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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: CCTAU on March 12, 2010, 03:18:05 PM
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Fox has come out with a list of the top 20 war movies of all time. A shit list if you ask many.
No Patton.
No Big Red One
No Midway.
No Great Escape.(although I find that just on the edge of being a war movie)
As a child who absolutely loved war movies, I am amazed at how many on this list are here just because they seem to have an anti-war theme.
Full Metal Jacket? Come on. Good movie but not near top 20.
Hurt locker? Not that great, but libruls love it.
Platoon? Not a GREAT movie, but an important one as it was the first movie about Nam that tried to show the raw side of that war. Again, not great but groundbreaking.
Mash? More anti war drivel form a war movie standpoint.
Black Hawk Down? More of a political statement than a great movie. Fun to watch, but not 3 4 , or 10 times.
The Deer Hunter as a war movie?
Apocalypse Now? Great war movie? Really?
Schindler's list. Great movie, but was it really a war movie so to speak?
Some are crying about Green Berets not on the list, but that movie was a WWII movie made to look like Nam. Not that great.
What are some of your favorites and which of these do you agree with or disagree with?
Sorry. I thought I added alink:
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/12/whats-your-favorite-war-flick-that-we-missed/ (http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/12/whats-your-favorite-war-flick-that-we-missed/)
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Fox has come out with a list of the top 20 war movies of all time. A shit list if you ask many.
No Patton.
NO PATTON???
Blasphemy.
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NO PATTON???
Blasphemy.
Well. That was about kicking ass and taking names. Today's new American only has been taught to take names.
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IMO War Eagles Dare.
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Well. That was about kicking ass and taking names. Today's new American only has been taught to take names.
Our own names so we can Courtmartial the evil wrong doers for mishandling terrorists.
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My favorite movie was Saving Private Ryan. It is an all around good movie with fairly no agenda, and shows the realism of war.
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There is the uncolorized version of "The Sands of Iwo Jima" and then there is everything else.
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Is The Longest Day on there?
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Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, The Patriot (more personalized story than an account of the war, but still), Empire of the Sun, Good Morning Vietnam...some of those I'd suggest go on the all-time list, and some I wouldn't, but all of them are some of my war movie favorites.
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Patton should be at the top, followed by the likes of Tora, Tora, Tora and The Longest Day.
I have always been a big fan of Force 10 From Navarone myself.
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is there a link to review the list?
i don't have time to search teh intrawebs...imagine that..anyhoo thanks in advance.
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Patton should be at the top, followed by the likes of Tora, Tora, Tora and The Longest Day.
I have always been a big fan of Force 10 From Navarone myself.
Those are the ones we kicked butt in and had true heros. Hollywood don't like that. :rolleyes:
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Patton should be at the top, followed by the likes of Tora, Tora, Tora and The Longest Day.
I have always been a big fan of Force 10 From Navarone myself.
Those are the ones we kicked butt in and had true heros. Hollywood don't like that. Roll Eyes
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The Dirty Dozen.
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Ya do mean "what's our top list after Band of Brothers"...correct? I know Band of Brothers wasn't a "movie", but it is the best "War" movie/HBO series/documentary, hands down.
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Ya do mean "what's our top list after Band of Brothers"...correct? I know Band of Brothers wasn't a "movie", but it is the best "War" movie/HBO series/documentary, hands down.
Speaking of...
"The Pacific" starts very soon on HBO. Should be pretty bad ass from what previews and reviews I've seen.
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HeartBreak Ridge
Top Gun
Full Metal Jacket
Tropical Thunder
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Delta Force 1-4
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The best AND most realistic with no agenda either way whatsoever:
Saving Private Ryan (10 of 10, no weakness in this movie IMHO)
We Were Soldiers (another good one - actually met Hal Moore a few years ago, great guy)
Legendary/Talked About a lot but not that great to me:
Apocalypse Now (good but not great - Brando was overrated)
Platoon (Dafoe was good - thats about it)
Full Metal Jacket (gotta love DI Hartman)
Pearl Harbor (more of a love story - blah....)
Pretty decent war flicks:
Patton (self explanatory)
Great Escape
Deer Hunter (shows the aftermath back home in a small town)
Hamburger Hill
Black Hawk Down (somewhat political but still good)
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Ya do mean "what's our top list after Band of Brothers"...correct? I know Band of Brothers wasn't a "movie", but it is the best "War" movie/HBO series/documentary, hands down.
In that case, hands down...
The Sopranos was the second or third best mob movie of all time.
Law & Order is the best police procedural movie of all time.
The Andy Griffith Show was the best comedy movie of all time.
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Sorry. I screwed the pooch on the link.
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/12/whats-your-favorite-war-flick-that-we-missed/ (http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/12/whats-your-favorite-war-flick-that-we-missed/)