Favourite War Movie?

[Reverend Gooner]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalingrad-DVD- ... 571&sr=8-2

Is that the one you mean?

[Fabrestuta]

Yep that's the one, great film.

[TheLittleMozart]

Saving Private Ryan is an epic film, one of my personal faviourites.
Black Hawke down is another good shout aswell

[Briggsy]

Right you punks I've rented the hurte locker if its shit you all die

[TheLittleMozart]

Right you punks I've rented the hurte locker if its shit you all die

We're all dead then, becuase its shite.

[foxy]

SPR
Platoon
The Longest Day
Hurt Locker

[gooneritis]

Star Wars

that's not a war movie.

[gooneritis]

Right you punks I've rented the hurte locker if its shit you all die

We're all dead then, becuase its shite.

he can kill you then, but most people disagree and think it's a very good movie.

[gooneritis]

Kingdom of heaven is a great movie.

Its probably the best medieval war movie.. Although i am a Ben Hur fan..

they should make more movies like that.

Its just the crusades and medieval time films that do it for me. A bit more brutish riding nto batlle with a longsword instead of hiding with a riffle.

Gladiator has got to be up there....

Nobody has said 300 btw...

i was thinking gladiator too, but then i decided that i wouldn't class it as a war movie, certainly not in the traditional sense of a real war movie.
rather an action/drama about one mans fight for revenge for his families murder.
it's just like most action/thriller movies only it happens to be set in roman times and there's one battle at the beginning. after that it's not really got anything to do with war.


ZULU is still hands down the greatest war movie ever
another fantastic one which is an almost no-name is 'BIG RED 1', which is superb.
saving private ryan another stand out.


other notable movies;

enemy at the gate
blackhawk down
hurtlocker
platoon
the alamo
tobruk
bridge on the river kwai
desert rats
the dirty dozen
when trumpets fade
the longest day
we were soldiers
defiance

[Libertine]

Am i the only person who though Saving Private Ryan was shit?

[CynicalGooner]

I prefer the olden time war movies too. Much more compelling than just people shooting at eachother. I saw a really good one about the Chinese Dynasty wars but forget its name

[Artemis8]

would "The Hunt For Red October" be classed as a war movie then. I know there isn't any battles to speak of, but it is in essence a war movie

[Git]

Love a lot of the movies mentioned here. Bridge Too Far is quality.

Letters from Iwo Jima is a good one, only saw it once, but it's fantastic.

[Fabrestuta]

forgot about Letters from Iwo Jima. Fantastic film.

Also forgot about Kubricks Paths of glory. Absolutely amazin.

[absolutely_fabregas]

braveheart

some of the recent war movies dont really excite me, with gay directors trying to unglamourise and make them more realistic, and leaving you drooling as to whats gonna happen next, whos gonna get super killed or whatever, then the credits start rolling

f**k it, i want to see them get trained up, "get f***ked in the ass" by either gettin injured or the enemies 20 times as big, win the battle, then shag a bird (preferrably a topless scene thrown in)