What's your favorite WWII Movie?

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: Linflas
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In Harms Way
Mr Roberts
The Caine Mutiny
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sink the Bismark

I actually knew a guy in the Navy who worked in supply and his name was Mr. Roberts. :laugh:

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

 

[LegendKiller]

On one hand I am not shocked at the mentioning of the good WW2 classics, but on the other hand, I am not.


Patton
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot
SPR


I always watched the more humorous ones with my dad, like Operation Petticoat and Father Goose. Decent movies in their own respect.

 

[K1052]

Probably Das Boot

Though I also like:

SPR
A Bridge Too Far
Dirty Dozen
Downfall
The Cain Mutiny
Schindler's List
Empire of the Sun
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Patton
Great Escape
The Enemy Below
Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

Ugh, I hated Big Red One. It was hard to pay attention to the movie because the production values were so low (especially given that the movie was made in 1980). It was also very historically inaccurate. I had to turn it off within about 20 minutes of starting.

The only thing this movie had going for it was Mark Hamill, and even then, only because he was famous at the time from Star Wars.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
has anyone seen Valkrie yet? any good?

I love Saving Private Ryan - one of my favourite war movies ever. BoB is an amazing series too, I own the collector's edition

I was pleasantly surprised by Valkyrie, it was actually pretty good. I've always thought Cruise was a good actor though.

For me, Band of Brothers is my favorite by far. If we're talking strictly "movies", I'll go with Saving Private Ryan though.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

Ugh, I hated Big Red One. It was hard to pay attention to the movie because the production values were so low (especially given that the movie was made in 1980). It was also very historically inaccurate. I had to turn it off within about 20 minutes of starting.

I thought The Big Red One is an all-time great and just about every critic and WWII historian agrees. If you turned it off in 20 minutes you clearly have a short attention span and didn't see enough of it to judge it one way or the other. I'm truly amused by the ignorance involved in claiming that you didn't see something and panning it anyway. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Hogan's Heroes

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

Ugh, I hated Big Red One. It was hard to pay attention to the movie because the production values were so low (especially given that the movie was made in 1980). It was also very historically inaccurate. I had to turn it off within about 20 minutes of starting.

I thought The Big Red One is an all-time great and just about every critic and WWII historian agrees. If you turned it off in 20 minutes you clearly have a short attention span and didn't see enough of it to judge it one way or the other. I'm truly amused by the ignorance involved in claiming that you didn't see something and panning it anyway. Thanks for the laugh.

News flash: not everyone agrees on every movie. I didn't like it and it was so difficult to watch for me that I wouldn't have been paying much attention anyway, even if I had kept it on.

Historical accuracy and stuff is important for historical movies, but if it's not at least mildly entertaining to watch, it's just not going to work. I view movies as entertainment first, so if a movie just doesn't do it for me, I'm not going to force myself to watch it. Sorry for not agreeing with you. I guess that makes me stupid. I'm glad some people liked it though, I guess.

 

[meltdown75]

damn, i have a lot of WWII watching to do 0_0

 

[Unheard]

Band of Brothers, followed by Saving Private Ryan...

On that note though, I once spoke to a WWII Vet and asked him if he had seen any of the BoB series. He told me he wished he hadn't. It brought back too many memories as it was that realistic.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

1. Schindlers list
2. Letters from iwo jima
3. Saving Pvt Ryan

in that order

 

[zerocool84]

This hasn't been said yet and probably never will but one of my faves is:

Twelve O'Clock High

It's not really a War movie per se cus it really has no action at all or War parts. It's pure acting by Gregory Peck but it's great acting.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

Ugh, I hated Big Red One. It was hard to pay attention to the movie because the production values were so low (especially given that the movie was made in 1980). It was also very historically inaccurate. I had to turn it off within about 20 minutes of starting.

I thought The Big Red One is an all-time great and just about every critic and WWII historian agrees. If you turned it off in 20 minutes you clearly have a short attention span and didn't see enough of it to judge it one way or the other. I'm truly amused by the ignorance involved in claiming that you didn't see something and panning it anyway. Thanks for the laugh.

News flash: not everyone agrees on every movie. I didn't like it and it was so difficult to watch for me that I wouldn't have been paying much attention anyway, even if I had kept it on.

Historical accuracy and stuff is important for historical movies, but if it's not at least mildly entertaining to watch, it's just not going to work. I view movies as entertainment first, so if a movie just doesn't do it for me, I'm not going to force myself to watch it. Sorry for not agreeing with you. I guess that makes me stupid. I'm glad some people liked it though, I guess.

Newsflash, nobody is telling you that you had to watch it or that you had to like it. But if you pan it without seeing it you're a moron. Have a nice day, go review a restaurant that you never ate in, but drove by once.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

Ugh, I hated Big Red One. It was hard to pay attention to the movie because the production values were so low (especially given that the movie was made in 1980). It was also very historically inaccurate. I had to turn it off within about 20 minutes of starting.

I thought The Big Red One is an all-time great and just about every critic and WWII historian agrees. If you turned it off in 20 minutes you clearly have a short attention span and didn't see enough of it to judge it one way or the other. I'm truly amused by the ignorance involved in claiming that you didn't see something and panning it anyway. Thanks for the laugh.

News flash: not everyone agrees on every movie. I didn't like it and it was so difficult to watch for me that I wouldn't have been paying much attention anyway, even if I had kept it on.

Historical accuracy and stuff is important for historical movies, but if it's not at least mildly entertaining to watch, it's just not going to work. I view movies as entertainment first, so if a movie just doesn't do it for me, I'm not going to force myself to watch it. Sorry for not agreeing with you. I guess that makes me stupid. I'm glad some people liked it though, I guess.

Newsflash, nobody is telling you that you had to watch it or that you had to like it. But if you pan it without seeing it you're a moron. Have a nice day, go review a restaurant that you never ate in, but drove by once.

More like reviewing a restaurant based on a very bad appetizer and subsequently walking out rather than paying for (and also hating) the main course. I guess if you're a professional critic you have to, but I'm not a professional critic.

I'm just relaying my experience. It was bad at the beginning and by the time I switched it off, it didn't look like it was getting any better. Have you never walked out of or stopped watching a movie before?

If it makes you feel any better, I'll retract what I said about historical accuracy. I do not know first-hand if it was historically accurate, because I didn't watch the whole thing and I didn't do the research myself. That's just based on what others have said. For the record, many people who liked the movie also complained about historical accuracy but said that it didn't detract from it. I'm definitely not retracting the bit about low production values, though. It looked like it was made in 1950. And while that doesn't really matter if it's a good movie, it's just another strike against a bad one.

 

[Blintok]

I have seen Band of Brothers many times...
but i have yet been able to see him.

in the credits it lists Tom Hanks in a role.. as a British officer...

BoB was just on recently (for DD anniversary) and i still cant find him


Pearl Harbor was too corny imo... turned it into a Titanic style love story.
Enemy at the Gates was a good movie (for the German / Russian side)
another German movie along the same lines as Downfall ...Stalingrad.
Battle of Britain was good.

oh lets not forget... Cross of Iron.. excellent movie. (Russian/German side)

the "john boy" version of All Quiet at the Western Front" is good (tho not a WW2 movie)

 

[dphantom]

Twelve O'Clock High.

An absolutely brilliant character sketch by Peck and an outstanding demonstration of leadership styles. Long with little "action" but to me was riveting.

More recently, Flags of our fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima

Further back, Bridge on the River Kwai. Not particularly accurate, but great acting.

 

[GasX]

Das Boot and Stalingrad - both German made movies

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

I also recall The Big Red One as being a pretty decent movie but it's been awhile since i've seen it.

The Big Red One is a GREAT WWII movie. I also like a lot of the movies already listed, but I never get tired of watching The Big Red One, and I cannot say that about many other WWII movies.

Another great one that I can watch over and over again is Stalag 17 (It is a mostly serious movie about a German POW camp but, obviously, was also part of the inspiration for Hogan's Heros!).

MotionMan

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: roguerower
Letters from Iwo Jima was amazing
SPR
BoB

I wish they would base a movie off the book Battlecry!. It's an amazing book and would be a great movie (but would be long as shit).

They did.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca


If it makes you feel any better, I'll retract what I said about historical accuracy.

Thank you for at least admitting you were completely talking out of your ass.

:roll:

 

[moparacer]

I like Midway and The longest day.....Something about them that makes you set and watch them even though you seen them 100 times......

Still have to watch the scene in Longest day where the battle ships begin the ass woopin on the German positions....

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: moparacer
Still have to watch the scene in Longest day where the battle ships begin the ass woopin on the German positions....

That was cool except that that French guy's house would have been completely destroyed if even a single shell from a battleship's deck gun were to hit the house or even hit near the house.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Can't narrow it down to 1, can't even narrow it down to 1 from each theater ...
I think this is about as narrowed down as I can make it.

Pacific Theater: Letters from Iwo Jima + Tora Tora Tora
European + African Theater: Band of Brothers Series + Patton

That said, there are MANY MANY great WW2 movies that are worth watching. Please note: Pearl Harbor is NOT on this list. It was a steaming pile of crap.

 

[Blintok]

my fav scene in a ww2 movie is from A Bridge Too Far

The 1000ish Brits cut off at the bridge getting stomped pretty good. cut off and surrounded
(3 people... G=german. 1 = Brit commander. 2 = 2nd in command)

G walks across bridge strewn with the carnage and smoking wreckage of a previous attack.. holding a white flag.

2- Thats far enough, we can hear you from there...
G- my general says there is no point in continuing this fighting..he is willing to discuss a surrender.
1- says to #2...tell him to go to hell.
2- we havent the proper facilities to take you all prisoner....sorry
G-WHAT???!!!!
2- we'd like to...but we can't accept your surrender.....was there anything else?
G- slowly turns totally dumbfounded and walks back across bridge.