Best war film ever? "Band of Brothers"

Well in the horror of war........stakes

the first half hour of shaveing Ryan's private
Black hawk down.......now read the book to see what a complete bolo*ks they made.
Das Boot

Boys own war stakes

Zulu......................Bronhead and chared[?] in real life could not stand each other, and basically did there own thing !

Kelly's Hero's
Where eagles Dare
 
Best war film ever made was Gilles Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers. This is a film that, amazingly, is even more pertinent today than it was in 1965, 1968 or 1972.
Kubrick's Paths of Glory and All Quiet on the Western Front are a distant joint second.
The other best war film was, of course, Colonel Blimp. This doesn't really count, however, as it is simply one of the best films ever made in any genre and isn't a "war" film (other than to take the piss) anyway.
 
Oh, that reminds me, Mediteranneo, whilst not strictly a "war film", is undeniably hilarious!

DT
 
"Band of Brothers"; Useless Information Dept.

I'm now half-way through the book, and the series sticks pretty faithfully to it. Going back to Alan's earlier comment that they couldn't have been so friendly, it seems that they were. Indeed it was this aspect that attracted Stephen Ambrose to write the book and name it thus, indicative of the unusual closeness of the veterans, right down to this day. The wounded and barely healed would sign themselves out of hospital, because, if they were going to fight, they wanted to fight with people they knew and trusted, not be assigned to some other unit (some took the extreme step of going AWOL to rejoin the unit).

Interestingly, the book has the authentic "Saving Private Ryan" story. One of Easy Company's paratroopers lost a brother at Utah Beach, another elsewhere in Normandy and a third (a pilot) had been killed in Asia some weeks before. Their mother received all three telegrams on the same day. As a result, the trooper was pulled out of the line and sent home. The US Army knew exactly where he was and went and got him. However, this clearly wasn't exciting enough for a film featuring Tom Hanks...
 
A Very Long Engagement AKA Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (2004).

Featuring a French speaking Jodie Foster. :eek:

The story, situated in WW I, is fiction, but the trenches scenes are openly and revealing.
 
ErikfH said:
A Very Long Engagement AKA Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (2004).

Featuring a French speaking Jodie Foster. :eek:

The story, situated in WW I, is fiction, but the trenches scenes are openly and revealing.
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Interesting, read the book some years ago. I hadn't realised that they'd made a film out of it.

I guess at least part of Pat Barker's "Regeneration" trilogy must be good film fodder. And I'd like someone to make Robert Graves's "Goodbye to all that".
 
The first half is good the second half is self indulgently written badly directed twaddle. typical of conrads books unfortunately.
 
For heavens sake, what about - The Big Red One?

In my fave order -

Das Boot
The Big Red One
Cross of Iron
In Which We Serve
Ice Cold In Alex

Not really a war movie but I always enjoyed 55 Days in Peking too.
 
brizonbiovizier said:
The first half is good the second half is self indulgently written badly directed twaddle. typical of conrads books unfortunately.
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What? It may have taken Heart of Darkness as the basis for the plot and relocated events in that novella to Vietnam.... but other than that the rambling looseness of the movie and Conrad's densely concentrated writing have nothing in common.
 
brizonbiovizier said:
The first half is good the second half is self indulgently written badly directed twaddle. typical of conrads books unfortunately.
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I think you missed the point and what Apocalypse Now has to do with Conrad beyond a tenuous link to Heart of Darkness or any other Conrad novel I'm not sure.
 

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