ITT: god-tier war movies

>>65114324

The Beast of War

Where Eagles Dare

Operation Crossbow

>>65114324
you start OP

Relatively unknown ones:

Stalingrad (1993)
Talvisota
Hamburger Hill
Brest Fortress

My favorite war movie of all time is probably A Very Long Engagement.

>The Hurt Locker
>God tier

Overrated crap. next you will say Zero Dark Thirty

>>65114507
>being this contrarian

>>65114324

Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers
Dr Strangelove
Generation Kill

>>65114324
You mean movies that were immediately forgotten about?
>this shit won best picture

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I enjoyed Jarhead.
This particular scene was my favourite.

>>65114324
liberal spotted

Thin Red Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oWoDev7EI

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>>65114324

IT

>>65114601
Hi, Dick

Platoon

The Iraq War ruined war films and will probably ruin them for the next 25 years. Instead of war being studied as an analysis of the best and worst of man in the most strenuous of environments, it will be instead basically be cop movies but instead of arresting gangbangers and seizing drugs, it's just insurgents and disarming IEDs. Fuck this gay earth.

>>65114633
C U C K E D
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>>65114633

>not being happy for your ex-wife

don't be like that Jimmy

>>65114707
I challenge you to name two movies that do this besides the Hurt Locker.

>>65114324

(pic unrelated)

>>65114750

Monsters Dark Continent
American Sniper

>>65114528

they both have 1 good sequence each

>>65114473
pretty good list; can vouch for

>>65114807
Ok, I haven't heard of the first one and I just saw American Sniper and immediately forgot about it.

>>65114750
that one where Matt Demon is forced into a conspiracy shit so there's no peace or whatever

The other with Jaime fox and dumbo ears girl about FBI detectives trying to catch a terrorist in fucking Iraq

>Das Boot
>Stalingrad (1993)
>Black Hawk Down
>Platoon
>Hamburger Hill
>Max Manus
>9. April
>Talvisota
>1944
>Brestskaya Krepost
>Letters From Iwo Jima

>>65114633
Seeing this bitchs face and all his butthurt, best day of my life.

>>65114572

Black Hawk Down is fucking excellent

I really hated Hurt Locker.

Favorites are:

Last of the Mohicans
Platoon
Paths of Glory

>>65114473
Are you a Finn?

I thought that the Hurt Locker was really good.
I recently watched it for the second time.
Why did you guys hate it?

What do you guys think of Flags of our Fathers?

Also, not movies but Band of Brothers and The Pacific are GOAT

>>65114473
>Stalingrad(1993)
Was expecting raw rattenkrieg worst of humanity kind of deal, what I got was "ve vaz humans too, ve feel". also there's a girl out of fucking nowhere there and it ruins the immersion. Fuck that lieutenant, a useless piece of shit.
>Hamburger hill
Literally feel guy platoon must capture the hill: the movie. Everyone has a cliche sad story to tell, "muh racism, muh high school sweat heart broke up with me through a letter, muh I just want to live through this, muh vietnamese are real people with feelings too"

Haven't seen the other two.

I would recomend: The Lost Battalion, a movie made for tv but it is pretty solid. About world war 1.

>>65114528
I'm not that contrarian. But I thought the bomb inside the kid's guts was over the top and heavy-handed. Minus this scene it's your god-tier.

>>65114707
I think the idea of an unseen enemy could work well for a war film, not in the traditional sense though. Would rather people move onto Korea or even some bullshit after but not 2003+ iraq.

SOME FOLKS BOWN MAAADE TO WAVE THE FLAG

>>65114324

Heartbreak Ridge

>>65114888
You norwegian? Because if your not, I need to tell you that Max Manus is pretty bad. Hvis du er norsk, så burde du være klar over dette allerede.

>>65114982
you mean "Flags of our Fathers: Or how this picture gave me autism"? It is pretty ok I guess, if you have autism and must know the REAL story about that picture.

Band of Brothers: GOAT
The Pacific: not so GOAT

>>65114888
>Letters From Iwo Jima

Did anybody felt that it was unintentionally funny at times? like when that guy died of dysentery? One moment he was making funny faces and jokingly telling the other jap about poop and then next day he dies. I don't know what kind of emotion were they trying to provoke with that. There's other stuff there that is awkwardly funny.

>>65115138
You're not* sorry, my bad.

>>65114707
How was The Hurt Locker not an analysis of man at his best or worst in terms of Renner's character? He was essentially addicted to war.

>>65114968

it pretends to be gritty and realistic but isnt

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>>65114572
came here to post generation kill

Just watched Born on the fourth of july, it was great. Hurt locker is fantastic too

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casualties of war

Anybody seen MoPic? it's like found footage but set in 'Nam

The Lost Battalion
The Longest Day

And if POW movies count:
The Great Escape
Stalag 17

>>65115239
>Generation Kill
was expecting to hate it. Instead top notch execution, interesting characters, good balance on morals... watched two times.

>>65115295
Sean Penn was great in there.

Joyeux Noel

>>65114968
I didn't hate it, but it wasn't really good. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to root for Renner's character? A reckless man who constantly put others in peril. They sort of just brush over the whole PTSD with a wish to die part of it, never really explore his emotions and why he acts the way he does. They also rush the ending, never really gets into why he feels uncomfortable back home and so on. Also, from what I've heard it's pretty unaccurate about how it is to serve overseas in the US army. Not that I would know never having been in the army, let alone the american army. 5/10.

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this was a good spectacle

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Strangelove has been mentioned before, but can not be mentioned often enough.

>>65115396

>I have to be able to "root for" the main character

>>65115396
>I'm supposed to root for Renner's character?
Why should you? Is it a some kind of requirement for a movie that the main character hast to be 'le good guy'?

>>65114324
Hurt Locker was good entertainment. Solid on the thrills and good on the message. But for god-tier you need more; things like originality and attitude.

>>65115547
I didn't say that. But I thought it was very clear that you were supposed to like him, then sort of dislike him and then feel sorry for him. I just never cared for him in any way. He wasn't very interesting.

>>65115608
agreed with this.

>>65115608
It's just a story about an adrenaline junkie soldier.

>>65114324
>Hurt Locker
>god-tier war movie
don't know about that but I loved this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzP9ZpjsVM

>>65115572
Again, I didn't say that. Maybe I was unclear. I just felt like they set him up to be a good guy, eho sort of avts like an asshole, but in the end you're supposed to feel sorry for him. And they didn't really do anything. His character just felt tired, clichéd and phoned in.

>>65115239
Am I the only one who can't stand James Ransome?? In BOTH David Simon shows he's in.

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this motion picture did a splendid job of meme.

>>65115665
Yeah, but it felt like they wanted it to be more than that, and then they just did not deliver.

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>>65115687
have this one on my portable CD-player

>>65115773
>my portable CD-player
Hello 1998!

>>65115773
>have this one on my portable CD-player
>portable CD-player
best post so far

>>65115741

He plays obnoxious characters, but he does it very well imo. He was one of my favorites on Generation Kill

>>65115713
> I just felt like they set him up to be a good guy
Nope. He was really reckless and almost go his team mates killed because of it.

Apocalypse Now

>>65114572
what about the pacific? did it live up to BoB?

>>65115828
Yes, and then they try to make him seem cool and interesting before they attempt at making you feel sorry for him.

>>65115852

It's a completely different animal than BOB in that it's more focused on how turning attention to the brutality of the Pacific theater than a tight group of recruits. I'd say it has a fairly weak beginning but it hits it stride when they give more attention to Sledgehammer and SNAFU.

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although not go-tier, this one was interesting, if only for the topic

>>65115972
Agreed. The biggest problem I had with the show though was all the way episodes about some bullshit love story I couldn't give two fucks about.

>>65115741

i hated ziggy but loved ray

Letters from Iwo Jima was great.

I also recommend My Way, more because its entertaining and interesting than good really. Fictionalized story of the Korean wehrmact soldier captured at Dday.

Taegukji is SK propaganda, but pretty good war movie and not enough Korean war films.

>>65116225
I love it to, but /tv/ seems to hate it.

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>>65114324
Not listed

Zulu
Gettysburg
A bridge too far
Bridge on the river kwai
Waterloo
God's and generals
PATTON
Enemy at The gates
Paths of glory

Lotta good jap and Russian war films also

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>All these replies
>nobody has posted the greatest war film of our time
Let me help you with that.

>>65114473
>hamburger hill
>relatively unknown

maybe if you're 12

>>65116986

>Michael Bay now looks like Murdock from A-Team

>>65116225
I remember one time they passed it on TV and I could not watch it, for Christian Bale was dubbed by the voice who dubs Seth Rogen

>>65117097
What kind of a third-world country dubs live-action movies? Absolutely disgusting.

>>65117296
Every civilized country (but Russia).
Italian dubs are very good usually, The Godfather has a better Marlon Brando, Ass Creed 2 IT dub is better, Max Payne 1 at least has it better because Mc Caffrey sounds the same in everything he says (in MP1 only though), The Gladiator, when he says Unleash hell, everyone who meets the guy who dubbed it asks him to repeat it.

It was a matter of a wrong casting call and direction, some people can get the best or the worst out of a good actor.

>>65114507
This. both extremely mediocre generic Oscar bait shit.

>>65114528
Sorry kid. There are actually people here who care about movies and don't mindlessly like whatever was nominated for awards.

This post contains actual memorable, remarkable war movies:
>>65114572

>>65115608
Renner and Mackie were both completely flat with a generic, cliched relationship. Just stereotypes of particular sorts of people who might be in the military. That's why they have no effect on someone, and in large part why Hurt Locker is ultimately unremarkable, to a viewer who's seen more than a few movies.

Bigelow doesn't really do anything well except action scenes.

>>65114324
The only reason this movie got any attention was because
>mah marrines maaah
That movie was shit, boring, bad story, poorly executed, filled with memes.

>>65117832
>marines

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>>65117832
>t. butthurt Avatarfag

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Granted, two of these films aren't really about war.

>>65117832
I think it got attention because it was directed by a woman.

this movie was so unrealistic to what iraq was actually like and so fucking boring for most of it. get the fuck out with that god tier bullshit

>>65117296
>>65117390
German dubs are also breddy gud most of the time, prefer stallones and ledgers dubs over their original voices.

>>65114324
I did not like the pacing, there was no music, the characters felt like they were bored, I never finished watching it, my parents did and regretted it.

>>65116424
The combat in My Way is flat out retarded and ruined what could've been a great movie.

The fucking truck suicide charges against the Soviet tanks, the faux-Stalingrad fight, the ridiculous Normandy landing, holy shit what a fucking mess.

>no Cross of Iron

YOU FUCKING PLEBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJ0xB9Mqss

>>65114572
>>65114907
>Black Hawk Down is fucking excellent
It sure is. Nothing like watching the Yanks getting their arses handed to them by a load of 'savages'. And this was the 'assisted by the Military' version. Imagine if they'd have actually shown how shit the Americans are when they can't just bomb the fuck out of 'da enemy'.

>>65115396
Some good points.
Just imagine how it is to live in a God-fearing, military revering part of the US, end up in the military, in a war you've been spoon fed into believing is necessary, being made to view pretty much everything as a target, then come home to a 'normal' life? What would that be after that?

Any good ruskie films?

They have had so much battle that there must be something.

>>65114324
yeah, no

>>65120287
come and see

>>65114609
This. My favorite

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>>65114324
Come and See

>>65114324
Shit war movie, anon.

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Damn. It.

>>65114324
>Let's kill off the best actors 5 minutes after they turn up

Fuck you I wanted to see more of Fiennes operating.

My favorites are (not in any particular order):
>Jarhead
>Beasts of No Nation
>Full Metal Jacket
>Platoon
>American Sniper
and as for series
>The Pacific
>Generation Kill

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>>65114324

>>65114324
That was really good. Only saw once.

>>65116917
Rommel... you magnificent bastard, I read your book!

>>65114807
the American Sniper had nothing to do with IEDs.

>>65114856
Green Zone

The Kingdom.