What is your favorite War movie and the best part of it?
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apocalypse now
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Serenity by Joss Whedon
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This is an impossible question. Full Metal Jacket Band of Brothers Black Hawk Down Braveheart Schindler's List
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The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Glory
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Saving Private Ryan, Honorable mentions to Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Sands of Iwo-Jima.
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Glory.
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Apocolypse Now and Red Dawn. I don't know if Red Dawn would be considered a war movie though.
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I'd have to say "Saving Private Ryan"
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The Black Book was really good!
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Band of Brothers
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The Green Beret.
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Kelly's Heroes
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Victory with Mel Gibson
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Saving Private Ryan, hands down.
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the great escape.
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Too many to chose. The Holocaust, The Longest Day, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17 is excellent, The Great Escape, La Chute (The Last Days of Hitler with Bruno Graz, really good) The Pianist, I could go on...
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There are so many but I liked The Bridge on the river Kwai.
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Battleground with Van Johnson
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Full Metal Jacket comes to mind. Viet Nam is a good movie genre because it was so frightening in the jungle. WWII and anything where they have German speaking Nazis is cool too. I love to see those evil SOBs get the crap kicked out of them I also loved the one starring George Cloony called Three Kings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_(film)
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not sure if this is spelled right.. Apocalyptic
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Full Metal Jacket. That movie was friggin great. Jar Head is right behind it.
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Apocalypse Now for sure
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Saving Private Ryan and The Deer Hunter. Both bother me to the bone.
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Black Hawk Down, The pianist, Saving Private Ryan
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Apocalypse Now in all its craziness. And then for me as a German, the movie "Die letzte Brücke" was influential. It is about five German boys who are defending a bridge in the last days of the Second World War, and their fanatism leading to a senseless catastrophe is quite authentic and disturbing. It was directed by Helmut Käutner in 1954. See here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047172/
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Saving Private Ryan and I don't think most people realize just how great of a movie it really is.
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Hmmm. No one has mentioned "Patton". I guess I'm just an old fart.
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Tora, Tora
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Saving Private Ryan.
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This isn't really a movie -- but I think the Band of Brothers HBO series is the best. It's like Saving Private Ryan, but even more emotional, much longer, and, in my opinion, better conveys the horrors of war.
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Here's five of my favorites in no particular order: The Bridge On The River Kwai The Longest Day MASH The Deer Hunter Apocalypse Now
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Saving Private Ryan hands down.
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The one with Sean Penn and Michael J Fox.........Someone give me the movie!
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I rather enjoy War Games. Unlike most war movies, it showed the strategic level of warfare, rather than down in the trenches. Dr. Strangelove is good that way, too, as is Fail Safe.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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Cast a Giant Shadow. About the birth of Isreal, I'm Not Jewish but It just fills my heart.
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The Thin Red Line.
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Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now, Hell in the Pacific, and The Big Red One. Hell in the Pacific: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063056/plotsummary My jaw dropped at the ending of Hell in the Pacific. That was unbelievably sad. The Big Red 1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080437/plotsummary Some of the scenes inside the concentration camp literally choked me up, like Mark Hammill shooting into the crematorium or the boy dying after eating a candy bar while riding on Lee Marvin's shoulders (I think it was Lee Marvin's shoulders he was riding on). Tora! Tora! Tora! would have to be up there too: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/plotsummary Now I am thinking about all of them. I would have to add Kelly's Heroes, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hamburger Hill, Das Boot, and oh so many more.
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Patton.
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Jarhead
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I can't believe no one has mentioned my to two yet: The Dirty Dozen" and " Big Red 1" both staring Lee Marvin. Also "Hamburger Hill", "April Morning", "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" (although technically a western; overlapped with the US Civil War) Other I like that have been mentioned:"Patton", "Platoon", "Casualties of War", and "The Green Berets" (I always get choked up when I here that song) "Fighting solders from the sky... brave young men who jump and die... one hundred men will try today, but only one wins the green beret.
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"The Great Escape" - a classic! Watch it every time it's one TV.
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In Harms Way, with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. The Pearl Harbor scenes.
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Too many to choose from: Sergeant York Glory Or maybe Kelly's Heroes
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Tora Tora Tora (1970) "This classic Pearl Harbor epic, one of the most spectacular action films ever made, meticulously recreates the stunning attack on American forces by the Japanese. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards®, Tora! Tora! Tora! (The Japanese signal to attack) features a joint U.S. and Japanese production team, chronicling both sides of the unforgettable Pearl Harbor story with awe-inspiring accuracy and explosive action." This is the trailer
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Paths of Glory
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either "saving private ryan" or "full metal jacket"
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top gun.... yeah baby!
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Full Metal Jacket
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Windtalkers!!
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Apocalypse Now Operation Pacific
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Planet of the Apes. Evolution is no longer a theory. My 2 cents.
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Kelly's Heroes
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If you count "Cold War," then a lot of options open up but "The Hunt for Red October" Rocked. The best part was when Sean Connery farted in the command center and none of his crew would call him on it.
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ohh hmmm there are lots of war based movies i like, my two favorites are flyboys and four feathers.
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Platoon
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The Eagle has Landed
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Patton and Stalag 17
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Grave of the Fireflies
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Cross of Iron
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Patton.
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An oldie, with Gary Cooper, Sgt. York. I absolutely adore this movie! It's a true story as well.
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Though as ridiculous it really was, would say "War Games." What are the odds that a 15 year old high school underachiever would really be put in charge of the national defense system? His finger, literally, on the button that sends off the nukes. That they'd stand back and watch him play tic-tac-toe while the missels are warming up and getting ready to sail. Still, his girlfriend was kind of cute, so that made up for it. ;-)
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Used to be..."Sands of Iwo Jima" Is now..."Saving Private Ryan"
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ooow! good questions. i love 'band of brothers', which is actually an HBO series about WWII. Soooo good!!!!! I highly recommend it. Also, there is commentary from actual soilders that the series is based on.
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Pearl Harbour
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Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down both of these movies are as close to realism as you are going to get in a movie.
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Audie Murphy: TO HELL AND BACK
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I've always loved The Longest Day. Epic.
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black hawk down
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Hamburger Hill, The Deer Hunter and platoon
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Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis. Really, I love war movies, and this is just the first one that came to mind, there were many many good ones.
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ZULU. (Stanely Baker and Micheal Caine)
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No Man's Land (2001): After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. (From IMDb)
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