Comments on: Top 10 Awesome War Movies

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By: Ivan Rugiime

Ivan Rugiime — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:09:30 +0000

The Dirty Dozen?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:46:28 +0000

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO True!

By: Reaper1

Reaper1 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:51:06 +0000

2 things. First, Full Metal Jacket should be #2. And Second, #1 should be (and I know this is the greatest war movie of all time) Saving Private Ryan.

By: Panzer Meyer

Panzer Meyer — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:48:24 +0000

It’s nonsense-bullets killing under six feet of water?The opening scenes portray just what these men had to endure,after that it goes rapidly downhill into the realms of fantasy as a squad of misfits take on half an SS Panzer Div.and we all know just how crap the Allies in Normandy,or anywhere else,were compared to those guys.Real soldiers-not butchers,bakers and candlestick makers.The fake Tiger tanks were good though.

By: Blood Beetle

Blood Beetle — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Personally I think Platoon should come alot higher, definately better than full metal jacket!

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0000

“Johnny Got His Gun” to me is a surrealistic and horrifying movie to watch. Timothy Bottoms, who plays the man with no arms, no legs, no vision and no hearing is frightening I found it rather odd that Donald Sutherland played the role of Jesus. If you have seen the video for Metallica’s song “One”, there are flashbacks of that movie and the lyrics are very simiar to what the movie represents. The unflinching scene from that movie was the nurse who wanted to pleasure him with her hand, if you know what I mean.

By: Lil

Lil — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:14 +0000

Wheres shindlers list ?????

By: beirutwedding

beirutwedding — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:12:53 +0000

I’ve never heard of Casablanca being described as a war movie per se and I don’t think it quite works.

Conversely, I’m not sure it makes sense to leave off All Quiet On the Western Front(1930). It’s pretty astonishing, even today. It’s in the National Registry, it won Best Picture(big deal, I know) and it was banned in Nazi, Germany and Fascist Italy. These things I mention only to point out that the movie had a HUGE impact and is still considered one of, if not the most potent anti-war movie ever made and it was made at a time when such a perspective wasn’t trendy or easy.

Bill Coffin makes a great point and an interesting one. Saving Private Ryan was cheesy…except for when it wasn’t. The first half hour of that movie is the most harrowing half hour I think I’ve ever seen on film. I could see that alone being worthwhile to make this list.

A bunch of people mentioned Patton.

Glory, certainly, others have mentioned it. The scene where Matthew Broderick keeps firing his gun while telling the marksman to shoot to give him some idea of what it will be like in battle alone makes a huge statement.

Some others worth consideration though I don’t think I’d put any on the top ten:

Stalag 17

Run Silent, Run Deep

Downfall

Home of the Brave

and since this list (gasp! Why am I doing this? Oh well…)

Letters to Iwo Jima

Hurt Locker

By: Null

Null — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:31:21 +0000

Come and See (1985) is poetry in motion.