Favorite War Movies

[Yeti]

Spartacus and Patton for me, unless Spartacus doesn't count.

Patton is Steak Tits Balls on Sauce.  Whatever.  (Blu-Ray version at Costco for about $13 right now).

Not really a war movie per se, but Good Bad and Ugly has an awesome battle sequence.

Is there anything that isn't on sale at Costco for you, Mr. Gitles.

[SKO]

Patton is great. Did anyone else see the made for tv followup, the Last Days of Patton? Really well made and quite sad for a tv sequel.

[CBStew]

I realize I'm way late to the party on this one but with Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers being on all weekend on TNT it got me thinking so here's my list-

11. Tae Guk Gi- This is actually a Korean film about two brothers forced to fight on opposite sides during the war. I saw it on a shelf at Hollywood Video and watched it because I had nothing better to do and I'm tired of Hollywood ignoring the Korean War (someday, Grandpa, someday). It's an incredibly moving film if you don't mind subtitles. Or if you speak Korean.

Korea?  How about "MASH"?

[SKO]

I realize I'm way late to the party on this one but with Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers being on all weekend on TNT it got me thinking so here's my list-

11. Tae Guk Gi- This is actually a Korean film about two brothers forced to fight on opposite sides during the war. I saw it on a shelf at Hollywood Video and watched it because I had nothing better to do and I'm tired of Hollywood ignoring the Korean War (someday, Grandpa, someday). It's an incredibly moving film if you don't mind subtitles. Or if you speak Korean.

Korea?  How about "MASH"?

I realize the novel was based on Altman's experiences in Korea, but the movie and tv show were both clearly co-opted and used as metaphors for Vietnam. Not movies about the Korean War in it's own right.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I realize the novel was based on Altman's experiences in Korea, but the movie and tv show were both clearly co-opted and used as metaphors for Vietnam. Not movies about the Korean War in it's own right.

Altman did the film.  Richard Hooker wrote the book.

[MAD]

I thought Ring Lardner's kid wrote the book.  Or was that the screenplay?

[Chuck to Chuck]

I thought Ring Lardner's kid wrote the book.  Or was that the screenplay?

Screenplay.  Then Altman basically ad libbed the whole thing on teh set.

[SKO]

Either way my point still stands. The "Korea" in M*A*S*H* is clearly supposed to be Vietnam.

[JD]

15. Hurt Locker- I work with a bunch of former EOD techs on a daily basis, so I can say on pretty good authority that the accuracy in this film is shit. I still really like the message though.

Who do you work with?  Maybe I know them.  For realz.  They former Army or some other service?

[SKO]

15. Hurt Locker- I work with a bunch of former EOD techs on a daily basis, so I can say on pretty good authority that the accuracy in this film is shit. I still really like the message though.

Who do you work with?  Maybe I know them.  For realz.  They former Army or some other service?

I think they're all former Army. I work for the Ordnance and Explosives section of the Army Corps of Engineers in Rock Island. Technically they're all still EOD, they just go to old defense sites and make sure all of the ordnance has been removed and the land is safe for civilian use. Most of them are in their late 40s-early 60s, though.

[Yeti]

15. Hurt Locker- I work with a bunch of former EOD techs on a daily basis, so I can say on pretty good authority that the accuracy in this film is shit. I still really like the message though.

Who do you work with?  Maybe I know them.  For realz.  They former Army or some other service?

I think they're all former Army. I work for the Ordnance and Explosives section of the Army Corps of Engineers in Rock Island. Technically they're all still EOD, they just go to old defense sites and make sure all of the ordnance has been removed and the land is safe for civilian use. Most of them are in their late 40s-early 60s, though.

Getting IL wages and filing IA taxes? Move to IL and get rid of the complications.

[CBStew]

Either way my point still stands. The "Korea" in M*A*S*H* is clearly supposed to be Vietnam.

Eisenhower ended the Korean War before the Selective Service System got around to drafting me.  Otherwise I could speak authoritatively about MASH.  However, I don't think that the movie or the TV series is really about the Vietnam War.  The movie and the tv series are both anti-war, but not in the same way that popular culture opposed the Vietnam War.  Anger about Vietnam did get taken out on the people who served in that war.  We didn't recognize heroism because the war was deemed to be wrong.  Shame to say, we didn't believe that there were good guys on our side.   I won't go so far as to say that we believed that they were all Sgt Calleys (sp?).  There was nothing humorous or ennobling about Vietnam in the popular culture. Therefore, when we laughed along with Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper John, et al, it sure didn't make us think about Vietnam.    MASH was the Korean War version of CATCH 22, nothing more.

[CBStew]

Having referenced it in the previous post, I will add Catch 22 to my list of favorite war movies.  No where near as good as the book.   But who reads nowadays?

[SKO]

Either way my point still stands. The "Korea" in M*A*S*H* is clearly supposed to be Vietnam.

Eisenhower ended the Korean War before the Selective Service System got around to drafting me.  Otherwise I could speak authoritatively about MASH.  However, I don't think that the movie or the TV series is really about the Vietnam War.  The movie and the tv series are both anti-war, but not in the same way that popular culture opposed the Vietnam War.  Anger about Vietnam did get taken out on the people who served in that war.  We didn't recognize heroism because the war was deemed to be wrong.  Shame to say, we didn't believe that there were good guys on our side.   I won't go so far as to say that we believed that they were all Sgt Calleys (sp?).  There was nothing humorous or ennobling about Vietnam in the popular culture. Therefore, when we laughed along with Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper John, et al, it sure didn't make us think about Vietnam.    MASH was the Korean War version of CATCH 22, nothing more.

"Though the series was set in Korea, M*A*S*H, both the movie and the series, was initially developed as a critique of the Vietnam War."

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=mash

"Like the movie, the series was as much an allegory about the Vietnam War (still in progress when the show began) as it was about the Korean War.[3] It took a number of minor creative liberties with the actual facts of the Korean War."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_%28TV_series%29

[CBStew]

I respectfully dissent.