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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 2681993" data-attributes="member: 4151">Matchstick Men - A con-man movie in which you know the con is going to get conned, but you don't care, because it's about so much more than that. It was such a great allegory for the father-daughter relationship... Glengarry Glenross - Fantastically acted and edited. Thought I was going to get an ulcer the first time I saw this movie. Very visceral, but not in the typical hollywood fashion. Platoon - One of the best war movies, not for its message, its preaching, or its attempt at 'literary moviemaking,' but because it showed the 'regular joe' side of the war. And the unglamorous job of the American grunt in all its unglamorous glory. Saving Private Ryan - The story was a little fantastical, but it was (again) the unglamorous parts of war. One of the best sound edited war movies I've ever seen. The sheer volume of noise in the beach scene... Two scenes really stood out for me, and showed the real connection between guys that go to war together: The two 'gum' scenes. One where Hanks' character sticks his finger in the soldiers mouth to get his gum to MacGuyver a periscope and the one where one soldier asks the other if he has anymore gum and he takes it out of his mouth and splits it with him.</blockquote>