Favorite Military/War Movies?

[subzero]

-Full Metal Jacket
-Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
-Bridge Over The River Kwai
-Stripes
-Taps

 

[blue]

Ditto...plus Full Metal Jacket

 

[bbq engineer]

You have all listed some great movies...I submit Tropic Thunder, because

Everyone knows you never go full retard!


LMAO!!

 

[fire it up]

I can't stop laughing now, I LOVE that movie!!!!!

 

[cajunsmoke13]

Platoon, Hamburger Hill

 

[alblancher]

Away All Boats
with Jeff Chandler

 

[alx]

Great choices....

 

[rw willy]

The Guns of Navarone
Das Boot
Full metal Jacket

Nice thread Thanks

 

[mr mac]

Mine are:

Strategic Air Command
They Were Expendable
Braveheart
The Final Countdown
Kelly's Heroes
Green Berets

 

[travcoman45]

Guns a Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
Dirty Dozen
Green Berets
We were soldiers
Appocolypse now
Heartbreak Ridge

 

[mulepackin]

Most of my favorites have already been listed. There is one more Alistair MacLean movie that I've liked since I was a kid: Where Eagles Dare. Great thriller, I think there even used to be a mountain fortress play set based on it or Guns of Navarone back then.

 

[zapper]

All great movies! No complaints about any of the above.

"Mo Pic Charlie" was a haunting flick for sure and somewhat obscure, glad to see that somebody other than me actually saw it. LRRP at its typical.

"The Lost Battalion" with, believe it or not, Ricky Schroder, is a great flick. Look for the line "Now this, you got to worry about" up close and personal is the worst of it all

While maybe not a full blown war movie, "Blood Diamonds" seemed like the coming of age movie for Leonardo DeCapri. I never would have thought that Schroder or Dicapri would break the teenager typecast that I had of them but war will make a man out of anyone even if it is just Hollyweird.



What is my favorite?

Well I Guess it would just have to be what ever is playing in front of me at the moment.

 

[beer-b-q]

Has to be

Kelly's Heroes
Flight of the Intruder
Green Berets
and too many more to mention...

 

[deltadude]

I'm a war film buff. If I can get my fire wire to computer setup working, I will be recording every war film as a project.

My top ten (Not in any particular order) If they are on I'm watching them....

•Band of Brothers, I have read so much about the series, several associated books, etc, it is a great war series and a great tribute to our fathers and grand fathers that fought in WWII, my father was combat engineer in Pacific in WWII. Maybe cause of my dad I joined the Navy and still got shipped to Vietnam.

•Black Hawk Down

•We Were Soldiers

•Das Boot

•Run Silent Run Deep

•Zulu

•Patton

•To Hell in Back

•The longest Day

•Kelly's Heroes

Memberable War Movies I watch over and over... (In No Special Order)

-Midway
-Enemy At the Gate
-Ran
-The Killing Fields
-Pork Chop Hill, first war movie I ever saw in the theater.
-Gettysburg
-North and the South
-Saving Private Ryan
-Battle of the Bulge
-Bat 21
-Tora Tora Tora
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Good Morning Vietnam
-Platoon
-Where Eagles Dare
-U-571
-The Dirty Dozen
-The longest Day
-The Patriot
-The Last of the Mohicans
-A Bridge Too Far, read Ryan's book is an incrediable account of this desperate struggle, Operation Market Garden.
-The Big Red One
-Gallipoli
-The Great Escape
-The Lost Battalion
-The Blue Max
-The Cross of Iron (wish they would show this on tV more)
-The Desert Fox
-MacArthur
-Empire of the Sun
-The Dawn Patrol
-The Enemy Below
-Glory
Fictional wars, but great movies
The Hunt for Red October
Crimson Tide
Red Dawn

 

[diesel fanatic]

The Longest Day and Hot Shots!

 

[chisoxjim]

I have to add:

Patton(unfortunately they dont make em' like him anymore)
Midway

 

[flatbroke]

I like alot of what has been mentioned but would like to add Brave Heart, and The Fighting Kentukian.

 

[hdsmoke]

2 good ones i didnt see listed:

The Patriot and We Were Soldiers

 

[hdsmoke]

Oh man, i forgot...U-571 and The Hunt For Red October!

 

[linbru]

Deltadude pretty much summed it all up and you can add in all the John Wayne moves Westerns/war(old west) or war movies.