Top 5 war films?

Azagoth said:
I assume you mean the recent remake as the original 1971 film is pretty decent movie.
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I mean the '71 original. I think the only good bits are Donald Sutherland as Jesus. The guy who played Joe Bonham was terrible. The whole film felt "flat" and nowhere near as emotive as the book. I think that's mostly due to the narrative throughout the film, like when he realises his face is missing and where his face used to be is just a whole in his head, when I read the book, I imagined the inner monologue of Bonhams character absolutely demented and screaming to himself. But in the film, it's just a continuous monotonous narrative monologue.
 
Where Eagles Dare is my all time number one. I will religously watch this film whenever is is repeated on TV, regardless of how many times I've seen it before, even though I also have it on dvd. Top five is completed by the usual Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Zulu. I've also always had a soft spot for Anzio, with Robert Mitchum/Peter Falk etc. Others which I don't think anyone else has mentioned yet but are well worth seeing, Bridge on the River Kwai, Battle of the Bulge, Guns of Navarone, Big Red One, Tora Tora Tora. I saw a documentary on Tora Tora Tora a while back and they pointed out the sheer level of danger in some of the plane crash stunts they did in that film. When you watch it back and look at the extras running for their lives at times it is scary what they could get away with in those days.
 
Bubo said:
Where Eagles Dare is my all time number one. I will religously watch this film whenever is is repeated on TV, regardless of how many times I've seen it before, even though I also have it on dvd. Top five is completed by the usual Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Zulu. I've also always had a soft spot for Anzio, with Robert Mitchum/Peter Falk etc. Others which I don't think anyone else has mentioned yet but are well worth seeing, Bridge on the River Kwai, Battle of the Bulge, Guns of Navarone, Big Red One, Tora Tora Tora. I saw a documentary on Tora Tora Tora a while back and they pointed out the sheer level of danger in some of the plane crash stunts they did in that film. When you watch it back and look at the extras running for their lives at times it is scary what they could get away with in those days.
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Totally. Except play Where Eagles Dare by Iron Maiden over the open credits.

Also enjoyed Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, because the combination of Bowie and Takeshi Kitano in a film couldn't be anything other than awesome.

The great escape was also brilliant simply due to the amount of big names.

Also enjoyed Hamburger Hill as it was rather odd.

And lastly, the deer hunter.
 
Damn, I forgot Casualties of War. This was the film that got me seriously into Vietnam War films back in the late 80's. It is a truely harrowing story.
 
1) Sound of music
2) Where Eagles Dare
3) Braveheart
4) Run Silent Run Deep
5) Red Dawn

Them are great films id also add -

The Dictator [C.Chaplin]
The General [Buster Keaton]
The Man who would be king
Zulu
King Rat
Catch 22
The Hill
Tursk
ColiN
 
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My order of preference;

1. Platoon
2. Jarhead
3. Brotherhood (Taegukgi)
4. Casualties of War
5. Downfall

All quite different in their portrayals, and only 1 film regarding the World Wars...and all relatively modern. :eek:
 
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