it's a short series not a film, but Band of Brothers is my all time favourite WW2 thing.
Easily Saving Private Ryan, but Inglorious Basterds is a close second.
For a serious answer, I would say Battle of the Bulge and The Great Escape are my top two favorite.
I can't stand those old WWII movies that take place in the Pacific with the Japanese speaking English, at times with zero accent. When Germans speak English with a heavy German accent, you can pretend they're actually speaking German. Not with Japanese. I'm looking at you, Midway.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45277887]For a serious answer, I would say Battle of the Bulge and The Great Escape are my top two favorite.
I can't stand those old WWII movies that take place in the Pacific with the Japanese speaking English, at times with zero accent. When Germans speak English with a heavy German accent, you can pretend they're actually speaking German. Not with Japanese. I'm looking at you, Midway.[/QUOTE]
But Battle of the Bulge is one of the most historically wrong war movies, for me its about the equipment and tanks, couldn't care about voices.
Inglourious Basterds
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45277887]For a serious answer, I would say Battle of the Bulge and The Great Escape are my top two favorite.
I can't stand those old WWII movies that take place in the Pacific with the Japanese speaking English, at times with zero accent. When Germans speak English with a heavy German accent, you can pretend they're actually speaking German. Not with Japanese. I'm looking at you, Midway.[/QUOTE]
That's not even gone I remember they did that in the horrifically bad adaptation of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. [I]everyone[/I] was posh English lmao
Luftrausers
The Pianist
i'm not even sure
i love them all
Inglourious Basterds and Stalingrad (1993)
can anyone recommend me some decent eastern front stuff (not defiance)
Der Untergang
Bruno Ganz especially delivered an immense and unsettling performance.
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;45348603]Der Untergang
Bruno Ganz especially delivered one an immense and unsettling performance.[/QUOTE]
Das Boot as well
[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;45348691]Das Boot as well[/QUOTE]
Still need to watch that, I need a day where I can definitely sit around for 3 hours.
[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;45348522]Inglourious Basterds and Stalingrad (1993)
can anyone recommend me some decent eastern front stuff (not defiance)[/QUOTE]
Cross of Iron, i still cringe when the party member loses his member. Brilliant film and its from the german perspective too. Stay away from the god awful 'sequel' thi, its a stain on the original.
The Dam Busters.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Memphis Belle.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;45355211]The Dam Busters.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Memphis Belle.[/QUOTE]
I absolutely love Tora Tora Tora
I watch it every December 7th
A Time To Love And A Time To Die (1958)
definitely not saving private ryan... it's a great example of long war sequences but there's not nearly enough meat in the characters. The medic character was as far as it went with human emotion but I didn't get on board with upham or hanks or even the damon.
Das Boot, Downfall or Schindler is up there, other great foreign language ones too like City of Life and Death and Letters from Iwo Jima.
Yeah so far there's not been an English language film more war oriented to grip as much as foreign language ones.
Thin Red Line were gr8 too.
Fortress of War/Brest Fortress
Inglorious Basterds. Hans Landa played one best bad guys I've seen in a while.
[QUOTE=AK'z;45396829]Yeah so far there's not been an English language film more war oriented to grip as much as foreign language ones.[/QUOTE]
English language war films seem more dead set on romanticising the whole Allies win dubya dubya two through sheer heroism whilst foreign films present more objective, gritty views. Downfall presented the deaths of HJ conscripts and civilians and the devastating effect of war, Letters From Iwo Jima really humanised the struggle of the ordinary Japanese soldier.
You just don't get that with American/British WWII films most of the time.
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