The battle of passchendaele was a pretty good canadian movie. Showed how canadians did their part in WW1. I think daniel craig was in another WW1 movie but i'm not sure which one.
[QUOTE=Billiam;27095459]Personally, themes like brotherhood and incompetent leadership oh so prevalent in war-films speak to me.[/QUOTE]
Gallipoli?
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[QUOTE=magicman1234;27168659]The battle of passchendaele was a pretty good canadian movie. Showed how canadians did their part in WW1. I think daniel craig was in another WW1 movie but i'm not sure which one.[/QUOTE]
He was in Defiance
The Hurt Locker. It had little fighting in it but it was so fucking intense.
Nah not really.
I mean I can't kill people purely for entertainment, so why not watch fake violence? It's entertaining..
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;27165988]Black Hawk Down.
Fuck off OP.[/QUOTE]
Black Hawk Down is one of the worst examples of an "anti-war" movie that glorifies war. It fetishizes the combat, treats the Mogadishans as just so many countless, anonymous bad guys, completely erases the fact that there were hundreds of civilian casualties, and adds in an ending which makes it seem like the US won, waiting until the movie is over to inform the viewers in text that, oh, wait, it was actually a fiasco.
as charles barkley would say, that's turrible.
screw fake-ass anti-war movies. A few somber lines about the casualties right before the credits does not an anti-war movie make.
War movies that have constant shooting and killing gets kind of boring, if it has a good storyline, its good in my books.
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Best war film ever made. Peroid
Das Boot didn't glorify anything or anybody. One of the finest anti-war movies ever made. It made clear that even "nazis" are just ordinary people stuck in the war and wish to go home.
[QUOTE=dookster;27101766]I remember a film I watched with my brother, it was Russian and about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s. I curse myself for forgetting it's name but it was awesome. I think it ended with the tiny Russian platoon fending off hundreds of Afghani soldiers from their trenches, but in the end all the Russians are killed.[/QUOTE]
Was it The Beast?
[QUOTE=King_of_Town;26971013]Well like I said, there are definitely war movies (good ones at that) which at least attempt to break from the yeehaw traditional kind of war movie. Saving Private Ryan is a pretty good example. While not exactly my favorite movie, it has many good scenes (like when that guy was sitting on the stairs scared shitless while his teammate was busy getting stabbed by a German right above him). Nevertheless, the venerable "war is hell" slogan adds to the glorification of war (in a morbid sense).[/QUOTE]
Teammate.
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;26990487]No bullshit glory and patriotism here.
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The French Stabbing is horrible :saddowns:
I have seen quite alot of war movies and I can say that the majority of them are good.
Look, war movies almost always tend to make the enemy soldiers just random anonymous people who die. But that's because most war movies just focus on one side or a few soldiers, wich isn't necessarily a bad thing in my opinion.
Now the best war-movie I've ever seen has got to be The Thin Red Line. It adds more depth and drama to war of a kind that I doubt there was actually that much off, but it's not the war, the soldiers, the whole concept itself that is dramatized. It's the perspective the film takes, the way it choses to look at it all.
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