Best war films

Boo or Boo-urns said:
~ Waterloo (1970)
~ Come and See (1985)
~ Ran (1985)
~ Glory (1989)
~ The Thin Red Line (1998)
~ The Beast / Beast of War (1998)
~ Master and Commander (2003)
~ Der Untergang / Downfall (2004)
~ 9th Company (2005)
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Still love Master and Commander
Two good ones on tonight , Where eagles dare and Kellys heroes cannel 9 bbc 4
 
FFS boys and girls Escape to victory with Buzzer ;-)
There was a recentish one with the Aussies in Nam pretty bloody good, not glammed up.
 
The Caine Mutiny - WWII (Pacific War + courtroom)
Paths of Glory - WWI (French Army + courtroom)
A Few Good Men - Jack Nicholson War (US Marines + courtroom)

But after three years of Russian invasion of Ukraine and some footage Ukrainians are taking, Azov units in particular, the war movies become almost redundant.

But my favourite pure war movie is The Thin Red Line, I know it is the war movie, but I am mesmerized every time I watch it, always finding some new details. Obviously every male actor in Hollywood wanted to be in it and this is what somebody who knows a bit more about movies than me thinks about it.

 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
Saving private Ryan is up there for the historical accuracy of the opening scene and much of the film in terms of getting things about right. However it's let down by the plot to an extent.

Band of brothers was the same production team and Tom Hanks involved and it was very much the same quality of accuracy. And a better plot as it followed a real life story of a company where many survived the war so lots of 1st hand accounts and documentation of what happened.

War films don't really need a plot.

A great example is the heroes of telemark. It's not a great film. But the story is bonkers. That's 1 film I'd like to see remaid.
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The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan is fantastic but in no way is it historically accurate. It's littered with mistakes.

The most glaring one is that section of Omaha beach was assaulted by both American and British troops. Not a single British troop is depicted in the assault.

The German bunker complex didn't exist on the part of the beach. They had much smaller pillbox bunkers on the bluff. It was mainly just machine gun nests.

The German soldiers are firing the MG42 machine gun for at least 10 seconds. That just wouldn't happen as the gun would overheat and potentially melt the barrel. They could only fire the gun in 3-5 second bursts

3 medics are treating one wounded soldier. This absolutely would not happen as medics were under strict orders for one medic to treat one soldier at a time to reduce multiple medics being killed at the same time

The Czech Hedgehogs (the metal cross barriers on the beach) are the wrong way round

The Allies managed to get multiple vehicles on the beach during the assault (tanks keeps ect) but none are on the beach
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
First half yes.
Second half not as good.

Less interesting, anti-climactic and awful sets that look like what they were — the back lot of a London studio.

But the basic training stuff was immensely powerful and brilliant.
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The second half was mostly shot at the derelict Beckton Gas Works in Docklands, East London. It wasn't a back lot. Bizarrely the gas works was built by the same architect as parts of Hue in Vietnam where the second half is set (during the Tet offensive), so it was kind of accurate and why it was selected by the location scouts. They had to import loads of palm trees though, as they didn't really grow in Beckton
 
allblackcitizen said:
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The second half was mostly shot at the derelict Beckton Gas Works in Docklands, East London. It wasn't a back lot. Bizarrely the gas works was built by the same architect as parts of Hue in Vietnam where the second half is set (during the Tet offensive), so it was kind of accurate and why it was selected by the location scouts. They had to import loads of palm trees though, as they didn't really grow in Beckton
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Thanks for the correction.

But it doesn’t change much in terms of the second half lacking the punch of the first half.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Thanks for the correction.

But it doesn’t change much in terms of the second half lacking the punch of the first half.
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In direct contrast to the first half perhaps not. The interactions between the main characters and R. Lee Emery certainly gave the first half some punch, but if you take the second half in isolation it is still pretty edgy and dark in places.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan is fantastic but in no way is it historically accurate. It's littered with mistakes.

The most glaring one is that section of Omaha beach was assaulted by both American and British troops. Not a single British troop is depicted in the assault.

The German bunker complex didn't exist on the part of the beach. They had much smaller pillbox bunkers on the bluff. It was mainly just machine gun nests.

The German soldiers are firing the MG42 machine gun for at least 10 seconds. That just wouldn't happen as the gun would overheat and potentially melt the barrel. They could only fire the gun in 3-5 second bursts

3 medics are treating one wounded soldier. This absolutely would not happen as medics were under strict orders for one medic to treat one soldier at a time to reduce multiple medics being killed at the same time

The Czech Hedgehogs (the metal cross barriers on the beach) are the wrong way round

The Allies managed to get multiple vehicles on the beach during the assault (tanks keeps ect) but none are on the beach
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Remember my dad telling me they were unscrewing a lightbulb the wrong way when we were watching Guns of Navarone. You’d have loved each other’s company!!
 
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