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05-07-2006, 07:22 PM
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Re: Good War Movies
my favorites have to be:
Band of Brothers Saving Prvate Ryan Three Kings Black Hawk Down Behind Enemy Lines Enemy at the Gates Platoon Hamburger Hill my all time favorite... Full Metal Jacket. and most of the other mentioned... i must say though anything with john wayne in it... i dont want to watch it...
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05-07-2006, 07:57 PM
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Comming late to the thread all the good and obvious suggestions have been taken, except for one of my favorites.
Sahara It's not realistic, it's not historically accurate. But it's a good B&W patriotic movie from the 40's. Hollywood produced a lot of them during that time. Some good , some bad, some that didn't hold their relevance over time. But Sahara is a good story with good characters. Plus I liked Bogart in a military role in this film. Filmed during World War II, this film was intended to be a propaganda piece for the U.S. government. Seargant Joe Gunn (Bogart) leads an abandoned tank unit after the fall of Tobruk in North Africa. The tanks picks up British, French, South African, and Sudanese soldiers along the way, becoming a microcosm of the Allied troops. The group works together to defeat a much larger German force that wants the same water well that they have. The film portrays all of the images that the U.S. deemed important for the American people see in regards to the war. Tex: "Where you from Joe"? Bogart: "No place Tex, just the Army" Great line.
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05-09-2006, 09:19 AM
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Das Boot Get the uncut German version almost four hours of goodstuff. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/
The Big Red One http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080437/ A Midnight Clear http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102443/ Hard to find bet one of the better war movies. A Bridge To Far http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075784/ Life Is Beautiful http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/ A war time movie that really shocked me by being good.
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05-09-2006, 10:21 AM
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Im a changed man. I watch FMJ and my outlook on life is completely different.
Great movies all of you.
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05-09-2006, 03:15 PM
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Nobody mentioned Thin Red Line. I loved that movie but it seems its a love it or hate it kind of film for most.
Green Berets Hell in the Pacific Flying Leathernecks The Seabees (Fighting Seabeas?) The Eagle Has Landed Where Eagles Dare Bridge Over the River Kwai (one of my faves--check out Alec Guinnes in this film) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Run silent Run Deep Wake Island Guadalcanal Diary PS...took a completely useless but ever so fun course in college that studied the evolution of the WWII combat film as a genre ...so this thread really hits home !!
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05-09-2006, 04:00 PM
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Enemy at the Gates and Memphis Belle are probably my favorites.
My father says that Good Morning, Vietnam actually came closest to his experiences.
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Results displayed by award category; sort is chronological Win indicated by an asterisk (*) 1975 (48th) BEST PICTURE Barry Lyndon -- Stanley Kubrick, Producer Dog Day Afternoon -- Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, Producers Jaws -- Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, Producers Nashville -- Robert Altman, Producer * One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers 1976 (49th) BEST PICTURE All the President's Men -- Walter Coblenz, Producer Bound for Glory -- Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, Producers Network -- Howard Gottfried, Producer * Rocky -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers Taxi Driver -- Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers 1977 (50th) BEST PICTURE * Annie Hall -- Charles H. Joffe, Producer The Goodbye Girl -- Ray Stark, Producer Julia -- Richard Roth, Producer Star Wars -- Gary Kurtz, Producer The Turning Point -- Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents, Producers 1978 (51st) BEST PICTURE Coming Home -- Jerome Hellman, Producer * The Deer Hunter -- Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, Producers Heaven Can Wait -- Warren Beatty, Producer Midnight Express -- Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, Producers An Unmarried Woman -- Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray, Producers 1979 (52nd) BEST PICTURE All That Jazz -- Robert Alan Aurthur, Producer Apocalypse Now -- Francis Coppola, Producer; Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg, Co-Producers Breaking Away -- Peter Yates, Producer * Kramer vs. Kramer -- Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer Norma Rae -- Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose, Producers 1980 (53rd) BEST PICTURE Coal Miner's Daughter -- Bernard Schwartz, Producer The Elephant Man -- Jonathan Sanger, Producer * Ordinary People -- Ronald L. Schwary, Producer Raging Bull -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers Tess -- Claude Berri, Producer; Timothy Burrill, Co-Producer 1981 (54th) BEST PICTURE Atlantic City -- Denis Heroux and John Kemeny, Producers * Chariots of Fire -- David Puttnam, Producer On Golden Pond -- Bruce Gilbert, Producer Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Frank Marshall, Producer Reds -- Warren Beatty, Producer 1982 (55th) BEST PICTURE E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial -- Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers * Gandhi -- Richard Attenborough, Producer Missing -- Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis, Producers Tootsie -- Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards, Producers The Verdict -- Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, Producers 1983 (56th) BEST PICTURE The Big Chill -- Michael Shamberg, Producer The Dresser -- Peter Yates, Producer The Right Stuff -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers Tender Mercies -- Philip S. Hobel, Producer * Terms of Endearment -- James L. Brooks, Producer 1984 (57th) BEST PICTURE * Amadeus -- Saul Zaentz, Producer The Killing Fields -- David Puttnam, Producer A Passage to India -- John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, Producers Places in the Heart -- Arlene Donovan, Producer A Soldier's Story -- Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick Palmer, Producers 1985 (58th) BEST PICTURE The Color Purple -- Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Quincy Jones, Producers Kiss of the Spider Woman -- David Weisman, Producer * Out of Africa -- Sydney Pollack, Producer Prizzi's Honor -- John Foreman, Producer Witness -- Edward S. Feldman, Producer 1986 (59th) BEST PICTURE Children of a Lesser God -- Burt Sugarman and Patrick Palmer, Producers Hannah and Her Sisters -- Robert Greenhut, Producer The Mission -- Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam, Producers * Platoon -- Arnold Kopelson, Producer A Room with a View -- Ismail Merchant, Producer 1987 (60th) BEST PICTURE Broadcast News -- James L. Brooks, Producer Fatal Attraction -- Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, Producers Hope and Glory -- John Boorman, Producer * The Last Emperor -- Jeremy Thomas, Producer Moonstruck -- Patrick Palmer and Norman Jewison, Producers 1988 (61st) BEST PICTURE The Accidental Tourist -- Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun and Michael Grillo, Producers Dangerous Liaisons -- Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean, Producers Mississippi Burning -- Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry, Producers * Rain Man -- Mark Johnson, Producer Working Girl -- Douglas Wick, Producer 1989 (62nd) BEST PICTURE Born on the Fourth of July -- A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, Producers Dead Poets Society -- Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, Producers * Driving Miss Daisy -- Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers Field of Dreams -- Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon, Producers My Left Foot -- Noel Pearson, Producer 1990 (63rd) BEST PICTURE Awakenings -- Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, Producers * Dances With Wolves -- Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers Ghost -- Lisa Weinstein, Producer The Godfather, Part III -- Francis Ford Coppola, Producer Good Fellas -- Irwin Winkler, Producer 1991 (64th) BEST PICTURE Beauty and the Beast -- Don Hahn, Producer Bugsy -- Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty, Producers JFK -- A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, Producers The Prince of Tides -- Barbra Streisand and Andrew Karsch, Producers * The Silence of the Lambs -- Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers 1992 (65th) BEST PICTURE The Crying Game -- Stephen Woolley, Producer A Few Good Men -- David Brown, Rob Reiner and Andrew Scheinman, Producers Howards End -- Ismail Merchant, Producer Scent of a Woman -- Martin Brest, Producer * Unforgiven -- Clint Eastwood, Producer 1993 (66th) BEST PICTURE The Fugitive -- Arnold Kopelson, Producer In the Name of the Father -- Jim Sheridan, Producer The Piano -- Jan Chapman, Producer The Remains of the Day -- Mike Nichols, John Calley and Ismail Merchant, Producers * Schindler's List -- Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, Producers 1994 (67th) BEST PICTURE * Forrest Gump -- Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers Four Weddings and a Funeral -- Duncan Kenworthy, Producer Pulp Fiction -- Lawrence Bender, Producer Quiz Show -- Robert Redford, Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin and Michael Nozik, Producers The Shawshank Redemption -- Niki Marvin, Producer 1995 (68th) BEST PICTURE Apollo 13 -- Brian Grazer, Producer Babe -- George Miller, Doug Mitchell and Bill Miller, Producers * Braveheart -- Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers The Postman (Il Postino) -- Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Gaetano Daniele, Producers Sense and Sensibility -- Lindsay Doran, Producer 1996 (69th) BEST PICTURE * The English Patient -- Saul Zaentz, Producer Fargo -- Ethan Coen, Producer Jerry Maguire -- James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai and Cameron Crowe, Producers Secrets & Lies -- Simon Channing-Williams, Producer Shine -- Jane Scott, Producer 1997 (70th) BEST PICTURE As Good As It Gets -- James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson and Kristi Zea, Producers The Full Monty -- Uberto Pasolini, Producer Good Will Hunting -- Lawrence Bender, Producer L.A. Confidential -- Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson and Michael Nathanson, Producers * Titanic -- James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers 1998 (71st) BEST PICTURE Elizabeth -- Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, Producers Life Is Beautiful -- Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi, Producers Saving Private Ryan -- Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn, Producers * Shakespeare in Love -- David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers The Thin Red Line -- Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill, Producers 1999 (72nd) BEST PICTURE * American Beauty -- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers The Cider House Rules -- Richard N. Gladstein, Producer The Green Mile -- David Valdes and Frank Darabont, Producers The Insider -- Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge, Producers The Sixth Sense -- Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel, Producers 2000 (73rd) BEST PICTURE Chocolat -- David Brown, Kit Golden and Leslie Holleran, Producers Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong and Ang Lee, Producers Erin Brockovich -- Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, Producers * Gladiator -- Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers Traffic -- Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Laura Bickford, Producers 2001 (74th) BEST PICTURE * A Beautiful Mind -- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Producers Gosford Park -- Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy, Producers In the Bedroom -- Graham Leader, Ross Katz and Todd Field, Producers The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne, Producers Moulin Rouge -- Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann and Fred Baron, Producers 2002 (75th) BEST PICTURE * Chicago -- Martin Richards, Producer Gangs of New York -- Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein, Producers The Hours -- Scott Rudin and Robert Fox, Producers The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers -- Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, Producers The Pianist -- Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, Producers 2003 (76th) BEST PICTURE * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers Lost in Translation -- Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola, Producers Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir and Duncan Henderson, Producers Mystic River -- Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Clint Eastwood, Producers Seabiscuit -- Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Gary Ross, Producers 2004 (77th) BEST PICTURE The Aviator -- Michael Mann and Graham King, Producers Finding Neverland -- Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower, Producers * Million Dollar Baby -- Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, Producers Ray -- Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin and Howard Baldwin, Producers Sideways -- Michael London, Producer 2005 (78th) BEST PICTURE Brokeback Mountain -- Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers Capote -- Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers * Crash -- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers Good Night, and Good Luck. -- Grant Heslov, Producer Munich -- Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers And it looks like I was wrong about it winning Best Picture. It lost to Shakespeare in Love, and Benigni lost to Spielberg for Director, too. But, c'mon, look at that list. Look at all the great movies on it! Look at how many we've already named in this thread, that are on that list! <shrug> Different strokes for different folks... Ooh, and call the SAS or Delta, 'cause this thread has been hijacked!
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05-11-2006, 04:08 AM
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Re: Good War Movies
Some of my favs (almost all mentioned):
Saving Pvt Ryan Crimson Tide (not really a war, but could've started one  )Dirty Dozen Platoon Bridge too Far Battle of the Bulge Empire of the Sun Schinlder's List FMJ and Deer Hunter |
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