The Bookie Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now and the Thin Red Line for war movies (fairly obvious list, but they're hard to beat imo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_bassi13 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 (edited) Remembrance day coming up, tell me of your favourite war films. Terminator 2, Aliens, Predator, Avatar. Edit: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Edited November 5, 2014 by g_bassi13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Remembrance day coming up, tell me of your favourite war films. Need something new to watch Or, instead of a movie, you could go all out and watch 'Band of Brothers'. Otherwise, I would suggest 'Black Book' from director Paul Verhoeven. Terrific foreign film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420since1974 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Mutant World trailer: https://ql.mediasilo.com/#ql/5457ff68e4b0b581522bf9c5/77380065-B14B-50EC-5ECFC1B3C5709C66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FramingDragon Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I'm going to assert that The Pacific was a better structured and more visceral mini series than Band of Brothers. That said, I love both. Just wish more appreciated the beauty of the Pacific. Other war things I love: Generation Kill Letters from Iwo Jima Thin Red Line Hurt Locker Jar Head Rescue Dawn Der Untergang My latest addition: A Most Wanted Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 (edited) I'm going to assert that The Pacific was a better structured and more visceral mini series than Band of Brothers. That said, I love both. Just wish more appreciated the beauty of the Pacific. Other war things I love: Generation Kill Letters from Iwo Jima Thin Red Line Hurt Locker Jar Head Rescue Dawn Der Untergang My latest addition: A Most Wanted Man Rescue Dawn was ruined by the freeze frame at the end. To me, nothing ruins movies more then the dredded freeze frame. Unless it's Sleepaway Camp. Then it's amazing. Edited November 5, 2014 by Monty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Remembrance day coming up, tell me of your favourite war films. Need something new to watch Not Lone Survivor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliboy Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 "In Harms Way" with the Duke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austy Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 "Come and see" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ A pretty intense war movie from Russia/Hungary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 My Top 10 war movies: Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Das Boot All Quiet on the Western Front The Dirty Dozen The Boy in Striped Pyjamas Letters From Iwo Jima Enemy at the Gates Defiance Windtalkers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoderman Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Does Casablanca count? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 (edited) Remembrance day coming up, tell me of your favourite war films. Need something new to watch No one mentioned this? I just assume that it would be on everyone's list... Edited November 6, 2014 by Hugor Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Not sure if it counts as a war movie, but there is of course this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bookie Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 aw how did I forget FMJ add it to my list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 (edited) November + December = finally poised to watch some movies: - Nightrcrawler (already saw it) - Dumb and Dumber To or whatever it's called - Hunger Games: Deathly Hallows Part 1 (<.<) - Horrible Bosses 2 - Hobbit - Night at the Museum I'm forgetting one or two movies, this is just off the top of my head. That's a lot of fast food being smuggled into the theater. Before Nightcrawler, could probably count on one hand how many films I've seen this year (Cap 2, Maleficent [was that this year?], GotG, don't remember anything else). Edited November 6, 2014 by Mr. Ambien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 No one mentioned this? I just assume that it would be on everyone's list... one of my all time favourite scenes from a movie: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FramingDragon Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 look who's back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliboy Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 (edited) Tropic Thunder?? Edited November 6, 2014 by aliboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 bride of frankenstein 7.5/10. some really good parts, some weird parts. in the end, the bride herself stole the show in her 30 seconds of screen time. what a babe. the babadook: 6/10. had high hopes because of the great trailer, but the movie doesn't live up to it for me. pretty good, but nothing special. jazz: 8.5/10. this is the 7 or 8 part documentary series by sentimentalist Ken Burns about the history of jazz (i believe originally made for the American Masters PBS series). interesting, lots of great sound and visual clips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 (edited) oh, and on war movies. my favourites have already been mentioned (Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket), but for less common ones: i always though The Killing Fields was good. doesn't get mentioned much on this subject, maybe because it's not action driven like a traditional war movie. but it's definitely worth seeing, and quite sobering IIRC. it's the true story about some photographer or journalist who got caught in Cambodia during that horrific slaughter by the Khmer Rouge (am I spelling that correctly?) I haven't watched it in a few years, so I dunno if it holds up, but I remember being quite moved by it when I saw it. other war dramas that I think are fantastic: Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants). very, very, very good French movie about a boarding school during WW2. one of my all-time favourites Night and Fog is a short documentary (35 minutes) that shows footage and discussion of the holocaust (filmed at the camps 10 years after liberation), with typical French pontification over top. but definitely worth watching. not one for monkey viewers, yet it's sort of a 'must see' Grand Illusion and the Great Dictator are two must watches for hardcore film buffs The Act of Killing is also a weird one. I know a few people around here have seen it. Easily one of the most bizarre docs I've seen. Trailer almost does it justice: Edited November 7, 2014 by GLASSJAW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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