What would you say is the last great war movie?

Hi Madeleine!! ;)

I agree with you, The Pianist is one of the last great war movies...other masterpieces probably are "The Thin Red Line" or "Letters To Iwo Jima", for me.

BQ:

Shindler's List

Full Metal Jacket

Platoon

The Thin Red Line

Saving Private Ryan and Letters From Iwo Jima (ex-aequo)! :D

BQ2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PferbkPQXo8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEViYvojtY&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZH0i5HeUg

Good week to you! Bye ;D

MA- Band of Brothers

BA

1. Schindler's List

2. Saving Private Ryan

3. The Pianist

4 Platoon

5. Glory

6. Das Boot

7. Tora! Tora! Tora!

8. The Thin Red Line

9. Letters From Iwo Jima

10.The Deer Hunter

BBA- The beginning of Saving Private Ryan and the beginning scenes of Schindler's List are extremely moving.

Have a great week to you too.

1. The Thin Red Line- Terrence Malick- Malick is a genius director, the sweeping shots of Guadalcanal (which was actually Queensland Australia) island are beautiful, basically every shot is perfect and the cuts between the soldiers and nature the helpless baby bird fallen from it's nest. Most throught prevoking and beautiful illustration of what can be achieved in film.

2. All quiet on the Western Front- Lewis Milestone- masterpiece

3. Platoon- Oliver Stone- The scene where charlie sheen wakes to see the death and destruction that has been caused and then the dear- so peaceful and innocent- BEST SCENE

4. Born on The Fourth of July- Oliver Stone- Tom Cruise outstanding performance.

5. Full Metal Jacket- Stanley Kubrick- "the dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive" direction, acting, writing all flawless kubrick is my hero and a god!

Letters From Iowa Jima

BQ

1. Schindler's List

2. Lawrence of Arabia

3. Downfall

4 Patton

5. Platoon

6. Glory

7. The Longest Day

8. Saving Private Ryan

9. Tora! Tora! Tora!

10. Breaker Morant

BQ2

Easy.

In the oriiginal 1930's "All Quiet on the Eastern Front"

A war weary soldier in a trench - during a rare silence from the constant shelling - spots a butterfly perched atop a sand bag. You see his arm reach out to the butterfly...as he nearly touches it you hear a rifle shot and his arm falls limp.

Hey Suicidal!!!

I'm going to go with 'Grave of Fireflies'. The reason for that is simply 'cause I feel it'll be the first and last animated movie that'll truly make one feel grief and pain whilst watching it. Sure movies like Wall-E, Toy Story and Bambi have gotten people teary-eyed but this movie was the last war movie I saw that was poignant and heart-wrenching at the same time. To bring about the same feeling I felt while watching Schindler's List but with an animated movie is quite a feat in itself.

I really can't put it as brilliantly as Roger Ebert does:

"Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation...a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to "Schindler's List" and says, "It is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen.""

BA-

1) Grave of Fireflies

2) Schindler's List

3) Apocalypse Now

4) Platoon

5) Das Boot

BA2- Undeniably, the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan.

My favourite war film that I would put in this is Brotherhood: Taegukgi. But The Hurt Locker and Beaufort are also brilliant.

BQ:

1. Brotherhood: Taegukgi

2. Beaufort

3. The Hurt Locker

4. Assembly

5. Full Metal Jacket

BQ2:

Not really sure about favourite scene.

I HIGHLY recommend these!

Schindlers List(amazing!there are no words to describe it. if you loved The Pianist, you'll love this!)

The Boy in the Striped Pajmas

Der Untergang( aka Downfall)(really good war movie!)

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler(recommend highly)

The Pianist

Hitler:The Rise of Evil(awesome movie also!)

Valkyrie(great movie!)

Stalingrad

BQ:

Schindlers List

The Pianist

Valkyrie

Downfall

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

BQ2:

My favorite scene from a war movie was in Schindlers List when Oskar begins crying because he thinks he didn't save as many Jews as he could..Very touching

For me it would be the film The Longest Day.

BQ - all my own personal taste

1. Guns of Naverone

2. Merrill's Marauders

3. Bridge over River Kwai

4. The Eagle has Landed

5. Escape from Sobibor

BQ2 - In Merrill's Marauders when the soldiers who are worn out and cannot go on, get up and start walking on to the next battle.

Clint Eastwood's: Flags of our Fathers & Letter from Iwo Jima

Oliver Stone's: Platoon

Stanley Kubrick's: Full Metal Jacket

Francis Ford Cappola's: Apocalypse Now

All of those movies have great acting in them and give strong messages throughout

last one : war horse

BQ:

1.saving private ryan

2.schindler's list

3.paths of glory

4.platoon

5.full metal jacket

6.apocalypse now

7.downfall

8.das boot (the boat)

9.inglorious basterds

10.the pianist

11.patton

12.glory

13.the deer hunter

14.the big red one

15.iron cross

16.galliopoli

17.the dirty dozen

18.letters from iwo jima

19.war horse

20.the thin red line

(better stop here)

BQ2 : the opening scene of saving private ryan,one of the most impressive opening scenes in the history of cinema and the little "red dress" girl scene from schindler's list,anyone that did not feel empaty for that girl while watching that scene must be dead of devoid of emotions and also the death scene of sargeant elias in platton,never death and music mixed so well in one movie scene it's pure movie filming perfection.