The twenty best war movies, according to the Torygraph

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Valmy

#15
July 27, 2009, 12:47:34 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2009, 12:43:18 PM
Any list with Pearl Harbour on it is by default wrong.

Worst acted big budget films of all time?
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PDH

#16
July 27, 2009, 12:53:04 PM
Pearl Harbor did have good modern destroyers in it.
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#17
July 27, 2009, 12:55:16 PM
Pearl Harbor wasn't all that bad. Perhaps too chick-friendly to be considered a war film, but :mellow:

Was there any actual combat in Schindler's List?
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saskganesh

#18
July 27, 2009, 12:58:13 PM
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) is not very good. that movie is wallpaper around some good Williams' rants.

... no love for Bridge over Remagen. :sad:
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Valmy

#19
July 27, 2009, 01:01:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 27, 2009, 12:55:16 PM
Pearl Harbor wasn't all that bad. Perhaps too chick-friendly to be considered a war film, but :mellow:

:mellow: It was not the chick-friendliness that made it a mediocre film.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Eddie Teach

#20
July 27, 2009, 01:11:56 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 27, 2009, 01:01:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 27, 2009, 12:55:16 PM
Pearl Harbor wasn't all that bad. Perhaps too chick-friendly to be considered a war film, but :mellow:

:mellow: It was not the chick-friendliness that made it a mediocre film.

Sure, it's mediocre and doesn't belong on the list. It still wasn't as bad as several of the posts were making it out.
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Syt

#21
July 27, 2009, 01:15:57 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on July 27, 2009, 12:58:13 PM
... no love for Bridge over Remagen. :sad:

None for Stalingrad or its 1950s predecessor "Hunde, wollt Ihr ewig leben" (literally: Dogs, do you want to live forever), either.
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DisturbedPervert

#22
July 27, 2009, 01:22:47 PM
Did war not exist before the Zulu Wars?

Valmy

#23
July 27, 2009, 01:26:49 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on July 27, 2009, 01:22:47 PM
Did war not exist before the Zulu Wars?

You couldn't make as big of explosions back then and that is what the Telegraph loves most about war films.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

saskganesh

#24
July 27, 2009, 01:28:57 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2009, 01:15:57 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on July 27, 2009, 12:58:13 PM
... no love for Bridge over Remagen. :sad:

None for Stalingrad or its 1950s predecessor "Hunde, wollt Ihr ewig leben" (literally: Dogs, do you want to live forever), either.

I really liked Stalingrad. and Downfall. and Die Bruke.

Germans should make more war films (as opposed to, you know, making actual war):)
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Valmy

#25
July 27, 2009, 01:29:43 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on July 27, 2009, 01:28:57 PM
Germans should make more war films (as opposed to, you know, making actual war):)

They should do more of that to and send soldiers to help with NATO operations...

then make movies about those operations.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

saskganesh

#26
July 27, 2009, 01:35:44 PM
I'd like to see some Afghan War movies. It would be fascinating.
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Iormlund

#27
July 27, 2009, 01:39:18 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on July 27, 2009, 01:28:57 PM

I really liked Stalingrad. and Downfall. and Die Bruke.

You're forgetting Das Boot.

The Brain

#28
July 27, 2009, 01:40:25 PM
Stalingrad wasn't good.
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#29
July 27, 2009, 01:42:21 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 27, 2009, 12:55:16 PM
Pearl Harbor wasn't all that bad.

The ending credits were easy to read.

And a relief to get to.
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