Favorite war movie

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However as every Englishman instinctively knows, the actual answer is The Great Escape.
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I, as an Englishman would agree with you, if it was not shown every single Christmas without fail. No seriously, it is. It's like the Queens Speech, Absolutely guaranteed to be shown on one of the main Terrestrial channels. And it's not even a blood Christmas film!

[icausewipes]

Good, bad, and the ugly
Force 10 from Navarone
Full metal jacket (boot camp and sniper scene only)
dirty dozen

[Kronik85]

I, as an Englishman would agree with you, if it was not shown every single Christmas without fail. No seriously, it is. It's like the Queens Speech, Absolutely guaranteed to be shown on one of the main Terrestrial channels. And it's not even a blood Christmas film!

We used to get Jason and the Argonauts without fail too, boy I miss that film at Christmas .

[Adam Jensen]

Saving Private Ryan. Hands down. The Omaha Beach sequence . . .

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Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down.

Yeah, and honorary mention to Black Hawk Down.

[DocHibb]

Inglorious Basterds! lol

[Raynre Valence]

Can't pick a favorite off the top of my head, but Zulu is a great film. Michael Caine's first movie, about the Battle of Rorke's Drift, which was basically Great Britain's Alamo, except they actually win.

[Fencers]

Inglorious Bastards would probably be my pick. Incredibly entertaining and fairly sharp in commentary despite being comical fiction.

I really have a fondness for Paths of Glory and The Thin Red Line though. The former being incredibly transfixing.

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Saving Private Ryan. Hands down. The Omaha Beach sequence . . .

ooh, I haven't watch it since getting new sound system and screen. Time to annoy the neighbours!

[Ahovv]

So what's your favorite war movie? Mine is We Were Soldiers. The amount of detail and accuracy that they put into that movie was amazing. They actually used the names of people who died in vietnam for some of the characters. You can find the names of most of them on the wall in Washington DC.

The one that comes to mind is Red Cliff.

[ParanoiD84]

Oh boy war movies is amongst my favorite genre and i cant list them all but i can list some.

Braveheart
Kingdom of Heaven
Gladiator
Apocalypse now
Platoon
Black Hawk Down
Fury
Alexander
300
Saving Private Ryan
The last Samurai
Spartacus (serie)
Rome (Serie)

[willtron]

Inglorious Basterds! lol

I'd argue Inglorious isn't really a war film.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

I'd have to echo Saving Private Ryan and throw in Thin Red Line and Taegukgi. Koreans make a lot of good war movies to be honest.

R-Point is another great film but it's more of a spooky ghost story than a war movie. Still check that shit out if you can find it.

[PBitt]

If mini series count, Band of Brothers.

Otherwise, Saving Private Ryan.

[Paranoid Android]

I love war movies and it is hard picking one. For pure "historical" I would have to say: Saving Private Ryan. Probably best depicted combat, even thought the story was fictional. For my so called accurate war films my list:

Saving Private Ryan: The opening beach scene is epic. Spielberg probably remained the most accurate of any WWII film.

Platoon: Showes a more convoluted side to war and especially Vietnam. I also remember buying this on ebay for like $60 plus because it was discontinued. I had to have it

Glory: Great telling of the 54th Massachusetts, an all black regiment during the Civil War. Matthew Broderick is solid in his role and Denzel and Morgan Freeman are very good. Great soundtrack and final battle scene.

Then Longest Day: Star studded cast that unlike most movies at that time that had some type of love interest or whatever. This film just stuck to making a movie about D-Day. Loved they used German speaking actors for of course the German roles. We Americans really like to cast British actors many times for these roles.

Patton: Just a great performance by George C. Scott. Accuracy is out the window but a super patriotic film. It is surely an a "America, Fuck yeah" film

Das Boot: Wow what a great movie about lives of German submariners. It was excellent in making you feel what it must have been to be in a WWII sub.

Black Hawk Down: Entertaining. Tried to show a good account of what happened.

[ItachiZaku]

just the bootcamp part, after that it was kind of meh to me

You talk the talk... but do you walk the walk?

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Glory, 300, and Black Hawk Down for me.