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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2007, 08:45:32 PM »
Movies:
Band of Brothers
Bridge over the River Kwai (and for more realism than the movie, read Through the Valley of the Kwai
Sergeant York
Patton
MacArthur
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2007, 11:35:03 PM »
I forgot about Band of Brothers...that series kicks butt!
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2007, 01:02:02 AM »
oooh yeah...I like Saving Private Ryan too  :)
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2007, 01:31:03 AM »
Full Metal Jacket... when i was in the reserves, I shined my boots to that movie! Before I joined, i thought the boot camp half was intense... after living through Marine boot camp, I find Gunny Hartman VERY Comical :*)) I have yet to have a girlfriend that could see the humor in the gunny's ass chewings!

Band of Brothers... I ordered HBO JUST for that series!

Kelly's Hero's... LMAO! you have to watch the movie to understand

Major Payne... I'm not a Wayans brothers fan... but anyone that has spent time in the Marines will find true humor in this movie

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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2007, 11:32:00 AM »
I love military movies...

Saving Private Ryan (cos I was an extra in it. seriously!)
Heartbreak Ridge
Sniper
Das Boot

All the Vietnam ones, Hamburger Hill, Platoon, Full metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July

And a whole bunch of others.

p.s. Streamers, the play by David Rabe.  Saw it years ago when I was just a young fella and thought it was brilliant.
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2007, 11:58:27 AM »
Lots of good suggestions so far.  Here is a twist... a multiple academy award winning movie about 3 soldiers returning from WWII and their struggles to readjust to civilian life.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Years-Our-Lives/dp/0792846133/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8327906-0850366?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1180115536&sr=8-1

Blagadan, Saving Private Ryan was the first DVD I purchased... unbelievably realistic.  The first half hour was unreal.  It was my understanding that D-Day vets were awestruck -- it was just as they remembered storming the beaches.  Where did you appear in the movie?  I may have to watch this again since it is Memorial Day weekend.  Band of Brothers is also excellent.  It is amazing listening to how humble those guys are, even to this day... a different time to be sure.
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2007, 12:01:56 PM »
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2007, 11:11:17 AM »
GI JOE, yes that's right it's a cartoon but it's still my favorite. The only thing i didn't like was they never mentioned canada and we're the good guys too you know.
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #23 on: May 26, 2007, 05:05:08 PM »
GI JOE, yes that's right it's a cartoon but it's still my favorite. The only thing i didn't like was they never mentioned canada and we're the good guys too you know.

I loved GI Joe as a kid O0

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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2007, 06:45:07 PM »
The first half hour was unreal.  It was my understanding that D-Day vets were awestruck -- it was just as they remembered storming the beaches.

We spent 3 days shooting scenes that never made it into the film because they involved Shermans on the beach.  I was lying on the sand when a Sherman rolled by firing machine guns. It was one of the most thrilling moments of my life feeling the earth shudder as the tank went past firing.  It's hard to imagine what it must have been like for real though!  I've so much respect for those who went through that.

Where did you appear in the movie?

Unfortunately you only see me on the big screen. I'm a small figure at the end of a line walking in to the camp on the beach head near the start of the film. On DVD/video the viewing area (for want of a better term) is smaller so i get cut off.  Bastards!  There goes my 15 minutes of fame.
The opening scenes were done on a beach in the South East of Ireland.  All of the extras were Army Reserves, I recognise a lot of the faces on the beach and sitting around the camp.

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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2007, 07:59:22 PM »
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2007, 12:47:20 PM »
There are so many good ones out there, many already mention, but a few that just never get old, Blackhawk Down (even thought they change the factual events) Glory, Braveheart, We Were Soldiers.
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2007, 12:58:23 PM »
Snap I forgot  :/O, Garden of Stone.
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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2007, 08:50:57 PM »
Snap I forgot  :/O, Garden of Stone.

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Re: top military movies...
« Reply #29 on: May 28, 2007, 10:30:46 PM »
GI JOE, yes that's right it's a cartoon but it's still my favorite. The only thing i didn't like was they never mentioned canada and we're the good guys too you know.

I loved GI Joe as a kid O0

Dude I meant as an adult
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