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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(11-15-2014 02:29 PM)TexanMark Wrote: For me: Patton is the best one. I love The Dirty Dozen for the cast of actors...even though it was pure fiction.
I'm surprised Patton hadn't gotten more mentions so far.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
Of course, JR has a pretty complete list.
But John Wayne's the Alamo isn't there. Donald Sutherland has been in several good ones. Kelly's Heroes (mentioned several times), The Eagle has Landed and The Eye of the Needle were all good.
The Alamo, Last of the Mohicans and Kelly's Heroes are 3 I can watch over and over.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
The Longest Day and In Harm's Way......two oldies but pretty good films. Both have John Wayne in them.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
Twelve O'Clock High, which contained actual real in-flight battle footage. George Lucas used it to emulate some of the X-Wing dogfighting scenes in the original Star Wars.
The Great Escape excellent acting and star quality all around, even my 9 year old liked it and wanted to see it again right after I showed it to him.
Bridge Over the River Kwai Alec Guiness at his finest
Tora, Tora, Tora Fun in the Pacific
Patton George C. Scott's signature performance is a must-see for any sports fan who needs a bit of attitude
The Caine Mutiny just fantastic acting
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
GoodOwl, I'm with you on 5 of the 6 listed. But must disagree with Tora-Tora-Tora. Long-winded, dull, tries to tell the story from about a hundred different points-of-view resulting in overall incoherence. Action scenes were solid for 1969/70 but not earth-shattering.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
Ones I don't see:
Where Eagles Dare
Platoon
Glory
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I think Rambo I and II along with Born of the 4th of July have some poignant moments about post-war issues.
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(01-12-2016 05:10 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote: Rambo I and II along with Born of the 4th of July have some poignant moments about post-war issues.
Little-known but in the original source novel of the first Rambo movie, the main antogonist was a Korean veteran who had a lot of the same inner-turmoil and rage as Rambo but had "successfully" (if you want to look at it that way) buried his true thoughts/feelings and lived an outwardly normal life. This gave him the ability to partially understand the Rambo character and eventually kill him at the end of the novel (but Rambo kills him, too). Obviously the movie changed all that.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(01-15-2016 11:41 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: (01-12-2016 05:10 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote: Rambo I and II along with Born of the 4th of July have some poignant moments about post-war issues.
Little-known but in the original source novel of the first Rambo movie, the main antogonist was a Korean veteran who had a lot of the same inner-turmoil and rage as Rambo but had "successfully" (if you want to look at it that way) buried his true thoughts/feelings and lived an outwardly normal life. This gave him the ability to partially understand the Rambo character and eventually kill him at the end of the novel (but Rambo kills him, too). Obviously the movie changed all that.
Having not read the books how would that Korean have fit in with the cop in the town? I mean, if that cop had of left Rambo alone there wouldn't have been any issues.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(01-16-2016 05:45 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote: Having not read the books how would that Korean have fit in with the cop in the town? I mean, if that cop had of left Rambo alone there wouldn't have been any issues.
Sorry I wasn't clear. The main cop character in the novel "First Blood" (published 1972) wasn't "Korean", he was an American who fought in Korea in the 1950-'53 era.
It's been at least 20 years since I read that book and I don't claim to remember every word. But my best recollection is that Rambo and the cop were portrayed in such a way that the reader would feel equal sympathy for both men, and recognize that the two characters had endured similar traumas.
By the time the film was made, Sylvester Stallone was at or near the peak of his box-office popularity, and the script was designed to make Rambo the exclusive hero (Stallone's character never directly kills anyone in the movie, for instance. In the book he kills several law-enforcement officers) and the cop (played by Brian Dennehy) as the primary villain.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
All time favorite: PATTON None better !
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
has anyone seen the miniseries the heavy water wars? it's about the allied attempt to thwart germany's nuclear program. it's on netflix and it was awesome. it could have been more than six episodes
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(06-25-2016 01:29 PM)Lush Wrote: has anyone seen the miniseries the heavy water wars? it's about the allied attempt to thwart germany's nuclear program. it's on netflix and it was awesome. it could have been more than six episodes
I have not Lush. Sounds pretty good. I did watch an old movie (1944) earlier today that I had never seen - The Fighting Sullivans. I was loosely familiar of the story of the five Irish-American brothers from Iowa who joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor and demanded to serve on the same ship because their bond was so strong. They all died together during the Battle of Guadalcanal leaving behind both parents and a sister. The youngest bother had a wife and toddler son. Most of the movie was pre-war but it had a poignant ending. Later, the Navy named two destroyers after them.
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(06-25-2016 06:37 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote: (06-25-2016 01:29 PM)Lush Wrote: has anyone seen the miniseries the heavy water wars? it's about the allied attempt to thwart germany's nuclear program. it's on netflix and it was awesome. it could have been more than six episodes
I have not Lush. Sounds pretty good. I did watch an old movie (1944) earlier today that I had never seen - The Fighting Sullivans. I was loosely familiar of the story of the five Irish-American brothers from Iowa who joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor and demanded to serve on the same ship because their bond was so strong. They all died together during the Battle of Guadalcanal leaving behind both parents and a sister. The youngest bother had a wife and toddler son. Most of the movie was pre-war but it had a poignant ending. Later, the Navy named two destroyers after them.
netflix? that sounds pretty powerful. do you know how loosely based? speaking of the bond that war creates. i read this guy's book sex at dawn and he talks about this
Quote:Christopher Ryan Ph.D. Christopher Ryan Ph.D.
Sex at Dawn
Not All Military Adultery Results in Scandal
Can military adultery support unit cohesion?
Posted Nov 16, 2012
When I give presentations or interviews, I'm often asked about the biggest surprises I came across in researching Sex at Dawn. I was reminded of this by all the recent talk about adultery among top military brass. As it turns out, not all adultery in the military is so scandalous.
Asked to imagine the first swingers in modern American history, most people probably picture hairy hippies in headbands lolling about on waterbeds in free-love communes under posters of Che Guevara and Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane on the hi-fi. But be cool, Daddy-O, ’cause the truth is gonna blow your mind.
It seems that the original modern American swingers were crew-cut World War II air force pilots and their wives. Like elite warriors everywhere, these “top guns” often developed strong bonds with one another, perhaps because they suffered the highest casualty rate of any branch of the military. According to journalist Terry Gould, “key parties,” like those later dramatized in the 1997 film The Ice Storm, originated on these military bases in the 1940s, where elite pilots and their wives intermingled sexually with one another before the men flew off toward Japanese antiaircraft fire.
Gould, author of The Lifestyle, a cultural history of the swinging movement in the United States, interviewed two researchers who’d written about this Air Force ritual. Joan and Dwight Dixon explained to Gould that these warriors and their wives “shared each other as a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.” The practice continued after the war ended and by the late 1940s, “military installations from Maine to Texas and California to Washington had thriving swing clubs,” writes Gould. By the end of the Korean War, in 1953, the clubs “had spread from the air bases to the surrounding suburbs among straight, white-collar professionals.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex...in-scandal
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(03-23-2016 10:06 AM)tigertom Wrote: All time favorite: PATTON None better !
I'd agree with that. Patton is one of the best movies ever made.
If I had to recommend one war movie I think everyone should see, it would be "Blackhawk Down."
Some other favorite 'war' films (in no particular order)
Lawrence of Arabia
Battle of Britain
Bridge over the River Kwai
Guns of Navarone
A Bridge Too Far
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
White Cliffs of Dover
MASH
The War Horse
Gallipoli
Live From Baghdad
The Great Escape
Battle of the Bulge
Kelly's Heroes
Breaker Morant
Where Eagles Dare
Conspiracy
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RE: What War Films Do You Consider A Must See?
(06-27-2016 09:52 AM)Lush Wrote: (06-25-2016 06:37 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote: (06-25-2016 01:29 PM)Lush Wrote: has anyone seen the miniseries the heavy water wars? it's about the allied attempt to thwart germany's nuclear program. it's on netflix and it was awesome. it could have been more than six episodes
I have not Lush. Sounds pretty good. I did watch an old movie (1944) earlier today that I had never seen - The Fighting Sullivans. I was loosely familiar of the story of the five Irish-American brothers from Iowa who joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor and demanded to serve on the same ship because their bond was so strong. They all died together during the Battle of Guadalcanal leaving behind both parents and a sister. The youngest bother had a wife and toddler son. Most of the movie was pre-war but it had a poignant ending. Later, the Navy named two destroyers after them.
netflix? that sounds pretty powerful. do you know how loosely based?
I watched it on Turner Classic Movies (DirecTV) but I don't know how accurate it was from the standpoint of the family's pre-war days. FWIW, The Fighting Sullivans did serve as the inspiration for Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan film in terms of the plot to get Private Ryan back to his family due to the war casualties of his siblings.
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