Best "War" Movies (or any movies)

[rogue06]

Are there any movies that you just can't watch, or have difficulty watching?

Mine are Hurt Locker and Black Hawk Down.

A bad comedy. Deal of the Century, with Chevy Chase. Something in it hit way too close to home.

[Cow Poke]

Interesting - I came upon this...

15 Intense War Movies So Real, They're Almost Too Hard To Watch

• The Hurt Locker (2008) Director: Kathryn Bigelow. ...
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) Director: Steven Spielberg. ...
• Hacksaw Ridge (2016) ...
• Flags Of Our Fathers (2006) ...
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) ...
• American Sniper (2014) ...
• Inglorious Basterds (2009) ...
• The Pianist (2002)

[Cow Poke]

Are there any movies that you just can't watch, or have difficulty watching?

Mine are Hurt Locker and Black Hawk Down.

[rogue06]

I liked the Director's Cut, where she fires a bazooka and then escapes in the tank.

Technically it was a Soviet ISU-152 heavy assault gun, or armored self-propelled artillery, but...

[Ronson]

You saw the roguetech remix of the latter, right?



Here's a quick refresher:

I liked the Director's Cut, where she fires a bazooka and then escapes in the tank.

[rogue06]

Forgot about Shenendoah and possibly The Sound of Music.

You saw the roguetech remix of the latter, right?



Here's a quick refresher:

[The Melody Maker]

White Christmas, Father Goose and South Pacific.

Forgot about Shenendoah and possibly The Sound of Music.

[Sparko]

Star Wars.

[Markus River]

In no order of merit;

2001 A Space Oddessy
Battle of Britain
Battle of The River Plate
Dunkirk (2017)
Full Metal Jacket
Heat
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
The Godfather Pts 1 & 2
The Thin Red Line

Not a film but hard not to mention; Band of Brothers

[rogue06]

American Sniper
Apocalypse Now
Casablanca
From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Green Beret
Inglorious Basterds
Longest Day
M*A*S*H*
Midway (1976)
Schindler's List
Tora Tora Tora
Von Ryan's Express
War Horse

[The Melody Maker]

White Christmas, Father Goose and South Pacific.

[Cow Poke]

The Big Red One
Dunkirk (2017)
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Dirty Dozen
Run Silent, Run Deep
Sergeant York
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

[Cow Poke]

Not actually a "war movie", but I have watched Hunt For Red October a zillion times.

Stalag 17
The Great Escape.
Yeah, Patton - the very first movie I ever saw on one of those ginormous screens.

[Ronson]

Oh, one added note: With the exception of "Chinatown", the Film Noir list are all from the 1940s and 1950s. I say this because some were remade and the remakes often stink.

[Ronson]

CP suggested a thread about favorite war movies. I haven't watched enough to compile a list. I'd like to see lists from others, though. There's plenty of war movies on Cinema and Nova streaming apps.

My favorite genre is Film Noir (I guess that translates from French as "dark film"). These are the movies that tend to be black & white, where the protagonist is often a private detective who gets in over is head, or some innocent slob who gets caught up in the criminal underworld and has to escape, with neon lights flickering through Venetian blinds, and dangerous fem fatales lurking to ensnare the star. Lots of atmosphere and usually some tongue-in-cheek clever dialogue.

My list of some of the best ones:
1) "Raw Deal"
2) "Act Of Violence"
3) "Out Of The Past"
4) "Double Indemnity"
5) "The Maltese Falcon"
6) "Ride The Pink Horse"
7) "The October Man"
8) "Chinatown"
9) "Desperate"
10) "Woman On The Run"

War movies ....

"Where Eagles Dare" has always been a fave. Same with "Sahara". "Patton" was good.