No.1263
>ITT: favourite war films from.
>WW1
Lawrence of Arabia
>WW2
Schindler's list (fuck off I like it)
>Vietnam
Apocalypse now
No.1269
>WW1
Paths of Glory
All Quiet On The Western Front [soiler]I've only seen the tv movie[/spoiler]
>WW2
The Thin Red Line
Das Boot
>Vietnam
Apocalypse Now
Vietnam is a pretty shit category for film.
No.1271
>>1263>WW1All Quiet on the Western Front, fucking excellent film.
>WW2Rome Open City (does that count?)
>VietnamApocalypse Now (how the fuck could it not be)
No.1273
>>1263>WWIPaths of Glory/
Lawrence of Arabia>WWIICome and See>VietnamThe first half of
Full Metal Jacket No.1274
>WW1
Padurea Spanzuratilor AKA Forest of the Hanged (Liviu Ciulei)
>WW2
Voskhozhdeniye AKA The Ascent(Larisa Shepitko)
>Vietnam
Bao gio cho den thang muoi AKA The Love Doesn't Come Back (Nhat Minh Dang)
No.1276
>>1274All those sound really good, thanks for the recommendations.
No.1281
>>1269Full metal jacket? Dear hunter? Platoon? Nam had some kick ass films.
No.1310
>>1274I watched Voskhozhdeniye and Bao gio cho den thang muoi, the first was alright and the second one was exceptional. So much so I tried finding one of his other films he made called The Season of Guavas, but public trackers have let me down again. I already read the synopsis it sounds bretty good, so now I must have it. Thanks for showing me something I probably wouldn't have found on my own.
No.1315
>WW1
Grand Illusion
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Paths of Glory
>WW2
The Cranes Are Flying
The Ascent
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Rome, Open City
Adelheid
>Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket
In the Year of the Pig
No.1318
>>1310You're welcome, Season of Guavas is on Karagarga, I can invite you if you want.
Just post your email and something about both movies so that I know it's you and not some other burger.
No.1338
>>1318Sorry, I just woke up.
Voskhozhdeniye:
A Russian unit is attacked by German "terminators" and are sent back into a forest. They elect two ment to find some food. They kill someone else's lamb. The man with atrophied face gets into a firefight and wounded. Both men eventually get caught at a woman's house, all three get sent to an internment camp. four of them are hanged, including a little girl, the woman that harbored them, the man they stole the lamb from, and the wounded soldier. The second soldier gets away by asking to be in the German police unit. He's haunted by this, constantly has a harrowing look on his face, and daydreams of running and getting shot constantly.Bao gio cho den thang muoi:
Duyen's husband dies, she meets Khang on a boat, he's the poet. Duyen keeps the death from her family, Khang falls in love with her. The town ridicules him. Khang leaves for another town in the end. Duyen asks for his address when he's able to be settled in. Poem kite, ancient spirits, rice fields, when the tenth month comes.Thanks, hope that's enough. TT TGE
No.1340
>>1338It's cool, sent you an email.
No.1397
Lawrence of Arabia
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
My tastes are generic/mainstream. Sue me.
No.1398
>>1397>Apocalypse NowOriginal cut or redux?
I preferred the original, tbh
No.1400
>>1398I also prefer the original.
No.1449
The fucking sex sceen is so shit…
No.1482
Paths of Glory
Bridge on the River Kwai
Platoon
No.1486
No.1496
No.1551
>>1486>>1496Enjoy your 40 minute "MUH FRANCE" plantation scene which almost destroys the atmosphere of the movie
No.1554
No.1612
>>1551It did fucking kill the vibe of the film.
No.1613
This is they only musical I have ever liked, whenever I attempt to see one I end up stop watching.
Anyone know a good musical that I would like? That is not based on "mud feels."
No.1615
you need to start a musical thread, we're talkin war in here
No.1678
> Korean War
The Steel Helmet
No.2245
>>1273>the first half of Full Metal JacketI only liked the first half too.
No.3856
It's interesting how the American Revolutionary War has a comparatively thin cinematic legacy. It's barely even mentioned in the context of war films.
No.3865
>>1551the unfortunate thing is what is said is actually interesting in the context of talking about the US's foriegn policy of creating its own enemies which is especially relavant today.
the tradgedy is it kills the pacing horribly as the movie till that point gets gradualy more insane with society slowly dropping off as the movie goes on only to be brought right back out of the blue for that plantation scene and then the viewer is plunged from society into kurtzs madness ruining the previous buildup
No.3883
>>1263
>WW1PoG
>WW1.5LoA (hehehe I love that movie and David Lean :3)
>WW2Hasn't come out yet or I haven't seen it. Most likely the first though.
>VietnamFull Metal Jacket
>Middle-EastAmerican Sniper
The last one will probably change in the next 5-10 years as they start producing more content regarding it. Hurt Locker should also get an honorary mention here but Eastwood's was too manly and based on a true story.
No.3884
>>3856This is very true. With the amount of leftism in Hollywood, you'll never see an American Revolutionary War Epic due to the following:
>no strong womens>rebelling against control of the rothschild banking clan or as they teach us in history, rebelling against the tea tax and having a little tea party in Boston>non-whites were (I hate to sound brash) completely left out and irrelevant in this fight.>oh and America FUCK YEAH!!A movie like this would rally the troops and bring in strong support for smaller government and reinforcing the belief's in the 2nd Amendment.
Our government would never allow a movie like this to be made.
No.3885
>>3883Fuck, Meant to put Thin Red Line for WW2 lol. For some reason I forgot about this movie and I just recently watched it.
No.3887
For the Revolutionary War, I've only seen Johnny Tremain and The Patriot. Drums Along the Mohawk is probably worth checking out, maybe 1776 as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_Revolutionary_War_filmshttp://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=american-revolution&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=advanced&page=1&title_type=movie&ref_=kw_ref_typI wonder about Janice Meredith (1924) with "Harrison Ford". Seems to be highly regarded, although more of a comedy/romance than war.
No.3888
>>3865I only have a vague memory of that scene but it did seem very out of place. At that point I just wanted to get on with it so I wasn't paying close attention to their conversation.
After watching Hearts of Darkness I'm pretty unenthusiastic about Brando's contribution. I like the original concept where Kurtz was ghostly thin and wasting away.
No.3890
>WW1
Lawrence of Arabia
Beneath Hill 60
>WW2
Grave of the fireflies
(Schindlers list if you don't count animation)
Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket
No.3894
>>3884> Our government would never allow a movie like this to be made.It's interesting you'd say that in light of
Spirit of '76, where the filmmaker was thrown in jail for years because his anti-British Revolutionary War film conflicted with the World War I propaganda of the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2776_%281917_film%29http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2000/06/the_unluckiest_man_in_movie_history.html
> Goldstein himself was charged in federal court with violating the Espionage Act, a wartime law that gave U.S. officials ridiculously broad discretion to jail troublemakers. Goldstein was convicted on charges that he'd attempted to cause insubordination, disloyalty, and mutiny by U.S. troops and prospective U.S. troops, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. (The judgment was later upheld by an appellate court.) At the sentencing, Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe told Goldstein he should count himself lucky he hadn't committed treason in a country lacking America's right to trial by jury. Goldstein entered the McNeil Island Penitentiary in 1918 and stayed there three years; after the war ended, Wilson commuted his sentence and Goldstein started writing his letters to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No.3917
>>3894So this guy made a flick that was shilling for the britcucks and anti-american?
This is a pretty terrible example cause it was 99 years ago too. Things are completely opposite now so please take your liberal shitposting to /sjw.
No.3919
>>3917you should work on your reading comprehension
No.4273
Are any Stalingrad films worth seeing or would I be better off with a documentary?
No.4974
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
No suggestions for the American Civil War yet? I was thinking about watching Gods and Generals…
Here's an interesting scene where Robert E. Lee is asked to lead the Union forces.
No.4983
>>3856
There's 1776, "Based on the Tony-Award Winning Broadway Musical"
Maybe it has flamboyant song and dance numbers based on famous revolutionary phrases? I kinda hope so.
Give me li - ber - ty,
Or give me deaaaaaaaaath!
No.4999
>>3884
Agreed. It should be stacked full of American pomp, gallantry and blind Patriotism.
Ideally all Brits (Err those Brits, not colonial Brits) should be portrayed as child-killing, treacherous, oppressive, baby-raping murderers who'll kill you and your whole family for a few shillings. Basically the most evil people to have ever existed on the planet (and a few other planets, too).
We'll have the main character shout FOR FREEDOM! whilst leading a charge against impossible odds, only to overcome them at the last moment.
The star of the film should be proficient in Native American skills and warfare to show solidarity with our Indian brothers-in-arms. This is their fight for freedom as well!
The role of the French Empire will be given a fleeting mention, and the Spanish and Dutch empires will be completely ignored. After all, this is a film about AMERICA and who gives a fuck about those Commie bastards?
I'm wondering who shall star in this historical epic..hmm..Mel Gibson?
Oh, and we'll hire an openly gay Director ashamed of his heritage, and finance it with the big bucks from the Rabbi's Divide & Conquer coffers. (Don't forget, Mel hadn't been caught disparaging Jews at this point).
What do you think?
No.5049
>>3883
>>3884
On a similar note, I'm starting to think Zero Dark Thirty is going to emerge as the definitive movie of the modern American warfare state because of how shot to hell the official story has become and the generally lulzy efforts to use Hollywood as an arm of the government–putting out the film less than two years after Osama had allegedly been caught and rallying up the perception that these wars are actually doing anything.
No.5050
>>5049
i hate hollywood movies about the current war/invasion so much man. at least all the WW2 movies were like, blatantly propaganda. these pieces of shit now have all this awful stuff where they show a suggestion of something against the war but then they "justify" it. see waterboarding in zero dark thirty and when Bradley Cooper© kills the kid in the beginning of american sniper. so manipulative. subtle enough that it goes unnoticed by average viewer but obvious enough that i can't watch these movies without wanting to self righteously shake my head and call everyone sheep like the asshole i am
if I was a genius satirist, american sniper is the movie i would have made. my favorite part was when he saw 9/11 on TV and immediately went to sign up for the navy seals
No.5052
>>5050
I remember reading a few years ago that "anti-war" war films had usually flopped. The article cited Jarhead as one example. It seems like there were some others made in response to the Iraq invasion.
I'd say there's more of a pro-military sentiment than a decade ago – or at least more ambivalence to war – both in the general public and in the film industry.
> subtle enough that it goes unnoticed by average viewer
Goebbels said something like the most effective kind of propaganda doesn't beat you over the head, but it's subtle enough so you think you're reaching your own conclusion.
No.5053
>>5052
>the most effective kind of propaganda doesn't beat you over the head, but it's subtle enough so you think you're reaching your own conclusion
yeah, that's exactly it. these movies also seem to have an aspect what I would call manufactured controversy where enough people will respond positively and enough will respond negatively and then go argue about it on social media, leading to tremendous publicity and profits (american sniper grossed $534,326,372 worldwide)
No.5058
>>1263
Mods is there a way to erase OP's post and put in a better one from the thread?
Sorry OP but if Schindlers List is your favorite ww2 movie, you've got issues son. Oh and a total lack of cinema knowledge.
No.5059
WW1 - Paths of Glory
WW2 - The Thin Red Line
Vietnam - Full Metal Jacket
War on Terror (Afghanistan and co.) - American Sniper
WW3 - jewjew abrams & disneys Star Wars 12 "Kill Whitey Praise Darky"
No.6254
>>1263
good recs for wwii so far. props to the guy eho said rome open city
just gonna pitch in and add ivans childhood in case no one mentioned it (russian perspective)
No.6255
>>6254
oh and how could i forget: stalag 17 for some comic relief
No.6256
>>6255
ok one more: did anyone mention "the burmese harp"? bretty gud
No.6280
WWI - The Big Parade, Les croix de bois
WW2 - Eroica, Cross of Iron, Die Brücke
No.6294
>WWI
The Red Baron
>WWII
The McKenzie Break, German POW's escape from a British camp. Need more films with German protagonists.
>Vietnam War
We Were Soldiers
>War on Terror
Zero Dark Thirty
I've decided to start looking up Korean War films to get a taste of that time period, but it looks like I'm mainly going to be looking at South Korean and Chinese cinema
No.6295
I'd like to find Korean War movies made by North Korea (there must be some, right?)
No.6456
>>3884
>non-whites were (I hate to sound brash) completely left out and irrelevant in this fight.
Even goddamn Assassin's Creed recognised the natives were involved. (and fucked over by both sides)
I vaguely recall an American Revolution movie that involved a man smelting his son's tin soldiers into bullets. The Patriot?
Also George Washington might be fun to portray as a terrible general, great spymaster, and having the devil's own luck. Apparently they realised bullets couldn't hit him so they shot his horse instead.
No.6457
>>6294
The Korean War would be completely forgotten if it wasn't for M*A*S*H, and even then people think that was Vietnam.
No.6463
>>6295
I know some but haven't gotten around to watching them yet. You could try Sea of Blood (1969) or Unsung Heroes (1978).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226515/reference
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177819/reference
The second one is 20 hours long and features American military defector James Joseph Dresnok as a villain. Dresnok has an interesting life story. He still lives in NK and is profiled in the documentary Crossing the Line (2006).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473181/reference
No.6955
>>1263
>WW1
Paths of Glory
>WW2
Der Untergang
>Vietnam
Apocalypse Now