Ressurrecting: Best War Movie Ever!

[SL__72]

I apparently missed your point.

[jakethebake]

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This is pretty good. Add Scott's speech from Patton at the very beginning and throw in the last ten minutes of the Deer Hunter at the very end.

Swede

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Let's cast this thing. R. Lee Ermey and Lou Gossett Jr. would play the D.I.'s. John Wayne would play the General character who gives the Patton-esque speech. Lee Marvin would play the gruff, no-nonsense sergeant. Sean Penn would play the stoner vet ending his tour of duty. Steve McQueen would play the smart-assed con artist, always looking to make a cheap buck off of the war. And Audie Murphy would play the fresh faced kid from Kentucky who enlists with good intentions, but then recognizes the horrors of war and then dies.

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The fresh-faced kid always dies.

[SL__72]

And Robert Duvall playing the aptly named Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore.

[MrMon]

Not on list:

"Battleground". Spielberg mentions it as highly influential, and it is a pretty good lesser known movie.

Haven't seen it, but does "A Very Long Engagement" qualify?

"Master & Commander". It's better than some of the movies on the list.

"Napoleon". 1927 silent version. Merely one of the great movies of all time.

[SL__72]

I personally wouldn't count A Very Long Engagement. While it deals with war, the main storyline is a Woman looking for her fiance who may or may not have died.

[samjjones]

Or crippled, ala The Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, Johnny Get Your Gun, Coming Home, etc.

[swede123]

Good suggestions! I'll add Battleground, Master & Commander and Napoleon to the list.

Swede

[Rduke55]

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Here are the movies mentioned in the previous thread. I've eliminated epics that are more drama than war, as well as goofy stuff that shouldn't be considered. Is this list missing anything? Should any of these be eliminated? Beernutz, if you want to pick this back up feel free, it's too important a poll to be forgotten!!!!

A Bridge Too Far
Battle of the Bulge
Big Red One
Black Hawk Down
Boys in Company C
Courage Under Fire
Das Boot
U-571
From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Glory
Hamburger Hill
Kelly's Hero's
Patton
Platoon
Run Silent Run Deep
Saving Pvt. Ryan
Sergeant York
Soldier of Orange
Stalag 17
The African Queen
The Bridge over the River Kwai
The Caine Mutiny
The Deerhunter
The Dirty Dozen
The Eagle has Landed
The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone
The Longest Day
Tora, Tora, Tora
We Were Soldiers
Where Eagles Dare
Zulu
Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line
To Hell and Back
Tigerland
Gods & Generals
Midway
The Bedford Incident
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Born on the Fourth of July
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Patriot
Casualties of War
Catch-22
M*A*S*H
Enemy at the Gates
Iron Cross
Paths of Glory
Idi I Smotiri
Tae Guk Gi
War and Peace
Three Kings
Heartbreak Ridge
The Beast
The Green Berets
Flight of the Intruder
Missing in Action
Jonny Got His Gun
The Enemy Below
Sink the Bismarck!
The Blue Max
Behind Enemy Lines
Downfall
The Killing Fields
Dr. Strangelove

Swede

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My top three are:
Guns of Navarone
Zulu
Bridge on the River Kwai

Just total badass movies of guys up against bad odds and prevailing.

Am I a traitor because two of those are about the British army?

[slavic]

I keep thinking of movies that really tie in the war to the civilian populace, like Beyond Rangoon, Hotel Rawanda, When Heavne and Earth Changed Places, ect ect. I realize that may not fit but I find it just as compelling.

You are absolutely missing "A Midnight Clear".