Best classic war movie

[kiwichris]

I have 3, depending on the mood each one could take the top spot.

Has to be a movie, war doesn't matter.

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon

 

[Desmond]

More recent movies are realistic. A few...

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Forest Gump (war scenes)
1917

Oh, Patton

Great Escape, at first did not mention it, but I saw it with my Dad on the original theatre release, and remember being very sad as a child that most were captured again.

Bridge on the River Kwai.

 

[Templet0n]

The longest day
The dirty dozen
The great eacape

 

[Follow The Sun]

 

[Hitsnmisses]

Dunkirk
1917
Battle of Britain
Longest day
Private Ryan - exclusively for opening scenes critically acclaimed as close to real as has been

 

[kiwichris]

For the record, I lean Kubrick

 

[kiwichris]

Dunkirk
1917
Battle of Britain
Longest day
Private Ryan - exclusively for opening scenes critically acclaimed as close to real as has been

Dunkirk - hard no
1917 - waste of time & why
Saving Private Ryan, great movie but classic?

 

[MSEASU]

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Great Escape
Bridge over the River Kwai

 

[kiwichris]

I forgot Hamburger Hill but for directors it doesn't make it for me

 

[Templet0n]

how did I forget about this one?!

 

[*Range Rat]

Easy answer - Stripes

 

[kiwichris]

I am watching Playoon as we discuss, over Stone went downhill after this for his Vietnam movies

 

[Templet0n]

Dunkirk - hard no
1917 - waste of time & why
Saving Private Ryan, great movie but classic?

dunkirk is a fantastic movie as is 1917. But not a classic.

 

[Follow The Sun]

 

[kiwichris]

dunkirk is a fantastic movie as is 1917. But not a classic.

Agreed on classic, I will disagree on Dunkirk because in the end, it was a Tom Hardy movie glamourising the spitfire pilots and not the private flotilla that truly were the heroes

 

[kiwichris]

Plus, if I had to add a caveat of best cast, Platoon hands down, second to Apocalypse Now

 

[MSEASU]

how did I forget about this one?!

I forgot that one too

 

[kiwichris]

& as fate would have it, Platoon finishes, lo & behold Saving Private Ryan is on Showtime

 

[kiwichris]

Wow, just realized that the officer when they figure out the Ryan family in Saving Private Ryan is the same actor who ordered the final strike on their position in Platoon.....

 

[Follow The Sun]

 

[Templet0n]

Agreed on classic, I will disagree on Dunkirk because in the end, it was a Tom Hardy movie glamourising the spitfire pilots and not the private flotilla that truly were the heroes

I can see that but I loved every min of it. Even the end.

 

[Hitsnmisses]

Dunkirk for what it was and how it was filmed .. very little cgi etc

1917 … your would not have known about before the film

 

[Follow The Sun]

 

[kiwichris]

I can see that but I loved every min of it. Even the end.

Nope, just nope.

 

[YukonLiving]

If the war doesn’t matter…

1. Braveheart
2. Forrest Gump
3. Band of Brothers
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. The Patriot