The movie thread

[Odinson]

There's another tangent. What do you guys and gals rate as the best war movie of all time?

 

Saving Private Ryan. That would be my choice. 

 

Apocalypse Now probably a close second. 

[Lurch the stalker]

There's another tangent. What do you guys and gals rate as the best war movie of all time?

That's a tough one...

I immediately thought Hamburger Hill, but that was followed a second later by Heartbreak Ridge, and then my mind went wandering off on all the other good war movies I could think of...

[Skubarra]

Pearl Harbour 

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Pearl Harbour 

 

I detect a tad of sarcasm there...   

 

I've never seen Eastwood's Iwo Jima films. Any recommend them?

[Fisan]

One composer whose work I thought I would like was Eric Serra after seeing The Big Blue. But after I bought some of work on Luc Besson's films, it all started sounding the same.

 

You only need to watch the first 30 seconds of a Luc Besson movie to know it's a Luc Besson movie. Always some city like Paris, London, Prague....the music...

 

One of my favourites is Clint Mansell's sountrack to The Fountain. It's very minimalistic, but does so much to the film.

[Tumbleweed]

You only need to watch the first 30 seconds of a Luc Besson movie to know it's a Luc Besson movie. Always some city like Paris, London, Prague....the music...

 

One of my favourites is Clint Mansell's sountrack to The Fountain. It's very minimalistic, but does so much to the film.

 

Too true! At least The Big Blue is set in the ocean! Haha!

[Skubarra]

I detect a tad of sarcasm there...   

 

I've never seen Eastwood's Iwo Jima films. Any recommend them?

 

 Agree with most of the others mentioned, not so much Pearl Harbour

 

Thought Letters from Iwo Jima was pretty good - interesting because we never see WW2 movies from the Japanese perspective - better than American Sniper imo. Same for Enemy at the Gates - covers a fascinating part of WW2 usually ignored by Hollywood.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

There's another tangent. What do you guys and gals rate as the best war movie of all time?

Band of Brothers. 

 

Okay, technically not a movie, more a mini series - but I reckon it's the single best war movie out. 

[RocknRolla]

Inglorious Bastards

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What about De Palma's Casualties of War? Michael J Fox wasn't the most convincing of soldiers in that film, but it was quite some subject matter for a Hollywood film.

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Oh my hat! There we were talking film scores, and I just read on Twitter that James Horner has died.

[Stretch]

best war movies

 

Apocalypse now

The Deer Hunter

Bridge over the River Kwai

The Great Escape

Platoon

 

 

and yes...Ill add band of brothers into the mix

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best war movies

 

Apocalypse now

The Deer Hunter

Bridge over the River Kwai

The Great Escape

Platoon

 

 

and yes...Ill add band of brothers into the mix

 

Guess we'll all be whistling a certain tune today! 

[Stretch]

as for music in movies/Tv...thats an entire thread on its own..music in my opinion is the most important part of a visual production...more important than scenery or acting....there are far too many to mention...but the closing scenes of lost in translation with JAMC's Just like honey setting the scene is pure movie porn for me

[Lurch the stalker]

They died with their boots on

[Stretch]

Guess we'll all be whistling a certain tune today! 

 

lets help that along