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Silent Kitten
09-02-2007, 10:33 PM
I happened to be sittin in history class the other day and I began to think of great war movies. Here are my pics for the best war movie of all time:
1. Patton
2. Schindler's List
3. Platoon
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Enemy at the Gates
Tiamat66
09-02-2007, 10:45 PM
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
The Thin Red Line
Enemy at the Gates
Platoon
Elfire313
09-04-2007, 06:01 PM
Well if "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" is a war movie I guess that means all Westerns so...
The Longest Day (Best war movie ever)
Enemy at the Gates
El Dorado
Band of Brothers series (movie like)
A Bridge too Far
Thrak360
09-04-2007, 06:35 PM
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Platoon
JoeCool7835
09-05-2007, 03:05 AM
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (I know it was a miniseries, but it was long enough to count for FIVE movies)
Gettysburg
The Patriot
oneshotbilly
09-05-2007, 03:35 AM
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Great Escape
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. We Were Soldiers
5. The Big Red One
Krueger
09-05-2007, 03:46 AM
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the Gate
Band of Brothers
Blackhawk Down
Letter of Iwa Jima
deathbypig37x
09-05-2007, 03:48 AM
The Longest Day (Best war movie ever)
At least I've met someone with some sense.:p
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Platoon, Windtalkers, We Were Soldiders, Bamd of Brothers, Patton, and Flags of Our Fathers
5. Letters from Iwo Jima (F*ck you guys that movie was among the greats)
4. Full Metal Jacket
3. Saving Private Ryan
2. Sands of Iwo Jima (another old black and white one)
1. The Longest Day (black and white)
Silent Kitten
09-05-2007, 03:54 AM
Dude...not to sound shitty or anything...but The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly takes place during the Civil War. They join the Confederate army at one point!!!
Spyponder
09-05-2007, 08:22 AM
1. Band of Brothers (I agree it should count as a movie)
2. Letters of Iwo Jima
3. Flags of Our Fathers
4. Full Metal Jacket
5.Saving Private Ryan ( My first real war movie)
Honorable mentions: Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Patton, A Bridge too Far, The Dirty Dozen, Gettysburg, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, The Longest Day ( Never saw it fully, too long for one sitting) and The Patriot.
Steelhead
09-05-2007, 12:15 PM
Patton
The Deer Hunter
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
The Wicker Man
09-05-2007, 04:24 PM
1 Breaker Morant
2 Zulu
3 Thin Red Line
4 Where Eagles Dare
5 Glory
RoT_xFaithx
09-06-2007, 01:06 PM
300
War of the World
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly...yah this is awesome:woop:
Rammbone
09-06-2007, 01:11 PM
Blackhawk Down
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Hambuger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
jarhead1990
09-06-2007, 04:44 PM
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Jarhead
BlaZiN cdn
09-09-2007, 07:15 PM
In no order:
- Blackhawk Down
- Saving Private Ryan
- Full Metal Jacket
- Platoon
Can't think of a Fith ATM.
cc99999
09-09-2007, 07:23 PM
1. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
2. The Grand Illusion (Renoir)
3. Die Nibelungen (Lang)
4. Mash (Altman)
5. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
Cause
09-09-2007, 08:28 PM
1). Full Metal Jacket
2). Black Hawk down
3). Tears of the Sun
4). Glory
5). The patriot
Silent Kitten
09-14-2007, 05:51 AM
Well guys...I took The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly off my top because it's more western than war. So, my list is now complete. :)
getbusy1242
09-15-2007, 06:08 PM
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The dirty dozen
3. Platoon
4. Kelly's Heros
5. Jarhead
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