Favorite War Movies

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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #105 on: May 17, 2010, 09:16:04 AM »

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Is there a separate thread for favorite submarine war movies?

The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot

All three of these are awesome. The first two, if Gil hasn't seen them, he needs to. They'll remind him of a famous episode from his all time favorite show.

Balance of Terror is the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, bar none. It's that, The City on the Edge of Forever, Mirror Mirror, and then a bunch of crap.

And after all that crap, there's the hippie episode. Which is crap to the power of crap.

1. Balance of Terror
2. City on the Edge of Forever
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. Amok Time
6. The Enterprise Incident

The rest I could give two shits about. Never saw the appeal to the Trouble With Tribbles, although the Trials and Tribble-ations episode of DS9 was a pretty sweet tribute.

Tribbles is fun, but not actually good.

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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #106 on: May 17, 2010, 09:28:55 AM »

Quote from: SKO on May 17, 2010, 09:13:37 AM

Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on May 17, 2010, 08:50:34 AM

Quote from: SKO on May 17, 2010, 08:18:43 AM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on May 03, 2010, 09:31:44 AM

Quote from: CBStew on May 03, 2010, 09:23:56 AM

Is there a separate thread for favorite submarine war movies?

The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot

All three of these are awesome. The first two, if Gil hasn't seen them, he needs to. They'll remind him of a famous episode from his all time favorite show.

Balance of Terror is the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, bar none. It's that, The City on the Edge of Forever, Mirror Mirror, and then a bunch of crap.

And after all that crap, there's the hippie episode. Which is crap to the power of crap.

Corbomite Maneuver is very good, too.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #107 on: May 17, 2010, 09:45:31 AM »

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9. Best Trek ever.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #108 on: May 17, 2010, 09:51:51 AM »

Quote from: Gilgamesh on May 17, 2010, 09:45:31 AM

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9. Best Trek ever.

It's hard to agree. I totally agree that, content wise, DS9 was the best and the scale of what they did is astounding, but I don't see how anything can top the cast of TNG. The difference was the story arcs. Rodenberry and Berman had control of TNG and really didn't want long, overarching story arcs. Every episode had to essentially be a new adventure. Ronald D. Moore (the guy that made the new Battlestar Galactica, I believe) had pretty much free reign since Berman focused on Voyager, and he tried some pretty intense shit. Hard to top the Dominion War, but I still love the TNG characters and I would have liked to have seen what the TNG writers could have done without Rodenberry and then Berman scrutinizing their every move.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #109 on: May 17, 2010, 09:58:02 AM »

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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #110 on: May 17, 2010, 12:56:18 PM »

Quote from: SKO on May 17, 2010, 09:51:51 AM

Quote from: Gilgamesh on May 17, 2010, 09:45:31 AM

I don't want to derail this great thread, but I completely agree with SKO's list.

Also, watch DS9. Best Trek ever.

It's hard to agree. I totally agree that, content wise, DS9 was the best and the scale of what they did is astounding, but I don't see how anything can top the cast of TNG. The difference was the story arcs. Rodenberry and Berman had control of TNG and really didn't want long, overarching story arcs. Every episode had to essentially be a new adventure. Ronald D. Moore (the guy that made the new Battlestar Galactica, I believe) had pretty much free reign since Berman focused on Voyager, and he tried some pretty intense shit. Hard to top the Dominion War, but I still love the TNG characters and I would have liked to have seen what the TNG writers could have done without Rodenberry and then Berman scrutinizing their every move.

I've got to agree with SKO as well regarding the TNG characters, Marina Sirtis excuded.
Easy to look at but a terrible actress.

And I positive any episode with Q.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #111 on: May 19, 2010, 01:41:06 PM »

Anyone see Talvisota or Come and See?

I'm having issues finding Talvisota on Netflix.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #112 on: July 29, 2012, 12:08:13 PM »

I just saw the 1998 version of The Thin Red LIne on the IFC channel. I don't know why I never saw this in a theater. I am sorry that I didn't. No plot, just the deadly grind of war and the seemingly endless supply of its victims. It renewed my respect for Nick Nolte as an actor. I can also understand why Jim Caviezel was cast as Christ in the Passion of the Christ 6 years after this movie was made.


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Re: Favorite War Movies

« Reply #113 on: August 15, 2012, 10:00:43 PM »

Quote from: Taylor on February 16, 2007, 07:07:41 PM

Cold War movies:

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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