Band of Brothers the Pacific (Remarkarkle long format how I recognized Alligator Bay)
The longest day, Old school completely silly with really old guys(thumbnail says it all) playing what would me men in the early 20’s but still a Golden Oldy
Saving Private Ryan, the catalyst for people to become more interested in WW2
Fury, Enemy at the gates, Thin red line, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima all great films but the ones above are “extra”
Non Enlisted related but I can watch this one any day of the week.
Bridge over the river Kwai
One that I call complete garbage because I literally lived 150m from it when I lived in Kanchanburi Thailand. The real bridge was on the Kwai Noi Yai, south of town and not made out of bamboo. I loved living in that part of Thailand but it had a very dark history. They talk about the allies who died 100K SE Asian non Thais died building it as well. My landlady was a child when it went down and she HATES Japanese, every year they have a weeks long festival It was lovely fireworks from my front door every night. But that bridge a lie!
One of the things LEGO said they would never do is WAR figures. This would have been even better with lego brick carnage. I looked at some of the other videos wow they really made a lot of these. You could stich together a mock TV docuseries with all that content.
And because of your search I also searched, some cool LEGO movies. The trailer does not help that movie. It felt a bit like modern BBC but missing the African lady as the captain and all the soldiers being South Asian, Far East and Inuit/ Comandos Video game the movie. HD really makes it tough to do accurate media anymore. War is messy, chaotic mess that is hard to replicate. CGI makes things shiny dirty.
there’s “A bridge too far”, for Commonwealth loving, about the failure of Market Garden,
and I just seen @OggeKing posted about it. Well, he has great taste.
“The canons of Navarone” I really liked. the operation itself is fictional, but based on real ones, by the SAS commandos.
And of course, “The Great Escape”. it’s not about battle but PoW, with real legends of the cinema… and one of the most, if not THE most epic motorcycle chase scene ever made. That will never be beaten as nowadays it’s CGI or worse, upcoming AI. A must see.
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Special mention, a true GEM of cinematography, but not about ww2, ww1. Lawrence of Arabia. There’s a reason it won 7 Oscars back in the day. You see this for your culture, war film loving or not.
You have to check out the ones I listed especially Come and See. Its an amazing movie. Very brutal. Generation War is Germanys Band of Brothers. The ones you listed are that great old We won propaganda. After watching all the videos of war we have seen its crazy how movies do not even come close. The stuff going on in the Ukraine is crazy watching 10 people turned into vapor by a drone. Russian or not war sucks! WW2 same kind of insanity, Me and a Russian guy got in a fight with bag of dicks French guy about who won WW2. Russia really was the primary combatant with Germany. US resources won it. Why Come and See and Generation War are great cinema for the Eastern front. OHHHH This movie is fricking awesome as well just really silly Russian propaganda. T-34 with Budget Russian, Channing Tatum.
call me vanilla, but HBO band of brothers and the pacific series will always be at the top of my list.
I suppose Stalingrad 1993 is also a classic.
But i must admit i am more of a western-war fan.
actually, the one that takes the cake is clearly the superior russian made " Enemy at the ga… "
… i’m joking.
that pile of trash is not worth much beside for the memes.
though, i haven’t watched lot of war movies truth be told.
( cause most of the times they get it wrong ( and so the twos i mentioned above are filled with inaccuracies. but that’s " fine " i suppose ).
but well, most are kinda overglorifying war.
not really a great message.
Rambo is good only the first but WW 2 movies are not amazing majority of them are boring glorification full of nationalist BS… there is few exceptions… the fascination boomers have for war and trying to make them heroic is really stupidity of its own there is nothing romantic or heroic about wars. Sadly even in the movie they should have made Rambo die in the end the novel is much more realistic.
