Hey Bill, I need your help remembering a movie…
It was a 70s/80s movie about WWII. It involved a carrier in the pacific that entered some sort of time warp and found itself at Pearl Harbor in '41.
I can’t, for the life of me, remember it. My dad had it on tape and I used to love watching it.
Dr Strangelove is kind of a Cold War movie, so that could be included in my favorites as well.
This was a toughy. All three of these are incredible. Kubrick gets extra points for having 2/3 of my list. Apocolypse Now is pretty fuckin incredible though…
The Thin Red Line comes to mind.
There was another movie kind of similar called the Philadelphia Experiment, I believe, where a battlship disappears in time.
Yeah that was it:
both strange flicks
The Final Countdown!
That’s it! Thanks Bill.
Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas…I knew someone famous was in it. For some reason I thought it was Brian Dennehy. It was actually Charles Durning.
Shaving Ryans Privates!!
Hamburger Hill
When Trumpets Fade (HBO)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
A Bridge Too Far (one of my Dad’s favorites)
Does Red Dawn count as a war movie? That’s a classic 80’s movie. I just Deer Hunter here today from Netflix.
I think Ian wins this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJig1VKHtBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VThlAQDMvI
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
and HBO’s Band of Brothers is just amazing.
I would put Platoon first. I’ve loved that movie for a long time. I’d have to say Full Metal Jacket is a better movie, but Platoon is my personal favorite.
never so few
the sand pebbles
THE GREAT ESCAPE
find the theme?
hint: look at my avatar
“Gettysburg”
Just outstanding!
i want to see that. i always ignored the civil war for some reason.
Good ol’ Steve McQueen.
The Towering Inferno rules your face!
Yeah, I’m surprised noone has mentioned Glory yet. Also another classic war picture, with Ferris Broderick not Broadway Broderick.
^ i shit you not, my highschool economics teacher is in that film. the civil war rules! here’s to another!