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Best Military movie of all time.
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The Green Berets.
Depends on what you (each of us) define as "great". If it has to a single definition just look to the Oscars and other awards. That's the 'definition' isn't it?As usual, many people are confusing movies they happen to enjoy, with truly great movies. I enjoyed most of the movies mentioned, but a good many of those were actually pretty weak, if not abysmally stupid. I can still enjoy them, but that doesn't negate or blind me to the fact that a lot of them were hokey, over-dramatic, poorly written and acted, and basically kinda dopey.
I personally loved all those old classics like The Flying Tigers, PT109, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Sink The Bismark, etc. etc., or some later ones like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, The Boys in Company C, but these were all seriously hokey, over-rated flicks, with some often ridiculous writing and acting. And don't get me started on lame, corny dog**** like Top Gun, or especially, Heartbreak Ridge! I can't believe those were suggested with a straight face!
Big personal favorites of mine include stuff like Kelly's Heroes, Tora Tora Tora, The Dirty Dozen, The Green Berets, but I couldn't label these among "the best of all time" (which is the criteria here), I just happened to like them, which ain't necessarily the same thing.
There are surely others, but my short list of top-quality, really well done military movies would include, Saving Pvt Ryan, Band of Brothers, Bridge on the River Kwai, Patton, The Longest day, We Were Soldiers, maybe Blackhawk Down.
OK, rant over, flame away !!
BTW, anyone remember The Wild Geese ? It was a mercenaries-in-Africa type movie. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid, so I can;t say how "good" it actually was, but i remember some of that being very cool, and really intense, like the last guy that couldn't quite catch up to the plane they were escaping in, and he frantically screams at them to shoot him, so he wasn't captured by the pursuing African soldiers.
(spoiler: they shot him!)
Another favorite, that still could've been better (and hasn't been mentioned yet) is, "The Dogs of War ", a very early Christopher Walken flick. The book was way better though.
Frankly, I look at how a movie to watch, and re-watch. I could, mostly, not care less about "great acting" and such. Granted, there are some great actors, but my view of that rarely aligns with "stars".
Das Boot
Mackenzie Break
MASH
Mackenzie Break
MASH
Saving Private Ryan. Band of Brothers series next.
the one that stuck out at me the most was zulu
the period it happens, the weapons, the uniforms, the acting, it all came together perfectly without cutting down too much on the run time for tvs sake
the period it happens, the weapons, the uniforms, the acting, it all came together perfectly without cutting down too much on the run time for tvs sake
In the woods and building up hours to get off early, deer don’t wait for you to get in the tree and venison is tasty
Zulu didn’t let itself be a 90 minute movie so they could get a lot in the final product
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