#3850672 - 10/16/13 02:18 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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Hard to arrange them in any sort of order, but:
1: Master & Commander 2: We Were Soldiers 3: Black Hawk Down
Those are my definite top three movies. The other seven are too hard to sort. I do have to include the obvious, Band of Brothers, even though it's not a movie.
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#3850684 - 10/16/13 02:54 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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- Die Brcke (German)
- Hunde, woll ihr ewig leben? (German)
- Blackhawk Down
- We were Soldiers
- Crimson Tide
- Patton
- Glory
- Paths to Glory
- Saving Private Ryan
- Platoon
With great regret I decided to strike three great movies from that list, some of them better films than the rest combined. Arguably Dr. Strangelove is more of a political satire involving some military characters. The Beast is a theater play converted to movie with no realistic tank in it (but still a damn good film). Apocalypse Now (Redux) just pretends to be a war movie when it's actually "Heart of Darkness" transposed from 19th century Congo to Vietnam 1972. I deliberately omitted TV series, they have so much more time to tell a story, it's a totally different kind of medium in this specific case. Given the choice between TV series and film, "Das Boot" is clearly better suited as a TV series although the Director's Cut managed to close the gap noticeably. "Band of Brothers" certainly is an excellent piece of TV production despite the spotty record of Stephen Ambrose as a historian; watched "The Pacific" once, and it was good, but given the choice I'd rather watch BoB again. Speaking of "the other BoBs" - movies that didn't make the cut for me were "The Battle of Britain", "Battle of the Bulge" and "The Longest Day". All of them were remarkable productions of their time but somewhat fail as "great" movies.
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#3850687 - 10/16/13 03:03 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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I didn't list a couple of shows because they were TV series. Band of brothers, Das Boot, Gettysburg Which Gettysburg tv series are you referring to? I do know that "Das Boot" was originally a tv miniseries on German tv though.
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#3850695 - 10/16/13 03:17 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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I didn't list a couple of shows because they were TV series. Band of brothers, Das Boot, Gettysburg Ah, I found this info about Gettysburg. From Wikipedia, The film began life as a miniseries. The producers originally pitched the project to ABC in 1991. ABC initially agreed to back the project, but when the TV movie Son of the Morning Star about George Armstrong Custer received low ratings, ABC withdrew. Subsequently, media mogul and Civil War buff Ted Turner took up the project and filming began, helped considerably when the National Park Service permitted unprecedented access to Gettysburg Battlefield, including Devil's Den and Little Round Top. However, much of the movie was shot at a nearby Adams County farm. Thousands of Civil War reenactors from across the country volunteered to come to Gettysburg to participate in the massive battle scenes.[1]
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#3850697 - 10/16/13 03:19 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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I didn't list a couple of shows because they were TV series. Band of brothers, Das Boot, Gettysburg Which Gettysburg tv series are you referring to? I do know that "Das Boot" was originally a tv miniseries on German tv though. Gettysburg is a mini-series by TNT which just happened to get a theatrical release as well. Kind of like Das Boot, only in reverse.
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#3850707 - 10/16/13 03:32 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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I didn't list a couple of shows because they were TV series. Band of brothers, Das Boot, Gettysburg Which Gettysburg tv series are you referring to? I do know that "Das Boot" was originally a tv miniseries on German tv though. Gettysburg is a mini-series by TNT which just happened to get a theatrical release as well. Kind of like Das Boot, only in reverse. An important aspect to consider though is that it was never actually aired on tv as a miniseries.
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#3850740 - 10/16/13 04:43 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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Not necessarily in order: 1-Band of Brothers...hey, you could watch as a big awesome movie in one sitting. 2-Battle of Britain 3-Saving Private Ryan 4-Blackhawk Down 5-The Enemy Below 6-Kelly's Heroes...yeah, more of a heist movie, but still 7-Where Eagles Dare 8-Dirty Dozen 9-Full Metal Jacket 10-Master & Commander
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#3850742 - 10/16/13 04:44 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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Couldn't stop at 10, and the order listed isn't definitive / final:
Battle of Britain We Were Soldiers A Bridge Too Far Patton Saving Private Ryan Black Hawk Down Tora Tora Tora Midway Green Berets Longest Day Das Boot The Eagle Has Landed Where Eagles Dare The Hunt For Red October Full Metal Jacket
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#3850886 - 10/16/13 10:52 PM
Re: War/Military combat films
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No order.. Stalingrad (German) Gallipoli Saving Private Ryan The great escape .. loved it as a kid when i first saw it and it stuck with me for a long time. Downfall..can i use this one Das Boot The Lighthorsemen
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#3850922 - 10/17/13 12:06 AM
Re: War/Military combat films
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I developed the tendency to avoid war films so now, I could only come up with three. I'm pretty sure that before that, my list was longer.
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