OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum

[CaptDave]

I'll add a vote for "The Caine Mutiny." Granted, it's more entertaining than historical, but I seem to like the movies that take a solid look at the psychological aspects of the war (on the other side of the world, that includes "Twelve O'Clock High"). Besides, what someone earlier posted about Burt Lancaster, I would say about E. G. Marshall, even when he's playing characters you want to take into the back alley on a dark night.

"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is great for being 98% accurate, with bonus points for finding actors that bear strong physical resemblance to the people they're portraying.

[undercovergeek]

which is the one with Robert Mitchum in the destroyer relentlessly pursuing the sub, in the end he just rams him?

Good sunday afternoon, cup of tea viewing that is

[Gilbert]

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

which is the one with Robert Mitchum in the destroyer relentlessly pursuing the sub, in the end he just rams him?

Good sunday afternoon, cup of tea viewing that is

"The enemy below"

Gilbert

[John 3rd]

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....

Don't get Dan started on Kelly's Heroes. As already seen in this Thread, his pleasant Southern genteelness goes to Hell and Gone when this film is mentioned...

[John 3rd]

How about adding Away All Boats? That one is a bit more obscure.

I enjoy Harm's Way due to the cast and fact that it ends in a depressing manner. It is almost Shakespearean with 2/3 of the cast dead at the end of the movie.

The Raid is a good film. Quite surprising in fact...

Watched Midway recently and it struck me as SOOOOOOO dated since the revelations of Shattered Sword were brought out.

[SuluSea]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

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.

LOL, thanks for reminding me to never enjoy a movie someone that writes a review on it takes issue with, in essence I'll watch nothing.

Objective Burma , the US force was much smaller than Merrill's Marauders and I see no basis for "Hollywood trying to take credit", I look to Hollywood to get entertained and not neccasarilly for historical purposes.

[tocaff]

"The Raid" is known as "Ghost Soldiers" which is a book about this.  IMHO the book is much more devoted to historical fact than the movie was.

[RevRick]

Away All Boats is good just because no one else made a picture about gator freighters before...

Mr. Roberts
Task Force
Hell in the Pacific
Caine Mutiny
Guadalcanal Diary
Run Silent, Run Deep'
Tora, Tora, Tora
Battle Cry
In Harm's Way is Okay.. But Brandon DeWilde as the Duke's son.... Come On!!!
Best shot in the movie is Kirk Douglas backhanding Ron O'Neal...
Haven't seen too many of the recent ones... Owe my wife too many dates to check those out..

[GaryChildress]

OK. Can't be stranded on a Pacific Island without some John Wayne films:

Sands of Iwo Jima
Flying Leathernecks
They Were Expendable
Fighting Seabees
Flying Tigers
Back to Bataan
Operation Pacific

John Wayne killed more Japs than the entire 1st Marine Division. [8D]

And to round out the top ten...

God is My Co-pilot
The Sullivans
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

[aspqrz02]

ORIGINAL: PuhisFrom 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.

Haven't seen Sophies Choice, but a student of mine brought along her copy of GotF because I was teaching her in a Year 10 History Class some years ago (Australia in WW2) and I agree, it probably *is* a 9 or 10. Very sad.

Phil