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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #45 on: August 25, 2009, 11:15:56 PM »

  Who I really like is the Coloniel. . . the oneliners he had in that movie are fantastic:

richard crenna rocked   (rip)
col. trautman
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #46 on: August 26, 2009, 02:53:37 AM »

Enemy at the Gates

Starship Troopers.  :lol:

And this.

Enemy at the Gates was awesome, & definitely appropriate to watch when Dan Carlin started doing his Ghosts of the Ostfront series. 
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #47 on: August 26, 2009, 09:21:02 AM »

I'm not sure Hollywood has ever done it better than The Great Escape.

mcqueen was the quintessential badass....he did the motorcycle jump stunt himself...
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #48 on: August 26, 2009, 09:24:06 AM »

I'm not sure Hollywood has ever done it better than The Great Escape.

mcqueen was the quintessential badass....he did the motorcycle jump stunt himself...
Yeah he was.  Check out On Any Sunday for more of him on motorcycles.
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #49 on: August 26, 2009, 09:46:01 AM »

I'm not sure Hollywood has ever done it better than The Great Escape.

mcqueen was the quintessential badass....he did the motorcycle jump stunt himself...

McQueen did not do the jump. From Wikipedia: "Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins who resembled McQueen from a distance."

He did, however, play the German chasing him on another bike.

BTW, the biking scenes never occurred in the book, or in the real escape. McQueen insisted they be added in, to show his motorcycling skills. He intended doing the jump, but that didn't happen.
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #50 on: August 26, 2009, 11:09:19 AM »

Last of the Mohicans
Letters from Iwo Jima
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Band of Brothers
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #51 on: August 26, 2009, 01:43:49 PM »

Inglourious Basterds

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I'm going this weekend. 

I've been touting this film for two years, and when it was finally completed and slated for release, I was ecstatic.  Well, as ecstatic as I can be, which is often mistaken for mild interest. 

Anyway, they started running the commercials and I pointed it out to my Unc, who is a curmudgeon.  He made a couple disinterested "meh" noises, and might have brandished his cane at the television, had he owned one.  Then the reviews began, and he had to break his code of omerta and begin asking questions. 

Five stars, glittering reviews, a cinematic masterpiece, his best work ever, they can stop making WW2 films now.  What the fuck is this shit!?  he growled at me, buried within a cookie-crumb encrusted cardigan, shaking a rumpled newspaper in my direction, as if I was somehow responsible for this damnable offense to his predictable world.  His mind was whirling with words like "grindhouse" and "epic" and they would not fit together with the fawning accolades of the oft-fickle literati, and somewhere within his minds eye, a visage of Quentin talking a mad garble made an appearance.  He cast aside the printed offal with a disdain normally reserved for the gay clergy, and BSOD'd in his miserable chair for a while, pretending to work on his crossword puzzle. 
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #52 on: August 26, 2009, 05:36:59 PM »

McQueen did not do the jump. From Wikipedia: "Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins who resembled McQueen from a distance."



shit, i coulda swore ( a friend had a large poster of the jump scene & it looked like mcqueen)
he did attempt the jump though:

''Steve McQueen also personally attempted the jump across the border fence, but crashed. The jump was successfully performed by Bud Ekins.''
from imdb.com

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/trivia
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #53 on: September 03, 2009, 03:20:41 PM »

Enemy at the Gates

Starship Troopers.  :lol:

And this.

Just watched them all last week.
First one: good
Second: LAME
Third: good again
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #54 on: September 03, 2009, 10:39:10 PM »

Imitation General with Glen Ford and Red Buttons, and Catch 22 - wasn't near as good as the book, though.
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Re: Best war flick
« Reply #55 on: September 04, 2009, 11:16:20 AM »

Any list must have Patton on it.
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