War movie marathon

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• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  Sorry, but I have to old school
  Movies about WW II
  
  The Bridge in the River Kwai
  Saving Private Ryan
  The Great Escape
  Patton
  
  One you might not think of as a war movie per se, but I love it
  
  Stalag 17
  part dark comedy. part drama, it takes place entirely in a WWII POW camp
  
• ime

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  8 years ago

  Zero dark thirty
• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  typo
  
  Of course it's The Bridge on the River Kwai
  
  
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Patton, Platoon...
  
  Inglourious Basterds if you don't care about historical accuracy.
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  ^Tantino sucks! Most overrated overhyped director ever.
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Black Hawk Down
  Act of Valor
  13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
  The Big Red One
  American Sniper (sucked compared to the book, though)
  Lone Survivor
  
  
• TheeOSU

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  8 years ago

  I agree with most of the movies mentioned.
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  The Longest Day and Midway are two classic WWII movies. Tora! Tora! Tora! Is an honest retelling of the sneak attack in Pearl Harbor. Just promise us you won't watch the Michael Bay monstrosity about the same attack.
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  "^Tantino sucks! Most overrated overhyped director ever."
  
  Tantino???
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Windtalkers is excellent as well.
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Cell phone virtual keypad typo. Everyone knows I was referring to Tarantino. His movies smell like fear and shame. He himself is an utterly worthless excuse for human being.
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  So you've never seen Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, I see.
• shailynn

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  8 years ago

  Ugh every time my buddy comes in town and stays at my house he always gets blasted on scotch and insists we watch one of the Rambo movies.
• JuiceBox69

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  8 years ago

  Good ideas guy's I will be watching alot of these...full day of movies today
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  I LOVE movie days!!!
• JuiceBox69

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  8 years ago

  Hell yea
• JuiceBox69

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  8 years ago

  Movie, pizza and beer
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Also..
  Hamburger Hill
  Catch-22
• chessmaster

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  8 years ago

  Surprised nobody mentioned behind enemy lines.
• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  ^^^
  
  Good choice. It crossed my mind but the I forgot to post it
• shailynn

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  8 years ago

  Juice is your mom watching these with you?
  
  What's your moms favorite flavor of four Loko?
• motorhead

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  8 years ago

  
  Another comedy/drama that is not really a "war movie" per se is Mister Roberts.
  
  A classic
• JuiceBox69

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  8 years ago

  Is JarHead2 any good ?
• JuiceBox69

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  8 years ago

  Shaylnn my mommy is drunk on vodka right now
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Saving Ryan's Privates (porn movie)
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  The first Jarheas was pretty silly; I never even heard of the second
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Yes, Nina, I saw Reservoir Dogs and it was pointless gory violence. I saw Pulp Fiction and it was utter stupidity. I saw that Mexican vampire movie and it was cliched and boring. I dis not waste any time on any more of his movies for years. I began to watch one if the Kill Bills, but it too was color-by-numbers direction and am old tired plot. I got about five minutes into the one with Jaime Fox before I cut my losses and moved on to something worthwhile. Finally, I sat through Hateful Eight and it was the dumbest, most racist, misogynistic, illogical and implausible plot-hole ridden sorry excuses for a film since Ecks vs Sever. No, Tarantino sucks. I wish he had kept his vow, retired, and just gone away.
• ididthisonce

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  8 years ago

  John Wayne - Green Berea But it is hard to beat Saving Private Ryan or We Are Soldiers.
  
  My ATF by far - Gettysburg but one needs lots of popcorn.
• a21985

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  8 years ago

  Sorry you feel that way, gammanu. It probably isn't worth getting into how all of his movies are a mashup of homages to Spaghetti Westerns, Blaxploitation, film noir, B movies and Poliziotteschi, thus pretty much creating his own niche genre. That they purposely are over the the top with gore, revenge plot lines and exagerrated personality flaws and all exist within the same alternate reality that is different than our own. Nor point out of the recurring motifs, shots and other things that crossover his films to tie things together.
  
  I imagine that's word vomit to you that makes no difference in your disdain of his films. So all I'll say is sometimes the film nerd in him gets carried away and his movies aren't for everyone, but it's blatant ignorance to think he simply sucks.
• san_jose_guy

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  8 years ago

  I watch all the movies mentioned above. There is one movie which depicts the mission to kill the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto. I say it in a theater, but I have never gotten to see it since. Anyone know its name?
  
  SJG
• warhawks

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  8 years ago

  
  For a recent one, I like "Fury."
  
  Pretty good WWII tank movie.
• crazyjoe

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  8 years ago

  Shit
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Tarantino caters to the lowest common hipster denominator, as a21985 clearly illustrates. It is blatant ignorance to argue that creating his own niche genre would justify the garbage he fills that niche with.
• a21985

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  8 years ago

  He actually doesn't cater to shit and makes movies he wants to make, and people either like them or they don't. A lot of people without sticks in their ass just so happen to like the end product. He's nowhere near my favorite director, and I can only claim to be a big fan of a few if his films, but I'm not delusional enough to think he's not damn good at what he does for a second.
  
  Agree to disagree.
• DoctorDarby

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  8 years ago

  Not mentioned yet:
  
  A Bridge Too Far
  Kelly's Heroes
  Das Boot
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  a21985 I agree completely. Your paragraph about his homages to different genres, his recurring motifs, over-the-top, (etc) is spot on.
  
  A couple years ago I took a class at a community college (while enrolled at my actual university) because I saw that one of their film classes that semester was a film study on Quentin Tarantino's films. We also watched, discussed, and studied a couple films that Quentin is inspired by. One was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; another was Rio Bravo. I had seen most of his films, but the ones I hadn't we watched in class. Even True Romance! It was awesome. The credit didn't transfer to my university but it was a really fun class.
  
  Quentin actually is one of my fave directors though (I have many). I own Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, and Inglourious Basterds. I've probably watched 5 of those 7 at least 100 times+
• MrBater2010

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  8 years ago

  What about porn parity war movies. Wasn't there one for Saving Private Ryan?
• mikeya02

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  8 years ago

  Yes, I brought that one up already
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  True Romance was directed by Tony Scott, which is why it did not suck like most of Quentin's shtick. Nina, nothing but love for ya, but that that other guy is just plagiarizing stuff other people, far more intelligent than him, have written about Quentin. Btw, agreeing to disagree is for pussies and kindergartners.
• a21985

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  8 years ago

  Agreeing to disagree is also for when someone realizes they're discussing movie directors with a brick wall who has over inflated opinions of their self worth on a site where we should really only be talking about strippers and the deeds we do with them. But you know, kindergartner pussies too if that's what floats your boat.
• a21985

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  8 years ago

  And by the way, anyone who has studied Tarantino, took a film class or had a deep conversation with someone who knew his style well has learned these things about him. Believe it or not, you learn by first understanding you know very little and then gathering information from people who are much more intelligent. It would benefit you to try that out for once.
• gammanu95

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  8 years ago

  Your sycophantic adoration of a hipster director, and truly foul person, is incredibly disturbing. Since you obviously lack any capacity for individual opinion or critical thought, I'll not waste much more time attempting to enlighten you. It is also worth noting that I received my degree in communications from a liberal arts school which, even though focused on business and government, required extensive credit hours in TV, film, and theater classes to receive that degree. Even then, there were tools like yourself who wanted to waste time talking about Tarantino, so I know his basis and motifs and (lack of) thematic elements. However, ask yourself this: how does ripping off other directors, degrading women, assaulting minorities, and glorifying gore and violence possibly qualify as talented art?
• a21985

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  8 years ago

  A tool who adores him? I applaud your ability to create such strong opinions of me and who I am as a person based on one silly conversation. You must have a wonderful imagination. I minored in film until I realized I had no real passion for it to play a role in any career path I chose, so I am similarly educated in film, but no expert. I certainly am not a Tarantino fanboy, but I respect his work.
  
  I enjoy a few of his films, some more than others, and enjoy his film knowledge that shows in his writing and directing (he is a much better writer than director). I accept his violence and treatment of characters as purposefully over the top, but still integral to the story he's trying to tell, which I think is the first and most important difference between you and I. If I couldn't do that or felt it was there for no reason, I'd feel just like you. I don't think he rips off from other directors maliciously, I believe he knowingly pays homage to them and their genres. Lastly and again most importantly, his writing, it gets the most out of the actors he works with it and creates some performances that I can truly buy into. It is talented art, undoubtedly, just not one you and some others can get behind and like, but that's ok.
  
  So, now can we be pussies and kindergartners and just agree to disagree and move on?
• twentyfive

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  8 years ago

  You should look at these oldies but they are great.
  From Here to Eternity
  The Dirty Dozen
• NinaBambina

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  8 years ago

  "True Romance was directed by Tony Scott, which is why it did not suck like most of Quentin's shtick."
  
  And the script was written by Tarantino.
  
  
• beguiled

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  8 years ago

  Tropic Thunder
• ATACdawg

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  8 years ago

  Lot of great movies here! Also a big fan of Gettysburg, Patton and the Band of Brothers miniseries. To the above, I would add The Monuments Men.