Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
17 Aug 17
17:02
Joined:
Date Joined:
13 Jul 11
Saving private Ryan
To this day best film I've ever seen
At the cinema
To this day best film I've ever seen
At the cinema
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 92
|
By:
Leatherbound dykes from hell
|
|
By:
Schindler's List with a worthy mention for Das Boot as runner up.
|
|
By:
The Assassination, korean movie. Don't like hollywood war movies, you already know whats gonna happen.
|
|
By:
Zulu!
|
|
By:
I've never seen Private Ryan but might do so now on that recommendation.
Of the ones I have seen Apocalypse now stands out. Another I thoroughly enjoyed was Bat 21. |
|
By:
akabula - SPY is excellent and a hard watch. The futility of war really comes across.
Doesn't matter how good a soldier you were, how tough, how well trained, how brave, if a bullet came your way, that's it... |
|
By:
escape to athena
|
|
By:
Akabula, 'Saving Private Ryan' is well worth a viewing, it's a very good film indeed.
|
|
By:
*SPR
|
|
By:
the hill
|
|
By:
the hill
|
|
By:
platoon pour moi
|
|
By:
Without Saving Private Ryan I don't believe you'd have had "Band of Brothers" - one AFAIK led directly to the other. The latter isn't really a film but is unmissable.
If I couldn't pick that. Rambo 2 is pretty realistic?    |
|
By:
Von Ryans Express.
|
|
By:
Kajaki. British low budget. No CGI. No fighting, no sign of the enemy but one of the best war films I've seen.
|
|
By:
Das Boot
|
|
By:
I like "The longest day" due to the scope of it, quality, sheer amount of stars of the era who put in good performances, but what I really like is the fact it was close enough to the war to have real participants in it, some in the background some not. Richard Todd playing part of the D-Day pegasus assault .. when he was in real life a para in the Pegasus assault! Won't get many ww2 films made now with that. Also I don't think it had any naff by current standard special effects, just lots of real stuff kicking around from then and people who had been there milling around.
|
|
By:
breaker morant(on youtube),paths of glory(s kubrick)
|
|
By:
The often parodied Downfall closely followed by The Guns of Navarone closely followed by Where Eagles Dare.
|
|
By:
Zulu
|
|
By:
attack(jack pallance)
|
|
By:
caine mutiny
|
|
By:
Attack was a very interesting film shown recently on UK tv. But it was too clichéd!
|
|
By:
in alphaspaghetti order, all-time favourites are:
Apocalypse Now Cross of Iron Downfall Paths of Glory |
|
By:
Apocalypse Now
by a distance |
|
By:
Apocalypse Now
by a distance |
|
By:
The Battle of Britain, 1969. Freaks me out every time i see it. The flying scenes are extraordinary & considering when it was
filmed a tour de force. I've heard criticism that there was very little character development. Yea there was very little. Talk about missing the point!!! Saw Dunkirk the other day, also tremendous, also came in for some very ignorant criticism. |
|
By:
5 War Films That Should Have Been Mentioned Above
5/ Kelly's Heroes 4/ The Bridge on the River Kwai 3/ Zulu 2/ Letters From Iwo Jima (The Japanese Cave One, Not The US One) 1/ Das Boot (Directors Cut) |
|
By:
Oops - it seems some were as I typed.
Will add that 'Brotherhood' one from South Korea, instead. Great film. |
|
By:
Zulu
Unbroken The Great Escape The Hurt Locker The Train The Longest Day The Deer Hunter World Cinema Life Is Beautiful Downfall Underground City Of Life And Death Brotherhood No Mans Land Army Of Shadows |
|
By:
Johnny got his gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7j4C6hBBA |
|
By:
Battle of Britain was interesting, Adolf Galland the famous German Ace was an advisor, and they modelled a character on him. He wanted the guy to have his real name but they chose a fake one. I can see his point, Clothrobert Circlepants is still livid about how he was written out of history in the adaptation of his life.
|
|
By:
The Pianist was very very good.
|
|
By:
The Killing Fields
Deer Hunter Great Escape |
|
By:
Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter Platoon The people mentioning Zulu should watch it again, the cinematography is amazing, even to this today, the rest of it is no better than a 'Carry On' film. |
|
By:
Saving Private Ryan - took the genre to a whole new level.
Apocalypse Now. - brilliant film. ' the horror ' .....' the horror ...' The Deer Hunter. I remember walking out of the cinema with everyone else. All of us stunned into silence. |
|
By:
Of those mentioned Zulu, Bat21, Deer hunter,Downfall,
These are films i don't turn off if started watching them |
|
By:
Kelly's Heroes
 Thin Red Line Platoon Downfall Cross of Iron Full Metal Jacket Battle of Britain |
|
By:
some very good shouts here. many very difficult to watch but brilliant. It's probably the sign of a good
war film if watching it again seems a bit daunting. Thin Red Line a very good call. Captures the chaos and absurdity of battle like few other films. The Killing Fields, gut wrenching but should be seen. Apocalypse now, over stylised but a great watch. |