Whats your favourite war film?

[Guest]

Saving private Ryan, and not so much a film, but the Band of Brothers series.

i love these two saving private ryan is a most excellent movie and band of brothers is one of the best tv series ever made it is up there with world at war and the bridge at Remagen.

[Guest]

Hi All

My favourite has to be Kelly's Heroes, as it’s got such a great cast of actors and is so very watchable.

However I have to mention Saving Private Ryan, as this was perhaps the first war film that brought the horrors of war right in your face. In older war film people getting shot and blown up were just actors falling down, and a splodge of blood on their clothes, but in SPR you really got to see the real effects of getting shot and blown up, and I think the opening beach scene when the front of the landing craft drops down and you hear the bullets zinging off the hull, really made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Don

[stona]

Love most of those above though strangely I've never been a huge fan of the BOB film. The 109s with the wrong engines set my teeth on edge for some reason!!!! Same as the "wrong" tanks in the Bulge film. Still the best aerial photography ever done though.

I'm surprised (stretching the definition a bit) that noone has gone for Dr Strangelove. Kubrick and Sellers at their best.

I might just watch "Ice cold in Alex" this afternoon.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

For me it has to be Kelly's Heroes,

there has been so many great films mentioned in this thread,

but I never tire of watching Odball and his hippy sherman tank.

[Guest]

For me it has to be Kelly's Heroes,there has been so many great films mentioned in this thread,

but I never tire of watching Odball and his hippy sherman tank.

I think that we are in the lead at the moment with Kellys Heros/ Great choice mate.

[Guest]

Has anyone ever seen Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood? Damn good film and probably the first one where we see the Japanese as real humans. Das Boot was the first of its kind to portray the Germans in the same way. Das Boot really suffers with the English translation though

[jspitza]

"The thin red line" Undoubtedly, the best I've ever seen.....

[Guest]

Das Boot is definitely one of the best-all the fake glory stripped away to show unwilling men just doing the job that fate had landed them with. And I agree with Paul, never watch it with the dubbed speech-original German & subtitles is the best way!

Patrick

[stona]

Das Boot - fantastic. I was working,at the time, at the studios in Munich where much of it was filmed and was lucky enough to get a "tour" from one of our German colleagues of the full size replica (complete with plastic vegetables festooned everywhere). What it must have been like on the real thing at sea beggars belief. Very brave men.

A most enjoyable day supposedly at work.

I don't have more than a slight knowledge of German but I think "Das Boot" should be watched in the original language,you just have to put up with the subtitles. Same applies to "Downfall" another excellent film not yet mentioned.

Steve

Steve

[Guest]

I first saw Das Boot when I was about 16-spent the next few days shouting "ALAAARRRMMM" at every possible opportunity!

Interesting that most films mentioned so far are WW2-based!

Patrick

[jspitza]

"Downfall"

Wow, forgot that one too. My Wife is a doctor, does not get shaken easily. She had nightmares that night.

[Guest]

Steve, I'm jealous that you got the tour around the studios I first saw Das Boot as a 6-parter in the days when my German was basic. After studying it at uni and living there for four years, i plucked up the courage to watch it again and that time i felt the emotions that dubbing and to an extent subtitling miss.

As for Der Untergang (Downfall), that too is a great film. I saw that at the cinema in Germany a few years back when it was first released. That film did initially cause a lot of controversy among the Germans as a large portion of the film portrayed Hitler as caring human being. German acting at its best in that film.

Another great war film which hasn't been mentioned here, at least in my opinion for the utter carnage is Black Hawk Down.

Here's a question for everyone: Next year, a new version of The Dambusters will be released. Whilst looking forward to it, i am somewhat a little sceptic. Does anyone else know about this?

[Guest]

A new dambusters film?? I've not heard of that so I just googled it & it's going to be produced by Peter Jackson of LOTR & King Kong fame. I'm in too minds about it myself, although the reports that it will feature Barnes-Wallis's struggle to get the bouncing bomb idea approved sounds good coz that man was a true hero-Britain's build on slightly mad inventors in their sheds! Do you think the dog will still be called 'Nigger'? Patrick

[Guest]

Oh yeah, i was shocked when i heard the dog's name in the original Due to PC, hte name will probably be changed to something like Tiddles or Lollipop

[Guest]

lol on one of the sites I looked at, the same question came up & some poor PC-obsessed soul had tried to convince everyone that the name was actually 'Niger' which he believed was the French word for 'black'! How I laughed!

Actually I think the dog won't appear-if it does, it certainly it won't meet the same grisly fate of the original & as for the name, why not have the part played by Snoop Doggy-Dog? He can call himself n*****r then! :shocking:

Patrick