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What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
 
T.M.P. said:
What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
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Do you wake up with a hard on for me or is that something you have to get warmed up for?
 
A couple of classic old-style war movies (big budget, all-star cast, sanitized violence and gore, rah rah atmosphere) that I've always like watching are:

The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far

I really like Apocalypse Now, but the extended cut is terrible. It absolutely ruins the Kilgore character who in the original cut is a bit tilted, but in the extended cut is outright moon bat crazy.
 
T.M.P. said:
What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
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add paths of glory and full metal jacket
 
I liked a couple that involved the Enigma encoder: Imitation Game and U571. Don't know that they'd make my top 5, but good movies and Imitation Game would be in there. Had to google the correct name for U571 and didn't realize there was a controversy over the movie making "Mericans" the heroes for capturing the Engima, when it was done by the Brits before we entered the war. Thought it was an interesting concept for a movie though: masquerading as the enemy in the first place, and then being forced in to their boat to save yourself.
 
Without thinking too hard:

Lawrence
River Kwai
Where Eagles Dare
Good Morning Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket

EDIT: completely forgot Zulu. It belongs in my top five, probably bumping GMV down to honorable mention.
 
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Lawrence of Arabia
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Glory
Born on the Fourth of July
 
scribe56 said:
Lawrence of Arabia
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Glory
Born on the Fourth of July
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The Great Escape. Good call. That plays into my theory that any film starring Steve McQueen is inherently superior to any film NOT starring Steve McQueen..
 
T.M.P. said:
What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
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Blackhawk Down
Saving Private Ryan (regardless of what you think of the premise, the D Day scenes are amazing, IMHO)
Tora Tora Tora
The Big Red One
Apocalypse Now
EDIT: add in The Thin Red Line
 
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T.M.P. said:
What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
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I'd add Platoon and Patton......Band of Brothers is incredible

Here are a few links to Best War movie lists -

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055731784/

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/movies/best-war-movies-of-all-time
 
T.M.P. said:
What are your five favorites? Not best, what you like. and yes we're allowed to ridicule. (yes, that means if C-$ responds.)

No order..
Apocalypse Now (original cut),
Empire of the Sun, < my favorite.
Das Boot,
Bridge on the River Kwai
We Were Soldiers,

Just out ..
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front, (original version)
Glory,
Big Red One (director's cut)
Where Eagles Dare

Odd one no one ever mentions..
Blue Max
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Apocalypse +1
Das Boot +1
We Were Soldiers +1
Kwai +1

Enemy At The Gate needs a mention
JoseyWales needs a mention
Platoon needs a mention
Dirty Dozen - at the time GREAT, but hasn't held up

Best John Wayne war movie - In Harm's Way

Patton had some great scenes, but overall fell short
Glory - ruined by the presence of Matthew Broderick. Shoula/coulda been a much better movie
 
MyTeamIsOnTheFloor said:
Apocalypse +1
Das Boot +1
We Were Soldiers +1
Kwai +1

Enemy At The Gate needs a mention
JoseyWales needs a mention
Platoon needs a mention
Dirty Dozen - at the time GREAT, but hasn't held up

Best John Wayne war movie - In Harm's Way

Patton had some great scenes, but overall fell short
Glory - ruined by the presence of Matthew Broderick. Shoula/coulda been a much better movie
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I always somehow just focus in on 20th century war movies. I should've also included Last of the Mohicans.
 
hoosierdug said:
I always somehow just focus in on 20th century war movies. I should've also included Last of the Mohicans.
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As long as we're going old-school, I'd also have to admit I absolutely love watching Braveheart, despite the fact that my rational brain realizes the film is nothing more than directorial masturbation on the part of Mel Gibson.
 
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Gone with the Wind
Valkyrie

Schindlers list
The Piano
Gettysburg
Enemy at the Gates
The Longest Day
 
MyTeamIsOnTheFloor said:
I do not enjoy watching Schindler's List.
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I have to put Deer Hunter on this list, but under this category.

I did not "like" this movie; in fact, its one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. I left the theater feeling like someone punched me in the gut. But it was good. Wrong descriptor? Effective? Help a brother out...

Anywho... its maybe the best war movie ever made that I didn't like. Better than Born on the 4th of July in my book, admittedly not wholly but partly because I can't stand the munchkin Tom Cruise.
 
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One you guys haven't mentioned that I really enjoyed is Stalag 17.

I don't think Deer Hunter was one anyones list either.
 
T.M.P. said:
Cold War doesn't count as an actual war.
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Any movie featuring this is a war.

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Midway & the Great Escape.
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Midway could have been a decent movie but they ruined it with that BS drama over Charlton Heston's kid and his Japanese girlfriend. I don't like my war movies crapped up with that kind of nonsense, particularly if it's a film that's supposed to be portraying an historically accurate battle or campaign. Stick to the script.

Another aside, and many good films violate this, but I hate it when the Germans or Japanese or Vietnamese or Russian or whoever, speak English. Speak the native language and use subtitles please.
 
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Plus, it's a comedy not a war movie.
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Bill Murray and Harold Ramis trying to out-joke and over-act each other is the very definition of "war."

If nothing else, it's a war on the senses.

Plus it features bewbz and buttz.

If you don't fall in line, soldier, I'm gonna send you beer and make you drink it.

Now drop and give me 20!!!
 
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