What's the Best War Movie?

[longknife]

A Stars & Stripes poll.


Biggest vote getter = Saving Private Ryan with 28%


I voted for The Longest Day


Vote yourself @ The best war movie ever You decide - U.S. - Stripes

 

[Sherry]

I chose The Deer Hunter...I appreciated the layers of the movie, and I liked the chemistry between DeNiro and Streep.

 

[Ringel05]

Letters from Iwo Jima, as a historian I like to see wars from the opposite side. One of the others that is extremely good is the Russian made Fortress Brest, set during Operation Barbarossa. Very well made modern film (post Soviet era) with English subtitles.

 

[S.J.]

So many good ones. Full Metal Jacket is a good one.

 

[Porker]

My favorite isn't on the list...BATTLEGROUND

 

[toxicmedia]

Huh?.............all of these are great movies

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Glory (1989)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• American Sniper (2014)
• Patton (1970)
• Platoon (1986)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Hurt Locker (2008)
• M*A*S*H (1972)
• Lone Survivor (2013)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970)

I'm not sure if I can choose.

I don't consider Good Morning Vietnam a war movie.

I've not seen "Paths of Glory"

But my top 3 are Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, and Apocolypse Now.

I'm pleased that Pearl Harbor didn't even make the list.

And I'd give honorable mention to The Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[Roadrunner]

A Stars & Stripes poll.


Biggest vote getter = Saving Private Ryan with 28%


I voted for The Longest Day


Vote yourself @ The best war movie ever You decide - U.S. - Stripes

Sgt. York with Gary Cooper, or, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lew Ayres, I think.

 

[Roadrunner]

Huh?.............all of these are great movies

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Glory (1989)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• American Sniper (2014)
• Patton (1970)
• Platoon (1986)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Hurt Locker (2008)
• M*A*S*H (1972)
• Lone Survivor (2013)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970)

I'm not sure if I can choose.

I don't consider Good Morning Vietnam a war movie.

I've not seen "Paths of Glory"

But my top 3 are Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, and Apocolypse Now.

I'm pleased that Pearl Harbor didn't even make the list.

And I'd give honorable mention to The Bridge on the River Kwai

A Pack of Lies Now????

Didn't even read past that.

 

[Porker]

 

[Nosmo King]

Perhaps The Best Years of Our Lives should be on the list. It won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1946. The story of returning veterans and the impact of war on them, their families and communities made just a year after World War II ended, it is real, heartfelt and tragic.

Maybe the best war movie strips away the glamor of war perceived by those who never fought.

 

[PredFan]

Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heros
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Patton
The Dirty Dozen

I didn't care for Deer Hunter or Apocalypse Now at all. Good Morning Viet Nam just plain sucked.

 

[Roadrunner]

Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heros
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Patton
The Dirty Dozen

I didn't care for Deer Hunter or Apocalypse Now at all.

I enjoyed the Deer Hunter, but found it improbable; Apocalypse Now was just stupid.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Bridge over River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
It's not a movie, but the series "Band of Brothers" was good.
Midway
Patton....

 

[PredFan]

Bridge over River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
It's not a movie, but the series "Band of Brothers" was good.
Midway
Patton....

I forgot about Midway!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Bridge over River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
It's not a movie, but the series "Band of Brothers" was good.
Midway
Patton....

I forgot about Midway!

It's great isn't it.
Every couple years on a crappy, cold Sunday afternoon (after the football season is over of course)...I watch this one.

 

[S.J.]

Stalag 17

 

[S.J.]

Post WWll - Operation Eichmann.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heros
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Patton
The Dirty Dozen

I didn't care for Deer Hunter or Apocalypse Now at all. Good Morning Viet Nam just plain sucked.

Good Morning Vietnam isn't really a war movie IMO.
It is a good movie if you just appreciate the comedy and the story of Robins character and forget the political understory trying to make the NV look like heros.

 

[PredFan]

There are only 3 movies ever made that make my eyes tear up.

Saving Private Ryan at the end where he asks his wife to tell him he was a good man.

Gladiator where the emperor's sister says "He was a soldier of Rone, honor him!"

Braveheart where at the end, he sees his dead wife in the crowd and she smiles at him.

 

[PredFan]

Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heros
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Patton
The Dirty Dozen

I didn't care for Deer Hunter or Apocalypse Now at all. Good Morning Viet Nam just plain sucked.

Good Morning Vietnam isn't really a war movie IMO.
It is a good movie if you just appreciate the comedy and the story of Robins character and forget the political understory trying to make the NV look like heros.

I'm old enough to have watched Robin Williams when he was on Mork & Mindy. His comedy style got old really fast.