Just watched The Covenant… pretty good. AKB have any other flicks I can watch? Have everything but AppleTv…. Thanks guys
War Flick recommendations
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I believe we've talked about this before on the this board, but the new remake of All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix is great. Worth the watch.
Ah. Hard to recommend films since I don’t know what you’ve seen. Hmm….
Most punk rock war flick ever is apocalypse now extended.
The two classics I remember from my youth are “The Guns of Navarone”, and “Where Eagles Dare”.
..and Dunkirk. Of course, the gold standard is the Band of Brothers series followed by Pacific. The current series, that just dropped their third (and incredible) episode last night is Master of the Air.
Oldies are:
- Das Boot - WW2 German U-boat
- The Great Escape - great steve McQueen motorcycle chase
- Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood produced
- The Longest Day - Great recap of D-Day
- Midway - Great recap of navy air war using carriers
Others, who are perhaps more entertaining or insightful are:
- The Guns of Navarone - Great visuals with Giant German guns
- The Best Years of Our Lives - only real war scenes are at the beginning but the movie is really about post traumatic stress order before it was a thing
- Bridge of the River Kwai - not one of my favs but Japanese prisnor movie
- Run Silent Run Deep - great sub sequences
- Twelve Oclock High - Early 100th Bomb group movie written by a WW2 pilot
- Where Eagles Dare - Just for fun movie with great fight sequence on a mountain but the Germans are the worse shots in history
- Von Ryan's Express - another just for fun movie with ol blue eyes leading a prisoner of war breakout.
- The Blue Max - WW1 German Fighters...with Ursala Andress. Some great air battle sequences. Did I mention Ursala?
- Fill Metal Jacket - Kubrik does vietnam. There are some big misses here but is very suspenseful and well done.
- We Were Soldiers - Some vet buddies of mine say this is the best nam movie ever made. who am i to disagree?
- Platoon - walking out of the theater in 1986, three vietnam vets were crying in the last row. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen (with help from Johnny Depp) knock this out of the park.
- Apocalypse Now - Just pure mayhem and SNAFU is 'nam.
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I know it is not a movie but once I start it is hard to stop Band of Brothers.
Then you have to see "Pacific" and what is currently being released in "Masters of the Air". BoB was done by Spielberg and Hanks. They also did Pacific. This is their third series about the 100th bomb group. Incredibly, the "bloody 100th" lost more men than the Marines in the pacific theater. its is on Apple TV.
I'm not huge on reading translated subtitles throughout a movie. However, The King's Choice was such a gripping movie that I couldn't stop watching after realizing I would have to read throughout. It's a Norwegian flick about the king of Norway during the Nazi invasion of Norway.
Beneath Hill 60 - WWI- Tunneling Aussies - tunneling Germans.
Platoon Leader- Vietnam .
Battleground- WWII - Battle of the Bulge.
Tunnel Rats- Vietnam- really intense and claustrophobic .
Outpost - Afghanistan
Jarhead - Iraq
Platoon Leader- Vietnam .
Battleground- WWII - Battle of the Bulge.
Tunnel Rats- Vietnam- really intense and claustrophobic .
Outpost - Afghanistan
Jarhead - Iraq
"No, no not the death room".
Go Tell the Spartans
A Walk in the Sun
The North Star
To Hell and Back
Paths of Glory
Three Kings
All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930.
Grand Illusion, 1937, Renior. A POW film, my all time #1.
Three Kings is as entertaining a film as anything you’d ever find. It rocks.
If you think about it, these two are war films.
Aliens
The Road Warrior.
Aliens
The Road Warrior.
Objective Burma
Wake Island
Merrill's Mauraders
Bataan
Back to Bataan
Wake Island
Merrill's Mauraders
Bataan
Back to Bataan
Apocalypse Now Redux is much better than the original film. Just saying.
I remember watching bridge on the River Kwai with my dad when I was a pup. That was awesome
I’m choosing not to google the movie but I forget the name.
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the Bradley cooper move from about 10 years ago where he portrayed the “American Sniper”. There. I remembered it as I typed this reply
This is on Netflix and it's a wonderful little known movie of true story of Irish UN Peacemakers under attack in Africa....
I think I watched this super fvcked up and had no clue what was going on
A Bridge Too Far doesn't get mentioned in these lists often. Its a pretty solid WW2 flick about Operation Market Garden
The best War films I have ever seen and would recommend are:
- Saving Private Ryan
- Full Metal Jacket
Both movies are riveting.
- Saving Private Ryan
- Full Metal Jacket
Both movies are riveting.
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