Your Favorite War Movies...

[Krieg]

The Red Badge of Courage - Audie Murphy as Henry...'Nuff said

The Winter War (Talvisota) - A Finnish film about the 1939 Russo-Finnish War. This is what Saving Private Ryan wanted to be.

Schindler's List - A reminder that sometimes war really is necessary

Tora! Tora! Tora! - The movie that many documentaries aspire to

The Longest Day - The movie for...and starring...WWII vets

Bravo Two Zero - True story of the SAS's lost patrol in the Gulf War

Henry V (Ken Branagh's version) - Good enough even for folks who hate Shakespeare

The Best Years of Our Lives - Sometimes coming home is the hardest part

Grave of the Fireflies - The aftermath of Hirsoshima through the eyes of children

Full Metal Jacket - Watched the first half six or seven times in a row the night before I left for Parris Island

Glory - Nothing like having this be the last thing you watch before getting off the plane in Riyadh Saudi Arabia in Sept 1990

Blackhawk Down - Remove the OpDetDelta Ninja silliness and you have the closest thing to what it's actually like to be there

Jarhead - I know Tony Swofford. I strongly dislike Tony Swofford. His book is mostly self indulgent BS and I have a lot of issues with this movie...that being said there are still scenes in the film that hit very, very close to home

Saving Private Ryan - The only film to trigger a PTSD episode for me

The Big Red One - Semper Fi PFC Marvin....you are missed

 

[Warrior Poet]

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[CarlZog]

Welcome back.

Yeah, Krieg. Good to see you.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Conspiracy (A truly chilling account of how the final solution was decided upon over wine and canapes by the Nazi elite, on 20th January 1942)

It's also, IIRC, somewhat speculative in the details that we know the meeting took place but no actual record of the proceedings survives and secondhand information is spotty.

 

[Krieg]

Welcome back.

Yeah, Krieg. Good to see you.

Thanks guys, it's good to be back... just gotta pick some sand out of my teeth.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Thanks guys, it's good to be back... just gotta pick some sand out of my teeth.

My guess is a frosty cold beer is one of the best tools for that job.

And thanks for serving. Nice to have you back.

Warrior Poet

 

[Krieg]

My guess is a frosty cold beer is one of the best tools for that job.

No argument there!

And thanks for serving. Nice to have you back.

Well to be honest it's mostly "self serving" these days.

I was working as a contractor this time around.

 

[Old One]

No argument there!

Well to be honest it's mostly "self serving" these days.

I was working as a contractor this time around.

One of those "same job, 4x pay" contractors ?

Whatever the reason, appreciate the service (past and present) and glad you are back safe and sound. Gotta a couple of good buddies that will be spending the holidays swatting sand fleas.

~ OO

 

[orbitalfreak]

I'm told that Harrison Ford is doing a movie based on Bing West's No True Glory about the Marine's battle in Fallujah, Nov 2004, which I am most interested to see.

That one's on my must-see list, now. I lost a friend who was over there at the time, engineer in the USMC.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Pearl Harbor--It was a travesty how Pearl Harbor tried to glom on the key parts of Tora! Tora! Tora! to the drivel that was at the heart of Pearl Harbor. Also modern guided missile destroyers and cruisers make very poor WWII destroyer/cruiser stand ins. It's like they didn't even try...though the trailers with just the music and the planes were amazing.

Yes, the trailer was quite good. Pity that the movie was so awful; well, the parts that didn't involve planes shooting at each other were okay.

It was also really neat having the Pearl Harbor trailer right after the Enemy at the Gates trailer, and it put the cover quote from the Black Company in my head: "Darkness fights darkness while the new light dawns."

As for war movies I like (at least, enough to own)...

Gettysburg: I try to watch this around the 4th of July. It's just...neat. And while I've heard that Little Round Top was not, in fact, the entire turning point of the Civil War, I can certainly see how it could have been. I can also imagine the casting director getting the extras to pay to be in the movie, too.

Soldier: Okay, it's not really a war movie, but it's a good and underrated flick where the main character is a soldier.

Brad