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

[Joaquin]

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

Three of my faves for me are full metal jacket, platoon and saving private ryan. Their has been a shitload of war movies made so post you're nominations.Sorry if some didnt make it./

 

[synthesizer-patel]

I'm surprised "The Longest Day" never made the nominations list - its one of my faves.

Band of brothers is good too - but I guess that's more of a miniseries than a film.

I LOVE Kelly's Heroes but I don't really see it as a war movie - its more of a heist movie that just happens to be set during wwII

Sorry for the negative waves man

 

[redarmy11]

It should be multi-choice. I've gone with Enemy at the Gates but could easily have picked any of the ones mentioned in the OP, or Zulu. And where's The Patriot? There's, almost inevitably I suppose, a heavy WW2 bias.

Good topic though. Should get interesting.

 

[Spud Emperor]

There was a slightly obscure one called 'Birdy' which was excellent.

Gallipoli was very good (biased viewpoint).

Many here I haven'y seen so I won't vote.

 

[LeotheLion]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with Patel. A lot of great movies missing from that list.

Paths of Glory
Bridge too far
Jarhead
Come & See
The Sun
Patton30 seconds over Tokyo
Grave of the fireflies (not sure if this one really counts though)


That's all that comes to mind right now.

Some excellent movies in that list though.

 

[Orleander]

Whenever I think of a war movie, the first one that comes to mind is Memphis Belle. I also liked The Great Escape.

 

[Challenger78]

Whenever I think of a war movie. I think of Black Hawk Down, and Band of brothers. then I think of extremely biased viewpoints.

 

[Oli]

Twelve O'clock High: about men breaking down under the strain of war.

 

[draqon]

from the choices, Thin Red Line

 

[fadingCaptain]

Apocalypse. Of course its not really a war movie in that it isn't necessarily about war. But its the best movie on that list.

IMO, the best war movie ever is Come and See. Brutal and raw as it should be.

 

[John99]

Apocalypse Now is my favourite mainly because of Martin Sheen and the other actors too but it is tied with Das Boot.

 

[Orleander]

Das Boot was very good. Very good!

 

[iceaura]

" The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly " belongs on this list.

Movies in general don't seem to be the right medium for dealing with war, except in the background. The visual illusion of reality seems more misleading, and the shortcutting of analysis and imagination more crippling, than in dealing with other matters.

Things like this: http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/minardmap.jpg

seem more fitting.

Explanations: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jrubarth/gslis/lis385t.16/Napoleon/

 

[oreodont]

The best is:

"All Quiet on the Western Front" (German)

The best naval movie (and book) is "The Cruel Sea" (British)

The best air movie is "the Dambusters" (British)

The best land movie is "Stalingrad" (German)

American war movies, in contrast, tend to be westerns dressed up in army gear. Bad guys can't shoot straight, silly mission plots with cliche characters. They give a false impression of war...

There are few 'actual' American war movies....Saving Private Ryan, Memphis Belle, and a couple others. The irony is that although Americans make few actual war movies, when they do, they are usually very good.

 

[Syzygys]

You give me the DEFINITION of "greatest warmovie" and I'll tell you which one it is...

 

[lucifers angel]

so many of those films listed i love, platoon being the top, then saving private ryan, zulu,

 

[EmmZ]

Taegukgi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegukgi_(film)

Phenomenal film.

 

[Orleander]

so many of those films listed i love, platoon being the top, then saving private ryan, zulu,

I saw Platoon at the drive in. The movie was so dark, it was hard to see. I've never seen Private Ryan, and won't either.

 

[nietzschefan]

Das Boot? Don't see it on the list. Should be there.

 

[Creeptology]

Taegukgi (brotherhood) is definately one of if not the best war film I have seen.

I second Das Boot too, it's great film and wolfgang petersens best role I think(only seen the 3hour something directors cut, would love to see the full series, think it's closer to 6 hours).

Not quite a war film but JSA (joint security area) is very good. Chan-Wook Park is one hell of a director.