litehoof wrote:
Full metal jacket is best Vietnam movie. Patton is a great WWII movie. The Lost patrol is a good made for tv WWI movie. Stalingrad is best foreign flick I've seen (WWII)
Stalingrad is a very good and underrated film. Its from the same producer that made Das Boot.
Others that I have enjoyed over the years and from various periods.
Charge of the Light Brigade (great uniforms)
Waterloo (great uniforms great epic scenes)
War & Peace - (Russian version - not Henry Fonda)
Platoon - great score - thought provoking
Hamburger Hill - great score and very gritty
Das Boot - I don't want to be in a submarine
Battle of Algiers - the word terrorist is coined
Bridge on the River Kwai
Alexander Nevsky - Teutonic Knights on Ice -
Band of Brothers - (best series ever made)
The Winter War - (Finns vs Russia - dont see many)
Enemy at the Gates - (well done - nice gritty feel
Gallipoli (some don't but I like the techno sound)
The Lighthorseman (great charge sequence)
Breaker Morant (excellent well acted)
Zulu (great score - well executed)
Wings (great aerial scenes)
Blue Max (greatest score ever to me)
...and many many more for this is just a short list with many omissions.
Some of my least favorite war films that totally missed the mark:
Alexander (awful awful - can we say awful)
Gettysburg (So Pickett's charge was done with 200 men instead of the reported 13,000 - hmm and also starring the greatest number of fake beards seen in a movie in history by far)
and the worst to me
Flyboys - vertical climbing WW1 airplanes more akin to tie and X-wing fighters of Star Wars lore.
Which brings me to my 3 most silly moments in war movie history - thought there are many.
3) Saving Private Ryan - okay we are Rangers dropped behind enemy lines and we should be vocally discussing the Brooklyn Dodgers in hedgerows, behind, as I said, enemy lines - yeah right.
2) Where Eagles Dare - The Germans that continue charging up a spiral staircase despite the record number of casualties falling down same said staircase.
and now to....
1) Every single aerial maneuver in Flyboys - the single greatest departure a film has ever taken from even reasonable historical accuracy. I'm not saying its the worst film of all time by a long measure - it just has the silliest scene in a war film for me.
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