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     Apocalypse Now
 
     Yahoo rated Saving Private Ryan number 1
 
     Friggin hilarious
 
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von ryans express
 
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Even Pearl Harbor was better.
 
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Platoon.  If you consider Band of Brothers a "movie" than that as well.
 
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Thin Red Line.
 
Private Ryan #1
 
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Saving Private Ryan was pretty badass....
 
Enemy at the Gates was kickass as well...
 
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Of course, the "latest" movies would be rated higher. I'm not knocking Platoon or Saving Private Ryan. Both are epic.
 
But during WWII, any movie made in Hollywood, got shipped right to our boys ASAP. They got to see these flicks first. Does that make them the "best"? I don't know.  But any movie shown to a soldier before the Battle of Midway has got my vote.......
 
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We're all here in respective calm but "Enemy At the Gates was pretty close to being dead last in all war movies ever made.
Just my opinion sir...respctfully.
 
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Enemy At the Gates may not be the best but it's definately not the worst. that is reserved for the 2001 movie Pearl Harbour which is pure schlock.
 
I found Enemy at the Gates interesting because it was about the Battle of Stalingrad and "The Great Patriotic War" is underplayed in western media. 
 
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No love for Patton ?
 
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Apocalypse now was great.  Platoon and Full Metal Jacket should be up there too.  A lot of people tend to rate the recent movies higher because they had more budget for special effects.  Saving Private Ryan was good but I liked Black Hawk Down better.
 
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Hamburger Hill is my favorite and I think is the most underrated war movie ever made.
 
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Not a fan of many oldies but The Longest Day was a good one. 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Seldombeter:

Hamburger Hill is my favorite and I think is the most underrated war movie ever made.

Agree, very underrated.

Apocalypse Now might be my #1 war movie, but it had a lot less to do with war like the others, but the plot was better, a lot more dark.

Full Metal Jacket is my #2.

Saving Private Ryan could easily been #1 if Tom Hanks doesn't let the German go free.  God, that ruined the entire movie.  BoB is what SPR should of been.

 
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The top three for me go like this:
 
Apocalypse Now
 
The Thin Red Line
 
Full Metal Jacket
 
 
 
then there are a bunch of movies between #3 and Saving Matt Damon.... which, aside from an interesting opening scene, was pretty fucking shallow... shit, I'm not sure that it was better than TAPS or The Big Red One..... LOL... at least no one has mentioned First Blood... "Do we get to win this time?"  
 
 
 
 
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Platoon
 
 
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Sleeper pick: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
 
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Battle of the Bulge
 
Saving Private Ryan
 
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Full Metal Jacket

no love for the Big Red One?  with Lee Marvin?
 
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I'll give you the worst... Miracle at St. Anna.... Spike Lee and War Movie should not go together.  Absolute garbage this was.
 
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DAS BOOT

I dont think i have seen any war movies that are so "real" and intense as that one.
 
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Platoon is my fav.
 
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Apocalypse Now is an excellent movie BUT when I first saw it in 1980 it seemed somewhat chopped up and incomplete like there were gaps in the story and something was missing. the 2001 director's cut "Redux" adds the 49 minutes that was cut from the original
 
stealing Kilgore's surf board or the scenes at the bunny base were probably rightly cut for run time from the original because they really don't add the plot BUT the French Plantation scene, I think, is essential to the overall story line if for any other reason that it answers the question of what happened to Clean's body after he is killed.
 
Redux has been running again on Cinemax and is scheduled for showings throughout next week.
 
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watched Battle of Britain (1969) last night for maybe the hundredth time and still enjoyed it. maybe not THE greatest war flik of all time but definately in the top 10 for history buffs. very well done aerial scenes and it's the one movie about the battle that gives proper credit to the foreign pilots that fought for the English.
 
has one of the great quotes in ANY war movie.....
 
Air Minister: "Ah, Dowding. Er. Look. Our people in Washington are having trouble with the American Press. It's about today's figures (of German aircraft shot down). German sources there are saying that our claims are wildly exaggerated."
 
(Sir Laurence Olivier as) Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: [listens, but says nothing]
Minister: Hello? Are you there Dowding?
Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: I'm here Minister.
Minister: Well I mean, can you verify the figures?
Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: [clears throat] I'm not very interested in propaganda. If we're right, they'll give up. If we are wrong, they'll be in London in a week. 
[pauses then hangs up]
 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Mikael99:

DAS BOOT

I dont think i have seen any war movies that are so "real" and intense as that one.

Outstanding call Mikael.

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