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I really do not recommend Apocalypse Now, it was on TV and I went to watch because of all the fame it has.

Was really boring and barely any action, only watch if you like 3 hours of boating over a river.

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The Pacific wasn't as good as BoB, I haven't even watched the final episode yet

 

Totally agree with this one. BoB had much stronger characterization and the story telling seemed to be a lot more coherent. There were also quite a few more intense combat scenes.

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It's not a movie, but Band of Brothers, if you can get hold of the whole season, is amazing.

 

 

I bought this like at $60 new on DVD, and don't regret it.

 

You can pick it up for about $40 new on SD, $60 on Blu, or $20-30ish used

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Ah, one of my favorite ones ever is a movie called "U-571" If you ever get a chance to watch it, do so. Really good.

 

A few others is:

Pearl Harbor.

The Patriot.

Enemies at the Gate(another REALLY good one)

Band of brothers (even though it was not a movie)

Saving Private Ryan

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It's not a movie, but Band of Brothers, if you can get hold of the whole season, is amazing.

 

 

I bought this like at $60 new on DVD, and don't regret it.

 

You can pick it up for about $40 new on SD, $60 on Blu, or $20-30ish used

 

Yeah I've seen the whole series multiple times. Probably one of my favourite pieces of WWII media.

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Nobi (Fires on the Plain), an underseen Kon Ichikawa classic that truely shows the horros of war. No glorification here. It got released in America through Criterion. You could also check out the war movies by the Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda. Another interesting movie (although post-war) is Germany anno zero, by Rosselini. And while you're at it check out Rome, Open city as well.

 

Something more recent is Malick's The Thin Red Line or Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder. If you're interested in a good holocaust documentary check out Shoah (it's almost 10 hours long, so take a few days for it).

 

[edit] I forgot to mention Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet and the The Big Red One and Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.

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I really do not recommend Apocalypse Now, it was on TV and I went to watch because of all the fame it has.

Was really boring and barely any action, only watch if you like 3 hours of boating over a river.

It's not supposed to be about action and fighting. It's about the intense mental strain that Vietnam put on soldiers and how completely [bleep]ed up a soldier can become when put in a hellhole like Vietnam.

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'The bridge' the original german version is a great war film from the german perspective.

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Lol Tropic Thunder. If you like comedic war movies, go crazy...otherwise...stay away :P

 

And if you have to chose between pearl harbour or TORA TORA TORA, go for the latter. It's much more realistic and far less glamourized.

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Go for broke, a 1950s film, i think i saw it on youtube rofl

the pianist is awesome but several times, i wanted to hurl like when the woman was shot in her head for asking where her family was being taken to / wheelchair off the balcony.

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Go for broke, a 1950s film, i think i saw it on youtube rofl

the pianist is awesome but several times, i wanted to hurl like when the woman was shot in her head for asking where her family was being taken to / wheelchair off the balcony.

 

It just goes to show how brutal it really got during the war. Yet, there are holocaust survivors who have seen films like The Pianist and Schindler's List who shrug them off and vehemently express that nothing could ever give even a close sample of what it was truly like.

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I just got done watching Full Metal Jacket.

That was a great film, I highly recommend it.

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I just got done watching Full Metal Jacket.

That was a great film, I highly recommend it.

Saw it, dislike. Very sad film with a lot of lying about army and war

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