There are laods of good movies about the US Army, but are there

>>78934265
BotRK

Pirates of the Caribbean

>>78934265
28 days later
>army gets hacked to death by man with knife

Zulu Dawn

Films don't get made much about other countries militaries because they do poorly at the box office because Americans wont go and see them

Good luck ever seeing a big budget film about the Rats of Tobruk

Dog soldiers, obviously

Black Hawk Down.

Seriously every fucking guy in it is a Brit, is America really that hard up for actors?

Bridge on the river kwai
Zulu
A bridge too far
Waterloo

That's just off the top of my head. I feel like there's much more.

Dog Soldiers
Master and commander


>>78934324
Band of brothers is like that as well

>>78934265
so what, movies about sucking until the colonies and America arrive to save the day?

>>78934324
British actors are famous for never turning down a job if the pay is good enough, and they ask less than American actors.

>>78934324
British and Australian actors are so prominent now because they have an institution of supporting and developing acting, they have acting academies RADA and NIDA that train talent, they subsidize theatre and television and film productions providing work and opportunities to develop that talent

America doesn't have any of this, doesn't have any arts funding, all they can do is hype the next big thing

Kilo Two Bravo (2015)

Might want to turn subtitles on if you can't understand extremely-British accents

>>78934324
>>78934404
>>78934414
Some other reasons:

Actors Equity - productions shot in England have to have a quota of local talent before you can bring in foreigners
Exchange rate favors filming in England
And there are tax benefits on top of that for foreign productions encouraging to film in England
Plus being new and unknown outside tv and theatre they're not asking for 20 million + gross %

>>78934414
(((British))), (((America))), (((Refrigerators from down undah)))

>>78934265

Too much gay sex to market.

>>78934324
>>78934404
I sometimes think it has something to do with the fact British actors tend to look a bit more like human beings too. American actors tend to be perfect 10/10 specimens, whereas the British ones look a bit weird, which makes them seem more realistic.

>>78934534
Lel. Your mother is "realistic" m8

>>78934534
>bar in US TV show
>everyone looks perfect and the place is wonderful and clean

>pub in UK tv show
>everyone and everything either looks like shit or just kinda shit

>>78934460
That looks good. Will watch.

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>>78934555
I think it's why Americans think our movies are edgy and gritty, when in reality it's just like that.

72' is absolute kino.

>>78934876
72 or 71? Seems there's two things

>>78934265
"Warriors". Late 90s.

>>78934460
Kajaki is its real title.

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>>78934265
Warriors - drama based on the Cheshire Regiment's first foray into the peacekeeping hell that was Bosnia in 1992. Stars Horatio Hornblower, Captain Dick Winters and the Sheriff of Nottingham.

It's in two parts on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MbL9GunRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJPrBJJ7YBA

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>>78934503
>reading up on prisons
>mfw I realised that the prison rape scenario doesn't exist anywhere in the world outside of America
It's like everyone else thinks it's faggy to fuck men or something

>>78935643
Sounds good, thanks.

'71 is really good. Set in N Ireland during the troubles.

>>78935695
Its an added punishment

Dunkirk

>>78935736
Is it pro IRA?

Lawrence of Arabia

there aren't many as we don't glorify our modern army as much as America

Are there really any differences between the British and American armies?

>>78935643
Haven;t seen this in years!

Not really a glowing and heroic movie about the Brits, more a damning indictment of the UN in Bosnia

Still a very good movie, and the scene where the guy has to walk over the truck-load of murdered civilians is particularly haunting

>>78936000

The British Army is very small but full of trained, disciplined professionals

The American Army is huge and full of trash who only enlist to get out of criminal charges

>>78934946
Yes 71 sorry the one about the irish troubles

>>78936060
And yet the Yanks had to bail "our boys" out of Helmand and Basra. Not bad for a bunch of convicts...

Bloody Brits and their bloody WWII myth making. I bet you voted Brexit too!

Back on topic: Kajaki: The True Story is pretty damn good too. Not nice, but worth watching on Netflix

Wild Geese

>>78936153

the British Army were put in charge of the most dangerous provinces in Afghanistan while the Americans sat around in there bases watching anime

>>78936331
This. Afghanistan was fucked for the Brits a lot of the time.

>>78936060

it's idiotic for you to believe this is true

>>78934637

God I wish I was born earlier sometimes, pubs in the UK were so much comfier when nobody gave a shit about posing in tight shirts or looking good, it was just conversation, booze and cigarettes indoors.

>>78936358
Standard british troops are better trained than american special forces

Kilo two bravo is pretty recent

Not a movie, but I enjoyed Bluestone 42

>>78934316
Came to post this thanks a fucking lot for stealing it cunt

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>>78934265
what about the Finnish army?

I don't understand the meme where British soldiers are making jokes when shit's completely fucked. Always bothers me in films.

>>78936534
Talvisota

Irish, not British - but Siege of Jadotville, based upon the historical battle (similar to Zulu in that regard) is good fun to watch and well made

>>78936451
Top show

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>>78934265

Pretty terrifying.

>>78936557

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor

Braveheart

>>78934265
Johnny Got His Gun

>>78936557
In films? they do that irl m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5fgRgAk9uk

>>78935736
>really good
its alright
not much on the war, though
its hide and seek

>>78936358
its funny cos its true

>>78936557
I suspect this is bait but; its not a meme, load of citations via google

Other memes that are true; Squaddies swear with every fifth word, Paras are nuts, if its just about alive and still twitching a Marine will be fucking it

>>78936704
>Paras are nuts

In what sense?

>>78936557
It's not a meme you dumb fuck, why don't you enlist and see for yourself. That's common in every single armed force around the globe

>>78936735
>Disclaimer: I'm not a soldier, but I deal with them lots... how to explain

Paras are not really parachutists, that's left in because it promotes a certain mindset. Paras are shocktroopers and only the type of people who have that mentality pass election.

Best example I can think of; during selection they all form up in a ring and are told to beat the shit out of each other. Anybody who blocks is bollocked, anybody who tries any fancy shit is bollocked. Its not about winning its about taking a beating and dishing it out.

>>78936801
Nah I'll keep my bigboy job. Thanks though.

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>Shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt. It's nothing you wouldn't do to us

what did he mean by this?

Just watched Kilo Two Bravo, that was kind of horrible. Don't even know if you could call it a war film. Very good though.

>>78936620
>>78935736
this.'71 was really great.

>>78936557
>It’s a long British army tradition that you can see a century ago in the popular first world war commemoration volume 500 Cockney War Stories. In that book, one cricket-loving soldier is said to have reacted to having two comrades killed and his own leg blown off by reporting: “One over – two bowled – and I’m stumped.”

>>78937278
>“One over – two bowled – and I’m stumped.”
fucking lol

>>78936397
You're an idiot, only 15 year olds say things like that. You're just going to the wrong pubs.

>>78936557
Have you ever watched Generation Kill? That's about the most realistic portrayal of the US army ever put on screen and it's full of very dark humour from the soldiers.

Are SAS really the best or is it a meme?

>>78937409

they're not called Super Army Soldiers for nothing m8

>>78937396
>That's about the most realistic portrayal of the US army ever put
of that specific troop, sure. but there are legitimate Vietnam films that show things as they were, and same goes for WW2 etc.

>>78936397
Try going to one that isn't a Wetherspoons or Yates', or just generally go to a small pub away from wherever the students live.

>>78937409
Most countries model their special forces after the SAS and the SAS trains a lot of them, including the Navy SEALs

>>78937488
Isn't the SAS training the one that kills people though?

>>78937409
Hush!
You don't want to make them angry

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>>78936298
This.

Not formal British military, but still a comfy flick.

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Why are there no films about a white British officer and his team of insane gurkhas?

>>78937541
So that's what Robert Pattinsons up to these days.

>>78935766
For YOU.

>>78935695
All male boarding school pretty much function under the same rules though, and you have to pay £20,000 for the pleasure.

>>78936557
dry humour? i'm canadian btw. War is murder.

>>78937033
b-buh he didn't do ANYTHING wrong

t. paul dacre

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HIS NAME WAS CELEBRIMBOR.

>>78937033
literally nothing wrong

>>78937511
The weak must fear the strong

>>78936397
pubs nestled away in farming counties like Somerset or Devon are so far removed from the general populous it's an entirely different atmosphere.

>>78936397
pubs in london, maybe
you need to be where people work with their hands

>tfw irish
>can never enjoy british war movies

>>78938049
You're rightful British clay anyway.

>>78934265
Two more recent ones based on real life:

>Siege of Jadotville. (but it's technically Irish)
>Kilo Two Bravo.

>>78938049
>""""""""""irish""""""""""

Zulu

Is it just me or are only war films based on true stories good?

>>78935939
No, but it calls out the det' and some of the army leadership too

>>78936405
We can't afford to fight like they do so we have to fight smarter, also we aren't better trained than their sf it just seems that way sometimes because of the amount of Americans that get to call themselves sf despite there not being much s about a lot of the f.

>>78936903
I think its called milling

>>78937511
That's less because its so hardcore and more because of a series of safety fuckups. No one should be dying of heat related conditions on exercise in the UK, that's just poor health and safety and risk assessment.

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The Sharpe series is British army kino.

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>>78937033
Muslims want to kill this. Shameful.

'71

>>78938882
It's more Rambo than it is British Army

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>>78935736
It's very good.

>>78938973
It's not very good. The writing is pretty dodgy. Would have been better if it wasn't so obviously made up. It's too filmy in the way it approaches everything.

>>78936331
I always wondered why Bong combat footage always looks the most fucked up. Everyone elses is just some guys taking a few potshots while they wait for bomb to drop, while the Bongs are getting hammered by incoming and desperately trying to fire back.

>>78939075
I've never really seen footage. Have you got evidence of it?

>>78939109
>>78936665

>>78936405
>Unironically believing this

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>when ireland has a better military movie than you

>>78939075
Best one is when they are in a field and get attacked from a few feet away. You can see the taliban bodies in the river at the end. Cant remember what its called but it used to be on youtube.

>>78939163
This was a technically poor film, I blame net flix

>>78939171
Pretty sure that was fake.

>>78939219
It's a great film you stupid fucking pleb.

Oh and by the way, Netflix is all one word :)

>>78937441
Heard you were going around saying you were harder than me?

>>78939219
They kept on fucking up the weapons, which triggered my autism mildly, but I thought it was pretty good

>>78934324
>Eric Bana
>brit

>Nobody has said Bravo Two Zero yet

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Khartoum
The Man Who Would Be King

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>>78934265
'71

>>78939657
I just watched it. It sucked.

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>>78938840

>>78939691
>tfw no qt desi gf

>>78939672
No you didnt

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>>78934265

Sunday Bloody Sunday

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>>78939786
Pretty sure I did.

>>78939845
That could be any movie

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>>78939875
Happy?

>>78939944
That could be any movie with Jack O'Connel.

Quit lying you fucking faggot.

Bridge on the River Kwai
Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far

>>78934265
THe one where the Americans kick their ass ;D

>>78936000
british one is white and professional.
american one is negroid and loses to rice farmers.

>>78939691
damn. captain flint doesn't fuck around.

>>78935643
This is really good.

>>78939944
>yify

>>78939075
So you're never seen Restrepo?

>>78936000
American military has money, UK doesn't.