The twenty best war movies, according to the Torygraph

Started by Alatriste, July 27, 2009, 07:20:04 AM

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Alatriste

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/5900076/The-twenty-best-war-movies.html

You need to click 20 times to get them all, but I¡m going to spoil their cunning plan

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
12. Cross of Iron (1977) / Sam Peckinpah
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
7. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) / Barry Levinson
6. Schindlers List (1993) / Steven Speilberg
5. Saving Private Ryan (1998) / Steven Spielberg
4. Black Hawk Down (2001) / Ridley Scott
3. Pearl Harbour (2001) / Michael Bay
2. Jarhead (2005) / Sam Mendes
1. The Admiral (2008) / Andrei Kravchuk

No, I'm not crazy (well, perhaps I'm, but not enough to give no. 3 to 'Pearl Harbor' and 2 to Jarhead), and the very greatest war movie ever is

A biography of bloody Admiral Kolchak!!!!!!!!

If any list ever deserved a golden WTF with oak leaves, diamonds and swords, it has to be this one...

Admiral Yi

Yup, that top end is pretty fucking bizarre.  And no A Bridge Too Far??

Maximus


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Alatriste

Quote from: Maximus on July 27, 2009, 07:24:02 AM
Um, that list is in chronological order.

That's a mere assumption, in no place does the Torygraph say that... perhaps they think the new is always better  :P

Threviel

Pearl Harbor? WTF?  :cry: The fuckers even misspelled it.

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Alatriste

Quote from: Threviel on July 27, 2009, 07:30:26 AM
Pearl Harbor? WTF?  :cry: The fuckers even misspelled it.

Yeah, when I think of a list including the worst war movies I have watched, the first two titles coming to my mind are 'Pearl Harbor' and 'The Alamo' (the remake of 2004)

Josquius

Chronological order does make sense. Hierarchies suck afterall.
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Neil

That's just awful.  I can only assume that they saw the dearth of good war movies in the last decade and added a few crap ones to balance the list out.
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BuddhaRhubarb

crap list. you don't put a movie that came out a year ago at the top of any list that is "all time"
:p

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