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So due to the day I was wondering what where folks fave, most respectful, interesting.. mix of the above, War Films based on actual History. I'm mainly thinking WW1 and WW2, but any other war films could also be discussed.
Also on a Side note is there any battles you think deserve a movie but for whatever reason have never recieved one?
As for myself,
fave war movie is probably either 'The Longest Day' or 'Gettysburg.'
The Longest Day is a great film, partially for the number of big actors they got to play cameos at the time, however Gettysburg is truely an amazing film, and is possibly one of my fave films of all time. The only problem with it, is finding 4hrs to watch it.
Regarding a battle not made into a film (well I haven't been able to find one so far,) the one that sticks out in my mind is Kohima. Maybe because it was in India and folks tend to forget the war reached there, but it was such an important defeat for the Japanese, I'm surprised no one has made it into a film. Would be really interesting battle to see as a movie as well.
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For a lesser known movie; here's my favorite one from South Korea and it deals with the "Forgotten War" aka Korean War: Tae Guk Gi. Definitely had a lot of Saving Private Ryan influence and took those battle/gruesome scenes to another level:
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Oh, and the first person to say 'U571' is a good historical film wins a free kick in the nuts from me, and no doubt the relatives of the men involved in the true version...
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Anyway, I like the Longest Day for many reasons, one of them being that everybody speaks their own language and none of the British accented German or Allo Allo French. There's also Das Boot for obvious reasons and the little known "Die Brucke" which is a great anti-war movie from 1959 West Germany.
Anything where the British lose to a revolting _______.
Mostly because it just pisses of the Brits. Secondly, because Braveheart is the greatest, and clearly most accurate, historical war movie of all time. OF ALL TIME.
If we were serious, I would say The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan rank up there.
Altered_Soul wrote:Anything where the British lose to a revolting _______.
Mostly because it just pisses of the Brits. Secondly, because Braveheart is the greatest, and clearly most accurate, historical war movie of all time. OF ALL TIME.
If we were serious, I would say The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan rank up there.
And Star Wars.
I thought Braveheart had quite a few historical inaccurices? But the war film I love to watch over and over again is Zulu, even though the Biritsh had guns and the zulu's had pointy sticks (unfair I think) it was still quite good.
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I recall a lot of the Zulus having guns themselves in real life. They weren't as professional of an army as the British, but they were certainly formidable opponents.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
More of a heist movie really, but Kelly's Heroes is one of my favourites. Along similar lines (i.e. totally ridiculous plot), Where Eagles Dare is pretty cool too. Not sure why but Richard Burton's "Gentlemen, see you after the war." is one of my favourite lines in cinema.
As for "real" war movies, let's throw The Dambusters in there. Another totally ridiculous plot, which makes it all the more amazing that they actually did it.
Oh and can I have Seven Samurai too? I will never tire of watching this film.
Going to watch Days of Glory over the weekend at some point, not seen that one yet.
Armies:
(CSM/HH) - Iron Warriors; Death Guard; World Eaters; Night Lords
IG - Vestfalian Expeditionary
Force (Solar Auxilia - HH)
SM - Blades of Inaros (Homebrew)
DE - Kabal of Ouroboros
Anything where the British lose to a revolting _______.
Mostly because it just pisses of the Brits.
Right then. I'm choosing Pearl Harbour, any Vietnam film and any Korean War film.
Just to piss off YOU.
Seriously though:
Zulu
The Dambusters
Where Eagles Dare
The Colditz Story
The Great Escape
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Von Ryan's Express
The Guns Of Navarone
But a really good one that I saw on film4 recently is '9th Company' about the Russians in Afghanistan. It's subtitled (and fething 3 hours long, or something), but well worth a watch.
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Black Hawk Down
Bridge on the River Kwai
Braveheart
300
The Messenger - The story of Joan of Arc (no, not the sappy romantic one).
Platoon
Born on the 4th of July
Band of Brothers (though as stated not an actual movie, just a tv series).
SPR is at the top because it's my favorite of all time. Spielberg did his homework for that movie and it shows. I saw it in theaters and saw what I can only assume to be WW2 vets actually crying. That's powerful stuff.
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