Best War Movies

SlinkyRedfoot said:
I know this is a thread about movies, but if you know me, you also know that I don't give a fuck.

I just started rereading an absolutely amazing book about Vietnam called The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian. If you're into that sort of thing and haven't read it, I highly recommend.

That's all.
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Are their stories of Viet cong gang bang orgies? That’s what I’m into.
 
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Letters from Iwo Jima
Fury
Dunkirk

In no particular order
 
Cowboyinexile said:
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Letters from Iwo Jima
Fury
Dunkirk

In no particular order
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I need to rewatch Fury.

Saw it in theater. And wasn’t overly impressed with any of the story.

But it was powerful enough that while I watched We Own This City, I thought of Fury almost as much as The Wire.

Whatever that dudes name is, I forget, he was the most impressive part of Fury.

But I’m more of a Legends of the Fall Brad Pitt kinda guy.
 
broncosmitty said:
I need to rewatch Fury.

Saw it in theater. And wasn’t overly impressed with any of the story.

But it was powerful enough that while I watched We Own This City, I thought of Fury almost as much as The Wire.

Whatever that dudes name is, I forget, he was the most impressive part of Fury.

But I’m more of a Legends of the Fall Brad Pitt kinda guy.
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Good entertainment, but very inaccurate.
 
The deer hunter has to be on a list regarding Vietnam movies.

also, Saving Private Ryan is actually anti war movie. The first few minutes show the brutality of war and how men were just sacrificed. After that it shows the army is willing to sacrifice a bunch of men to hopefully save one man. These men openly question why they are doing such a dangerous and pointless (to them) mission. It also shows how an ordinary school teacher gets thrust into an impossible situation where he’s trying to hold all this together. In short, it shows the inhuman realities of war much in the same way the movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” did.
 
Two often overlooked but very well done WW2 movies are “The Big Red One” and Valkyrie with Tom Cruise
 
I personally like the movie Battleground.
 
Enemies at the gate.
Even though it wasnt about Americans it was a world War II movie.
 
I liked this one
Fuck the Persians


soldiers falling GIF
 
Pattersonca65 said:
The half that almost wasn't. Lee Emory was not originally cast to play the part of the drill sergeant. It was the guy in the Helicopter scene that was shooting at the Vietnamese civilians yelling Get Some. He was supposed to be the drill sergeant and Lee Emory was brought in as a technical advisor. Lee Emory was too good at playing the part so they had to fire the other guy and give it to Emory. I can't imagine anyone else playing that part.
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I believe Stanley Kubrick had to ask him what a reach around was
 
Cowboyinexile said:
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Letters from Iwo Jima
Fury
Dunkirk

In no particular order
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Fury blew the ending. It could've been great but the ending completely ignored the story they were building
 
Because we won it so convincingly.
 
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