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Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 3:55:02 AM   
Toro


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Sorry, had to get that out.

Now, to continue occupying ourselves, how about a round of fav war films (let's keep it to our top three, no special order).

Mine: In Harm's Way (grand Surface Navy film), Tora Tora Tora, Patton.
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:15:07 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:26:19 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:28:39 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:28:40 AM   
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MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Don't you all hate me now for ruining the distraction?

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:34:02 AM   
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ORIGINAL: 52nd Lowland

The Longest Day and Mister Roberts.


Mister Roberts is a GOOD movie

What about Kelly's Hero

Don't forget Midway

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:39:08 AM   
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ETO: Bridge Too Far or Patton
WWI: The Lost Battalion
Civil War: Gettysburg

Overall: Patton. I'm an ETO junkie.

Extreme Honorable Mention: Band of Brothers. Not a movie but my current absolute favorite story about armed conflict. Even my wife loves BoB.

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:43:05 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:46:24 AM   
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full metal jacket
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:47:10 AM   
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Patton
In Harm's Way
Gettysburg
All Quiet on the Western Front
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Band of Brothers

And the all time best - Starship Troopers!!

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 4:53:29 AM   
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The Eagle Has Landed
Dirty Dozen

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:00:52 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:01:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

Saving Private Ryan
The Eagle Has Landed
Dirty Dozen


THe Eagle has landed the movie was terrible compared to the book... it left out about half the book. But thats to movies for you.

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:11:00 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Rendova

quote:

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

Saving Private Ryan
The Eagle Has Landed
Dirty Dozen


THe Eagle has landed the movie was terrible compared to the book... it left out about half the book. But thats to movies for you.


True but It was so cool to see Larry Hagman get dogged....lol

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:17:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK, besides from the few great ones that have already been mentioned, here's some of my favorites.

First To Fight
Battle Cry
Halls of Montezuma
Sands of Iwo Jima

Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Siege of Firebase Gloria

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:20:32 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:24:15 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:24:22 AM   
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The Cruel Sea (Toro: good WWII ASW action on the 2nd Fleet side of the world)
Das Boot

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:31:33 AM   
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Gettysburg

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:32:23 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:41:28 AM   
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Saving Pvt Ryan
The Band of Brothers Series

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:42:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Some good choices above, some not so good IMHO. These films are among my favs, some repeats:

Glory
Platoon
Das Boot
Gettysburg
Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
The Blue Max
Zulu
Saving Private Ryan
Master and Commander
Waterloo
12 O'clock High
Sink The Bismarck
The 300 Spartans

edit: I forgot Tora Tora Tora!

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 5:49:00 AM   
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Das Boot

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 6:05:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		A good WWi is the miniseries ANZAC's, 5 x 2 hour episodes and not just about galipolli, but much time spent on the western front. You can even see Paul Hogan ( crocodile dundee0 in one of his much better rolls

other than that "A bridge to far" is a true classic

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 6:49:09 AM   
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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 6:53:51 AM   
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Zulu.
Patton.
Dr. Strangelove.
Midway.
War and Peace (Greatest Achievment in recent History)

Best movie has to be War and Peace though. It's a Soviet made film about the Franco Russian war of 1805-1812
Because it was made in 1969 there was no way of using computers to generate all the men needed to fight a battle, so the soviets gathered some 250,000 extras from their army and taught them to act, they each had authentic uniforms and were all nicely clothed. The battle scenes are just fantastic with 250,000 men slugging it out on film, and then insane camera angles were great. I think something like 200 horses actually died while filiming and so it was banned in some states by those Animal Rights Groups.

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 7:17:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not to nitpick, but isn't "Dr Strangelove" more of a sci-fi film or even a satire? I never think of it as a war film, though it has that as a background.

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 8:16:31 AM   
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12 O'clock High
Battle of Britain
In Harm's Way


The worst:

Pearl Harbor Ben Aflack edition
(looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck!)

Full Metal Jacket
(all marines are zombie killing manics AKA DOOM)

Apocolypse Now
(war movie on drugs set to doors music)

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 8:24:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Recently, Enemy at the Gates was a pretty good one. And the original Alamo with John Wayne is a personal favorite. Memphis Belle was pretty good. And a favorite of mine, not a real "War" movie, but For the Boys was pretty good.

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RE: Fav War Films - 7/1/2004 8:25:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just to keep it on a pacific theme and in no particular order:

Merrills Marauders

The sands of Iwo Jima

Guadacanal Diary

The fighting Seabees

Wake island

There was a movie about Ira Hayes that i watched but i can't remember the name,it left an impression though.

Back to Bataan

Bataan

That movie about Carlsons raiders and Makin Island(?)

Midway


basically anything about the Pacific because it is such an interesting theater of war.

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