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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2784252" data-attributes="member: 1057">Band of Brothers - Probably the single best series I've ever seen on WWII.Das Boot - outstanding on every level.  Captures the claustrophobia of submarine life, along with the classic characterization of wartime as "long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of intense terror." Or in the case of sitting on the bottom of the Mediterranean, "long moments of drawn out terror."Kelly's Heroes - god, this is a great film. Funny and poignant at the same time, with great characters, at once larger than life, and also oddly familiar and believeable.  War is crazy.Apocalypse Now - awesome in spectacle, scope, ambition, imagery, and madness, not to mention, one of the really great film nods to Joseph Conrad's seminal Heart of Darkness.The Thin Red Line - never read the book, but I'm going to disagree that it's not a good war movie.  Particularly effective moments were the mortar attack on the hill, moving through the grass to attack an enemy that couldn't be seen, finding the enemy and seeing the condition they were in, long periods of transport on boat, jungle-fighting insanity, mistakes with grenades, and the scene where the soldier encounters the islander crossing the field.  Sorry it didn't work for everyone else, but I thought it was a good film.All Quiet on the Western Front - the end says it all.Black Hawk Down - masterful account of modern warfare in image and atmosphere, as well as many technical details.  Nice work, Ridley.Saving Private Ryan - the D-Day landing is outstanding, and at the time, it was the most intense 20 minutes I'd ever seen in film, left me shaking, and still agog at what it must have been like to really assault that beachhead in a Higgins Boat, knowing you probably weren't going to make it 50 yards.  After that, the turns the story takes drew me further and further from support, though the combat depictions were excellent.Where Eagles Dare - the original Castle Wolfenstein 3D, and really fun all-around action/suspense picture!The Dirty Dozen - great premise for an action film, somewhat dated in it's presentation, but Lee Marvin, so cool, and the rest of the gang rounded out very well by quite the collection of actors.Gettysburg - I, too, liked this better than Gods and Generals.  Great film, and as an alum of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's alma mater, and a history/Civil War buff, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, especially the defense of Little Round Top.  "Fix bayonets."  Absolutely awesome.Memphis Belle - liked this one, too.Empire of the Sun - P-51 Mustang, "Cadillac of the Sky."  Evocative film.Platoon and Full Metal Jacket -  intense.Breaker Morant - awesome, awesome picture.  Tough.  Spoiler:  [Spoiler]At "Shoot straight, you bastards!" I lost it, total tears.  Wow, earthshattering.[/spoiler]The Great Escape - few people in the world have ever been as cool as Steve McQueen.  And the man did his own motorcycle riding in the film.Glory - this is another heartbreaker for me.  Love this film.  Excellent performances all around, and the part that just kills me (Spoiler) [spoiler]After all the 54th has gone through, and they finally get those new boots that they're so proud of, and finally start to feel like real soldiers, and perform as such, and all that they're trying to achieve, and after the dead are being piled up, the bodies are relieved of their shoes, probably because the other side needed good footwear, too, but it just really hit hard for me, as though the boots symbolized so much of what they had tried to achieve, what they fought for, what it meant.  That, and the scene around the campfire, singing spirituals and testifying just tears me apart.[/spoiler]As for the dogs, gotta echo Old One on a lot of those, especialy U-571 bleah, and Windtalkers.  I was so excited that they finally made a movie about the Navajo (Diné) Code Talkers, and was really looking forward to it.  What a letdown.  Also, have to throw knocks at Enemy at the Gates.  The depictions of the siege of Stalingrad was awesome, the wreckage, the ruin, the scope.  But the love story just dragged and detracted, though I certainly don't mind staring at Rachel Weisz (though I doubt many looked as good as she did; hmmm, no dirt, no grime, but anyway, I digress).  I did like Bob Hoskins as Kruschev, for the 30 seconds he was on film, and thought Harris was wonderfully cold and efficient as the German sniper, but overall, Jude Law?  Soviet soldier?  C'mon.  Ron Perlemann's tiny role was way, way better, IMO.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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