Favourite war movie?

[kabex]

das boot of course. I've never seen any realistic ww2 movies aside from that one, only hollywood crap.

Blackhawk down is pretty damn good, the book too.

 

[BuddyLee]

My favorite, 'Gettysburg' well maybe... it is so hard to pick just one.

A much overlooked war film... 'The Beast' set in Afghanistan during the Soviet Occupation. though the five man Soviet Tank Crew is not realistic... we all know Soviet Tanks have auto-loading. Still a entertaining flick.

 

[Dumba [cro]]

Battle of Neretva http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064091/
Kabex, maybe you should try to check this one out

 

[MrBunsy]

Does the Dad's Army film count ? That was pretty funny. Otherwise how about Norman Wisdom's Square Peg?

 

[trench]

Uh hard to say. But favourite 3 would be Stalingrad, Der Untergang and Das Boot.

Same here.

 

[kapulA]

I'd have to say The Longest Day,A Bridge Too Far,Das Boot and
Hitler:The Downfall(was in cinemas recently)was nice too.

 

[BolshevikBastard]

Stalingrad or Talvisota.

 

[2ltben]

Kelly's Heroes. You'll find no more realistic a movie.

 

[Heldentod]

lay of the drugs ......
its about war movies not a comedy

 

[Capt.Marion]

The longest day
the great escape
The best movie of all: PATTON (nothin' like shovelin' **** in louisiana)
The dirty dozen is also good.

 

[CatMangler]

The sound of music.

The singing in that was really graphic.

In no particular order:
Das Boot
Platoon
Bridge too far
Saving PT Ryan
Hamburger Hill was quite amusing, sing! M I C K E Y M O U S E

 

[2ltben]

lay of the drugs ......
its about war movies not a comedy

There are six things wrong in that post. Four errors are grammatical in nature. Anyone?

 

[Heldentod]

well too bad that my native tounge is not english

grammar nazi

 

[2ltben]

I still hope your native language is capable of satire.

 

[Heldentod]

my native language knows "satire"
but it seems that your the one who can

 

[BuddyLee]

Well IDK if a Documentary is considdered a Movie, but the best show I have ever seen about war is 'Ken Burns: "The Civil War" check it out sometime, any History Buff should Dig It.

 

[El Cid]

Steiner is a good movie too.

 

[Sclass12]

Hamburger Hill was quite amusing, sing! M I C K E Y M O U S E

That was Full Metal Jacket.

 

[veryhungryhobo]

I remember a film called Cross of Iron, starring James Coburn.
Set on the Eastern front in WW2. Coburn plays a German. Stranded behind Russian lines. He and his platoon have to make it back to safety.
A good gritty war film. A T34 features in one scene.
Anyone else seen it? It's a few years since I did.

Saving Private Ryan. The beach landing is superb. the rest of the film is very poor. Not realistic at all.

I haven't seen Enemy at the Gates. Any good?

I just saw that Cross of Iron. It was a great movie!

 

[Rameusb5]

My favorite war movie? Well, that would be a tie between "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge Too Far"

First of all, Cornelious Ryan is a genious. He wrote the books those movies are based on.

To be honest, these movies are incredibly faithful to their books which in turn are incredibly faithful to the actual events that happened.

Downfall was also good in this regard. I guess I'm a bit of a nut when it comes to historical accuracty (Braveheart, did someone actually say Braveheart?).

For emotional impact, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket both are very good. Blackhawk Down was pretty good as well, and pretty faithful to the actual events.

Crap, I forgot Glory. That's a fantastic movie though I'm not really sure how accurate it was. Still, that movie kicks my ass every time I watch it.

Of course there's movies like the Pianist which is only kind of a war movie. Very good, but incredibly depressing.