Best War Movies

Kumg Fu Kult Master

Some truly great noms here and although not in the same category while channel flicking last night came across the truly hilarious school footy match sequence in Ken Loaches "Kes" and possibly the late Brian Glovers finest moment as the physcho gym teacher many of us oldies will probably remember

comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 20 hours, 33 minutes ago
War of the Worlds
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Which one?
The 1953 version was excellent for its time, staying more or less faithful to the novel by H.G. Wells

The Cruise version from 2005 was bloody awful
I didn't think much of the 3 part BBC adaptation

Now Jeff Wayne's musical version was brilliant!
Seen it live twice, both times in Cardiff

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See, I quite like the 2005 one.

comment by it'sonlyagame - Newcastle till I’m dismembered (U6426)
posted 3 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by And... Rosso... Though its... Yeah and... That... (U17054)
posted 18 hours, 31 minutes ago
The Thin Red Line.

Massively underrated film.
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One of my favourites too. The cinematography to me is pure poetry.
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prefer it to SVP (beach landing scene aside)

SPR even

Re-watched The Thin Red Line.
Ok, well sure, I guess the younger me deffo wasn’t appreciating this 1st time round. I’ll put respect on it and say, I did like it this time round.
It’s still doesn’t make my list of War greats, but it certainly isn’t the complete borefest I remembered.
It’s aged very well.
Somehow I completely forgot the entire mission sequence, so that was a pleasant surprise.
Nick Nolte was fantastic.

i keep forgetting to watch flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima

comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 7 minutes ago
Re-watched The Thin Red Line.
Ok, well sure, I guess the younger me deffo wasn’t appreciating this 1st time round. I’ll put respect on it and say, I did like it this time round.
It’s still doesn’t make my list of War greats, but it certainly isn’t the complete borefest I remembered.
It’s aged very well.
Somehow I completely forgot the entire mission sequence, so that was a pleasant surprise.
Nick Nolte was fantastic.
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Still need to rewatch it. I do remember Nolte being good.

comment by it'sonlyagame - Newcastle till I’m dismembered (U6426)
posted 1 week, 1 day ago
comment by And... Rosso... Though its... Yeah and... That... (U17054)
posted 18 hours, 31 minutes ago
The Thin Red Line.

Massively underrated film.
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One of my favourites too. The cinematography to me is pure poetry.
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Yeah, it’s visually incredible. For me, it’s also really well written and cast, and Terrence Malick just does the job you’d expect him to.

A bit late on this: (some you might not have seen)

Brotherhood (Korean)
Danger Close (Australian)
Downfall (German)
Paniflov’s 28 Men (Russian)

Plus the TV Series:

Grant (Civil War) and Medal of Honour.

Plus the classics:

633 Squadron
Battle of Britian
Dambusters

and....All Quite on the Western Front and Masters of Air coming in 2022 👍🏻