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This is the single most difficult top-x war movie post ever on these forums.

1) Band of Brothers
2) Schindler's List
3) All Quiet on the Western Front
4) The Deer Hunter
5) M*A*S*H

1. Rambo: First Blood
2. Rambo: First Blood part II
3. Rambo III
4. Rambo
5. Rambo V (when it comes out)

rambo? oh, man.

actually, i do like all the rambo movies (haven't seen the newest) but i wouldn't call them my favorite war movies.

1. Platoon
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. Michael Collins (Irish Revolution)

now that i think about it there are a ton of good war movies out there.

It took me a solid 20 minutes to narrow it down to five.

in no particular order:

1) band of brothers (soooo siked for the new one to come out)
2) saving private ryan
3) full metal jacket
4) apocalypse now
5) paths of glory

you guys named some awesome ones that could easily be on my list. i love war movies.

i've never seen battle of algiers, though i've looked at its imdb page many times and contemplated it. downloading now.

1 - Band of Brothers
2 - Generation Kill
3 - Enemy at the Gates
4 - Glory (bad ass movie, it's a must see!)
5 - Blackhawk Down

BRAVEHEART

just rewatched braveheart the other day. it's still great, but i loved it so much more when i first watched it in elementary school.


edit:

this thread is the best idea ever. gachi, i'm dling generation kill, looks awesome. and you are very correct about glory.

keep posting, people!

1. Top Gun
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Band Of Brothers
5. Red Dawn

Three words:

The Hurt Locker


If you haven't seen it check it out, one of the most intense war films I've seen and it wasn't even that ripe with violence it was just fantastically done.

1. Band of Brothers
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Tears of the Sun
4. Rambo (new one)
5. Saving Private Ryan

Definitely a tough top 5, and I may alter 3-5 when I get home and peruse my movie collection.

Also, new band of brothers? WHAT NAO?!

Is it in all theaters yet? I have a hard time finding the "select" theaters that they talk about. I've been wanting to watch this since it got high praises from Ebert.

I'd also like to support Gachi's selection of Glory. It is honestly one of my favorite movies. I'm surprised by the lack of Patton...

1. Band of Brothers
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Glory
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Defiance

In no particular order:

The Great Escape
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Inglorious Basterds
Das Boot
Full Metal Jacket

Inglorious Basterds is still in honey moon phases, and has only been seen once. I could be coerced to swap it out for The Big Parade.

/Pre-WWII WWI film FTW!

Yes CJ, Glory is the shit! Saw it in high school history. Generation Kill is good, and no, not because I'm a Marine because I watched it before joining. /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

mannnnnn, too many to count /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

I guess I'll just list what I need to see based on this thread:
Generation Kill
Inglorious Basterds - seeing it tonight I think?
The Hurt Locker

great movie. its actually what inspired this thread, but i just couldn't put it in my top 5.

the hurt locker was incredibly awesome


in no particular order

1. To End All Wars
2. Platoon
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

If we call The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly a war movie, that's top 5 material.

Also, if we expand which wars we're talking about it's a whole new ballgame.

a war movie is a movie set in / about a war. i think many people here are confining themselves to 20th century wars.

Mulan?

I don't think people are necessarily confining themselves to 20th century wars, but there are far more good 20th century war movies than there are about pre-modern eras. I don't know exactly why that is, but I would venture to guess it is due largely to the fact that we know so much more about 20th century wars than any others. That and we can relate much more easily to a soldier in modern warfare.

return of the jedi?

Fixed.

Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King
13th Warrior
Versus
Cyber Ninja

A stricter definition of "War" is required.

/yes, I WILL turn every thread into a pedantic whirlpool of nonsense, thank you very much.

Debbie Does Dallas...all I want to do is see her succeed!

There's only one return and it ain't of the king, it's of the Jedi.

The answer is obvious....Starship Troopers!!!

I mean war movie could be any movie involving war/organized violence, which is like half the movies in existence.

Star wars, as the very name shows is about war, but I wouldn't really call it a war movie....

Probably more like 5 - 15%, but yeah. It makes for a much better thread IMO.

Pan's Labyrinth! Takes place DURING a war.

Braveheart.

You guys are just reaching for movies now. There's a difference between a War movie and an Action movie. If you're trying to choose a movie that has a fight scene as a War movie, you're wrong imho.

Man, I cant believe I forgot about that movie. Another great film.

I've been following the strict criteria of: movies whose actions center around or take place during a war.

if it was really just fight scenes, this would have already gotten way out of hand.

Rambo brings the war. It counts.

someone ban nunes from this thread plz, kthx.

I see how it is.

All the Military folks in the thread want all their war movies to be about America kicking ass, emirite? /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

/you got 5 actual war movies out of me
//Technically Gone with the Wind is a war movie, and a fantastic film.
//So is Forrest Gump, according to IMDB.

I really like all of your lists but I just wanted to add Gladiator and the HBO series Rome (revolved around a war to put people in and out of power but barely showed the war).

Rome is awesome

Just finished Generation Kill. Gachi, did this series not give you second thoughts about being a Marine? It paints so much of the leadership as incompetent and/or retarded.

Awesome series, though.