What is the greatest war movie?(nominate and i'll do a poll)

[Orleander]

why not?

too real. When they storm the beach...nope, just hearing about it was enough for me.

 

[Oli]

How I Won The War
Michael crawford, John Lennon etc.
Very black "comedy" about the futility of war.

 

[Orleander]

What was the one that Metallica made the video about? Johnny Get Your Gun?

 

[skaught]

What was the one that Metallica made the video about? Johnny Get Your Gun?

Johnny got his gun...

 

[lucifers angel]

too real. When they storm the beach...nope, just hearing about it was enough for me.

oh right!

being realistic is what made it one of the best films ever

 

[GeoffP]

A Bridge Too Far

 

[Oli]

A Bridge Too Far

Oh yeah.
And so historically accurate too
/sarcasm

 

[Creeptology]

I think saving private ryan is overrated a lot. Yeah I liked it but it wasn't as great as people make out. Brotherhood is much better IMO.

 

[Democles]

Oh man, such a collection.

Zulu was good, The Bridge Over the River Kwai was good, Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot, 300 (over rated, but good for its effects, etc.), BraveHeart, Troy *Amazing*, Ben Hur, does Stripes count?, can you forget Zorro?, Patton, etc.

The best though, in my opinion, is Full Metal Jacket, it starts comedic, then dives right into a straight war in Vietnam. Love it.

 

[Enmos]

What was that series called that they broad casted on the BBC a couple of years ago ?

 

[Orleander]

What was that series called that they broad casted on the BBC a couple of years ago ?

Benny Hill?

 

[GeoffP]

Oh yeah.
And so historically accurate too
/sarcasm

Go identify nebulous tanks, you.

 

[Mrs.Lucysnow]

Kenworth if the point was to illustrate what life was like for that generation of foot soldiers then it didn't give them much respect. There they were angsting as if they were in Vietnam or something (I thought it was funny how much music from that time period they played). They were going through trauma over nothing because nothing was happening. They were portrayed as a bunch of neurotics. Can you imagine how poorly they would have faired if they were really in combat? Even when they were about to do something a precision rocket comes out of nowhere and takes care of it for them. It was almost as if the message was 'you lower-rung boys are irrelevant in a modern war'.

 

[draqon]

Top Gun

 

[Oli]

Top Gun?
A WAR movie?
One minor aerial firefight constitutes a war for you?

 

[redarmy11]

What was that series called that they broad casted on the BBC a couple of years ago ?

Band of Brothers.

 

[draqon]

Top Gun?
A WAR movie?
One minor aerial firefight constitutes a war for you?

oh come on... ... Vietnam Era...yo

 

[Oli]

oh come on... ... Vietnam Era...yo

Five minutes of talking about history?
Which would qualify an extremely large number of films as war films...
The UK TV series Only Fools and Horses is therefore a war series.
Set in the 1980s(?) and one old geezer spends every episode using the phrase "During the war....".
Harrowing, absolutely harrowing.

 

[Enmos]

Benny Hill?

Benny Hill.. ? Is that a war movie ?

 

[Enmos]

Band of Brothers.

That's it, thanks

It was awesome.