Top 5 war movies.

[Eelementary]

IMO, and war movies are generally films I don't enjoy:

* Paths Of Glory
* The Pianist
* The Thin Red Line
* Full Metal Jacket
* El Cid (technicallly it's a war film )

 

[Bulldog Force]

Saving Private Ryan
Bravehart
Full Metal Jacket
We were soldiers
Pearl Harbour

 

[Generalzod]

Not in any particuilar order:
Casualties of War
Full Metal jacket
300 Spartans (1962)
Platoon
Hamburger Hill

 

[perverse]

No it's not. FMJ was a movie about soldiers...preparing for and going to war.

What the Nazis did to the Jews in occupied Europe wasn't war, it was genocide. And in essence it was a movie about one man's struggle to do the right thing and make a difference whern surrounded by such evil.

Look, im sure that under a loose association it can be considered a war movie but it is IMO first and foremost a drama/biographical piece. The Pianist fall into the same category for me.

Ive never heard one movie critic mention Schindler's List when talking about their favourite war movies, which im sure they would if they considered it a war movie because its a masterpiece.

a list of links that consider Schindler's List a war film (note that it features prominently on all of these pages):
Top 50 War Movies - IMDB
Definition of War Film
Schindler's List Wiki Entry

First 4 lists i could find:

http://www.filmsite.org/greatwarfilms.html
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_war.html
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/reelrant/rantwar.htm
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2007/03/07/feature-page-15-11-films/

in fact... i challenge you to find a single list of war movies, chosen by critics, that does not include Schindler's List. you are flat out lying about hearing critics talk about war movies and not mentioning this movie - and i strongly suggest you find some sources to back up your ridiculous claims.

i don't care about your opinion on what genre you think schindler's list falls into - one of the genres is most certainly war film. that is just fact. your definition of war film is that it must be about soldiers in the trenches. that is false.

 

[hellteam]

perverse wins. I can't beleive you're even arguing it really Tommy Smith

 

[Parra]

And Sound of Music just became a war movie as well.

Nice one carcharias - but it seems it was in vain.

 

[Coaster]

Haha "The Pianist"

For some reason i was thinking of "The Piano" , i was thinking wtf?? a war movie? That movie was shiet

NM carry on

 

[simmo1]

The Patriot is a pretty good movie, if you ignore the ridiculous pro-American bias.

 

[Tommy Smith]

a list of links that consider Schindler's List a war film (note that it features prominently on all of these pages):
Top 50 War Movies - IMDB
Definition of War Film
Schindler's List Wiki Entry

First 4 lists i could find:

http://www.filmsite.org/greatwarfilms.html
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_war.html
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/reelrant/rantwar.htm
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2007/03/07/feature-page-15-11-films/

in fact... i challenge you to find a single list of war movies, chosen by critics, that does not include Schindler's List. you are flat out lying about hearing critics talk about war movies and not mentioning this movie - and i strongly suggest you find some sources to back up your ridiculous claims.

i don't care about your opinion on what genre you think schindler's list falls into - one of the genres is most certainly war film. that is just fact. your definition of war film is that it must be about soldiers in the trenches. that is false.

And yet you seem to think i care about your opinion.:?

Just settle down Champion. Don't take it too personally. No need to call me a liar...thats just mean. You made me cry when i read that.

Ive already stated that whilst it could be categorised as a war movie, it is quite clearly more of a drama/biographical movie. Just the same as the Sound of Music is a musical much moreso than it is a war movie.

And just on your IMDB war movies list, i notice that Casablanca comes second. Would you consider Casablanca a war movie? Because i consider it a romance. Its also quite ironic how IMBD doesn't consider Dr Strangelove a war movie when its more of a war movie than either of those two IMO...(and yet, to me, it still falls under the category of comedy [if that's alright with you, of course])

Look the bottom line here Champion is that there is no right or wrong. Its just that under my definition im not willing to categorize Schindlers List as a war movie. Just as i wont Casablanca, Braveheart etc etc

But under your definition they are. And thats fine. No need to get upset about it.

 

[Tommy Smith]

Btw ive noticed that rottentomatoes considers Schindler's List a drama.

SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man...

And that's how i'd describe it. Yes it takes place during WWII and is a biographical look at Schindler and the Holocaust, but hey, it s a drama....

Here's another:
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/schindlers_list

Schindler's List is a 1993 American drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

 

[carcharias]

And Sound of Music just became a war movie as well.

Nice one carcharias - but it seems it was in vain.

have you ever seen it?


An Austrian man and woman only climb over the swiss alps to escape the horrors of the Nazi's....with the 1940's equivelant of the brady bunch in tow might I add.

sure they break out into glorious song on one or two ocasions...but it is set in the middle of world war 2.

 

[OVP]

I havent heard anyone back up my claims about Biloxi Blues, which is a shame


Any movie with Christopher Walken owns, but this is a very special movie. Its based on a Neil Simon play but the movie was excellent too. I cant believe noone else has ever seen this ??? Tis bizarre sh*t lol.

 

[carcharias]

I have ..does it have ferris beuller in it?

 

[Baron Vo Mandor]

um

1) STRIPES
2) Private Benjiman
3) MASH
4) Tropic Thunder
5) Hot Shots

FMD u got in b4 me even had my first two picks!

 

[Chook Herron]

Combat Shock
To the Shores of Hell
The Odd Angry Shot
Das Boot
Brothers

 

[legend]

Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Black Hawk Down

I saw The green zone and hurt locker yesterday. Need to digest them before considering adding them to the list.

 

[MKEB...]

Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Escape from Sobibor
Von Ryans Express
The Dirty Dozen

Tour of Duty was the best of the TV programmes though

 

[Someone]

Whats everyone think of The Pacific? the tv show.

Personally i think its legendary.

 

[Carnifex]

Whats everyone think of The Pacific? the tv show.

Personally i think its legendary.

its the best tv show!!!!

 

[CGD]

First up, i'm not interested in debating semantics of often broadly defined film genres. If you don't believe my nominations fit the bill, then ignore them in your own mind and time.

With that, i'm disappointed that there was not a single mention of my all-time favourite film, Lawrence of Arabia. I just hope most people simply haven't seen it. The epic of all epics, it leaves even Return of the King in it's wake, because all we see is REAL. Sublime cast with a grand lead, working off one of the greatest screenplays, all under heroic direction in the desert. There will never be another movie made like it.

My next pick happens to also be my second favourite film of all-time. I can't believe somebody nominated Apocalypse Now as most overrated war movie. This sounds condescending, but I can only conclude that if you don't like Apocalypse Now, you simply don't have an appreciation of cinema. It's another movie who's likeness we'll never see again. Times have changed too much and studios just do not take risks like that anymore.

The final three places, in no particular order, would be The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Breaker Morant and The Bridge on the River Kwai.