The twenty best war movies, according to the Torygraph

[Josephus]

Of course not.  This is the final test.  Once you solve this riddle everything else in life, from women to the stock market to the cheat code for Mike Tyson's Punch become no more of a challenge than velcrowing your shoes.

Wow.....Now I know why I have failed so miserably in life. 

[Josephus]

Anyways Bridge over Pearl Harbour

[Admiral Yi]

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
2. Jarhead (2005) / Sam Mendes
1. The Admiral (2008) / Andrei Kravchuk
Most Glorious Monument of Military Filmmaking A Bridge Too Far

Someon else toss one in.

[Sophie Scholl]

Patton to replace Jarhead.  We'll go for the easy ones first.

[grumbler]

http://www.moviefone.com/insidemovies/2007/03/07/best-war-movies/
A slightly better starting list maybe.  Take a look.  Still needs some work though.

I think they nailed #1.

A bit better, but we have already started, so I think we should just stick with the existing list.

Don't agree about The Longest Day, though.  It was much ballyhooed because of the cast, but the story is actually not well-told here, IMO.  Some great moments, but confusing and poorly paced.

Of course, my tastes are not everyone's.  I thought Apocalypse Now a snoozefest when Robert Duvall was not on-screen, for instance, and wouldn't even have it in my top-25, let alone #2..

[grumbler]

Patton to replace Jarhead.  We'll go for the easy ones first.

I was just typing up Patton to replace Good Morning, Vietnam, but will go with your choice.  I vote aye.

[katmai]

 Swofford ....you bastard, I've read your book! aka Patton over Jarhead.

[dps]

Patton

[Admiral Yi]

Patton.

Still has the worst battle scenes ever filmed.

[FunkMonk]

Yes on Patton

[grumbler]

Patton.

Still has the worst battle scenes ever filmed.

Nope.  That honor goes to Battle of the Bulge.

[grumbler]

Didn't the M47s in both of those films see more 'action' than the tanks did in real life ?

Yes.  In December 1944 only two German battalions had them, and neither was involved in the Battle of the Bulge.

[Siege]

Patton.

Still has the worst battle scenes ever filmed.

Nope.  That honor goes to Battle of the Bulge.

Yeah. Even I, back then when I was a kid and I saw it for the first time, could tell those tanks weren't Tiger 2s.

[Sophie Scholl]

Side question:  What is the best Bulge movie in people's opinions?  I'd say either A Midnight Clear (which is technically just prior) or Battleground.

[CountDeMoney]

I disagree about Jarhead, I felt it was a decent film.  But we're talking tops of all time, so it doesn't make the cut.

Apocalypse Now is an allegory, not a war flick.  War just happened to be the vehicle.

I vote for dumping Good Morning Vietnam and Schindler's List;  not even war movies. 
A Midnight Clear was a better a war movie than Bulge, which sucked.