The best war movie ever

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

enemy at the gates

Never seen a worse WWII movie in my goddamn life!

Anyhow, I dont believe any legendary stories and their corresponding body counts if they were published by Stalins Propaganda Machinery. Thats sad cause I believe there were realy quite a lot of russian heroes around.

[privatenoob 0]

My top-3 which has lasted for some years now:

1. Tuntematon Sotilas (1985 version)

Is this movie released on DVD!? I cant find it anywhere.

[EiZei 0]

My top-3 which has lasted for some years now:

1. Tuntematon Sotilas (1985 version)

Is this movie released on DVD!? I cant find it anywhere.

I have seen it in some finnish netstores with eng/swe/fin subtitles but this was the only international store I could locate:

http://www.cdon.com/product.phtml?prod=516423

I must say that subtitles will really thin the dialogue though.

[privatenoob 0]

But thats the movie from 1955 and not the one Rauni Mollberg made in 1985.

[Ironsight 1]

The TV movie/mini-series Warriors, by the BBC.

Very good one. Gives a good image of what the war on the Balkans is like.

Recently saw The Beast Of War, was a pretty good movie but the insane tank commander thing was a bit too much IMO.

[EiZei 0]

But thats the movie from 1955 and not the one Rauni Mollberg made in 1985.

I'd say most prefer the 1955 version over the 1985 one.

But yeah, good luck finding the 1985 version outside finland.

[privatenoob 0]

Speak of the Devil! Tuntematon Sotilas/Okänd soldat from 1985 is going to be released in sweden on DVD 2005-11-09!

[berghoff 11]

Braveheart, Der Untergang, FMJ, Band of Brothers are the only ones I can remember. I've seen some old war movies too like the black and white edition of The Longest Day, All quiet on the western fromt and such but I've seen much better ones on TV but can't remember the movie titles.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Not to be forgotten "The great Dictator". (i know I know it isnt realy very accurate, but still.. )

[Blake 0]

Speak of the Devil! Tuntematon Sotilas/Okänd soldat from 1985 is going to be released in sweden on DVD 2005-11-09!

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That's great news! A link or source for that?

[privatenoob 0]

Speak of the Devil! Tuntematon Sotilas/Okänd soldat from 1985 is going to be released in sweden on DVD 2005-11-09!

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That's great news! A link or source for that?

here: Tuntematon Sotilas (1985)

[colonel_klink 0]

The Cruel Sea is probably one of the best post WW2 war at sea movies ever made. A 500 page novel abridged to 120 minutes of film was a great achievement.

Where Eagles Dare is still one of my favourites.

While Jacob's Ladder isn't essentially a Vietnam war story, some scenes in that still chill me to the bone.

Ice Cold in Alex, Taxi to Tobruk are two WW2 desert films.

One I saw many many years ago which was based upon a stage play is The Long and the Short and the Tall.

And if you ever want to see a brutal bayonet charge I suggest you watch Bataan which was made soon after the fall of the Phillipines and was created to boost morale in the US.

Sounds like a lot of nostalgic stuff here, but some of the best, IMO, war films ever made were on low budgets but had solid storylines and political correctness wasn't even thought of. In those days there was a clear distinction between the good guys and the bad guys, unfortunately that isnt the necessarily the case these days.

[Jimpy 0]

"Master & Commander" is the best I've seen for a long while

Favourite quote:

Captain Aubrey: "D'you want to call that raggedy-arsed Napoleon your king!?"

The crew: "NO!!!"

[Blake 0]

here: Tuntematon Sotilas (1985)

Surprisingly, there's Finnish release date set for October 28th, I have some expectations that it might be extra long special edition or something...keeping thumbs up.

BTW how's the picture quality in that Swedish version?

[Airbourne Alchaholic 0]

"Master & Commander" is the best I've seen for a long while

Favourite quote:

Captain Aubrey: "D'you want to call that raggedy-arsed Napoleon your king!?"

The crew: "NO!!!"

You know the French ship is an American one in the book, however the director didn't want to lose sales in America by letting the British beat them.

Enemy at the Gates, mainly because I like the Russians played in WW2 (let's face it the were doing a lot more progress than Western Europe/America by 1944)

[Balschoiw 0]

Watched a nice reconstructed movie yesterday on DVD:

The big red one

Quote[/b] ]Some movies are like buried treasure; someone manages to slip them into the theater, practically under every critic's nose, where they either thrive or famish and then vanish into the nearest video catalog. "The Big Red One" is one of those films. For all the hoopla created by "Saving Private Ryan" (another excellent film, which, in my opinion, had a better understanding of it's subject than a lot of it's critics gave it credit for), it owed a great deal to what Sam Fuller did a decade and a half before.

Lee Marvin, an actual WWII veteran himself, holds the film together as the tough but exhausted seargent. When he tells Mark Hamill (yes, Luke Skywalker, folks) that you don't murder animals, you kill them, the look on his face after that seems to say that he wished it could be some other way. It's hard to grab defining moments in this film as stand-out, but the two sequences that stick the most to my mind are the taking of the insane asylum and the horrors of the concentration camp. While other movies have focused on specific campaigns, "The Big Red One" deserves high marks for painting the broad canvass of the Second World War from the perspective of the guys who actually had to do the work.

Ok, there is pathos. Definately. But I somehow like the movie. It was before Private Ryan and the "touch" of the movie is very good.

Not an all-time-classic, but something different to watch when you are tired of the 345th Dunkirchen movie.

Movie quotes:

Quote[/b] ]Zab: [narrating] The Bangalore Torpedo was 50' long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT and you assembled it along the way. I'd love to meet the asshole who invented it.

Quote[/b] ]Zab: [narrating] You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

Quote[/b] ]Griff: I can't murder anybody.

The Sergeant: We don't murder; we kill.

Griff: It's the same thing.

The Sergeant: The hell it is, Griff. You don't murder animals; you kill 'em.

[sputnik monroe 102]

Quote[/b] ]"Master & Commander" is the best I've seen for a long while

Favourite quote:

Captain Aubrey: "D'you want to call that raggedy-arsed Napoleon your king!?"

The crew: "NO!!!"

I really enjoyed that one also. My favorite part was the lesser of two weavils part.

[Victor_S. 0]

I know these have been mentioned already but:

Band of brothers

Behind enemy lines

Three kings

Saving private ryan

and some others

[privatenoob 0]

BTW how's the picture quality in that Swedish version?

Impossible for me to say since the movie aint released but its a finnish company(Finnkino) that have released the other famous finnish warmovies and quality on them was great.

[schmerzbringer 0]

Schlacht um Everon.(Battle over Everon)

Was a try to make an OFP-movie, by AGSF(Clan)

I think only the teaser was made. (correct me, if I´m false)

[blackdog~ 0]

I would say the best new (1990-2005) movie would be Flags of Our Fathers. Oh wait, it isn't out yet... keekles.

[ExtracTioN 0]

My list:

-Black Hawk Down

-Tears Of The Sun

-We Were Soldiers

-Saving Private Ryan

-Pearl Harbor

-Das Boot

-Three Kings

[Thunderbird 0]

I do like Red October and USS Alabama but thus far my favorite one's "the sum of all the fears" , story writed by Tom Clancy...

[Cappa 0]

Band of Brothers & Apocalypse Now

[Guest]

"We Were Soldiers..."

My favourite

And a documentary (well dunno if I can call that a movie ) about Bosnia war and NATO peace force there. Can't remember the name.

NBR Out!