I'm curious to know why you think a 20 year old film has not aged well.

I like this thread..

Das Boot
Run Silent Run Deep
Toes Tora Tora
Bridge Over River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan

Good to see you, Airdrop01.

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I can't do new pics right now, but here's an old one with my top two...



1. Downfall
2. Das Boot

Looking through my DVDs, I'll add...

3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Flags of our Fathers
5. The Thin Red Line

Also...

Memphis Belle
U-571
Hitler's SS: Portrait of Evil

EDIT: Although I'm much more into documentaries than movies (i.e. Victory at Sea).

I really tried to like "The Thin Red Line" but it just didn't do it for me. Maybe one day I'll give it another shot.

1- Battle of Britain
2- A Bridge Too Far.
3- Patton
4- Midway
5- Tora! Tora! Tora!

What was the name of the movie about some Czech (?) pilot(s) flying for the RAF? When one pilot went home after the war was imprisoned by the Commies.

Ok remembered > Dark Blue World
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244479/

Dark Blue World

I forgot about one... sort of obscure but really good....Into the White...

More of a movie set in WWII than a WWII movie

Saving Private Ryan
Fury
Hacksaw Ridge
Letters From Iwo Jima
Memphis Belle

Foreign WWII Movies I highly recommend:

My Way

Battle for Sevastopol

Age of Heroes

Max Manus: Man of War

Oba The Last Samurai

For Those We Love

The Eternal Zero

I will second that query.


Same here Panzer, something about that movie just didn't work for me. I even tried to watch it more than once and I never could watch the whole movie.


Wheels

Dambusters
Aces High
Battle of Britian
Das Boot
The Best Years of our Lives

no particular order
! Saving Pvy Ryan
2 The Enemy Below
3 Letters From Iwo
4 Fury
5 Das Boot

The Thin Red Line is on my list of worst movies ever made, how Terrance Malick continues to get green lit for movies is beyond me ....

Private Ryan hasn't aged well? No explanation has been forthcoming as of yet. I'd love to hear it.
I'm going to go back further for some favorites of mine. Movies I watched again and again.
1. The original All Quiet On The Western Front. Realistic and gritty for it's time. Some unforgettable footage.
2. They Were Expendable. One of John Ford's best, I think. No "Rah, rah, U.S.A!" crap that was typical of the times. Just a really well done film of the United States getting it's butt kicked in the opening days of WW2. Great film.
3. A Walk In The Sun. A forgotten film that deserves more attention. Again, no over the top patriotism or heroics. No love story. No silly subplots. Just a squad of infantryman landing in Italy and heading for their assigned target. A German held farmhouse. It's obvious, watching this, that Spielberg was a fan. You can see that he was influenced by it in Saving Private Ryan.
4. Battleground. The story of the 101st Airborne's defense of Bastogne. Great performances and realistic action.
5. Pork Chop Hill. Korea this time. Love this one. Again, gritty, realistic, and no heroes. Well, not Hollywood types. Just soldiers doing their job. Trying to take a hill that noone really cares about. Gregory Peck is terrific as usual.

Gritty - The Cross of Iron.

A very good movie with a very distinctive Sam Pekinpah quirkiness added to it.

The opening credit sequence is also one of the best I've seen for any war movie.

Don't understand the comment about Saving Private Ryan not aging well. In any case, other than the excellent landing sequence at the beginning, I thought the movie generally sucked because of Spielberg's failure to rein in his syrupy sentimentalizing. The film is very schizo.

Over-sentimentality has been a key feature of almost every Spielberg film.


As for Saving Private Ryan, only the Omaha Beach sequence, the short German sniper sequence and the final battle in the town really stand out to me. The rest of the movie is pretty forgettable IMHO.

That about sums it up PM,,But It's a good movie to have in with a pizza and a few beers to kill during the dull spots..As a side note watched Darkest Hour last night it was a bit entertaining but like it better than Dunkirk..Battle of Britain was better

"Darkest Hour" and "Battle of Britain" are both very good but they also have a very different focus. Darkest Hour is more about the big picture/behind the scenes political aspect while BoB focused mostly on the actual combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe.