s. Some are in the link to the movies on You Tube above, l have seen many of these, there are a few titles l have never heard of.
They also have complete lists of war movies from other decades, from the 1930’s to the noughties.
Here is a link to 285 titles, of war movies from the 1960’s.
While this link is to a list of best Nazi based spy movies.
Does anyone have a copy of Operation Secret? If so please PM me, l want to check on something l think is in that movie.
Agree! It’s pretentious too!
Gee would have thought BAT21 would have made your honourable mentions, everything else did.
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