Your Top 10 WWII Movies

Fireatwill · Apr 29, 2012

@Bunyip, Gallipoli is one of my favorite war movies, but since its WWI I did not post it in this thread.

I'm a huge fan of Peter Wier.

tjadams · Apr 29, 2012

Alex74 said:
8. Apocalypse now

WWII??

tjadams · Apr 29, 2012

No order:

Downfall
Mister Roberts
Stalag 17
Patton
Bridge on the River Kwai
Das Boot
Letters from Iwo Jima
Schindler’s List
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape

bunyip · Apr 29, 2012

Fireatwill said:
@Bunyip, Gallipoli is one of my favorite war movies, but since its WWI I did not post it in this thread.

I'm a huge fan of Peter Wier.

Oh,my bad, I deserve a good birching.

PS; it's 'Weir'

HammockHank · Apr 29, 2012

In order:

1) The Longest Day
2) Patton
3) Twelve O'Clock High
4) Attack
5) Schindler's List
6) Das Boot
7) The Thin Red Line
8) A Bridge Too Far
9) Saving Private Ryan
10) Stalag 17 and A Bridge on the River Kwai (double feature

)

Now for the popcorn.

tjadams · Apr 29, 2012

HammockHank said:
7) The Thin Red Line

Maybe I need to see it again, but I thought this is one of the
top five worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

Vintersorg · Apr 30, 2012

In no particular order

The Longest day
Der Untergang
Stalingrad
Schindler's list
A bridge too far
The Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton

diddyriddick · Apr 30, 2012

diddyriddick said:
In no particular order:

1. Tora! Tora! Tora!
2. Das Boot
3. The Longest Day
4. Letters From Iwo Jima
5. Run Silent Run Deep
6. Enemy at the Gates
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai
8. Stalag 17
9. The Great Escape
10. Saving Private Ryan

Next week that'll change.

Somehow, I missed Downfall.....But what can I boot?

ClearlyInvisible · Apr 30, 2012

tjadams said:
WWII??

Vietnam. Capturing a crazy colonel. This doesn't go into the topic.

I'd like to also note that Pearl Harbor with Ben Afleck is the worst WWII moive ever concived.

monsieurdl · Apr 30, 2012

tjadams said:
Saving Private Ryan

I'll never understand why the movie was so popular. To me, it was cliched and the plot was lacking. I felt as if the whole movie was more about A to B to C problems in finding Ryan rather than a great example of World War II combat and relationships. The only good part in my mind was the very beginning, adn that was it.

Vintersorg · Apr 30, 2012

ClearlyInvisible said:
Vietnam. Capturing a crazy colonel. This doesn't go into the topic.

I'd like to also note that Pearl Harbor with Ben Afleck is the worst WWII moive ever concived.

I'd barely even call it a movie. Anything with Ben Affleck and/or Kate beckinsale is probably trash anyway

Kevinmeath · Apr 30, 2012

ClearlyInvisible said:
.........................

I'd like to also note that Pearl Harbor with Ben Afleck is the worst WWII moive ever concived.

You have never scene 'Escape to Victory' then?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbALYBSFlXY]Escape To Victory Trailer 1981 - {Sylvester Stallone} - YouTube[/ame]

jhampton002 · Apr 30, 2012

Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, Patton, Windtalkers.

Apicius · Apr 30, 2012

jhampton002 said:
Band of Brothers,

This was mentioned before so I can't second it. But I'll third, and forth, and fifth it... all the way down each episode.

Then comes The Pacific.

Saving Private Ryan

I liked this one, but had read enough that from the outset I knew that the movie was screwing with us from the outset. At least three of Tom Hanks' scenes on the beach came from three different books. That's why I like BoB so much. Pretty much everything you see is true as it was experienced by real individuals. And it's still an awesome story.

tjadams · Apr 30, 2012

ClearlyInvisible said:
Vietnam. Capturing a crazy colonel. This doesn't go into the topic.

I'd like to also note that Pearl Harbor with Ben Afleck is the worst WWII moive ever concived.

Yes, I know the movie and perhaps the member just slipped in adding it to WWII?

tjadams · Apr 30, 2012

monsieurdl said:
I'll never understand why the movie was so popular. To me, it was cliched and the plot was lacking. I felt as if the whole movie was more about A to B to C problems in finding Ryan rather than a great example of World War II combat and relationships. The only good part in my mind was the very beginning, adn that was it.

It isn't a great movie, just as I don't buy into all the Band of Brothers hype. But
SPR just stuck up on WWII movies.

tjadams · Apr 30, 2012

I'd like to list a movie that I haven't seen listed: not great, but, enjoyable.
"Valkyrie" <2008>

Wenge · Apr 30, 2012

I know I'm probably in the minority here and I love everything about WWII, but I found both Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers to be boring.

Earl_of_Rochester · Apr 30, 2012

All Western films are rubbish, everyone in the West has been brainwashed.

Look at what the Russians can do:

http://www.historum.com/history-fil...hdenie-liberation-biggest-wwii-film-ever.html

Little known in the West, but it's a monster of a film made in 1970s Soviet Russia, and in Soviet Russia the movies watch you!

I initially heard about it a few years back from my ex girlfriend as she was Russian.

The whole film is about 7.5 hours long and runs from the Battle of Kursk to the Surrender of Germany, there's also a shorter Western version but I've never seen it. I do have it downloaded in Russian with English subtitles and it's fantastic!

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You can download it from a certain piratey website.

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You get the idea...

This and Das Boot are probably the best war films I've ever seen, Saving Private Ryan and other rot are a disgrace in comparison.

monsieurdl · Apr 30, 2012

Wenge said:
I know I'm probably in the minority here and I love everything about WWII, but I found both Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers to be boring.

I'm so glad someone else sees that, as tjadams said about SPR. The riveting story behind Enemy at the Gates or the power of Downfall loom over those two examples and cast a long shadow...

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