OT: top ten war movies (per men's health)

[Ranger Dan]

https://www.mensjournal.com/enterta...-of-all-time-20150120/full-metal-jacket-1987/

I have not seen Ran, and question the inclusion of Inglorious Bastards and the exclusion of Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone else have changes to the list?

 

[Alphabets]

Not a movie, but a miniseries, Band of Brothers is a must watch. Incredible.

 

[Thorndike2012]

That's a bad (hard left leaning) list. Where is Lawrence of Arabia? Where is The Longest Day? Where is The Battle of the Bulge? Hurt Locker? That wasn't a great movie by anybodies estimation. Midway? Patton? A Bridge Too Far? This is one of the dumbest lists I've seen.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Not a movie, but a miniseries, Band of Brothers is a must watch. Incredible.

Yes, that is an all time great, but the list is for movies.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Hurt Locker? That wasn't a great movie by anybodies estimation.

Except the academy award people... ;-)

 

[Thorndike2012]

Except the academy award people... ;-)

Who are heavily influenced by politics. The movie SUCKED!

 

[fairgambit]

That's a bad (hard left leaning) list. Where is Lawrence of Arabia? Where is The Longest Day? Where is The Battle of the Bulge? Hurt Locker? That wasn't a great movie by anybodies estimation. Midway? Patton? A Bridge Too Far? This is one of the dumbest lists I've seen.

Add in Tora! Tora! Tora!, Gettysburg, and a favorite of mine seldom on lists like this...Run Silent, Run Deep with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.

 

[ericstratton-rushchairman]

Das Boot is top 5

 

[Carl Spackler]

Rewatched Run Silent, Run Deep over the Christmas week break. Classic war movie/drama. Competing allegiances to new captain and former leader along with typical submarine jargon and tactical banter. Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster were wonderful in their respective parts. Plus the movie was based on a book written by a naval commander of the WWII era. Good all around military film with liberties taken for Hollywood.

I keenly remember viewing Gettysburg the first time with my wife on her birthday in 1993. I began a new job and was living away during the week but took off early that Friday for her birthday and the date. We viewed the movie through to the intermission just after the Little Round Top scene. The other folks in the theater with us were totally silent, as if in a bit of shock over the whole scene. This continued through the end with Pickett's Charge and the carnage. A moving and sobering film. It took the military and humanized them, as do all good films, but in this film both sides of the conflict provided compelling personalities which caused competing emotions ebbing and flowing as the movie proceeded.

In the end, everyone stayed to watch the credits and then silently walked out of the theater. I don't remember hearing a word spoken. Amazing.

 

[Lion Lineage]

That's a bad (hard left leaning) list. Where is Lawrence of Arabia? Where is The Longest Day? Where is The Battle of the Bulge? Hurt Locker? That wasn't a great movie by anybodies estimation. Midway? Patton? A Bridge Too Far? This is one of the dumbest lists I've seen.

If Casablanca is a war movie, then it has to be one of the best. Another movie that is often over looked and does a great job of showing the strain on the people that have to make decisions that they know will cost men their lives is Command Decision with Clark Gable.

 

[TangSoo]

Fury is a recent, really really good war movie.

 

[Nittany_93]

https://www.mensjournal.com/enterta...-of-all-time-20150120/full-metal-jacket-1987/

I have not seen Ran, and question the inclusion of Inglorious Bastards and the exclusion of Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone else have changes to the list?

Ran is amazing but, imho it's more a "film" than a war movie. It was made by acclaimed director Akira Kurusawa and is essentially an interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear in feudal Japan. It may be one of the most visually stunning films you'll see.

As for films missing from the list: A Bridge Too Far, All Quiet on the Western Front. The Longest Day

 

[fairgambit]

Rewatched Run Silent, Run Deep over the Christmas week break. Classic war movie/drama. Competing allegiances to new captain and former leader along with typical submarine jargon and tactical banter. Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster were wonderful in their respective parts. Plus the movie was based on a book written by a naval commander of the WWII era. Good all around military film with liberties taken for Hollywood.

I keenly remember viewing Gettysburg the first time with my wife on her birthday in 1993. I began a new job and was living away during the week but took off early that Friday for her birthday and the date. We viewed the movie through to the intermission just after the Little Round Top scene. The other folks in the theater with us were totally silent, as if in a bit of shock over the whole scene. This continued through the end with Pickett's Charge and the carnage. A moving and sobering film. It took the military and humanized them, as do all good films, but in this film both sides of the conflict provided compelling personalities which caused competing emotions ebbing and flowing as the movie proceeded.

In the end, everyone stayed to watch the credits and then silently walked out of the theater. I don't remember hearing a word spoken. Amazing.

Well said on both Carl.

 

[PeetzPoolBoy]

https://www.mensjournal.com/enterta...-of-all-time-20150120/full-metal-jacket-1987/

I have not seen Ran, and question the inclusion of Inglorious Bastards and the exclusion of Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone else have changes to the list?

Do you always try to “change the topic” when you get your ass handed to you?

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

https://www.mensjournal.com/enterta...-of-all-time-20150120/full-metal-jacket-1987/

I have not seen Ran, and question the inclusion of Inglorious Bastards and the exclusion of Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone else have changes to the list?

Can only comment on movies I've seen, and as much as I LOVE Inglorious Basterds, it's not a war movie. I'd sub in Three Kings and/or Jarhead as better, more accurate representations of a 'modern' war film. I also love 'The Thin Red Line', but it's more a series of existential internal monologues with war as a backdrop than it is a true war movie. I think the new Dunkirk is pretty great - the aerial combat is superb.

 

[GregInPitt]

That's a bad (hard left leaning) list. Where is Lawrence of Arabia? Where is The Longest Day? Where is The Battle of the Bulge? Hurt Locker? That wasn't a great movie by anybodies estimation. Midway? Patton? A Bridge Too Far? This is one of the dumbest lists I've seen.

I agree. Mash is a comedy, and not a true war movie. Pretty weak.

Any top 19 list that does not include Midway, Patton and Lawrence of Arabia is a joke. And the Battle of the Bulge is also a great candidate. For me, if the "war movie" does not depict some actual part of history, or at least set within some part of history, it's not a "war movie".....

I agree with them on Sargent York (in my top 10), and Private Ryan.

Another great candidate for me is WE Were Soldiers. And I would also include The Patriot.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

I agree. Mash is a comedy, and not a true war movie. Pretty weak.

Any top 19 list that does not include Midway, Patton and Lawrence of Arabia is a joke. And the Battle of the Bulge is also a great candidate. For me, if the "war movie" does not depict some actual part of history, or at least set within some part of history, it's not a "war movie".....

I agree with them on Sargent York (in my top 10), and Private Ryan.

Another great candidate for me is They Were Soldiers. And I would also include The Patriot.

Did you mean 'We Were Soldiers'? Because yeah, totally agree. I love that it's basically a movie that tries to be historically accurate about the first major battle of Vietnam, and one that featured a number of firsts (including helicopter air assaults and strategic bombing support via Boeing Stratofortress). Outnumbered 10:1, the U.S. racked up an impressive 10:1 kill ratio at LZ X Ray. Wow.

 

[psu skp]

Zulu Dawn, Glory, Apocalypse Now, Waterloo, and Cross of Iron should be on anybody's top 20 list IMHO

 

[BigBlueRick]

Pretty solid list but I thought The Deer Hunter was definitely a classic war movie. De Niro, Walker, Streep is arguably a better ensemble than any on that list.

 

[PSULBU]

https://www.mensjournal.com/enterta...-of-all-time-20150120/full-metal-jacket-1987/

I have not seen Ran, and question the inclusion of Inglorious Bastards and the exclusion of Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone else have changes to the list?

Enemy At the Gates...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/