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- 4/23/2002 1:55:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lots of great choices here!

...but "The Longest Day" gets my vote. The scene where the French commandos assault the hotel is my personal favorite. One continuous uncut take for several minutes that starts with a birds' eye view and slowly zooms down to street level...amazing cinemaphotogrophy.

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- 4/23/2002 3:13:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lots of great choices but I have to go with Patton. Not many combat scenes but the performance of George C. Scott just sticks in my mind. Just gets the nod for me over another movie without too many combat scenes and that is 12 O'Clock High.

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Re: Re: Tough Choice - 4/23/2002 7:55:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Keke
[B]

Ouch! I dont want to offend anybody, but I´d vote German-made Stalingrad as the "Crappiest War Movie ever". [/B][/QUOTE]

To each his own, I suppose ...

What is yours, by the way ?
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- 4/23/2002 8:32:07 AM   
RUsco

 

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The 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War.

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- 4/23/2002 1:14:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		" A long days dying" A movie about British Paratroopers in WW2.

Great movie!

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- 4/23/2002 2:37:56 PM   
Tuomas Seijavuori

 

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I'm shocked........... - 4/23/2002 3:18:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't think anyone mentioned "The Dirty Dozen"........

My vote goes for.........Bridge over the river Kwai.

Marty

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- 4/23/2002 10:45:46 PM   
Dan Bozza


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Easy8
[B]Lots of great choices here!

...but "The Longest Day" gets my vote. The scene where the French commandos assault the hotel is my personal favorite. One continuous uncut take for several minutes that starts with a birds' eye view and slowly zooms down to street level...amazing cinemaphotogrophy. [/B][/QUOTE]

That scene ROCKS! - I also enjoy the scene where the two lone German fighters make their strafing run along the beach, and you see the soldiers running across the camera to avoid the bullets.

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- 4/23/2002 10:51:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, so I haven't seen "The Longest Day" yet (but I've read Ryan's book - very very good), so I guess I'll have to get it.

But, until then, and maybe afterwards as well:

[B][SIZE=3]STALINGRAD[/SIZE][/B]

The final scene wraps it all up, IMO. Masterful!

First time I saw it, it took me one half hour to realize there were no subtitles - and I'm not [I]that[/I] good at German...immersive. :D

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- 4/23/2002 11:24:07 PM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		You haven't seen The Longest Day yet:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard rumors there might be one person, I didnt expect to encounter that person though.:)

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- 4/23/2002 11:47:18 PM   
Easy8

 

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Status: offline 		Yeah, I saw that movie in the theatre when I was a kid. Definately one of my faves.

The History Channel has a very good documentary about making "The Longest Day" on their History vs Hollywood series. Check it out if you get the chance.

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- 4/23/2002 11:54:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's my one vote, though I'm sure that many of these are based on the AGE of the person... for instance, it's difficult to give older, 'classic' war movies a chance when you've grown up on more recent things like "Platoon" or "Private Ryan". When I think war movie, my vote is Private Ryan because I was EMOTIONALLY affected for days after it. Very powerful experience.

I'm 33 ys. old.

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- 4/24/2002 12:45:48 AM   
Bing

 

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Status: offline 		Nest time you watch TLD pay particular attention to the scene from the cockpit of the 109 that is strafing the beach. Zanuck ran out of money: Rommel's asparagus extended ONLY as far as the area where the LC's actually come ashore. In Hollywood's world, they could have gone less than a mile down the beach - and no obstacles.

Minor item. Still can't beat the cast. Red Buttons hanging from the chruch tower in St. Mere Eglise - "Ding, dong ... ding, dong." The wonderful Frenchwoman describng the descent of the paratroopers into her backyard. And so on...

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- 4/24/2002 12:56:59 AM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		I remember Midway fondly.

Only film me and my dad ever watched in a theatre together as just ''the guys".

Seen a lot of films in my life. But I would rather have water torture now than try live through watching a film with him.

He's to old now and gets antsy after 15 minutes in one spot.

Needless to say visits to my parents means watching a film with mother and assuming dad is just somewhere heheh.

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Tough choice, but... - 4/24/2002 1:29:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		For the best at portraying the comradeship, the horror, the tension, the humor and the downright boredom when you're not in actual combat, my first pick would be the director's cut of "Das Boot". Ask me again next week and my answer could be completely different, though.

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- 4/24/2002 2:00:21 AM   
ananias


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Status: offline 		I guess my vote would go to either "Talvisota"(winter war) or the older version of "Tuntematon Sotilas"( The unknown soldier). However, Talvisota has some stupid mistakes, that somehow ruin the whole movie (Besides, I like the longer tv-version of the movie better, and I guess that doesn´t count, then).

So, my vote goes for "Tuntematon Sotilas". Great scenes, great acting and big emotions (Besides, you can´t beat the scene where sgt. Rokka wipes out 30 russkies with suomi smg ;).

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Best movie.. - 4/24/2002 3:52:31 AM   
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[B]Tuntematon Sotilas[/B]

No question about it.

If you can’t get your hands on the movie, try the book. It’s easy the best book I have ever read dealing with WWII. Hell, it’s the best book I’ve ever read any category.

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- 4/24/2002 4:38:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Has no one seen "They were expendable?" I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned. I think it was about the Battle of the Bulge. One squad was left to keep back a whole company(?) of Germans. I thought it was very good for a B/W movie. Bob Newhart was in it to offer his unique brand of humor in an otherwise very tense situation. (Then again, I could be misremembering the name of the movie, it's been a while since I saw it.)

[Edit]
Sorry, it was called "Hell is for Heros" (1962). Like I said, it has been awhile since I saw it.

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- 4/24/2002 8:11:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Stalingrad is an incredible movie. True it does not show the massive Russian casualties, but that was not the purpose. It really gave you a lot of sympathy for the Germans, you no longer thought of them as "nazis," but as men.

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- 4/24/2002 8:52:22 AM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		I have a film called They Were Expendable

It is a good film too.

John Wayne pic with him in control of an early war South Pacific Fleet. It gets shot up a good bit.

Definitely not Battle of the Bulge though.

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- 4/24/2002 9:12:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Easy8
[B]Lots of great choices here!

...but "The Longest Day" gets my vote. The scene where the French commandos assault the hotel is my personal favorite. One continuous uncut take for several minutes that starts with a birds' eye view and slowly zooms down to street level...amazing cinemaphotogrophy. [/B][/QUOTE]
Fetchez la^Char!:D
Bridge on the river Kwai, for best WW2 film

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Best war movie - 4/24/2002 7:19:56 PM   
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Ciao.

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Cross of Iron - 4/24/2002 9:58:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		My absolute favorite, flaws and all, followed by the first five minutes of "The Eagle Has Landed"

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Re: Cross of Iron - 4/24/2002 11:39:29 PM   
Kanon Fodder

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Brent
[B]My absolute favorite, flaws and all, followed by the first five minutes of "The Eagle Has Landed" [/B][/QUOTE]

I finally got a 'real' version of "Cross of Iron" to replace my taped-from-latenight-TV version last year.

"The Eagle Has Landed" has to be the most disappointing film I have ever seen. I had read the book just a few months prior to the release in 1977. The casting killed it.

Michael Caine is one of my favourite actors, but as a [I]German[/I] with a London accent ???

And Donald Sutherland as a wiry, five foot Irishman ???

Maybe someone will remake it someday ...

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- 4/25/2002 12:24:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		I can't believe it, but I don't think anyone has mentioned "Zulu" yet I haven't seen a war movie to compare to it.

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- 4/25/2002 12:34:35 AM   
Kanon Fodder

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by DaveConn
[B]I can't believe it, but I don't think anyone has mentioned "Zulu" yet I haven't seen a war movie to compare to it. [/B][/QUOTE]

Definitely one of my faves. Michael Caine's first major role.

It's really hard to get down to one title.

I own most of the films mentioned in this list.

Others deserving mention:

[B]Gallipoli[/B] and [B]The Wild Geese[/B]

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- 4/25/2002 1:18:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		[COLOR=royalblue]The Wild Geese[/COLOR] , best movie about mercs in Africa ever made. It benefitted from the presence of its technical advisor, Maj. Mike "Mad Mike" Hoare, retired mercenary commander 5 Codo.

The battle scenes from [COLOR=firebrick]Platoon[/COLOR] . I know Vietnam vets who had flashbacks because of that flick. It brought flashes to me, and I've never been within two thousand kays of Vietnam.

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Had to edit my entry to many people dislike it - 4/25/2002 1:39:28 AM   
Gary Tatro

 

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Status: offline 		By the way I think it would be nice of someone to compile a list of all the movies submited so that I could put them on my to purchase video list.

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- 4/25/2002 1:50:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I´ve made my choise:

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Red Dawn - 4/25/2002 2:07:33 AM   
Easy8

 

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Status: offline 		I was seriously considering "Red Dawn" for my "crappiest war movie" vote:D

(not intended as a flame)

Different strokes for different folks and so on and so on...

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