Best All time War Movie

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Made up of primarily brown shirts, jesus freaks, keyboard commandos and chickenhawks, this sites evil twin is currently running a thread of this theme. Why not do the same here?

My all time favorites are-

FTA (1972)
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Casualties of War (1989)

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1. No one here has any favorite war movies?

I thought of another-

King of Hearts

"The film ends with the question of who is more insane, those in the asylum or the soldiers on the battlefield."

When it was released in France in 1966, King of Hearts was not especially successful critically or at the box office. However when released in the U.S. a year later, it achieved bona fide cult film status, eventually running for five years at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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2. Definitely The Matrix n/t

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3. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Wouldn't be a 'best' list without this one on it!

Plot

Joe Bonham, a young soldier serving in World War I, awakes in a hospital bed after being hit by an artillery shell. He gradually realizes that he has lost all of his senses — his arms, legs, eyes, nose and ears have been blown off — but that his mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body. He attempts to communicate with his doctors (by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code) his wish to either die or be put in a freak show as a testament to the horrors of war.

As he drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend, and reflects upon the myths and realities of war. He also forms a bond, of sorts, with a young nurse who senses his plight.--wiki
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User Comment at IMDB

Man is going to have his war even if it kills him. This was a brilliant depiction of how we humans allow ourselves to be hoodwinked into buying into the loathsome futility of world combat, all in the name of patriotism, flag rallying, and keeping the home fires burning. Johnny couldn't wait to go off to the front lines; felt it was his duty, you see. Preserving democracy and all that rubbish. He felt this way because he was fed the party line at an early age. Get them early and they will never leave the fold, right? Poor Johnny didn't realize that there may be other forces at work behind the scenes; organizations that don't mind it a bit if he becomes a quadriplegic living a nightmare existence. This is not a war movie, rather a harsh look at the results of man's most insane undertaking.
--Author: helpless_dancer from Broken Bow, Oklahoma (Hard to inprove on 'dancer's' take.)

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Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.
--Joe Bonham, Timothy Bottoms in Johnny Got His Gun

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4. K

Das Boot (Awesomeness)
Hotel Rwanda (Not a traditional war movie, but lots of war non the less)
Lawrence of Arabia (One of my favorite movies of any time)
The Guns of Navarone (I always liked this one)

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5. Don't be shy.

Whatever is one to make of the lack of attention this thread is getting?

Well, here's another favorite of mine-

Wag the Dog

Stanley Motss: "I'm in show business, why come to me?"
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: "War is show business, that's why we're here."

Conrad 'Connie' Brean: "What's the thing people remember about the Gulf War? A bomb falling down a chimney. Let me tell you something: I was in the building where we filmed that with a 10-inch model made out of Legos."
Stanley Motss: "Is that true?"
Conrad 'Connie' Brean: "Who the fuck knows?"

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6. Although it was an HBO series...

I think "Band of Brothers" was one of the best things I've ever watched.

"Full Metal Jacket" is another favorite.

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7. FMJ

"Full Metal Jacket" is a favorite of mine too.

Kubrick masterfully drags the insanity of war into the light of day.
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Here's another of my favorites--

Children of the Revolution (1996)

Zachary Welch: I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing.

"...this is an extremely well-conceived, well-written, well-acted, and well-made film. The dialogue, in both its everyday scenarios and heated exchanges, is excellent; and the mockumentary style meshes perfectly with the nicely segmented, ever-twisting plot. Then, after making light of some serious history, the ending takes a dark, ironic turn to drive home its message that whatever political system you choose, the worst elements in human nature are here to stay..."
--Author: skrwl from South Korea IMDb

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8. Cat got your tongue?

This thread is strangely, why I wonder?

Back on topic--Stop-Loss
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=b62fec88-7efa-4fb3-a065-becbc112dcbb&k=77920

Has anyone seen it? To date I have not and
am curious as to what others think of it.

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9. While not a "war" movie per se...

Alice's Restaurant (1969) made a great statement that stands the test of time.


Directed by Arthur Penn. With Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick. A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
IMDB
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Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
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[Vet31203]

10. Dirty Dozen

Far and away the best!

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11. The Sound of Music

fucking nazis

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