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RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:06 pm
by Central Blue
That's an interesting list and full of stuff new to me. I will have to check my Netflix queue.
The list of what I would take with me... The Best Years of Our Lives, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Sahara, Mr. Roberts, The Caine Mutiny, Twelve O'Clock High, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, maybe a few others.
Here's some Pacific specific stuff I haven't seen in ages, but it's what I grew up with when they still ran movies on TV or showed them in the basement of the church, and they should suit the purge urge, since they were all made during the war.
Bataan
Guadalcanal Diary
Flying Tigers
Wake Island
Air Force
Destination Tokyo
Gung Ho
The Fighting Sullivans
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:41 pm
by Hornblower
Add "Thin Red line" and HBO's "The Pacific"
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:50 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: Central Blue
Bataan
Guadalcanal Diary
Flying Tigers
Wake Island
Air Force
Destination Tokyo
Gung Ho
The Fighting Sullivans
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
These older ones are very, very good!! Every one should see these - no Doubt!! Also, add "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" if you can find it. Don Bowen mentioned it to me and I was only able to get it on VHS, but it is very good. Alot of the scenes for the Japanese were used in the movie MIDWAY. Even the beginning of MIDWAY had scenes from "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".
TOMLABEL
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:24 pm
by JWE
Hell in the Pacific
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:59 am
by Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Beat you both on post #22 [:'(]
Sorry, rt, I was number four. [:'(]
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:12 am
by stuman
" Windtalkers should be banned with the other film about Pearl Harbor... " +1.
Too bad about Windtalkers , an interesting topic.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:17 am
by YankeeAirRat
Not windtalkers the topic, but "Windtalkers" the movie
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:34 am
by stuman
ORIGINAL: YankeeAirRat
Not windtalkers the topic, but "Windtalkers" the movie
Agreed. That movie was poorly made. I wish someone would do the topic justice.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:18 am
by War History
First off, from a pure entertainment point of view, Kelly's Heros is the greatest movie ever made.
As for WWII pacific movies, one people are over looking is PT109. Loved Cliff Robertson in that movie. The hoops they had to jump through to get that boat approved was good humor.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:33 am
by PaxMondo
ORIGINAL: VSWG
I think it's a Vietnam movie in a WW2 setting... [;)]
They Were Expendable should be IMO on that list, too.
+1
(to both points. [:D])
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:21 am
by Pascal_slith
I'd add "Kokoda" which came out a few years ago from Australia. You understand after why you don't want to fight in the jungle...
I see most of the Pacific films have been mentioned and they're all great, including the more "propagandish" ones made during the war. I'd add "Gung Ho" with Randolph Scott (about Carlson's raiders on Makin) made in 1943. I would also add two of my comic favorites with Cary Grant, "Operation Petticoat" and "Father Goose".
And yes, I find "Kelly's Heroes" a whopping fun yarn (so what if it couldn't really fit the WWII movie label even though they did their best to use real WWII equipment).
Oh, another Pacific one: "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:19 am
by tocaff
How about To End All Wars?
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:31 am
by Puhis
Grave of the fireflies
This masterpiece is not a traditional war movie, but it's japanese anime. It's about two siblings that survive Kobe fire bombing, and trying to cope in late war Japan when things are getting worse and worse.
Saddest movie ever. I mean ever.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:21 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Puhis
Grave of the fireflies
This masterpiece is not a traditional war movie, but it's japanese anime. It's about two siblings that survive Kobe fire bombing, and trying to cope in late war Japan when things are getting worse and worse.
Saddest movie ever. I mean ever.
Well, I haven't seen this one, but it would have to go a far piece to be sadder than "Sophie's Choice."
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:42 pm
by anarchyintheuk
Old Yeller.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:01 pm
by SuluSea
ORIGINAL: tocaff
How about To End All Wars?
Agreed, one of my favorite Pacific WW2 movies.. A notch below the Great Raid but right there with Letters, and a notch above The Thin Red Line IMO.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mchale's Navy Joins the Air Force thus far.[:'(][;)]
Given the time it was made I give Objective Burma high marks.
I haven't seen Empire of the Sun yet, can I get a 411 on it?
Thanks. [:)]
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:07 pm
by BrucePowers
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
[biting but good-natured sarcasm on] Well, that explains it. So Kelly's Heroes was a Pacific Theater movie? I dadgum well knew that it didn't portray anything in Europe. [biting but good-natured sarcasm off]
Kelly's Heroes is not a WWII movie. It's a Vietnam movie. And a terrible one at that. I realize there's a solid subset of decent AE Matrix Forums folks that like this movie, but you guys just have scales over your eyes. One day those scales will fall from your eyes and you will be mortified that you had any good thought about this movie.
If I had to choose WWII Pacific-Theater movies, my list wood begin strong and quickly taper off, in this order: Mr. Roberts, Tora Tora Tora, Bridge over the River Kwai, the two modern Iwo Jima Movies, Midway (they really tried to do this one right), and that would be about it.
If anybody dares to list Thin Red Line or Windtalkers....
I would add In Harm's Way.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:47 pm
by Puhis
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Puhis
Grave of the fireflies
This masterpiece is not a traditional war movie, but it's japanese anime. It's about two siblings that survive Kobe fire bombing, and trying to cope in late war Japan when things are getting worse and worse.
Saddest movie ever. I mean ever.
Well, I haven't seen this one, but it would have to go a far piece to be sadder than "Sophie's Choice."
From a sadness scale 1-10, Sophie's Choice is about 6. Greave of the fireflies is 10. At least that's how I see it.
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:49 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Puhis
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Puhis
Grave of the fireflies
This masterpiece is not a traditional war movie, but it's japanese anime. It's about two siblings that survive Kobe fire bombing, and trying to cope in late war Japan when things are getting worse and worse.
Saddest movie ever. I mean ever.
Well, I haven't seen this one, but it would have to go a far piece to be sadder than "Sophie's Choice."
From a sadness scale 1-10, Sophie's Choice is about 6. Greave of the fireflies is 10. At least that's how I see it.
Anime is a CARTOON, right? Sadder than Nazis making a mother choose which of her children will be murdered? That must be some animaiton there . . .
RE: OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:54 am
by JeffroK
ORIGINAL: SuluSea
ORIGINAL: tocaff
How about To End All Wars?
Agreed, one of my favorite Pacific WW2 movies.. A notch below the Great Raid but right there with Letters, and a notch above The Thin Red Line IMO.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mchale's Navy Joins the Air Force thus far.[:'(][;)]
Given the time it was made I give Objective Burma high marks.
I haven't seen Empire of the Sun yet, can I get a 411 on it?
Thanks. [:)]
Objective Burma a great movie for its time, I suppose "Pearl Harbor" was as well.
From a movie review site
The strangest sequence (at least to modern viewers) has the paratroopers expressing horror and disgust at a vicious sneak attack by the Japanese-which occurs only a few reels after the Americans have staged an equally merciless attack on a Japanese unit! In England, Objective Burma was taken to task by newspaper journalist who felt that the Americans were unfairly taking full credit for the success of the Burmese campaign. The ensuing hue and cry compelled Warner Bros. to issue an apology, and to withhold the British release of the film until 1952, at which time it was accompanied by a lengthy prologue title extolling England's contribution to the Burma invasion.