Favourite/least Favourite Movie

[webbhead]

Best WWII films:
- Das Boot, The Director's Cut (watch with subtitles, not dubbed)
- The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
- Force Ten From Navarone (Robert Shaw & a baby-faced Harrison Ford)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (Alec Guiness)
- Patton (George C at his best)
- From Here to Eternity (ole blue eyes could act!)

Most overrated WWII film:
- Saving Private Ryan (c'mon, after the beach scene it's bollocks!--the Americans weren't alone in Normandy!)

Worst WWII film:
- 1941 (the Blues Brothers go ballistic)

Most disastrously ignored propaganda film:
- Triumph of the Will (the signs were all there in 1934!)

Best Holocaust film:
- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann - 7 hours long, every minute of it gripping)

[CROONAERT]

Best (ie in my opinion the one's I'll watch the most): Kelly's Heroes, Battleground, A Midnight Clear,Das Boot, Stalingrad, A Bridge too Far, Band of Brothers (can this really be classified as a movie?), Saving Private Ryan, When Trumpets Fade.

Worst (most of the "cheesy ones" especially "Battle of the Bulge"): Loads of 'em , especially my pet hate "Enemy at the Gates" - what a bag of crap!!!!


Dave.

[CROONAERT]

Originally posted by webbhead@Dec 2 2004, 03:32 PM
the Americans weren't alone in Normandy!)

Quite true. But in the American Sector they were!!!(Give or take the odd unit).

Come on, this is like complaining that the Yanks aren't represented enough in the film "Zulu" !!!!!

Dave.

[DanKamstra]

Hi all. My first post here.

Favorite: Saving Private Ryan, or Hell is for Heroes

Least Fave: Thin Red Line or Pearl Harbor


Cheers to All

[smc66]

Band of Brothers is good, and it does have its schmaltzy moments but the need to tell the true story often overrides this. Unlike Saving Private Ryan which after the landing on the beaches is a pile of cliched horse manure.

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Best Films:

Stalingrad
Cross of Iron
Das Boot
Bridge too Far
Band of Brothers
Dambusters
Battle of Britain


Worst:

Enemy at the Gates (Just for Jude Laws English-Russian Accent. I didnt realise they spoke with a south English twang in Southern Russia!!!!)

Private Ryan - Yes the Beach scene is great and no I dont have a problem with it being all american (that is a stupid argument anyway) but the final scene just smacked too much of the heroic few holding out tenaciously against the baddies. Anyway the Germans wouold never have attacked up a street liike that. RThey might have gone into the houses for example

Pearl Harbour - Oh God!! How bad can a film be? The Makers of Tora Tora Tora can rest easy, theirs is the better film, by far.

Thin red Line - An attempt to make the "Apocaypse Now" of the WWII Genre that backfires badly. I dont want to see 25 minutes of Green Grass Billowing in the Breeze, thanks very much. I can turn on Discovery for that!!!

[blacksheep]

Favorite WW2 movies

1. Pianist and Schindler's List
2. Band of Brothers
3. Thin Red Line, this is a great movie and portrays vividly the anxiety, chaos and brutality of war.
4. Saving Private Ryan, this movie more than any gives you a feel visually of what it must of looked like.
5. The Longest Day
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. The Guns of Navarone

Worst

1. Pearl harbor

[BrianP]

Favorites:

- The Longest Day
- Saving Private Ryan - I know a lot here don't agree but I thought it was pretty good
- Band of Brothers

Guilty Pleasures

- 1941 - Inaccurate and all, but pretty funny
- Kelly's Heroes
- Great Dictator
- The Final Countdown

Worst

- Pearl Harbor - Total bollocks. Some of the attack scenes were realistic, but the story line was garbage. My wife liked it, but then again she has zero interest in World War II.

[nolanbuc]

I have to say I prefer the older WWII movies by far, however the point about better special effects in the newer ones is a good one.

Favorites:
Band Of Brothers
Tora! Tora! Tora! (the movie I tell fans of "Pearl Harbor" to watch)
Midway
Mr. Roberts
The Great Escape

Not so good:
Pearl Harbor
Hart's War

[GUMALANGI]

Seems most of wide screen recent WW2 movies are ,... junks.,
U571, Pearl harbor, and one haunted US Subs,..(forgot the movies,.. left after the 1st 15minutes)

Favourite: Longest Day, Tora Tora!, Eagle has landed, Battle of britain, Patton,
dislike: Pearl harbour , U571