1. Patton

2. We Were Soliders

3. The Longest Day

4. Saving Private Ryan

5. Midway

Full Metal Jacket

1. Patton

2. The Dirty Dozen

3. The Great Escape

4. The Bridge on the River Kwai

5. Platoon


Trivia Question - Who was the 1st actor to recieve "Honorary Marine" Status?

I like the older type Like the Patriot and Gettysburg

Well in that Case - Braveheart - Best Movie Ever!!!

I saw it last night :)

Great Escape.....Battle of the Bulge!:huh:

'Where egals dare"

I second what Cal said - Full Metal Jacket

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Apocalypse now.
4. That one with Dinero and Christipher Walkin (What was that?)

RP dogs of war

patton
battle of the bulge
stalag 17
midway
the longest day
kelly's heros ( good tank footage )

Originally posted by Rappin Mikey
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Apocalypse now.
4. That one with Dinero and Christipher Walkin (What was that?)

The Deer Hunter - another Great flick

How about :

12 o'clock high

Mr Roberts

The one with DeNiro and Walkin was the " Deer Hunter"

Was it John Wayne

Nope...That's the one everyone thinks of 1st...even me.

Go earlier

Don't know if this qualifies as a movie, but Band Of Brothers is by far the best I've seen.
Second is Saving Private Ryan. The first 15 minutes alone of the D-Day landing are more realistic than any war movie before.

George C Scott? if thats not it I haven't a clue

Gary Cooper TDF!:happy:

Braveheart
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket (first half)
Siege of Firebase Gloria
Hamburger Hill
Apocolypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
We were Soldiers
Navy Seals
Platoon Leader
Casulties of War
Sniper
The Green Berets

"Enemy at the Gates" was pretty good too :rocketem:

The mupets take manhatten. That counts!!!:happy:

Does Forest Gump count as a war movie?
He went to Vietnam!!!

Don't forget he got shot in the buutTocks:D

All my favorites have already been mentioned (Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Platoon) so I will add a few more:

The Enemy Below (Robert Mitchum)
Dr. Strangelove (George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, etc.)
Sahara (with Bogart, although the remake with Jim Belushi was OK)
Caine Mutiny (Bogart again - "it was the strawberries")
Hell is for Heroes (McQueen)
In Harm's Way (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas)
Schindler's List (Liam Neeson)
Von Ryan's Express (Sinatra)
Go Tell the Spartans (a little known flick with Burt Lancaster that has some interesting insight into the very beginning of Vietnam, during the "advisors" phase)
The Beast (No, not the one about the giant squid! This is another hard to find flick that tells the story about a Russian tank that gets lost during their occupation of Afghanistan. Will give you an idea about why it is so hard to catch Osama)

Finally - Does Casablanca count?

The War of the Roses.

:hihi:

Apocalypse Now
Papillon
Saving Private Ryan
The Deer Hunter
The Great Escape

Originally posted by SamAdams327
George C Scott? if thats not it I haven't a clue

It was the Original Phantom of the Opera...Lon Chaney Sr.

He got it for so perfectly capturing the spirit of a Marine Drill Sgt. in the Movie "Go Tell It To The Marines"

The Guns Of Navarone
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
The Hunt for Red October
Crimson Tide
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Bridge over River Kwai
The Dirty Dozen

Not my favorite, but the one I've seen the most is "John Wayne and the Fighting SeaBees". I was a SeaBee and they showed it aout every other week at the base.

Saving Private Ryan
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Enemy at the Gates
We Were Soldiers
Das Boot
Wind Talkers
The Great Escape
Memphis Belle
Sands of Iwo Jima
Thin Red Line
Sink the Bismark

Midway
Papillon
The Sand Pebble

Stripes :)

Don't forget Tora Tora Tora
Sands of Iwa Jima

This is got my vote as well. but I would swap 1 and 3


Originally posted by Rappin Mikey
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Apocalypse now.
4. That one with Dinero and Christipher Walkin (What was that?)

Anyone with John Wayne

Band of Brothers

Saving Private Ryan

Born On The Fourth OF July (Book was good)

Patriot

pretty much all of'm

I forgot another good one.

Glory

Almost bought the DVD tonight

Favorite movie about the military...

"The Last Detail"

Closest thing to what life is REALLY like in the Navy.

Also "Cinderella Liberty"

Band of Brothers - simply one of the best I've ever seen - still get the chills when I try to visualize what the real guys went thru

Platoon

The Longest Day

Tora, Tora, Tora

Midway

Run Sient Run Deep - need to watch again

Blackhawk Down (after reading the book)

We Were Soldiers, and Young

SPR

A.N.

Patriot

I just saw Glory in bits and pieces recently and would like to see the whole thing.

Best war spoof - Stripes "You see, if we were in Italy, you could have the top bunk..."

Best Fiction -Hunt for Miss October

Best Documentary - Victory at Sea series

Best "Teen" war movie (when I was a teen) - Red Dawn

I don't know that I ever saw a war movie I didn't like, except maybe Castle Keep, that was weird. I especially like 'em WWII era, in black and white or early color with actual footage put in, like in Midway and some of the others. The Fighting Sullivans is one I like to look for, also 12 O'Clock high (maybe my all time favorite).

DId anyone mention "A thin red line"?
I'm not sure if I liked that movie or not. I think I may have missed the point. Did anyone else see this?

with Eric Burdon or without ?

Full Metal Jacket

Band of Brothers (even bought the box set)

We were Soldiers

Saving Private Ryan