I'm not sure it's the best but the first 45 mins of Full Metal Jacket is rather intense. Kubrick was probably a genius.
Agree Full Metal Jacket is the best. Apocalypse Now a close second. Platoon third.
Quote from: Judge Smails on May 28, 2021, 09:28:52 PM
Agree Full Metal Jacket is the best. Apocalypse Now a close second. Platoon third.
The Deer Hunter?
Best Kubrick Film?
Dr. Strangelove?
A Clockwork Orange?
The Shining?
I think I'd probably go A-Clock-O.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 28, 2021, 09:48:50 PM
Best Kubrick Film?
Dr. Strangelove?
A Clockwork Orange?
The Shining?
I think I'd probably go A-Clock-O.
Paths of Glory, but they're (almost) all great.
Don't laugh, but the first Rambo is great Vietnam movie and pretty good all around movie too.
Quote from: reinko on May 28, 2021, 10:07:53 PM
Don't laugh, but the first Rambo is great Vietnam movie and pretty good all around movie too.
I agree.
Apocalypse Now by a country mile for me
I remember that after I watched The Deer Hunter, I thought at the time it was the best movie I had ever seen. To this day, I haven't seen many things more intense in a movie than the Russian Roulette scene. Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now and Platoon would have to be 1-2-3 in some order.
But if we're talking about the Vietnam War movie I "enjoyed" the most, it would have to be Good Morning, Vietnam, with Robin Williams at the height of his career.
Best War Film?
I recently saw Glory for the first time in awhile. Excellent film. I'm not including documentaries. That World at War 10 part doc is absolutely phenomenal. Patton?
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 29, 2021, 11:38:47 AM
Best War Film?
Inglorious Basterds is my favorite, not sure if best, but favorite
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on May 29, 2021, 08:19:01 PM
Inglorious Basterds is my favorite, not sure if best, but favorite
Good call. I LOVED that movie, and thought it should have won the Oscar that year. I didn't expect it to be as funny as it was, while also being great story-telling and wonderfully acted.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 29, 2021, 11:38:47 AM
Best War Film?
I recently saw Glory for the first time in awhile. Excellent film. I'm not including documentaries. That World at War 10 part doc is absolutely phenomenal. Patton?
Does Tropic Thunder count?
If not, the aforementioned Paths of Glory.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on May 29, 2021, 08:19:01 PM
Inglorious Basterds is my favorite, not sure if best, but favorite
Inglorious Basterds is excellent. "Dammit Hirshburg". I think Tarantino is only making one more film.
I've seen two Vietnam related films in the last month. Both are recent movies and I enjoyed and recommend.
The Last Full Measure - Based on a true story (an A. Lincoln quote)
Last Flag Flying - Based on a novel and ties in Vietnam to the invasion of Iraq.
Watched Green Berets yesterday. The Duke playing himself.
Quote from: real chili 83 on May 31, 2021, 07:40:47 AM
Watched Green Berets yesterday. The Duke playing himself.
Never seen it, but have always wanted to as a curiosity. Isn't it the only pro-Vietnam War movie ever made?
It might be.
Lots of good one-liners. The scene with Puff is 100% Hollywood.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 30, 2021, 10:11:09 AM
Inglorious Basterds is excellent. "Dammit Hirshburg". I think Tarantino is only making one more film.
The first scene with Landa interrogating the French farmer is bone-chilling and one of the best scenes ever filmed, IMO. The rest of it is fantastic, too. Pulp Fiction is tremendous, but I think Inglorious Basterds is Tarantino's best.
Quote from: MU82 on May 29, 2021, 06:37:33 AM
Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now and Platoon would have to be 1-2-3 in some order.
I essentially agree with this list with regards to Vietnam war movies. It is funny, war movies are often uplifting with a happy ending (a group of misfits come together to blow up a bridge or something), but the Vietnam war movies never seem to be. As a result, they don't do much for me, compared to other war movies.
Quote from: Judge Smails on May 28, 2021, 09:28:52 PM
Agree Full Metal Jacket is the best. Apocalypse Now a close second. Platoon third.
Full Metal Jacket is half a great movie. If I come across it on TV, I don't watch after basic training is over.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 29, 2021, 11:38:47 AM
Best War Film?
I recently saw Glory for the first time in awhile. Excellent film. I'm not including documentaries. That World at War 10 part doc is absolutely phenomenal. Patton?
The Bridge over the River Kwai is a favorite of mine.
Full Metal Jacket is fine.
But the answer to this is Apocalpyse Now and it isn't even close.
Quote from: CTWarrior on June 01, 2021, 02:21:55 PM
Full Metal Jacket is half a great movie. If I come across it on TV, I don't watch after basic training is over.
Same here
Quote from: Coleman on June 01, 2021, 03:12:07 PM
Full Metal Jacket is fine.
But the answer to this is Apocalpyse Now and it isn't even close.
meh, gets boring AF after they reach Kurtz's outpost, should have been about an hour shorter IMO
Quote from: Pakuni on May 30, 2021, 08:49:29 AM
Does Tropic Thunder count?
If Die Hard is a Christmas movie then yes, it counts.
Quote from: CTWarrior on June 01, 2021, 02:20:03 PM
I essentially agree with this list with regards to Vietnam war movies. It is funny, war movies are often uplifting with a happy ending (a group of misfits come together to blow up a bridge or something), but the Vietnam war movies never seem to be. As a result, they don't do much for me, compared to other war movies.
Movies tend to parallel the conflict. WW2 had line to line combat, winners and losers and highly defined good guy/bad guy propaganda positions. Good ground for the movies you like.
Korea was well....just confusing and deeply inconclusive. Hardly a single movie made about it.
Vietnam was guerilla hit and run style, protracted, highly polarizing and very politically divisive. Most movies of this war arent just war action pics and many dealt with the soldier left behind, those coming home or the many post service traumas. Not up lifting, but still important in our efforts to understand war.
Not until the mideast conflicts (Afganistan, Iraq) of more recent times have moviemakers tackled what its like for the soldiers in action in a confusing ongoing insurrection and ill defined mission. They clarify what Vietnam flicks (ex. Hamburger Hill/Deer Hunter) hinted at....you fight for your buddies and unit first and "country/USA" is for those back home.
Currently "Enjoyable" conflict movies have shifted to the realm of the apocalyptic, end times, zombie, comic book etc to spin the more predictable positive outcome stories that WW2 used to give us.
Real war just got too complicated for the "good" war movies you've liked
Quote from: houwarrior on June 01, 2021, 04:59:27 PM
Movies tend to parallel the conflict. WW2 had line to line combat, winners and losers and highly defined good guy/bad guy propaganda positions. Good ground for the movies you like.
Korea was well....just confusing and deeply inconclusive. Hardly a single movie made about it.
Vietnam was guerilla hit and run style, protracted, highly polarizing and very politically divisive. Most movies of this war arent just war action pics and many dealt with the soldier left behind, those coming home or the many post service traumas. Not up lifting, but still important in our efforts to understand war.
Not until the mideast conflicts (Afganistan, Iraq) of more recent times have moviemakers tackled what its like for the soldiers in action in a confusing ongoing insurrection and ill defined mission. They clarify what Vietnam flicks (ex. Hamburger Hill/Deer Hunter) hinted at....you fight for your buddies and unit first and "country/USA" is for those back home.
Currently "Enjoyable" conflict movies have shifted to the realm of the apocalyptic, end times, zombie, comic book etc to spin the more predictable positive outcome stories that WW2 used to give us.
Real war just got too complicated for the "good" war movies you've liked
Very well said.
I thought 1917 was a very good movie about a subject that is under-covered, WWI. It was nominated for the Oscar, and I thought it was a worthy contender.
It was not gratuitously gory, but obviously it showed the horrors of war. It was well-acted (including the guy who played GOT's Tommen). It was good story-telling.