DFW, TX Okay, here's a topic...

Alright, boys and girls. This should stimulate conversation a bit. Another top ten list!

This one is for your top ten favorite war movies that take place in the 20th century.

Let's see, I'd have to say my top ten off the top of my head are:

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Enemy at the Gates
3. Platoon
4. Three Kings
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Forrest Gump (kind of a stretch, but I think it fits)
7. Rules of Engagement
8. Patton
9. Pearl Harbor (before you start screaming, I am referring to the actual attack scenes only)
10. Thirteen Days (not a real war movie, but close enough)

Everyone else?

 

Mine would be:

1. Patton
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Midway
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Das Boat
7. Dr. Strangelove (no real war going on but, why not)
8. Platoon
9. Thin Red Line
10. A Bridge Too Far

Honorable mentions:

Jacob's Ladder (partial war...but excellent movie)
Goodmorning Vietnam (why not)
U-571
Hamburger Hill
Fighting Tigers

 

Das Boat?

 

1] saving private ryan
2] das boot
3] midway
4] kelly's heros [guilty pleasure]
5] bridge on the river kwai
6] apocalypse now
7] patton
8] full metal jacket
9] from here to eternity
10] the manchurian candidate

-lawrence of arabia
-all quiet on the western front
-good morning vietnam
-hamburger hill
-war games
-red dawn
-three kings

 

Hey, Das Boot was great.



Even Stone picked it

 

Nobody mentioned Stripes

1. Patton
2. Midway
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Bridge Over the River Kwai
5. The Longest Day
6. Battle of the Bulge
7. A Bridge too Far
8. Das Boot
9. Platoon
10. The Dirty Dozen

Others:
Full Metal Jacket
Final Countdown
Pork Chop Hill
The Flying Leathernecks
Pearl Harbor (wasnt that bad, but not as good as it could be)
Enemy at the Gates (Better than Pearl)

Comedy:
Stripes
Kelleys Heros
M.A.S.H. (Might should be in my top 10)
No Fair Your Dead! (15 min student film)

Personal Fave from my youth
Black Sheep Squadren TV Movie

 

Das Boot rawks.
U-571 wishes it was Das Boot.

 

i forgot...

-stalag 17
-the great escape
-hunt for red october
-the dirty dozen

 

Jeff, dont you mean Flying Tigers?



Stone, I forgot three of those too. Doh!

And your right about Das Boot. Wicked flick!

 

Oops, I can't believe I forgot Crimson Tide! Probably my favorite Bruckheimer movie, and definitely my favorite submarine one. Hell, it's got James Gandolfini in it!

However, it may be replaced as my favorite Bruckheimer film if Black Hawk Down turns out to be as good as it looks. Ridley Scott, Ewan MacGregor....war? Greatness in the making, if you ask me. Hopefully, it will rock.

 

crimson tide wishes it was das boot

 

I forgot some more...

1941 (Great film! Hollywood! Hollywood!)
Dr. Strangelove
Deal of the Century

Big Red One
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Guns of Navorone
Where Eagles Dare
Brass Target
The Plot to Kill Hitler

Yes, I love War films

 

No, I mean Fighting Tigers.

Flying Tigers was a good one too though.