Which of these five war films do you prefer?

I don't really like any of those films.

Hmmm I like them all. I guess Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down. Don't make me choose.

Iwo Jima was a good film but you have to read the dialog which means you need to be fully into it and no interruptions. I'm not a fan of the Pacific Theater as much so it lacks that pull the European theater has for me.

Flags of Our Fathers was alright. Not as good as the others on the list though.

We Were Soldiers is another good film but just a little behind the other two I mentioned above.

Jima

Black Hawk Down. Because that's the only one I've seen.

how about this list instead.

platoon, the red badge of courage, patton, das boot, mash, apocalypse now, hell in the pacific and the bridge on the river kwai.

Go away, make your own damn list

I'm a big fan of tom Hanks so I would have to go with that movie.

Those are all American movies, so none of those :P

The Odd Angry Shot is awesome.

none

lol same reason.

don't you like War Movies?

i rarely do but yes i dont like military theme, i dont hate U.S. or anything, i dont like military theme in games/movies etc.

None. I prefer Zulu Dawn over any of those.

You've missed the Kubrick's masterpiece: Full Metal Jacket !

Btw, i'd go with saving private Ryan because of its great dialogues, solid narrative and cinematic shots etc....

Letters From Iwo Jima wins for me. I enjoyed all of the movies listed, especially Saving Private Ryan (despite so many historical inaccuracies and errors) and We Were Soldiers. Letters From Iwo Jima was done extremely well.

Yeah, basically

Full Metal Jacket.

Toss up between Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.

I saw both these movies in theaters, and are up there with some f the best movie theater experiences I've had. I think BHD is the better movie, but its soundtrack is atrocious.

A fairly mainstream list.

My favourite war films are probably Full Metal Jacket, The Great Escape, Das Boot, A Bridge Too Far, The Great Escape, Schindler's List and Der Untergang.

Been a while since I've watched most of them though.

I did that on purpose to avoid comments like "Never heard of most/any of those." It makes the poll more likely to actually get real votes.

With these new polls, you aren't limited to quantity. You could put 35 items on them if you wanted. And I think you can also do a multi-vote poll too.

Your list is pretty damn "mainstream" too.

None.

i've seen all 5 but i don't remember anything about 3 of them.

so i'll just say black hawk down

Not as mainstream as the TC's.

You know whats sad....... ?

I've never seen any of those films.

You wanna know whats sadder?

I'm a film major

I already explained that I wanted to avoid a bunch of comments like "I have never seen/heard of those movies." The poll would have suffered without any real votes.

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Saving Private Ryan. It was long, bloody, and epic. I was disappointed that Apocalypse Now wasn't on the list, its a fantastic film for those who haven't seen it.

Apocalypse Now is one of the few true masterpieces put to film. It is truly, as you said, fantastic. However, I did not include it on the list, because I do not consider it a war film. It is a Psychological Thriller that is set during a war. It is not a true war film, per se.

@Riverwolf007: I like this one the red badge of courage. Is it made from a novel?

This

I like all of them, i like Black Hawk Down the most though

I think Wind talkers should be up there! its a great film!

I've watch all above except for "we r soldier"

non of those i've watch was great ....... I cannot speak for Wee r Soldiers though

but my fav war movie is Apocalypse Now

"Ran" is the best war movie i'v seen.

Waterloo is worth a mention because of the sheer scale.

Go watch Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk down. You can thank me later.

Also I vote Saving Private Ryan because I saw that movie first before Black Hawk Down.

Has anybody watch The Hurt Locker movie? I have yet to watch it.

Ooooo Das Boot definitely, what a great flick. Fun fact about that movie (which you probably already know): started out as a TV mini-series. At least I've heard it never was intended to originally be a feature film. One of the best war films ever made though.

As for my choice with that list, Saving Private Ryan. It's the only war movie I've seen that has been able to convey to me the visceral brutality and horror of combat (or at least how I'd imagine it to be).

Letters From Iwo Jima. Superb movie but there was one scene that hit me hard. It was the scene where the officer tells his soldiers to make sure to kill the medics first because that would mean they killed two men - the medic and the man he was trying to save.

My Dad was a medic in the Pacific during WWII. I asked him was it true? And he said it was. The first day he reported for duty with the Marines (he was a sailor) he was told that he was their FIFTH medic. The sergeant assigned a marine to bodyguard him so they wouldn't lose him like the others.

Made that movie extremely real for me.

I've seen Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, so I guess those two.

Watched both as well as Hurt Locker.

I stand by my answer.

it's all Zionist propaganda

Why do you keep calling it "Wee r soldier" ?

And also... Apocalypse Now is not a war film.

sometimes we shouldn't be too serious.... I'm 40 and seriousness environment almost destroy my life.

Apokalips / Apoqalibs Now is a war film...... they called it VIETNAM WAR.... remember......

Movies like Platoon are about the Vietnam War, because it is about soldiers fighting the war.

Apocalypse Now is not. It is set during the war, but it is not truly about the war. It is a psychological drama/thriller, and it is not a true war film.

Had to vote for Saving Private Ryan based on this list. However I think a lot of the greatest war films ever made are the older ones. Foreign films are often times better than they're American counterparts simply due to the fact that we have a violence driven look on war in this country.

Maybe that is because war is violent?

I have not watched more war movies.. but i have seen only this movie....so i ll prefer Black Hawk Down ...