WAR Movies

in your opinion, whats the best war/military movie?

IDK.....There are a LOT of really good war movies......off the top of my head....Saving Private Ryan

im guna have to say The Hurt Locker, i mean it was nominated for 9 academy awards for a reason, not only was the story line excellently written and Jeremy Renner played a B.A character (Staff Sergeant William James), but the cinematography was amazing.
I also really liked how it introduced me to the aspects of an EOD team, and I can't forget about the Private Contractors in the movie.

My top three have to be Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and then The Longest Day maybe. And before anyone asks where Band of Brothers is i think it's amazing but i don't consider it a movie. But yeah there's tons of good war movies out there, i recently watched Stalingrad (German version) and thought it was very well done.

saving private ryan is a Classic, Steven Speilberg very rarely directs a bad movie
i also wont forget private jackson, the sniper
"Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight."

BOOM HEAD SHOT!

Band of Brothers..mmmm great series but i wouldn't consider it a movie either, I thought it was hilarious seeing Jimmy Fallon in it...so random hahaa

Flags of our fathers. BHD. SPR. Von Ryans Express. Platoon. Leters from iwo jima.

I also want to see the hurt locker badly, ill probably buy it when it comes out.

its out now

Just a few good ones I can think of.

Apocalyspe Now
Saving Private Ryan (My personal all time favorite)
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill (My favorite 'Nam movie)
Band of Brothers if you consider that a movie (I do)
The Longest Day (John Wayne FTW)
The Big Red One (The Reconstruction version)
Patton

MR.IV wrote:

its out now

I meant for DvD, my bad

It's out on DVD.

I enjoyed the hurt locker. From the guys who have deployed it hits on some things that they had never seen directed in a movie before. I think the thing that they all agreed on was the last line, you know the part where hes talking to his son. I wont ruin the movie for people who haven't seen it but I will say for the people who saw the movie it had a huge hidden message throughout the whole movie.

sticks

Everything everyone up there^ said are all great movies, my favorites.

Another good one I've seen is "9 рота" (or "9th Company" in English). It's all in Russian but subtitles don't hurt. By the way you can find it on YouTube in parts

Just finished watching Private Ryan for the first time, sad and awesome

MR.IV wrote:

im guna have to say The Hurt Locker, i mean it was nominated for 9 academy awards for a reason

I've heard from several Vets that the movie was unrealistic and actually made them mad...
Mine is We Were Soldiers, hands down. Only because it's so true to the actual story (Read the book by Galloway and Hal Moore....380 pages of pure EPICNESS. The movie wasn't long enough to portray all of the individual acts of heroism performed that day.)
After that Black Hawk Down, (Read three books on that one including Mike Durant's In The Company of Heroes) and have actually seen the movie over 100 times. I used to come home from school EVERY DAY and pop it in while I would do my homework.
Then comes B.O.B., (YES of course I read the book and I just bought the book written by Winters...can't wait for THE PACIFIC!)
After that, it's definately STAR WARS FTW!!!!

Oh and by the way for those who don't know, the quote in my sig. Is from We Were Soldiers, and YES, Plumley really did hand out weapons to the medic, cock his 1911 and say that line. EPIC.

M14 double-taps wrote:

MR.IV wrote:

im guna have to say The Hurt Locker, i mean it was nominated for 9 academy awards for a reason

I've heard from several Vets that the movie was unrealistic and actually made them mad...

Friend of mine who pulled two tours in Iraq said the same thing. I hadn't watched it before he said that and after i really have no desire to watch it.

heres a small list of movies that I like I don't want to take up a page just on good movies

Saving private Ryan
Sniper (first one)
Full metal jacket
Red Dawn (because it's based in CO)
Legend of the Falls
Black Hawk down

Since we are making lists....

Saving Private Ryan(So we have to surrender our socks too.)
Patton(Odas, Odas, Tou su Odas)
The Longest Day(My history teacher makes us say "OOO" every time we here John Waynes name)
We Were Soldiers(Plumely is the most BA Sargent Major in history)
BoB(James McAvoy was in there too....James McAvoy is the dude in Wanted)
FMJ(Private Gomber Pile!!)
Red Dawn(Our teams animal is the Wolverine too!)
Black Hawk Down(GRIMES!! ......I can here bells ringin!)

The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down (If you shoot that by my ear one more time- BANG!)
And there are way too many for me to name.........

I'm sorry, but I absolutely could not stand Red Dawn. I didn't know the people's names until the credits rolled....
audace, audace, tout jour audace btw....

Sorry for the mispelling......at least i got the right sounding letters!

I just thought of another really good movie.......The Patriot!

Ahh, im going to add to my list, WindTalkers

Insane Mercc wrote:

We Were Soldiers(Plumely is the most BA Sargent Major in history)

+1 Agreed.If you read the book you'll be even more awe-struck by the amazing things he did.

I did not like FMJ all that much. I think I liked the training half better than the actual fighting half.

The Training part of the movie is what made it so popular. The rest is just to sweeten the deal.
"John Wayne....Is that you!"

The Hurt Locker
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down

Tons of other......

On an unrelated note, I was at a robotics competition during a 3 day conference (I'm on my school's robotics team, finished 8th out of 80 teams FTW!) and I had the oppurtunity to operate an IED robot, similar to the one they use in THe Hurt Locker.

Oh i got another of my favorites, not really a war movie but close enough. Tropic Thunder, best war movie that is not really a war movie but is based on a double fake story from a real war.