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General Category => Active Polls => Topic started by: Diesel on August 20, 2012, 10:16:31 PM
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The vote is a moot point really.
If yours ain't on the list - tell us what it is, and why.
What are some of the classics that we all remember and love that I've missed.
Keep it to War on this planet - as opposed to sci-fi like Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica etc.
I loved what they did with the planes in Battle of Britain and Tora! Tora! Tora! - and the effects were from weak to fantastic for the time.
Oh yeah - you get a few votes on this poll if you can't decide between a few.
Cheers, Diesel
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I'm a sucker for "people" movies rather than "shoot-em-ups", hence my vote for Schindler. "The Pianist" is another very powerful movie set in the same era.
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Ive been to the River Kwai bridge, its just a stump lefyt on one bank really
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'The Blue Max'. WW1 Aircraft film with George Peppard and Ursula Andress. Told from the German side.
Great pre-CGI air shots (it was made in 1966) plus I love early aviation.
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I voted for Kelly's Heroes but the Longest Day was a good one from memory as it was 50 years ago.
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All quiet on the Western Front.
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Any thing with action is tops and if they start that kissin sh#t then its no good
Tipsy
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Isle of Man TT in 3D best war movie to date until next year........ :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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F Troop or Hogans Heros but couldn't find either on the list. :well
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Got to love Hogan's Heroes and F Troop, but Where Eagles Dare is right up there with best of them.
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Always enjoyed The Guns of Navarone.
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Hey Biggles, you'd be up for Sound of Music as well yeah?
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We were Soldiers......based on the true story of Col Hal Moore in the La Drang valley of Vietnam in 1965......stared Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, Madeline Stowe.....great watch in a sobering fashion. :-++
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what about Combat with Vic Morrow
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what about Combat with Vic Morrow
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I remember that on TV in the mid to late 60's.
Plus 12 O'clock High.....B 17 based series about the American day light bombings WW2.
Cold war movie Red October with Sean Connery as the Russian SUB captain.
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Another great TV Show - used to look forward to Baa Baa Black Sheep and those loverly A4U Vought Corsairs......
Baa Baa Black Sheep Squadron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQCYG0C89uk#)
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The Final Countdown - The USS Nimitz nuclear Aircraft Carrier gets caught in a time warp storm and finds herself back in time - December 7th 1941 in fact - same day as the Pearl Harbor attack!
Wow - should have seen the dogfight between an F-14 Tomcat and a Japanese Zero!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/)
Great to watch.
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Cold war movie Red October with Sean Connery as the Russian SUB captain.
I agree with Alan. "Hunt for Red October" was great, despite the fact that I'm not a fan of war movies. Sean Connery is a wonderful actor and he managed to pull off the part of a Russian Captain with a Scottish accent.
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I agree with Alan. "Hunt for Red October" was great, despite the fact that I'm not a fan of war movies. Sean Connery is a wonderful actor and he managed to pull off the part of a Russian Captain with a Scottish accent.
If you guys like that movie (me too), the you may have liked "Crimson Tide" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/)
Denzel and Gene Hackman - two greats!
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"Bride Wars", you didn't say it had to be a boys war movie :nahnah
Pockey :wink1
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Tom Gun is a War movie?
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the gates
Enemy at the Gates (3/9) Movie CLIP - Do You Know How to Shoot? (2001) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvTR012Dmg#ws)
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Yep. Enemy at the Gates is a gr8 flick.... :grin
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Schindlers List
Band of Brothers (TV series)
Enemy at the gates
Every sub movie and naval battle there ever was and finally...
Starship Troopers :)
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Stalingrad (1993), mainly because it portrays in a very real way the futility and horror of the siege of Stalingrad.
I also enjoyed Das Boot.
And Full Metal Jacket... and Apocalypse Now... and Above us the waves.....
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I can't believe you missed The Great Escape!
It even has a bike chase........
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Schindlers List
Band of Brothers (TV series)
Enemy at the gates
Every sub movie and naval battle there ever was and finally...
Starship Troopers :)
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Starship Troopers.... :rofl :rofl Nothing to do with having Denise Richards in it of course :nahnah
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Mmmmmmmm... Denise Richards
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6732/deniserichards001.jpg)
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The bridge over the River Kwai was a good movie.
Interesting trivia. Movie was shot in Sri Lanka. Tjhe river Kwai wasnt known as the river Kwai, but after the movie, tourists wanted to see the bridge over the river, so it was renamed to mae it easier to find.. :)
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i have made my final decision. One of my mentors who taught me my skills in my profession in my younger days was a supply truck driver in the battle of the bulge. RIP
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'The Train'. Early black and white movie with Burt Lancaster about the french resistance against the germans. If you guys would get it out and watch it, you would vote it the best ever. Really worth a watch.
Was based on actual events.
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Apocalypse Now for something a bit heavy and Saving Private Ryan for some action.
:grin
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Stalingrad (1993), mainly because it portrays in a very real way the futility and horror of the siege of Stalingrad.
I also enjoyed Das Boot.
And Full Metal Jacket... and Apocalypse Now... and Above us the waves.....
Now there's a man with great taste and sophistication.
And yes, Neale, "Sound of Music" was a war movie that filled in an interesting aspect of the effects of Hitler's madness on families.
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I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.
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Mmmmmm. Indeed Denise Richards! :H
And a film? - there's lot's of them. We've had lot's of wars to make movies about.
Das Boot came from nowhere. It wasn't originally released in English. On the other side of the ocean was The Cruel Sea with James Mason.
Forty Thousand Horsemen and Gallipoli were pretty good outings as well.
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In more recent times "Enemy at the Gate" got my vote. "Kelly's Hero's" was always a favourite.
Classics like "Apocalypse Now"gave me something to think about when it first came out. Its close resemblance to the circumstances of Barry Petersen and a very few others of my dad's team... was confronting.
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I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.
I did enjoy "Memphis Belle". My Dad (now 90) flew Halifaxs with 462, was shot down on his 5th Mission and spent the last few months in POW camp.
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While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve
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While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve
Yep good movie Zulu - we were shown it in my Air Cadet days during edumacation on Man Management courses
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I've got it on DVD....
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I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.
I did enjoy "Memphis Belle". My Dad (now 90) flew Halifaxs with 462, was shot down on his 5th Mission and spent the last few months in POW camp.
While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve
Yep good movie Zulu - we were shown it in my Air Cadet days during edumacation on Man Management courses
So that's why we saw Zulu twice at Kapooka. :eek :popcorn :o I always thought our intake was considered such a rebellious lot it was punishment. AND they made us watch Mechanized Death, about road safety three times. :popcorn :thumbs :clap It's a American safety filum about car accidents, filmed at the scene with no editing. Both cool AND gruesome. :grin :eek
We had about 4 guys roll there cars whist we were in Luft Stalag Kapooka, so das Kamp Kommandant thought this would teach us something.
It did. We thought it was so grouse we went to the boozer got kashtonered, and talk s..t about it for a few hours. :beer :beer :beer
What it is to be 17! Thinking inside, outside and all around the box! :rofl :crackup :rofl
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The Odd Angry Shot get's my vote for # 1.
Closely followed by Apocalypse Now & Platoon.
(http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k633/greeneyedmonster1/Theoddangryshot.jpg) (http://s1119.photobucket.com/user/greeneyedmonster1/media/Theoddangryshot.jpg.html)
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O' yeah, the odd angry shot is a great flick..... :thumbsup