Just a place to rant and rave about our favorite and least favorite WW2 films.

To get started, some favs:
Saving Private Ryan
Grave of the Fireflies
Valkyrie (not really a fave, but thoroughly underrated)
Letters from Iwo Jima
A Bridge Too Far (not the greatest film, but I have a personal bias regarding the subject matter)
Battle of Britain (Michael Caine just gives legitimacy to everything)

Some least favs:
Windtalkers (absolute garbage)
Pearl Harbor (an almost-decent movie pushed aside by a crap Danielle Steele homage)

The Bridge on the River Kwai Favorite

Any movie with the Hollywood Canteen in it Least Favorite

That's a good one.


A bit arbitrary, don't you think?

South Pacific With Harry Connick Jr singing the part of Joe

Yes, yes I know glenn close ruined the whole damned thing except for his part

But the original was awesome too

Kelly's Heroes is the greatest work of historical cinema evar!

There was a remake???

With Glenn Close???

Donald Sutherland was the shit, wasn't he?

Something like "Can't you for once say something righteous and positive?" comes to mind.

Great comedy piece.

Ayup

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242898/

Ah... that explains it. I was oblivious to all things America in 2001.

How long until you think it gets remade?

With Jack Black and Shia LeBouf.

While I'm a fan of almost everything HCJr has ever done It's understandable if you were absent in any way in 2001

if that was for shia lebouf then I agree, lol

Was definitely absent. I still don't think I'm caught up on all the movies I want to see from that year, to be honest.

I'm tired of both of them, actually. But, yeah... if I had to choose, I'd choose Jack.

me too. I rather liked him in shallow hal. he was human and fallible.

He's really a good actor, and a better musician. Sometimes I wish he'd give up the schtick and be serious for a while. But, then again, he wouldn't be Jack Black.

I remember seeing my friend's name in the credits of that horrible Tenacious D movie. I called him up and was like, "I can't believe you agreed to do that."

Nope. Every movie with the Hollywood Canteen in it is a big hokie, fake fest of a propaganda movie. Even if the Hollywood Canteen was started and run with good intentions.

SPR is totally overrated after the first half hour, but we've had this talk before.

It's been years, but I remember being bored to tears by BoB.

LfIJ is frakking fantastic. It might be CE's best movie.


And I have to admit, I have a serious soft spot for The Longest Day.

Have we? Don't recall. At any rate... blaspheme!


Blaspheme!


Best war movie, maybe. Not best CE movie. Unforgiven's hard to beat, for one.


You like anything old.

Unforgiven got bumped to two with LfIJ, but it's so close, it's hardly worth fighting over.

A good film set in WW2 is Ice Cold In Alex

Another good film is The Cruel Sea

Oh, it's always worth fighting over.

Wait until I start a Westerns genre thread.

I really don't know my Westerns very well.

WHAT???

It's true. Westerns aren't a genre I've watched a lot. I've got nothing against them, and I've liked a few, but I've just never watched many, including several big ones that I know are serious holes in my movie knowledge.

I hereby formally protest In Which We Serve, in that it deliberately, outrageously and maliciously ignores and belittles the role the USN played in the Battle of the Atlantic. Why, according to that propagandistic piece of historical revisionism, the British won that campaign all by themselves, when we all know they would have come to ruin were it not for the brave sacrifices of the Italian Resistance.

Yeah... sames goes for Sink the Bismarck!