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Hey-- Why not Stripes.
Problem with "War Movies" is that you can place most of them into Mini Genres as long as they involve some kind of Miltary activity... or you can leave them out of the "War Movie" Genre all together.
So you could have Bridge on the River Kwai and Stalag 17 in a Genre... or Das Boot and maybe Crimson Tide and Hunt for Red October in another. (I never me a Submarine movie I didn't like at least a little... even that one with Kelser Grammer.)
Then, you get stuff like Apocalypse Now that you could toss out of "War Genre's" completely because its a character study that happens during a war... the story could be told in a whole different context if you wanted to... Platoon goes toward this as well... but the characters in that are supposed to be representative of Vietnam...
But... sure... M.A.S.H., Stripes, Top Gun... you can work them in somehow.
Lets not forget "A Bridge Too Far" either.
Oh... and Guns of the Navarone.
Problem with "War Movies" is that you can place most of them into Mini Genres as long as they involve some kind of Miltary activity... or you can leave them out of the "War Movie" Genre all together.
So you could have Bridge on the River Kwai and Stalag 17 in a Genre... or Das Boot and maybe Crimson Tide and Hunt for Red October in another. (I never me a Submarine movie I didn't like at least a little... even that one with Kelser Grammer.)
Then, you get stuff like Apocalypse Now that you could toss out of "War Genre's" completely because its a character study that happens during a war... the story could be told in a whole different context if you wanted to... Platoon goes toward this as well... but the characters in that are supposed to be representative of Vietnam...
But... sure... M.A.S.H., Stripes, Top Gun... you can work them in somehow.
Lets not forget "A Bridge Too Far" either.
Oh... and Guns of the Navarone.
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DeNiro
Certified Cat Milker
Favorites:
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan, the end of which was one of about 2 or 3 times I've seen my father cry
Different Flavor:
Catch-22, also a hilarious book if you can make it through the first 100 pages or so
Slaughterhouse-Five, another great book and pretty good movie
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan, the end of which was one of about 2 or 3 times I've seen my father cry
Different Flavor:
Catch-22, also a hilarious book if you can make it through the first 100 pages or so
Slaughterhouse-Five, another great book and pretty good movie
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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned... Stripes (oh ya), Deer Hunter, Platoon.
Another comedy... Good Morning Viet Nam
Another comedy... Good Morning Viet Nam
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FKAGobucks877
The Most Power-Drunk
How you people don't mention Red Dawn is incomprehensible to me. Any movie that involves shooting commies and drinking deer blood is a surefire #1 favorite. 
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its in the game
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!
Saving Private Ryan
Sands of Iwo Jama
Dirty Dozen :osu:
Sands of Iwo Jama
Dirty Dozen :osu:
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AKAKBUCK said:
You ask, "Why not Stripes"? Uh, you think maybe because it has absolutely nothing to do with any war? Stripes is not a war movie by any stretch of the imagination. Besides, the movie is so fucking stupid it's ridiculous.
Back to the topic at hand:
The Great Escape is one of the best war movies of all-time.
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