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Does First Blood count? If it does then.... First Blood
the dirty dozen is quite a sinister film, burning a load of french prostitutes/Collaborator Girls alive in a cellar is pretty dark.
Platoon.
Am I the first to think that?
Watched dog soldiers last month and it hasn't aged well, but that or Kajaki are the only films I've seen that nail squaddies humour on the head.
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Another vote for Saving Private Ryan, honourable mention to Band of Brothers (even though it's not a film).
Generation War:Our Mother's, our Father's
Although not exactly entertainment in the traditional sense, in which case...... Where Eagles Dare!
'Broadsword calling Danny Boy'
I would say Generation Kill but as it's not technically a film then Blackhawk Down.
And some day I’d like to make a Pearl Harbor undirectors’ cut and take out all the bollocks, and just leave the raids- there’s some amazing stuff in there. I need this like Ben Affleck needs acting school
Agreed - behind all the extra unneeded crap and the vastly overlong ending, there's actually a very good film trying to escape.
Where Eagles Dare is one that I can never get past how its so awful it's good. Riddled with plot holes, inconsistencies and plain stupidities and about 2hrs too long. If they'd have actually spoken the German bits of the film in German, I might let them off a sin point or two but as it is, I watch it just going "that bit is shit, that makes no sense, and pleease for the love of God, you're pretending to be German in the middle of Germany so speak German rather than trying to leave it to the imagination of the viewer!"
It's made worse by the fact that the Germans speak in English except for certain words like "schnell!!" and "Herr / Fraulein"
It’s made worse by the fact that the Germans speak in English except for certain words like “schnell!!” and “Herr / Fraulein”
And don't forget 'Raus!' of course.
Jarhead
The Thin Red Line - but you shouldn't really watch it looking for a war film.
Hannibal Brooks
Riddled with plot holes, inconsistencies and plain stupidities
OK, the Bell47 helicopter is a bit of a howler, but you'll have some examples? My memory is that it's pretty faithful to the book, which is fine (pretty outlandish fo'shure, but consistent at least)
Inglorious Basterds hasn't got a mention yet!
Where Eagles Dare is my all time favourite.
Black Hawk Down?
Ice Cold in Alex
( event though it has a time-travelling Land Rover )
War = well that doesn’t have to mean human v’s human does it eh DezB?
Battleship was appalling, on too many levels to be even considered an entertaining film.
I chose it because I hate War Films, s’peshilly anything to do with Stiff Upper Lip bloke whopping Gerry and showing them whose “boss”
Anyway you are all rong.. sorry but this is the best one..
Battleship so bad it's good.
Come and See is worth a watch
Three Kings got to be worth a mention.
This thread has made me watch FMG 🙂
Maybe Hacksaw Ridge for afters?
Too Late the Hero
Another oddity - Sole Survivor with William Shatner - war film with a supernatural bent to it about a bomber crew who come down in the desert - quite good from what I remember - anybody else?
Reject capitalist war profiteering by not watching militarist propaganda
In which case I recommend "Oh what a lovely war".
Maybe because it has not been mentioned, but it is also one I return to, Patton, one of finest leading performances you will ever see.
My father fought in the war and had a pretty firm grasp of what war entailed, but that didn't stop him enjoying a good war film as an entertainment.
Another vote for aliens.
Close second - bridge to far, or as I call it, a script too long, a cast too big!
Not sure Aliens is a war film. They're soldiers but they're not really part of a war. It's more of a corporate strategy film surely?
We were soldiers.
Letters from Iwo Jima.
Such a good topic.
In no particular order:
Cross of Iron
Battle on the River plate
Battle of Britain
The Dogs of War
Threads
Das Boot
Waterloo
I have fond memories of watching the Longest day and a Bridge too far with my Dad. RIP. His Dad got shot down 3 times in WW2 so was pretty close to his heart.
Alex
Starship Troopers has to be worth a mention .... a brilliantly fun film.
I remember that timbog160, saw it many many years ago and really liked it. A film I've often thought about but can never remember what it's called.
Apocalypse Now.
It's the cliche all time great, but there's so much goes on in that film, and I just think it came from that great time of experimental cinema.
I'd like to mention a Korean film called Brotherhood though. Just because many maybe haven't heard of it, and it's a really good movie, about 2 brothers going to war together during the Korean war.
Reject capitalist war profiteering by not watching militarist propaganda
Perhaps not as preachy as that, but I agree.
A lot of all this stiff upper lip stuff was total BS.
I'd probably go for Saving Private Ryan, Not only is it a visual treat (well, if you like seeing bits of people flying across the screen) but it probably a lot fairer than the usual mindless hero BS. Normal people, dragged to fight a war against other normal people and doing horrible things to survive and complete tasks to keep the power holders in power, well, it goes some way at least anyway.
Reject capitalist war profiteering by not watching militarist propaganda
To be fair, lots of the movies being mentioned have a pretty strong anti-war message
Das Boot - the full series, not the 2 1/2 hour short version on Netflix
Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes)
Malta Story - not because it's a particularly great film but because it was filmed in Valletta immediately after the war and is one of the few places where you can see the devastation that the war wrought on Malta