Best movies about the Pacific War?

Hanzberger · Post by **Hanzberger** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:55 pm

TORA TORA TORA
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Schani · Post by **Schani** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:56 pm

I agree with sfbaytf. Those are some great DVD's. Plus World at War can be purchased on the History Channel website site for a little over $50.00. Where as twenty years ago I bought the TV offer, 26 VHS tapes, six to eight weeks delivery, for 2 1/2 years, at just under $1.000.00. How times have changed. Life is good.

AcePylut · Post by **AcePylut** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:57 pm

 
/finished his walk
 
 
If I could make a movie, any movie, it would be a remake of Star Wars (the new hope)... from the other side.

I would make it about the "dude that pulled the trigger that blew Alderran apart", coupled with a story about Darth Vader's wingman in their Tie fighters, make it about "the stormtrooper that bonked his head on the ceiling when chasing Ham Salad", add the story about the "look sir, droids" stormtrooper, have Admiral Thrawn be one of the main characters... etc. etc. etc.
 
But BEST war movie?
 
Saving Private Ryan, Stalingrad, The Winter War, Das Boot, Tora Tora Tora

Mr.Custer · Post by **Mr.Custer** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:04 pm

Anybody ever see "Beachhead" with Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy ? How about "Destination Burma" with Errol Flynn.

m10bob · Post by **m10bob** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:06 pm

ORIGINAL: AcePylut

/finished his walk

If I could make a movie, any movie, it would be a remake of Star Wars (the new hope)... from the other side.

I would make it about the "dude that pulled the trigger that blew Alderran apart", coupled with a story about Darth Vader's wingman in their Tie fighters, make it about "the stormtrooper that bonked his head on the ceiling when chasing Ham Salad", add the story about the "look sir, droids" stormtrooper, have Admiral Thrawn be one of the main characters... etc. etc. etc.

But BEST war movie?

Saving Private Ryan, Stalingrad, The Winter War, Das Boot, Tora Tora Tora

Uhhh....Did ya' miss the part about where OP said "about the Pacific"?...Just askin'........[:D]

Schani · Post by **Schani** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:06 pm

Acepylut,

Now your talking. Pacific War. One I just Remembered. King Rat (1965). Again, also a great book.

And books mentioned earlier by sfbaytf. Like Jack Coggins `Guadalcanal' is great easy read. My bible for Guadalcanal is Richard B. Frank's `Gaudalcanal. Can't for get `Rising Sun' by John Toland.

kaybayray · Post by **kaybayray** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:08 pm

Just crankin off a few Hollywierd flicks I recall about WWII PTO. Oh, yeah The Duke is in many that I recall.

Torpedo Alley

Run Silent Run Deep

Away All Boats

The Sands of Iwo Jima (Saw it when I lived in Japan.. pretty funny watchin the Duke yelling Banzai as he went up Suribachi)

The Bridge over the River Qway (spelling??)

30 Second over Tokyo

The FLying Leathernecks

Battle Cry

In Harms Way

They Were Expendable

Operation Pacific

Back to Batan

I Bombed Pearl Harbor (Japanese film, pretty good too for when it was made)

A Wing and a Prayer.

From the Halls of Montezuma

From Here to Eternity

From Hell to Eternity

Up Periscope

The Flying Tigers

PT 109

The Last 100 Miles (not sure of this title)

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

Burma Road

Operation Burma

On the Wings of Eagles

The Fighting Sea Bees

Well that is all that comes to mind at the moment. Sure I could think if many more if I spent a few minutes.

Later,
KayBay

Admiral Scott · Post by **Admiral Scott** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:10 pm

The Galliant Hours. 1960 James Cagne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gallant_Hours

Schani · Post by **Schani** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:10 pm

Somebodies done a little research.

Hanzberger · Post by **Hanzberger** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:12 pm

I HEAR GOOGLE IS AMAZING LOL [:D][:D][:D]

Charbroiled · Post by **Charbroiled** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:16 pm

Beyond a doubt..."Operation Petticoat".

Schani · Post by **Schani** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:17 pm

Or `Father Goose'

Canoerebel · Post by **Canoerebel** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:25 pm

To be honest, the Pacific theater is a vast desert when it comes to WWII movies. The best three: Bridge over the River Kwai , Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Another person stated earlier that Hollywood was chained to chick flicks, but Saving Private Ryan was both hugely successful an no chick flick. So there is some hope that eventually Hollywood might do the Pacific Theater justice.

Grollub · Post by **Grollub** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:25 pm

ORIGINAL: rroberson

I think there was a pretty good Ben Afleck movie a couple years ago...

[8D]

(Along with AcePylut); Blasphemers! [;)]

I'd vote for Midway, not only because it's good, but also because that was the first "adult" (15 yrs) movie that I was able to sneak into at the age of 13 [:)]

Canoerebel · Post by **Canoerebel** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:27 pm

P.S. Anybody who seriously enjoyed or appreciated either The Movie that Shall Not Be Named or The Other Movie that Shall Not be Named (a/k/a Thin blah blah blah) shall be drummed out of the cadre.

P.S. And the same for The Third Movie that Shall Not Be Named (a certain Nicholas Cage disaster of Titanic proportions).

AcePylut · Post by **AcePylut** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:49 pm

Once named by me, it shall never be named again.
 
In fact, my ex-wife loved the Movie that Shall Not Be Named.  Adored it.  Couldn't get enough of "Raif". 
 
Then I came along and watched it with her, for the first time.  After giving it a good 10 minutes of objective viewing, I couldn't help it.  Tore into it.  Ruined the movie for her.  She's never watched it since.
 
P-40's outflying Zero's cuz the P40 isn't faster.  LOLOLOL.

CJ Martin · Post by **CJ Martin** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:28 pm

Coming on HBO in 2010, from the same folks that did "Band of Brothers"

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2078671385/

-CJ

pmelheck1 · Post by **pmelheck1** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:26 pm

I despise PH it is NOT a war movie it's a love story.  If the producers and writers had devoted half the time to getting their facts straight as writing about the love story in might have been OK.  PH is a 2 & 1/2 hour love story with 1/2 hour of setting for the love story.  TRL I detested also.  Saw it at the base theater and couldn't stand it's view of WW2 Soldiers.  Heard an interview with the producers of the movie.  They stated their movie was a counter to SPR's positive view of soldiers.  I personally didn't like some of their actor choices.  Some of the actors were at the time openly attacking our military and our troops.  Some had disparaged our ww2 vets.  My wife watches these movies with me being raised on military bases and she hated this movie.  I enjoyed letters but thought flags should have have been about the battle rather than the people.  I also enjoyed a lot of the older flicks folks have mentioned on here

wesy · Post by **wesy** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:30 pm

Here are a couple...The first i haven't seen in a long time, but from what I remember it was great. It was about the evacuation of Kiska from the Japanese perspective. The second movie is fairly depressing/disturbing.

1) Taiheiyo kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka (Soh Yamamura was in it - he played Yamamoto in Tora, Tora, Tora; Toshiro Mifune - well tons of great kurosawa flicks) Kiska
2) Fire on the Plain (about a rag tag group of IJA soldiers in retreat in the Phillipines). Kon Ichikawa was the dirctor. Fire on the Plain

Sheytan · Post by **Sheytan** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:11 pm

Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

Too late the Hero with Cliff Robertson is pretty good as well.

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