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ORIGINAL: Big B

They are all good - it's impossable to have a favorite...but I'll throw in an unusual one for War Movies:

The sad final scene of Black Adder Goes Forth

Blackadder: Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?

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ORIGINAL: EUBanana

ORIGINAL: Big B

They are all good - it's impossable to have a favorite...but I'll throw in an unusual one for War Movies:

The sad final scene of Black Adder Goes Forth

Blackadder: Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?

Ahh... yes... how true... very poignat... I loved Blackadder...


Leo "Apollo11"

Gentlemen (and Ladies);
For your consideration I submit - Gettysburg

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin to his regiment "Bayonets"

Colonel to General John Buford - "This is the best d##ned ground I've seen all day"

General Reynolds to General Buford - "Lovely Ground"

General Reynolds - Now let's go surprise Harry Heth"


and many many more.

Oh and I forgot;

This movie has an excellent soundtrack. It fit's the movie very well.

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Gentlemen (and Ladies);
For your consideration I submit - Gettysburg

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin to his regiment "Bayonets"

and many many more.

I think then you need to add what he said a few moments later:

"CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The little roundtop part in the Movie has some of the best war movie moments, you loose count of how many times someone yells "Here they come again..."

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

The Bridge at Remagen, 1969

[Kreuger is offered a last cigarette before he is executed by firing squad. He and the Nazi Officer hear planes.]
Major Paul Kreuger: Whose?
Nazi Officer: Enemy planes, Major.
Major Paul Kreuger: But who is the enemy?

...my vote for most sardonic line...i really felt for the Major when i saw the movie

I like the part where that Sgt. has the look of anguish on his face in that German hotel after turning over the body of a German he just killed and finding out it was just a boy.

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy


I like the part where that Sgt. has the look of anguish on his face in that German hotel after turning over the body of a German he just killed and finding out it was just a boy.

That reminds me of another All-Time Great -'The Big Parade' 1925...the grandaddy of the modern war movie.
In a movie full of memerable scenes, the most powerful was toward the end when we see the full transformation of our hero Jim from a light hearted innocent playboy to a changed man.
His two best friends just got killed on a night patrol in No-Man's Land, and in a rage he goes out for payback, and mortally wounds a handsome youg German while receiving a leg wound himself.
The scene develops as the wounded Jim crawls after the dying German with nothing but a bayonet - and they slide into the same shell hole. At first Jim is about to slice the young German's throat but the plea for mercy in the German's eyes stays Jim's hand. The German asks for a smoke so Jim gives him his last butt, then disgustedly pushes the kid's face away so he dosen't have to look at him. The kid dies quietly and Jim just takes the butt and finishes it himself - with a look of dread and hopelesness on his face. Shortly after he is found by medics and evaced.

It was a powerful scene - and Jim is never the same.

B