Favorite War Movie(s)?
 

With the GI Joe Movie coming soon, what is your all time favorite war movie? Here is a brief listing of some I enjoy;

Black Hawk Down
Tears Of the Sun
The Wild Geese
A Bridge Too Far
Kellys Heros
Zulu
We Were Soldiers
Navy Seals
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Breaker Morant
Galipoli
Sniper
Seige of FireBase Gloria
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
The Green Berets
The Deer Hunter
Enemy at the gates
Patton
HeartBreak Ridge
The Dirty Dozen

(I left out a lot, but feel free to add any you like. Even Predator would fit in here....it's a war movie until the monster gums it up!!)

Platoon

Full Metal Jacket

Doom (ok, soft military)
Aliens (same as above)
Starship Troopers (yup)
Predator (C'mon, it was pretty military at the beginning)

BOTH Dirty Dozen flicks; partial to the 2nd.





I LOVED Tour of Duty on tv.

I got the Movie "Dog Soldiers" and watched it the other day and the Director said he fashioned the battles from Aliens. And he insisted HIS movie was NOT a Werewolf movie with Soldiers, but a WAR MOVIE where the enemy just happened to be a pack of werewolves! I guess movies like Aliens, StarShip Troopers and Doom fit in with the Genre!

Full Metal Jacket
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
M*A*S*H
We Were Soldiers
Patton
The Halls of Montezuma

I'm with you on most of them Frank, but my particular faves are:
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
The Bridges of Toki Ri
Bridge on the River Kwai
Gettysburg
A Bridge Too Far
Predator
The Outlaw Josey Wales (maybe a stretch, but such a cool movie)
Flight of the Intruder :)
Oops, almost forgot Starship Troopers, and Crimson Tide!

Here are some of my faves

Kelly's Heroes
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Dirty Dozen 1&2
Battle of the Bulge
The Big Red One
The Longest Day
Battlegound
Stalag 17
Patton
Black Hawk Down
The Great Raid
Behind Enemy Lines
Bat 21
Windtalkers
The War of the Worlds (1953 version)
Independence Day
The Patriot
1941
Red Dawn
The Star Wars Saga
LOTR Trilogy
Schindler's List
Glory
Duck Soup :D

There are most likely more I just can't think of them :)

I know you said movies, but I would just add the series The Unit and Band of Brothers. All the movies you guys wrote are favs here too.

let me see :
BRAZO 2 ZERO
Black hawk down
Tears of the sun
Sniper
Delta force
Navy seals
G.i. Jane
Predator
Predator 2
ALIENS 2
COMMANDO

I mean BRAVO 2 ZERO ( S.A.S FILM )

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Starship Troopers
Aliens
A Bridge Too Far
The Devils Brigade
Bridge over the River Kwai
Tora Tora Tora
The Longest Day
Patton
The Guns of Navarone
The Dirty Dozen
Flags of our Fathers
Sands of Iwo Jima
Shake Hands with the Devil

There are more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

Hadn't thought of Independence Day, but that was a good flick.

Shoot, Transformers is ALMOST a military movie too!

I figure some of these movies (like Doom), the actors go thru a soft boot camp. Anyone who has watched the making of DOOM knows that the guys learned to basic tactics and rifle knowledge.

"I need soldiers! I don't need anybody but SOLDIERS!"

Hmmm,
Black Hawk Down.
The Great Raid


oh yea Sonn, i love your signature.
I was gonna put the exact same one as my Avatar! :rolleyes:

I forgot about Red Dawn (and I just bought the deluxe edition not two weeks ago) and Bravo 2 Zero. Another GREAT S.A.S. movie; The Final Option!





Not Knocking the movie, but what they really need to teach these guys is not as much weapons handling (a Monkey can be taught to load a gun and fire it!) but strategy! In CQB, you never let your partner out of your site and never fight in groups of less than 3!

Then again, if they had done everything 100% right, the movie would have had no conflict in it and it would have been boring!

If we are mentioning series:
Over There!

I have not seen many, but here goes (In no particular order) :

Predator
First Blood parts 1 and 2
The original Star Wars trilogy
Waterloo
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (took place during the Civil War)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midway



Tv series

Beast Wars ( A stretch, I know, but awesome nontheless.)

Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Hambuger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
Tears of the Sun

Of course....

Rambo 1,2,3 and 4.

SOLDIER (with Kurt Russel)

The Hunt for the Red Oktober

PLATOON

The Rock

Universal Soldier

Predator

300

Star Wars

U-571

Top Secret :)

Nobody's mentioned CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER?!?

C'mon, Tom Clancy has LECTURED to the military!!!

I HATE most WWII movies, but the first 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan rocks! I also like Pearl Harbor. The Green Berets - please it is rated G! I love Sci-Fi war movies - I am a huge Star Wars fan, I have every single vintage figure + variants except for a Rocket Firing Fett & Double Telescoping Kenobi. So Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back (who dosen't love AT-ATs)& Return of the Jedi are on top of my list. I was suprised by Starship Troopers, it is a excellent movie as well. Colonial Marines put Aliens on my list. It's TV but the new Battlestar Galactica is superb, also with Colonial Marines. Gunny Highway (Clint Eastwood) has some awesome lines in Heartbreak Ridge, as dose the Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket. Of course Platoon, Hunt for Red October, Top Gun, Shooter was good, even Forrest Gump has a great Viet Nam part. Any Rambo Movie! The one movie I never get tired of seeing is Braveheart!

Oh and We were Soldiers & The Patriot :cool:

Has anyone ever seen Wild Goose with Roger Moore?

I think i've bought Platoon 2-3x now. $10 at Costco, just addd it to the groceries, y'know? I forgot how cool the movie is.

Mine r

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
Saving Privet Ryan
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV film)
Hamburger Hill

I can't think of any more but I know there r alot more I like

Here are my choices in no particular order:

Guns of Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
The Alamo (John Wayne)
55 Days at Peking
The Four Feathers (1939)
Patton
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Longest Day
Blackhawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Enola Gay
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far

The ones that first come to mind
 

Band of Brothers (series)
Black Hawk Down
Bravo Two Zero
Enemy at the Gates
Hamburger Hill
Kelly's Heroes
The Lost Battalion
A Midnight Clear
Over There (series)
Platoon
Saints and Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Tour of Duty (series)
When Trumpets Fade

I don't put SOLDIER as a war movie. Most sci-fi movies aren't considered war movies. I mean, Starship Troopers would have to be on there too as well as DOOM. but it's not. People tend to look at the current era (Gulf War, Iraq and moving back to Vietnam, WWII, Korean war, WWI) as WAR MOVIES.

I love Soldier. I based a lot of my Joe2050 off it.

I have only seen Apocalypse Now listed a couple of times. I Netflixed it the other day, it had been a good 20 years since I saw it last. I remembered not caring for it to much and thought now that I was older I would enjoy it. Was I wrong, what a pile of crap, this movie is BORING!!! The only good part in the whole movie was Robert Duvall's part. Other than that this thing is a waste of celluloid! I got the extended SE director's cut. This thing was to long by at least 2 hours. The whole bit at the French plantation was absolutely stupid, why was it in there. The Playboy playmates...yuck, I have seen my share of Playboys in my time, but I have never seen such uglyness in there! Little to no gunfire in the entire movie, Rambo had more in 10 minutes than this "war flick" had total. And Marlon Brando...PLEASE! Thank the gods Charlie made Platoon to redeem the Sheen name! Be honest, who like this movie & why?

I didnt' like Apocalypse Now. Too out there and stuff.

I agree, Redux was an abomination. The original version was better but was too weird to be pure war movie.

not really a movie but I like M*A*S*H*

Well Apocalypse Now was based on Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", they just tailored it to the Vietnam War. I think the best part is when Col Kurtz tells Martin Sheen about when the VC hacked off the limbs of the Vietnamese Children that his SF unit had just innoculated.


"Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us. " -From IMDB.com

The movies strength isn't in the action, but the subtlety of the dialog and the images. yeah, I agree, the Redux is a little too long. they could have cut out about an hour of the original movie and it would have been just as good. The best parts are the end, when he meet Kurtz and Kurtz asks him to end it and let his son know why he has become what he had become.


Another GREAT Part of the movie ;

Soldier: Roach, there's gooks in the wire. You hear 'em?
Roach: Yeah
Soldier: You need a flare?
Roach: Nah, he's close man, he's real close.
(fires the M79 Grenade launcher followed by an explosion and scream)
Roach: Mutha F**ker
Willard: Soldier, do you know who's in command here?
Roach: Yeah. [turns away]

This is true for Rambo I. :D

Man, where do I start.

(no particular order)
Patton
We were soldiers
The Longest Day
Blackhawk down'
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals ( I think I'm the only one in the country who likes this movielol)
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
predator
Aliens
Heartbreak Ridge
Flags of our Fathers
Full Metal Jacket
just to name a few

So its a chick flick

funny!!

Nobody have mentioned...

BASIC with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson.

Thats because it blew!

Basic is more of a whodunit than a war movie to me, not bad per say but doesn't hold a candlre to movies Like Blackhwk Down or We were Soldiers, which makes me tear up every time I watch it.