The Longest Day

Roscobob
Roscobob Posts: 344
edited May 2010 in The bottom bracket
Best war film ever?

Discuss...............
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    IMHO no it isn't.

    I think Saving private Ryan was ground breaking and was horrible viewing at the cinema.

    The worst part being the two soldiers fighting hand to hand, heart wrenching stuff.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • sherbs
    sherbs Posts: 37
    Black Hawk Down........discussion over :)
  • SSLYBY
    SSLYBY Posts: 13
    Windtalkers


    Nicolas Cage is a living legend
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is an excellent war film about Yugoslavia.

    I'm also a bit of a sucker for resistance films, so Operation Daybreak about the assassination of Heydrich in the Czech Republic during WW2 was good (apart from the terrible music).

    I'm not too keen on the invading army films such as the Longest Day/Bridge Too Far, because it just seems to me that in those circumstances your fate is so far out of your own hands - either a bullet is going to end up lodged in your head or isn't, and I'd hate to be in that sort of situation myself.
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    The Deerhunter! There is no discussion to be had!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/guilliano/
  • Alinshearah
    Alinshearah Posts: 339
    I think that will find that it is 'Where Eagles Dare'
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    Are you all nuts? I've seen The Great Escape, beats you all. Unless you're a fan of Escape To Victory. Sly Stallone and Pele. Fact. :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Battlefield Earth.
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Starship Troopers?
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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    Heroes of Telemark
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is an excellent war film about Yugoslavia.

    I'm also a bit of a sucker for resistance films, so Operation Daybreak about the assassination of Heydrich in the Czech Republic during WW2 was good (apart from the terrible music).

    I'm not too keen on the invading army films such as the Longest Day/Bridge Too Far, because it just seems to me that in those circumstances your fate is so far out of your own hands - either a bullet is going to end up lodged in your head or isn't, and I'd hate to be in that sort of situation myself.

    The best war films use war as a plot/character device or background for more interesting occurances - Deer Hunter being the obvious example.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is an excellent war film about Yugoslavia.

    I'm also a bit of a sucker for resistance films, so Operation Daybreak about the assassination of Heydrich in the Czech Republic during WW2 was good (apart from the terrible music).

    I'm not too keen on the invading army films such as the Longest Day/Bridge Too Far, because it just seems to me that in those circumstances your fate is so far out of your own hands - either a bullet is going to end up lodged in your head or isn't, and I'd hate to be in that sort of situation myself.

    The best war films use war as a plot/character device or background for more interesting occurances - Deer Hunter being the obvious example.

    Never seen the Deer Hunter. Which war is it set in?

    I agree with what you say, which is why I like films like PVPF and Daybreak. I just wish the tragic ending to Daybreak were fiction, rather than fact.
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Deerhunter is set during Vietnam...... based on the mental traumas suffered by the participants
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  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    And can I also put forward a vote for Good Morning Vietnam? And MASH?
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Zulu.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Das Boot.
    Cycling weakly
  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    Kelly's Heroes
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I love Apocalypse Now. Loved the Deer Hunter too, most compelling!
  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    The 300 Spartans (1962)

    Hydarnes, Commander of the Immortals: "When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun!"

    Leonidas, Spartan King: "Good; then we will fight in the shade."
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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    A Bridge too far.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    I loved The Thin Red Line.

    Overshaddowed by Saving Private Ryan, but it was great.
  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    das boot
    The Thin Red Line
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Zulu
    CAAD9
    Kona Jake the Snake
    Merlin Malt 4
  • Ruari
    Ruari Posts: 217
    'Cross Of Iron' (1977) gets my vote.'Jarhead', 'Platoon' and '9th Company' if I could have more...
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Looking at this thread reminds me of how many really good war films there have been.

    Das boot and Deerhunter in particular.

    The reason I chose private Ryan wasn't so much for the storyline/plot but the groundbreaking realism of the battle scenes. It was made by a brilliant film maker at the top of his game.

    Having said that the Russian roulette scene in deerhunter is unbearable to watch.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    edited May 2010
    1/Waterloo.
    2/ Enemy at the gates.
    3/Dr Strange Love.Peter Sellers at his best.
    The end bit though...Major Kong
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI
    bagpuss
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Das Boot
    Patton
    Above us the Waves
    In Which We Serve
    Bridge on the River Kwai
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Something with John Mills :D
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    After thinking about this topic again.
    Letters from Iwo Jima.
    Good short clip as ever on the tube.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJvkBksRxk&feature=fvst
    bagpuss
  • dreamlx10
    dreamlx10 Posts: 235
    Certainly the most grim I have ever seen is "Come and see".
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Suppose They Gave A War And No-One Came?

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