The twenty best war movies, according to the Torygraph

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The Brain

#225
July 30, 2009, 07:01:18 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 30, 2009, 02:45:50 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 02:03:10 PM
How about we make a list of war movies and then vote from that list? There is no silver bullet here, we're gonna have to do it the hard way.
What's the point in having a preliminary vetting stage?  As things stand right now, if you think Schindler is not a war movie, you should vote for Glory, since we are voting on membership in the Languish top 20 war movies of all time.

One could argue that people who vote for Schindler are voting for an illegitimate choice, but if you want to have a discussion on which movies are war movies first you are just moving that debate to a different forum.  Unless you want to cede authority on that question to Grand Ayatollah Berkut and his Guardian Council.

And it's all monumentally academic.  Glory is leading Schindler 5-1 by my count.

No we should make a list of all war movies.
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grumbler

#227
July 30, 2009, 07:15:41 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 07:01:18 PM
No we should make a list of all war movies.
Let us know how this turns out. :cheers:
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#228
July 30, 2009, 07:34:52 PM
The problem with Glory is that it was mistitled.

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Josephus

#229
July 30, 2009, 08:28:32 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 07:01:18 PM


No we should make a list of all war movies.

Emmm...that might not be as hard as you might think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_films_and_TV_specials


and it lists Schindler :mad:
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Darth Wagtaros

#230
July 30, 2009, 08:32:10 PM
Surprised nobody has suggested Babylong Five: In the Beginning.
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Siege

#231
July 30, 2009, 08:45:46 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 30, 2009, 08:32:10 PM
Surprised nobody has suggested Babylong Five: In the Beginning.

War movies have to be based on something historical, right?

Otherwise they would be sci-fi, like Independence Day, Starship Troopers, etc.



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dps

#232
July 30, 2009, 08:46:56 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 30, 2009, 03:40:42 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 30, 2009, 03:30:16 PM
I nominate Gallipoli over Good Morning, Vietnam.
Not sure Gallipoli will stay on the list (too drawn-out at the start) but sure that GMV doesn't belong, so +1 for Gallipoli.

Agree.  Vote for Gallipoli.

Darth Wagtaros

#233
July 30, 2009, 08:49:23 PM
Red Dawn wasn't based on anything historical.  Except Cold War propaganda, and Patrick Swazemeister as a teenaged commando is certainly not related to anything 'real'.
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2009, 08:45:46 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 30, 2009, 08:32:10 PM
Surprised nobody has suggested Babylong Five: In the Beginning.

War movies have to be based on something historical, right?

Otherwise they would be sci-fi, like Independence Day, Starship Troopers, etc.


PDH!

ulmont

#234
July 30, 2009, 08:50:49 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 30, 2009, 08:49:23 PM
Red Dawn wasn't based on anything historical.  Except Cold War propaganda, and Patrick Swazemeister as a teenaged commando is certainly not related to anything 'real'.[

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Siege

#236
July 30, 2009, 08:58:47 PM
Alternate history of a real historical conflict stil counts as a war movie.

The moment you introduce typical sci-fi elements (aliens, zombies, time-machines, the future, etc.) is not longer a war movie, but a sci-fi flick.


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#237
July 30, 2009, 09:06:23 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 30, 2009, 08:58:47 PM
Alternate history of a real historical conflict stil counts as a war movie.

The moment you introduce typical sci-fi elements (aliens, zombies, time-machines, the future, etc.) is not longer a war movie, but a sci-fi flick.
Got to agree with Siege here.
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Darth Wagtaros

#238
July 30, 2009, 09:07:42 PM
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Habsburg

#239
July 30, 2009, 09:13:03 PM Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 09:15:56 PM by Habsburg
Quote from: The Brain on July 27, 2009, 09:08:58 AM
I must see Pearl Harbor.

Big Gobbler, awful.

Tora, Tora, Tora is MUCH better. 

List is a total fail.
No Battle of Algiers?
Gallipoli?
Breaker Morant?
Army of Shadows?
Au revoir les enfants?
huge fail.
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