What is your favorite WAR movie? Why?

Men in War

 

Seen them in '73..not as good as QMS, but.

 

The Big Red One(1980)
Lee Marvin's amazing in this.

 

Started watching this again, it's not dated so many big stars (now) in it.

 

A rock group....??? Are they poisonous like the snakes? The movie was very good.

 

While technically not a "war movie", I thought The Imitation Game was very good, if infuriating.

 

My favourite? M*A*S*H.

 

Just saying M.A.S.H. makes me wanna go watch it!

 

Wings
All Quiet On The Western Front
Paths Of Glory
Bridge On The River Kwai
The Great Escape
Gallipoli
Das Boot
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

 

The Inglorious Bastards. Riveting.

 

They Were Expendable.

Incorporates great action sequences, good characters, the sadness and loss of war.

 

The Sand Pebbles, one of my favorites...

 

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

Why? First, because it is told from the "enemy" side. Second, because the fate of the main cast underscores the futility and waste of the entire enterprise.

 

Apocalypse Now for sure.

 

Absolutely. AN is a great movie. The Redux version I didn't care for. Most of those scenes got left out for a reason, IMO...

 

Apocalypse Now. Because its just a great movie.

 

I agree. I still enjoyed the redux, but I don't see myself returning to it when I want to watch this film again.

 

Paths of Glory
Sahara
Kelly's Heroes (Carroll O'Conner, brilliant!)
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now

 

Apparently much in the minority, I've always loved A BRIDGE TOO FAR. A tremendous film. Depressing as hell, but tremendous all the same.

Aside from that, BAND OF BROTHERS stands as the greatest war piece I've ever seen. Great, great show. (I know it's not a movie, just saying is all.)

 

Pharaoh's Army, 1995, starring Chris Cooper & Kris Kristofferson. A Union cavalry patrol in the mountains of Kentucky. It's a good un...

 

Sahara gets a thumb up from me!

 

Love war movies and The Longest Day might be the best one ever made.

 

I just finished watching GO TELL THE SPARTANS (1978). Adapted from a novel about early conflict in Vietnam 1964 that was said to be important to the director Ted Post (Hang 'em High, Beneath Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force etc). Coming after MASH but in the same year as THE DEAR HUNTER (1978) and a year before APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) one might say the film is slightly ahead of its time. Although not as sophisticated or as ambitious as those other films, GO TELL THE SPARTANS is a solid war film and an intelligent, incisive look at Vietnam that tries to conveys certain truths about how American soldiers must adapt to a conflict and a culture at odds with prior experience. Tension builds nicely as events gradually escalate out of control, and by the time our soldiers realize it, it's too late. The learning curve is reflected in Burt Lancaster's rugged countenance. This actor was worth his weight in gold. He invests the film with empathy, gravitas and pathos.

I'm reminded how John Wayne's THE GREEN BERETS (1968) was reviled by audiences and critics and widely ridiculed. A decade later every controversial incident as well as the perspective in that film was incorporated into other war films, like this one and particularly THE DEER HUNTER. Simplistic though it may be, if Wayne's film had come out in the late 1970s would audiences have perceived it differently?

 

One I am very partial to is The Thin Red Line. Something about the vibe, the story, where it takes place...plus the way it depicts the horror of war. I guess the fact those islands were my dad's very favourite place in the world (and he traveled the world a few times over during the 1940s and early 1950s) probably plays a part.