Billiken Rich Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 Just now, TheA_Bomb said: Haven't watched it in a long time. I did have a Vietnam vet, door gunner, tell me that it was a realistic depiction (sadly). Charlie Sheen in a Vietnam movie made years after his dad starred in an epic Vietnam film. Plus Willem Dafoe's epic death scene. After all the napalm there is a scene where a deer wanders onto the silent battlefield.......I remember my dad, who didn't drop f-bombs lightly, saying "A f'ing deer." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said: Haven't watched it in a long time. I did have a Vietnam vet, door gunner, tell me that it was a realistic depiction (sadly). Charlie Sheen in a Vietnam movie made years after his dad starred in an epic Vietnam film. Plus Willem Dafoe's epic death scene. Another pretty good and under appreciated Vietnam War movie is Hamburger Hill. Tour of Duty was actually a really good network TV series about Vietnam back when I was a kid. I don’t even know if there is any way to watch it today, but I remember wanting to watch it every week. I will see if I can find it somewhere and see if it holds up as an adult now with what has to be like 35 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenHudDude Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 3 hours ago, TheA_Bomb said: I'll admit I've never watched this one and another great I've never watched Das Boot. I have seen Tora, Tora, Tora many times. Usually on or about December 7th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniorbill76 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 The Great Escape MusicCityBilliken and billiken_roy like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slu let the dogs out? Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Depends on how loosely we’re defining war movies. The Pianist is one of my all time favorite movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Patton, Saving Private Ryan, Bridges of Toko Ri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicCityBilliken Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Twelve O'Clock High They were Expendable Run silent Run deep Das Boot Caine Mutiny Mister Roberts Command Decision The Great Escape Cassablanca Midway (the 1976 version) Stalag 17 I can think of 20 more. So many great movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 war movies are awesome. i love the patriotic holidays just for that reason. watch the old war movies. my top 3: 3. Saving Private Ryan if you are not shaken and moved by this movie, something wrong with you. the brutality of the landing is disturbing, but by all accounts this is the most accurate ever made. 2. Hackshaw Ridge again a movie to demonstrate the brutality of war and what our brave vets endured. incredible 1. a tie for first with two mainly for entertainment but still showing the brutality. The Great Escape and M.A.S.H. MusicCityBilliken likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Team America? AGB91 likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobillsgo Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Some great movies listed in this thread. I’d add The Patriot as a great American war film. (Maybe more appropriate for 4th of July) majerus mojo likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikenbooster Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Longest Day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 2 hours ago, JMM28 said: Team America? America, F-yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 8 minutes ago, Billikenbooster said: Longest Day Cornelius Ryan wrote that and a Bridge too far. Both were hollywood blockbusters with amazing casts. A Bridge Too Far with Gene Hackman as Major General Sosabowski was just too sad to be a super popular movie. I know it was a Hollywood movie but Ryan was Irish and both made Montgomery look like a pompous a-hole...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 2 hours ago, billiken_roy said: war movies are awesome. i love the patriotic holidays just for that reason. watch the old war movies. my top 3: 3. Saving Private Ryan if you are not shaken and moved by this movie, something wrong with you. the brutality of the landing is disturbing, but by all accounts this is the most accurate ever made. 2. Hackshaw Ridge again a movie to demonstrate the brutality of war and what our brave vets endured. incredible 1. a tie for first with two mainly for entertainment but still showing the brutality. The Great Escape and M.A.S.H. MASH didn't seem like leftwing Hollywood claptrap when I was young. It's almost unwatchable now. Saving Private Ryan just underwhelmed me. The landing scenes were brutal but seemed pathetically small in scale. I also didn't buy the premise of the whole movie. They had radios and trucks and jeeps and messengers and I just couldn't buy sending Rangers to find one guy. I know it was very loosely based on a true story but I don't believe they sent Rangers for the guy........I love Tom Hanks and wish he'd have been sent to blow up a bridge instead of saving Matt Damon..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soderball Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Generation Kill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUMS81 Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarrone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Inglorious Basterds - I know it's not historically accurate and alters history at the the end, but it's still fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Ford / Jimerson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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