Favorite War Movies

[fadetoblack21]

We Were Soldiers

Heartbreak Ridge

Blackhawk Down

Act of Valor

Tears of the Sun

The Patriot

Kelly's Heroes

Hamburger Hill

 

I used to watch a bunch of old war movies with my dad. I have forgotten the many of the names, but they were all great movies. Occasionally get to watch some of them on the Military Channel's officer and a movie. 

[Tuckahoe Joe]

A lot of good ones on here. How could I have forgotten Saving Private Ryan. And I didn't even think about Tora Tora Tora or Hamburger Hill. The Patriot, Glory, Patton, Master and Commander, Enemy at the Gates....all awesome!  I only saw a couple episodes of The Pacific but that was good too.  I need to buy the box set to go with my Band of Brothers.

 

 

Surprised nobody said it... Star Wars ...hey, it counts.

Sure Star Wars counts!  Total Star Wars nerd over here!  Mostly original Star Wars....not so much the newer ones.

[MCS]

Don't think Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge has been listed. That one was pretty good.

[mrmacwvu1]

All good movies but did not see the Devils Brigaid

[The Rooster]

A lot of good ones on here. How could I have forgotten Saving Private Ryan. And I didn't even think about Tora Tora Tora or Hamburger Hill. The Patriot, Glory, Patton, Master and Commander, Enemy at the Gates....all awesome!  I only saw a couple episodes of The Pacific but that was good too.  I need to buy the box set to go with my Band of Brothers.

 

 

Sure Star Wars counts!  Total Star Wars nerd over here!  Mostly original Star Wars....not so much the newer ones.

The newer ones had much better light saber action. You can s t r e t c h your imagination and say that in the earlier films Luke was young and hadn't learned to do as much as they could before and also say he had a ghost and an ancient alien for teachers (ahem, masters) but in reality it was just 70's and early 80's acting and filming technology that made it that way. You could stretch out there again and say the scene where Obi Wan dies from dueling with Vader looked like two old men fighting because one actually WAS, and the other is mostly machine with not as much control as in days gone by. I could make a dozen excuses for poor acting and filming technology and write it into the storyline to be explained away. But the root of the story was good.

While I like the fight scenes better in the newer ones, Lucas could have picked ANYBODY ELSE to play Anakin and I'd have like it better. Hayden Christensen was just not good.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Team America: World Police 

[clayton86]

Team America: World Police

Lmao

[Tuckahoe Joe]

The newer ones had much better light saber action. You can s t r e t c h your imagination and say that in the earlier films Luke was young and hadn't learned to do as much as they could before and also say he had a ghost and an ancient alien for teachers (ahem, masters) but in reality it was just 70's and early 80's acting and filming technology that made it that way. You could stretch out there again and say the scene where Obi Wan dies from dueling with Vader looked like two old men fighting because one actually WAS, and the other is mostly machine with not as much control as in days gone by. I could make a dozen excuses for poor acting and filming technology and write it into the storyline to be explained away. But the root of the story was good. While I like the fight scenes better in the newer ones, Lucas could have picked ANYBODY ELSE to play Anakin and I'd have like it better. Hayden Christensen was just not good.

Thats it right there.  I liked Phantom Menace but even with the better action, Hayden Christensen pretty much killed the other 2 for me.  He was just so, I dunno, bland.  I think for me, the 70's and 80's movie technology is what made the original ones so awesome.  Im interested (and a little worried) to see what Disney is going to do now that they own the rights to Star Wars.

[The Rooster]

Well, even if they mess it up by redoing the originals (bite my tongue), we'll always have the originals recorded just the way they were before. I have them on DVD but mine are the remastered ones.

Now if they go and add on to the story, as I've heard they want to do by filming 7,8, and 9, then we'll just have to wait and see how they turn out. If its anything like what the industry did to the Terminator series, I shudder to see what they'll do. THAT movie, as far as I think anyway, had the single greatest potential of any movie. The first was good, and the second was just decent, and every one since has gone downhill steadily, even with that awful TV show, too. The last one was worth seeing but it wasn't great. The third one was so bad, even the makers of the TV show ignored it in their storyline and nothing in the fourth movie even referenced it.

But, back to the topic at hand....(hmm, technically, Terminator is a war movie too, haha)

[Zoff]

Wild Geese was great.

 

Wild Geese 2 = Super-mongo-mega-suck!

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Not really a movie but the History Channel had a series a few years back called 'Shootout'.  It was like dramatizations of first hand accounts of actual gun battles from WW2 up through the present day.  I also like 'Dogfights'.  Same principle but it was plane battles.

[Sam]

After returning to the states from Viet Nam in 1970, I have not seen a war movie.

 

Not one and am still not interested in viewing any war movies.

 

My wife did frame my Bronze Star and other medeals but that was the last of my "war" adventures.

 

I sincerely hope the closest anyone on this site comes to serving in war time is via the movies.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

After returning to the states from Viet Nam in 1970, I have not seen a war movie.

 

Not one and am still not interested in viewing any war movies.

 

My wife did frame my Bronze Star and other medeals but that was the last of my "war" adventures.

 

I sincerely hope the closest anyone on this site comes to serving in war time is via the movies.

X's 2 on that. 

 

I wanna say I get what you mean but I know that I couldn't possibly without having served myself.  My Uncle fought in Viet Nam.  I don't talk to him much so I don't know a whole lot about where and when but I know it messed with him pretty bad mentally and emotionally.  When he got back he hiked the Appalacian Trail from Maine back down here to Maryland to help clear his mind and find some peace.  But anyway, Im starting to ramble so Ill just say thank you for your service. 

[jbird9009]

Only war movies i care for are based on history. WW1-2 being most recent

Heres a few

Last of the Mohicans, The Crossing, April Morning, Enemy at the Gates, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Ride with the Devil, The Patriot, Braveheart

[SudburyBasser]

Sands of Iwo Jima. (Yes, its an old black and white with John Wayne...i love it)

We were Soldiers

Braveheart

Blackhawk down

Heartbreak Ridge

 

Outside of Braveheart and Heartbreak Ridge a fine list.

 

I could add a hundred but ones I like on top of the above list would be:

 

Bridge on the River Kwai

A Bridge Too Far (though too damned long as well)

Das Boot

Paths of Glory

The Hurt Locker

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Full Metal Jacket

Sargeant York

[SudburyBasser]

After returning to the states from Viet Nam in 1970, I have not seen a war movie.

 

Not one and am still not interested in viewing any war movies.

 

My wife did frame my Bronze Star and other medeals but that was the last of my "war" adventures.

 

I sincerely hope the closest anyone on this site comes to serving in war time is via the movies.

 

My niece, five or six at the time, saw a old picture of me in BDU on some God forsaken base and asked me if I had ever fought in a war. My only response was, "Thank God, no." After what my grandfather told me of his WWII experiences fighting the Germans in the Balkans and being a "guest" of the Fuhrer in a brutal POW camp in Greece that was the most honest thing I've ever said in my life.

 

Thank you for your service.