Favorite War Movies

[CPT]

I never figured out why they made a war film about beef suet.

It's about Great Britain's ongoing war against the human digestive tract.

[Slaky!]

It looks like an upside down chocolate chip muffin.

[MikeC]

Full Metal Jacket is probably my all-time favorite. Glory and the Band of Brothers Series get a close 2nd.

Other favorites are Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Gladiator, The Siege of Fire Base Gloria, Platoon Leader, Crimson Tide, Hunt for Red October.....oh god I love military movies.

[JD, Too]

Bat 21

[Huey]

Full Metal Jacket is probably my all-time favorite. Glory and the Band of Brothers Series get a close 2nd.

Other favorites are Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Gladiator, The Siege of Fire Base Gloria, Platoon Leader, Crimson Tide, Hunt for Red October.....oh god I love military movies.

I was wondering what took you so long to pitch in.

[cubbiebluestew]

The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep (Robert Wise may have had the greatest range of any director - From this to Sound of Music to Day the Earth Stood Still to West Side Story to The Andromeda Strain to Star Trek I?  Wow.)
The Longest Day
Full Metal Jacket
Bridge on the River Kwai
Stalag 17 (if it can be considered a war movie)

The Enemy Below.    Curt Jurgens, as a German submarine commander,  delivers one of my favorite movie lines to his second in command, Theodore Bickel, when their submarine creakily settles to the bottom of the ocean without imploding..."Ve build 'dem good in Chermany, no Heine?"  I say this every time one of our Braun kitchen appliances breaks down.

[BananaHands]

Do Spies Like Us count?

[Tonker]

What, no love for The Great Escape?

"Ah, Herr Bartlett.  Your German is good.  And I hear also your French.  Your hands... up!"

[Tonker]

And while we're (I'm) on the subject of escape movies, what about "Escape to Victory"?  Watching Sly Stallone flounder around in goal is worth the price of the entrance fee alone.



Ah, Pele, Osvaldo Ardiles and Bobby "No" Moore in the same lineup.  If only...

[bozos72]

I mentioned it in the other thread, and it deserves mention in this one...

Dr Strangelove.

[CPT]

I mentioned it in the other thread, and it deserves mention in this one...

Dr Strangelove.

You can't talk about Dr. Strangelove in here, this is the War Movie thread!

[Taylor]

Cold War movies:

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

[Denny Crane]

Mine are:
Saving Private Ryan
Heartbreak Ridge (I love Eastwoods role in this)
We were Soldiers
Band of Brothers (I know it's a mini series)
Flags of our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Three Kings
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

[forkserker]

Mine are:
Heartbreak Ridge (I love Eastwoods role in this)

Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot this one - the only war movie about the US going into Granada. Clint is his usual bad-ass self.

[JL]

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
The Thin Red Line
Sink the Bismarck
Three Kings
Von Ryan's Express
Soldier of Orange
The Big Red One
Dr. Strangelove
Triumph of the Will

Band of Brothers