The twenty best war movies, according to the Torygraph

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Strix

#330
August 09, 2009, 03:17:32 PM
So, why no John Wayne?

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Neil

#332
August 09, 2009, 03:23:24 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2009, 09:08:53 PM
Sink the Bismarck! over The Dam Busters (which is less the odd man out of this collection than Platoon, but it is more the lesser-known film like StB).
Yeah, that's a great movie.
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Strix

#333
August 09, 2009, 03:27:08 PM
Ok, I am not sure if it's been mentioned and I am not really sure if it should be considered a "war" movie but how about Murphy's War starring Peter O'Toole?
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Admiral Yi

#334
August 09, 2009, 03:35:12 PM Last Edit: August 09, 2009, 03:39:36 PM by Admiral Yi
Quote from: Strix on August 09, 2009, 03:27:08 PM
Ok, I am not sure if it's been mentioned and I am not really sure if it should be considered a "war" movie but how about Murphy's War starring Peter O'Toole?
If you want to nominate a movie wait until the current round of voting is finished, then also specify which movie currently on the list you want to challenge.

p.s. First to 7 wins.

grumbler

#335
August 09, 2009, 06:54:54 PM
Lawrence.
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Bayraktar!

CountDeMoney

#336
August 09, 2009, 07:43:05 PM
Late vote for Sink The Bismarck, dammit.  Make it happen.

And get that godawful Deer Hunter off of there.

CountDeMoney

#337
August 09, 2009, 07:43:28 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 09, 2009, 03:10:15 PM
The one with the homosexual.

:lol:  Be more specific.

Kleves

#338
August 09, 2009, 07:57:40 PM
LoA.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Admiral Yi

#339
August 09, 2009, 08:17:59 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 09, 2009, 07:43:05 PM
Late vote for Sink The Bismarck, dammit.  Make it happen.
Not going to happen.

Were there any butt pirates in Cross of Iron?

CountDeMoney

#340
August 09, 2009, 08:23:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 09, 2009, 08:17:59 PM
Were there any butt pirates in Cross of Iron?

Yes.  Maximillian Schell busted the Lieutenant trying to Martify the enlisted newb.

dps

#341
August 09, 2009, 11:35:41 PM
Lawrence of Arabia

Warspite

#342
August 10, 2009, 05:37:54 AM
I love Cross of Iron, but I love Lawrence of Arabia more. Latter gets my vote.
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Tamas

#343
August 10, 2009, 05:51:25 AM
Lawrence

Admiral Yi

#344
August 10, 2009, 12:56:21 PM
20. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) / Lewis Milestone
19. The Dam Busters (1955) / Michael Anderson
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) / David Lean
17. Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) / J. Lee Thompson
16. The Longest Day (1962) / Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Darryl F. Zanuck
15. The Great Escape (1963) / John Sturges
14. Zulu (1964) / Cy Enfield
13. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) / Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda
11. The Deer Hunter (1978) / Michael Cimino
10. Apocalypse Now (1979) / Francis Ford Coppola
9. Platoon (1986) / Oliver Stone
8. Full Metal Jacket (1987) / Stanley Kubrick
5. Saving Private Ryan (1998) / Steven Spielberg
4. Black Hawk Down (2001) / Ridley Scott
A Bridge Too Far
Glory
Patton
Gallipoli
Das Boot
Lawrence of Arabia

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