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The Dirty Dozen rules, what a cast!
Cassavetes
Savalas
Jim Brown
Donald Sutherland
Charles Bronson
Lee Marvin
Trini Fuckin Lopez
Clint Walker
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
Oooh, one I loved as a kid:
Kelly's Heroes.
I think it was a combination of my dad's interest in military history and my burgeoning distaste for the military/authority-in-general.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 22 June 2003 05:53 (twenty years ago) link
Unmentioned so far, and G*R*A*T*E:
the German "Stalingrad" film: German soldiers go to Stalingrad. and die. unlike that Enemy At The Gates shite there is no lame-ass love affair angle in this one.
"Gettysburg": big set-piece battle film. great beards.
"Michael Collins": war as the continuation of politics by other means
"The Human Condition" (at least I think that's what it's called): Japanese soldiers against the Sovs in Manchuria. Things do not go well for the Japanese.
"Aliens": US Marines turned into mincemeat by alien communists. oh wait, someone did mention this.
"Land & Freedom": pretty good Ken Loach Spanish civil war film. interesting as an example of how you can make war films on the cheap, but sadly preoccupied with now irrelevant political issues.
"Last Of The Mohicans" (the Michael Mann version): very convincing evocation of early modern Europe styles of warfare in the colonial arena. It has some of the best battle scenes ever committed to celluloid.
"Zulu Dawn": Brits get BUTCHERED by plucky Zulus at Isandlwaha. Possibly my favourite battle ever.
"Zulu": Brits fail to get butchered by plucky Zulus. most disappointing battle ever.
Both "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Longest Day" are good tell-it-like-it-is-only-without-too-much-gore war films.
I gather there is also a good film about Leonidas and the 300 Spartans fight at Thermopylae, but I have never seen it.
does anyone know if there is a good film version of the Battle of Aduwa (plucky Ethiopians butcher Italians)? or if there are any Vietnamese made films of their victorious wars with the French and Americans?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
I gather there is also a good film about Leonidas and the 300 Spartans fight at Thermopylae, but I have never seen it.That'd be Frank Miller's 300 -- errr, this isn't I Love Comics, huh?
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 23 June 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
ten years pass...
anyone ever seen The Bridge at Remagen? (1969) George Segal, Ben Gazzara, only screenplay by Richard (Revolutionary Road) Yates, die by John Guillermin. Showing at Lincoln Ctr tnite.
eleven months pass...
three years pass...
five years pass...
it's not exactly a war movie that stands up with any of Rossilini's war trilogy, it's fucking shite!
― calzino, Saturday, 13 May 2023 20:07 (eleven months ago) link