Kubrick is the war master. FMJacket is incredible but you should check out Paths of Glory, different vibe altogether, all about an investigative tribunal and institutionalised injustice, properly gets me at the end....
BADMAN WAR FILM
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:11 am
by DustyBunzzz
Waltz with Bashir
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Zulu
The Deer Hunter
Downfall gets a mention as well
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:03 pm
by magma
Stalingrad
Dr Strangelove
Downfall
Full Metal Jacket
Redacted
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:58 pm
by brasco
saving private ryan
downfall
FMJ
hurtlocker
platoon
cant believe no ones mentioned windtalkers worst 4 quid i ever spent
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:15 pm
by cityzen
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Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:58 pm
by firky
cityzen wrote:
Ice Cold in Alex
Probably the best advert for piss weak larger ever
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:44 pm
by bright maroon
I'm with you japanezers..I was gonna say Ran though
Some great films mentioned so far. I'll throw in Casualties of War (Brian De Palma). I love this film, I think Sean Penn is brilliant in it. Michael J Fox is good as well, though it's kind of an odd role for him he fits the character. John C. Reilly is there too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_OVJxTyHy4
Stalingrad is another brilliant film that should not be missed.
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:22 pm
by uncle bill
Full Metal Jacket
Paths Of Glory
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge On The River Kwai
I also have a soft spot for Hell In The Pacific, mainly because Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are both awesome. Also, M.A.S.H.
Best recent ones are Eastwood's 'Flags Of Our Fathers' / 'Letters From Iwo Jima'.
Apocalypse Now is no more a war film than Casablanca is. It's a film set during a war. Not the same thing.
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:45 pm
by miscreant
uncle bill wrote:Full Metal Jacket
Paths Of Glory
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge On The River Kwai
I also have a soft spot for Hell In The Pacific, mainly because Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are both awesome. Also, M.A.S.H.
Best recent ones are Eastwood's 'Flags Of Our Fathers' / 'Letters From Iwo Jima'.
Apocalypse Now is no more a war film than Casablanca is. It's a film set during a war. Not the same thing.
Really liked flags of our fathers, thought letters from iwo jima was pretty dull though, it had a really good storyline, showing the guys blowing themselves up etc but dont think the acting was all that.
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:12 pm
by BaronVon
Rescue Dawn
Full Metal Jacket
Three Kings
Star Wars
Platoon
I would have said The Deer Hunter but the first 30 minutes is rubbish. I've never managed to sit through the whole of Apocalypse Now.
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:37 pm
by cityzen
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Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:42 pm
by kay
Umm....South Park The Movie?
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:07 pm
by brasco
kay wrote:Umm....South Park The Movie?
top shout. it was particularly harrowing when they bombed the baldwins
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:10 pm
by firky
One of the best anti-war films ever made IMO, I don't generally like Anime but this is an outstanding piece of work.
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka?) is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata.[1] This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.
Roger Ebert considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."[2]
drokkr wrote:Oh ya. make sure you check out Company 9. Amazing war film right there
That's the Russian one, aye? I think I have seen that, it rings a bell, probably pissed and or stoned.
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:59 pm
by fretn
- nobody metioned black hawk down, definetely a good flick to me!
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:59 am
by my_war
Apocalypse Now
Taegukgi (Brotherhood)
Grave of the Fireflies
The Thin Red Line
Come and See
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:32 am
by hatsudai
"Empire of the sun" would be in there for me
Re: Top 5 War Films
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:40 pm
by kay
firky wrote:One of the best anti-war films ever made IMO, I don't generally like Anime but this is an outstanding piece of work.
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka?) is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata.[1] This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.
Roger Ebert considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."[2]