What do you think is the best WAR movie ever? (1 Viewer)

[BrentJ]

I know this is a tuff question, but there has to be one that stands alone with you guys. I would have to say I really enjoyed the first half of Full Metal Jacket. I would go with Platoon as my all time favorite. thanks

 

[Robert Crawford]

Brent is this going to be a poll or a discussion as to why a particular film is the greatest to you personally?





Crawdaddy

 

[Richard_D_Ramirez]

In no particular order, since they are all excellent war films:
Apocalypse Now
Ran
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Schindler's List
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Dirty Dozen
MASH
Platoon
Glory
Patton
From Here to Eternity
Das Boot
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Gettysburg
Black Hawk Down
Gallipoli
Just off the top of my head, so I'm sure there are more to list...

 

[Paul_D]

For different reasons:

Paths of Glory
The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Grave of the Fireflies

 

[Jack Briggs]

Brent--my response is the same as Crawdaddy's. This is a poll.

 

[BrentJ]

I wanted to do a pole. I may have overlooked it, but I didn't see where I could list a pole. Thanks

 

[Lew Crippen]

Grande Illusion

 

[Lew Crippen]

And for something recent:

The Thin Red Line though it would not meet the test of "best ever".

 

[Jeremiah]

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
We Were Soldiers
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan(this could of been something special but...)
Black Hawk Down
The Thin Red Line
Coming Home In A Body-bag and Body-bags 2

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Tough choice, but I'd have to give the top honors to the original Apocalypse Now for almost single-handedly embodying the bleakness and depair that seemed to many an important aspect of the Vietnam War (I won't make further remarks to this point since I've never been there and essentially have no clue whatsoever what it was like). Also, its amazing cinematography, sound, music and sprawling descent into madness make for one horrific/terrific motion picture.
Second place honors go to Patton, a stunning masterwork with George C. Scott at the top of his form.

 

[Jeff Pryor]

Blackhawk Down

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Full Metal Jacket

 

[Steve Christou]

Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
Glory
Zulu
Star Wars
Starship Troopers

 

[Rob Tomlin]

I will resist the temptation to list more than one War movie as the best (as others have done) and simply state that in my opinion, the best War movie ever made is:
Full Metal Jacket
And, please note that I am excluding Lawrence of Arabia as a war movie. If LoA is to be considered a war movie, then I would say it is not only the best war movie ever made, but it is the best movie ever made!

 

[LukeB]

Bridge on the River Kwai...followed by Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now

 

[Stephen L]

If I have to pick just one then it would be Glory .

 

[Bill J]

Apocalypse Now

 

[Patrick McCart]

All Quiet on the Western Front. (1930 version...not the stinky TV movie!)

 

[Ken Garrison]

I loved the special effects and the airplanes flying through the house even with a Pro Logic sound system in Pearl Harbor. But according to my grandpa and other people who's into History, that movie is NOT accurate. My grandpa is a Pearl Harbor Survivor and if he says that movie ain't accurate, he means it. He recommended Tora! Tora! Tora! to me and I told him I'll watch it next time it comes on TV. Well, about a month later, it was on The Fox Movie channel, in OAR, of course. I watched it and it was pretty good. He said that movie is closer to what happened.

 

[HenrikTull]

Platoon

 

[JasenP]

Patton
Sgt. York
The Dirty Dozen (not really a war movie in some respects)
Full Metal Jacket

There are so many to like for different reasons, this is a truly unfair question to ask.