War Movies

[Element66]

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]Bob_Marley

The Battle of Britian -...Think the assault on the Death Star from Star Wars (which this film inspired btw. Early screenings of SW actually used footage from The Battle of Britian for the space combat scenes as the minature work hadn't been finished). Only this actually happened.

wasn't dambusters also used?

quote from wiki (i know wikipedia not a reliable source blah blah blah)

The attack on the "Death Star" in the climax of the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is heavily influenced by the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters. In the later film rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and fire a proton torpedo at a precise distance from the target in order to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the Star Wars climax are very similar to those in The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. These scenes are also heavily influenced by the action scenes from the war film 633 Squadron, which depicts a fictional air raid. Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian-style march, like The Dam Busters.[13]

[Element66]

ignore, double post

[-.-Maverick-.-]

JARHEAD - awesome flick

[supahpingi]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Its bassicly pearl harbor,for those who where like get to the fighting already!

So yeah,its a 1970 film so special effects arent the greatest,but its also missing the pearl harbor relationship bullfrog

[CroCop]

Originally Posted by supahpingi

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Its bassicly pearl harbor,for those who where like get to the fighting already!

So yeah,its a 1970 film so special effects arent the greatest,but its also missing the pearl harbor relationship bullfrog

Hell yea. Watched it recently, very good movie.


Also I haven't noticed anyone mentioning Kelly's Heroes or Downfall (even though not strictly a war film its still awesome)

[MaxBoZ]

U571 Not the most realistic but very entertaining and still realistic enough.

[Sinn_Ah_Taggh]

Hamburger Hill (1987)
This is a really good movie about some of the hardstruggeling (and loosing) US forces in Vietnam.
I think it depicts some of the personal stribe that manny of the soldiers went trough during the ´Nam campain.

[WelshManDan]

Originally Posted by Sidewinder Zulu

Oh yeah?

Well, um, I liked the part where we won the war!!11!1!!

, my Empire total War says differently :L

Originally Posted by MaxBoZ

U571 Not the most realistic but very entertaining and still realistic enough.

I havent seen it, and i personally refuse to, as the Writer changed it all to be America, whereas the real crew was British, disgusting they were even allowed to change history like that, if you want to make it American, make it up.

I love the films being put in here however

[gx]

Gods and Generals. I had never really been interested in the civil war, really at all until I watched this movie, it really got my attention. Best Civil war movie i have ever seen by far.

[Zimmer]

HBO.COM - HBO

March14 just mark the day for 10 short movies making one kick ass serie