Best post WWII Military Films - Page 2

IronDuke99 · #1 February 21st, 2017, 06:25 PM

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'Full Metal Jacket' (1987) Excellent film. Real USMC Gunnery Sgt. Some fairly good skirmishing/fire and movement. Only thing that annoyed me was they made some big deal about killing the female enemy soldier at the end. Why? Especially after she shot their mate to bits a round in the head was rather kind.

I think it was not so much that the female sniper was killed (or even that she was female), actually I think she was in extreme pain from her wounds, did she asked to be killed? Anyway, the big deal was not the kill, but the praise he got for shooting her from his team, and in a deeper sense how death, up close and personal, changes a man forever. This scene and a number of others, especially the first part of the film in boot camp, have lead many to say the film is an anti-war statement.

Yeah, FMJ is a classic.

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I don't know anyone who is pro war, as a general rule, and I have only met a handful of people who actually liked it most of the time. Making an anti war statement makes about as much difference as making a anti flu statement, but it is a good film.

'Johnny Got His Gun' (1971) is a film that is entirely anti war, and the only actually scary horror film I've ever seen. Don't think it, or any other film, has any actual effect on the real politic that, along with religious fanaticism, drives real human wars.

Wdll · #2 February 16th, 2017, 06:53 PM

I assume we are talking about real weapons, settings, or at least almost, and not sci-fi.
We Were Soldiers is a movie I enjoyed very much.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/

IronDuke99 · #3 February 17th, 2017, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Wdll

I assume we are talking about real weapons, settings, or at least almost, and not sci-fi.
We Were Soldiers is a movie I enjoyed very much.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/

Yep no Sci-Fi or such like.

Suhiir · #4 February 17th, 2017, 03:34 AM

I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

RecruitMonty · #5 February 17th, 2017, 07:20 AM

Guns at Batasi was quite a good film. The depiction of the RSM was memorable.

Proper salutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKTOUkroU0

RSM Lauderdale dealing with a labour MP and the leaders of an African coup team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9hkhKVq5rM

scorpio_rocks · #6 February 17th, 2017, 11:44 AM

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Guns at Batasi was quite a good film. The depiction of the RSM was memorable.

Dickie Attenborough at his best!

IronDuke99 · #7 February 17th, 2017, 08:52 AM

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I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

There is a thread on WW2...

Grant1pa · #8 February 17th, 2017, 11:42 AM

I'm going to offer one that isn't SPMBT oriented, but was a memorable movie from my youth. This is the British movie "The Yangtze Incident", shown in the United States titled "Battle Hell".

This is a Royal Navy movie, but details the escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist Chinese forces on the Yangtze River in 1949. The battle sequences are fantastic and I always thought the drama of the event was riveting.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in a USA format in the years intervening but if you can find it (I know it was on TCM some years ago), it's well worth the time to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9tOWtmjf4

Tom

DRG · #9 February 17th, 2017, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Grant1pa

I'm going to offer one that isn't SPMBT oriented, but was a memorable movie from my youth. This is the British movie "The Yangtze Incident", shown in the United States titled "Battle Hell".

This is a Royal Navy movie, but details the escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist Chinese forces on the Yangtze River in 1949. The battle sequences are fantastic and I always thought the drama of the event was riveting.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in a USA format in the years intervening but if you can find it (I know it was on TCM some years ago), it's well worth the time to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9tOWtmjf4

Tom

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IronDuke99 · #10 February 21st, 2017, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

I hate and really detest 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot' two of the most hugely historically inaccurate films ever made anywhere. I liked 'We Were Soldiers' and 'Apocalypto'. I thought the truly vile 'Passion of the Christ' told a great truth about this film Director. I will have to Watch 'Hacksaw Ridge'