I used to be obsessed with Vietnam War films (slight military fetish going on there), favourite was Full Metal Jacket (esp the character Animal - hot )

'Love Apocalypse Now' and 'The Deer Hunter' too.

'The Longest Day' is REALLY good.

'The Pianist' and 'Life is Beautiful' are v good, more about the Jewish experience though than guns and guts.

Rented 'Come and See' recently as it is supposed to be a WW2 classic, but found it too weeeiirrd.

Braveheart,
Saving Private Ryan,
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator
Lord Of the Ring series

Recently Number 23, it is a great movie, that was the first time i ve seen jim carry as a serious character.

And looking forward to 300.

visually 300 looks like one of the best ever...but only if I can get past the wooden acting I saw on the trailer.

Letters from Iwo Jima

saw it today, awesome film, it would seem that perhaps clint eastwood is doing his best work behind the camera as opposed to in front of it these days?




view the flash trailer here

http://-trailers.blogspot.com/2006/12/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006.html

suggestion to check out the film 'jarhead':
'tis a good oneand should bein my top 6?

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The longest day
3. Platoon
4. Zulu..oh my god there were loads of them
5. We were Soldiers - Mel Gibson

recently watched a film called Zwartboek (black book). its a thriller, set in ww2 in holland, and the german occupation. wouldnt want to give away the story line but it was a very good thriller, worth watching, its in dutch and german, so you have to use english subtitles, but its worth it.

Children of Men...not a war film but there's some excellent gritty urban combat scenes towards the end.

i like the old black n white ones
all quiet on the western front
battle of the river plate
above us the waves
desert rats
the cruel sea
we dive at dawn
are some i've aquired

We were soldiers
bridge over the eriver kwai
zulu
bridge at remagen
a bridge too far
the pianist
schindlers list
stalingrad
enemy at the gates
schindlers list
battle of britain
dambusters
jarhead
black hawk down
braveheart
war of the worlds (HG Wells Original Version)
Independence day


theres loads more its not worth listing them all as i can go on quite a bit, just waiting for flags of our fathers/letters from iwo jima to arrive at the mo
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um tricky this one, defining a war movie, if we were going into sci fi
it would have to be starship troopers or star wars.
But for me a defo of a war movie is based on a real war that has actually taken place, so for that i would have a top ten like this...


1. Zulu
2. Guns Of Navarone
3. The Great Escape
4. Schlinder's List
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. The Dambusters
7. Bridge Over The River Kwai
8. Good Morning Vietnam
9. M*A*S*H
10. Das Boot

I watched two great war films last night.......

Flags of Our Fathers, and Letters from Iwo Jima

best films ive seen in a long time

i watched them film the iwo jimalanding sequence in flags of our fathers. Caused an awful mess, and it was all in the papers that they were ruining the icelandic coast line, there was talks of suing eastwood and disrupting filming. But eastwood put it all back the way it was and they couldn't do anything about it.

Not seen the movie yet mind, maybe it might be cause it is about iwo jima, yet i was watching it being filmed in iceland, even wrote a report about it.