Bradt3hleader
Care [ ] - Don't care [x]
+121|5953
Every summer when I visit my uncle we see the classics, damn they're better then some stuff coming out these days.   So yeah I love classcs too but I forget to mention them, or forget the names.
greensprite
awsm
+13|6183|Germany
black hawk down
private ryan
platoon
pearl harbor
kingdom of heaven
can't think of more right now but i know there are some more
NantanCochise
Member
+55|5996|Portugal/United States
Modern Classics:
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Platoon
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. The Dear Hunter

The Real Classics:
1. Das Boot
2. Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Tora Tora Tora
4. The Longest Day
5. All Quiet on the Western Front

Other greats:
Letter From Iwo Jima/Flag of our Fathers
The Thin Red Line
The Great Escape
Patton
Lawrence of Arabia
Black Hawk Down
Schindler's List
Band of Brothers (mini series)

Last edited by NantanCochise (2008-01-31 08:49:12)

howler_27
Member
+90|6704
-Saving Private Ryan
-Ghettysburg
-We Were Soldiers
-The Patriot
-Das Boa

Honorables:
-Band of Brothers(should be first, but a mini-series)
-Braveheart
-300
-Black Hawk Down
-Platoon
-Apocolypse Now
-Patton
-A Midnight Clear
Braddock
Agitator
+916|6308|Éire
Top Five War Movies

1. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
2. Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg
3. Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick
4. Der Untergang - Oliver Hirschbiegel
5. Platoon - Oliver Stone

Other Great War Movies:

Jacob's Ladder - Adrien Lyne (technically speaking it is a war movie)
War (aka Voyna) - Aleksei Balabanov
Hell In The Pacific - John Boorman
Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (cold war!)
A Very Long Engagement - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Last edited by Braddock (2008-01-31 09:07:57)

TeamOrange
Don't be that guy
+84|6328
A tv movie series that was amazing, Band of Bother.

HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU WATCH IT
Marconius
One-eyed Wonder Mod
+368|6711|San Francisco
Did anyone suggest The Guns of the Navarone yet?  Otherwise all the other movies mentioned in the thread look totally fine by my standards. 

Life is Beautiful; Tea with Mussolini was actually a good film; nice to see Stalingrad being mentioned; Platoon; Full Metal Jacket; carry on!
Ghandi767
Member
+17|6640|Hanging in the Balance
1. The Patriot
2. Blackhawk Down
3. The Longest Day
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Either The Great Raid or We Were Soldiers
Ajax_the_Great1
Dropped on request
+206|6664
Nobody mentioned the Last Samurai.
Schwarzelungen
drunklenglungen
+133|6314|Bloomington Indiana
ive only seen "no mans land" mentioned once....how sad...its truely great.

other than that in no particular order

das boot
thin red line
cross of iron
glory
memphis belle
JetSniper
R.I.P [EPIC]Pfcguinn
+113|6354
I would have to agree with most of you one saving private ryan.

i was lucky in 2006 on vets day they showed that at the Alamo draft house an went to see it. talk about one of the greatest movies to watch on big screen.

I also like band of brothers i watch it every yr. i have the dvd set.

i also like the patriot.

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