Comments on: Top 10 Awesome War Movies http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ryan894 http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-219491 ryan894 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:56:50 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-219491 well you failed at this list. where is saving private ryan, black hawk down, Schindlers list, braveheart, the great escape, we were soldiers, patton? well you failed at this list. where is saving private ryan, black hawk down, Schindlers list, braveheart, the great escape, we were soldiers, patton?

]]> By: jum1801 http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-217903 jum1801 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:48 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-217903 Let me add my voice to the howls of uncomprehending pain at the absence of SPR in your list. Not having SPR SOMEWHERE in a list of "Greatest War Movies" is simply astounding to me - its absence destroys whatever legitimacy to which your list may have been entitled. It's a shame, really, because I wouldn't be surprised to learn you left it off just to show you're a true cinephile of taste who is above the blood-lust of the herd. But then some of your other choices tell me you may be more the cinephile than war-film aficionado. "Casablanca"? Great, great movie, and one of my all-time favorites. "The Pianist"? An achingly beautiful, excellent film about how the artist struggles to survive in a time of social collapse. But the fact they are about people in wartime in no way makes them "war movies". That you noted your consideration of "Schindler's List" and "Hotel Rwanda" tells me you have not made this distinction. Calling any of these I've mentioned "war movies" is like saying "Dr. Zhivago" is about medical care. I think I also detect your strong preference for post-war and post-modern anti-hero/anti-war movies. "Platoon", "Apocalypse", FMJ and "Paths" are definitely of that cynical ilk. While great entertainment and great films, they undeniably carry with them a nakedly overt political message. Were it otherwise I think perhaps we'd see that you had considered the inclusion of "Battleground", "Twelve O'Clock High", "Patton" (if only for the bravura performance of Scott) and "Band of Brothers" (which regardless of its mini-series origins is a masterpiece of ensemble acting and collaborative movie-making). Absolute classics of the genre with which I don't disagree in the least are "Das Boot", "Bridge" and "Lawrence". At least you got those right. ;) Finally, I think I would have to find a place on the list for the 1985 Russian film "Come and See" ("Idi i Smotri") directed by Elem Klimov. Simply a gut-wrenching, monumental story of the Germans' war of extermination against Russian citizens in the Belarus in 1941-42. Let me add my voice to the howls of uncomprehending pain at the absence of SPR in your list. Not having SPR SOMEWHERE in a list of “Greatest War Movies” is simply astounding to me – its absence destroys whatever legitimacy to which your list may have been entitled. It’s a shame, really, because I wouldn’t be surprised to learn you left it off just to show you’re a true cinephile of taste who is above the blood-lust of the herd.

But then some of your other choices tell me you may be more the cinephile than war-film aficionado. “Casablanca”? Great, great movie, and one of my all-time favorites. “The Pianist”? An achingly beautiful, excellent film about how the artist struggles to survive in a time of social collapse. But the fact they are about people in wartime in no way makes them “war movies”. That you noted your consideration of “Schindler’s List” and “Hotel Rwanda” tells me you have not made this distinction. Calling any of these I’ve mentioned “war movies” is like saying “Dr. Zhivago” is about medical care.

I think I also detect your strong preference for post-war and post-modern anti-hero/anti-war movies. “Platoon”, “Apocalypse”, FMJ and “Paths” are definitely of that cynical ilk. While great entertainment and great films, they undeniably carry with them a nakedly overt political message. Were it otherwise I think perhaps we’d see that you had considered the inclusion of “Battleground”, “Twelve O’Clock High”, “Patton” (if only for the bravura performance of Scott) and “Band of Brothers” (which regardless of its mini-series origins is a masterpiece of ensemble acting and collaborative movie-making).

Absolute classics of the genre with which I don’t disagree in the least are “Das Boot”, “Bridge” and “Lawrence”. At least you got those right. ;)

Finally, I think I would have to find a place on the list for the 1985 Russian film “Come and See” (“Idi i Smotri”) directed by Elem Klimov. Simply a gut-wrenching, monumental story of the Germans’ war of extermination against Russian citizens in the Belarus in 1941-42.

]]> By: blodflekk http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-215645 blodflekk Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:25:00 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-215645 I have to say this is another horrible list, alot of bad movies on here and alot of good movies missed. Where is Saving private Ryan? where is Black Hawk Down? I have to say this is another horrible list, alot of bad movies on here and alot of good movies missed. Where is Saving private Ryan? where is Black Hawk Down?

]]> By: DubleDub http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-212295 DubleDub Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:16:03 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-212295 This list is all messed up. Platoon needs to be much higher, it is easily better than Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. The scene in the village is one of the most intense scenes of all time. Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan should be on here as well. This list is all messed up. Platoon needs to be much higher, it is easily better than Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. The scene in the village is one of the most intense scenes of all time. Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan should be on here as well.

]]> By: SensesEnd http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-211052 SensesEnd Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:49:16 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-211052 My own inclusions to the list: Go Tell the Spartans http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/ Southern Comfort http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083111/ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ Hearts and Minds http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071604/ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/ The Grey Zone http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252480/ My own inclusions to the list:

Go Tell the Spartans
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/

Southern Comfort
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083111/

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

Hearts and Minds
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071604/

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/

The Grey Zone
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252480/

]]> By: Aubloom http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-210108 Aubloom Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:47:37 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-210108 We were soldiers Patton Saving Private Ryan This is one of the very FEW lists I am displeased with. I love war movies but any list without Patton or We were Soldiers on it is not a war list. Hell I would put Forrest Gump on this list above some of those. We were soldiers
Patton
Saving Private Ryan

This is one of the very FEW lists I am displeased with. I love war movies but any list without Patton or We were Soldiers on it is not a war list.

Hell I would put Forrest Gump on this list above some of those.

]]> By: RORO http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208928 RORO Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:32:03 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208928 All messed up! Saving Private Ryan is the best war movie of all time! All messed up!
Saving Private Ryan is the best war movie of all time!

]]> By: Ashaman http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208776 Ashaman Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:37:22 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208776 Your list in my opinion has a few bizarre entries. Just because a movie takes place with a war going on in the backstory doesn't make it a true war movie (i.e. Casablanca & The Piano). My list would have included The Great Escape, The Longest Day, Glory, and the little-known masterpiece Downfall. Too many great movies to list! Your list in my opinion has a few bizarre entries. Just because a movie takes place with a war going on in the backstory doesn’t make it a true war movie (i.e. Casablanca & The Piano). My list would have included The Great Escape, The Longest Day, Glory, and the little-known masterpiece Downfall. Too many great movies to list!

]]> By: Troy McClure http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208626 Troy McClure Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:24:59 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-208626 Casablanca and The Pianist surely must be in the wrong category. My list: Platoon Das Boot Deer Hunter Apocalypse Now The Longest Day Enemy At The Gates Hamburger Hill We were soldiers ...if "Braveheart" is to be classified as warmovie, it´ll be up here to. Casablanca and The Pianist surely must be in the wrong category.

My list:

Platoon
Das Boot
Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
The Longest Day
Enemy At The Gates
Hamburger Hill
We were soldiers

…if “Braveheart” is to be classified as warmovie, it´ll be up here to.

]]> By: kennypo65 http://listverse.com/2007/09/02/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-203088 kennypo65 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:51:41 +0000 http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-10-awesome-war-movies/#comment-203088 A film that was not a big hit but should be mentioned is "A Midnight Clear". A small film about an American platoon facing a German one calling a truce over Christmas. Fictional, but a great performance by the cast, especially Gary Sinise as "Mother". A film that was not a big hit but should be mentioned is “A Midnight Clear”. A small film about an American platoon facing a German one calling a truce over Christmas. Fictional, but a great performance by the cast, especially Gary Sinise as “Mother”.

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