WW2 movies?

[BubbleQ]

Hi, I am relly exited to se a WW2 movie for some unkown reason this day. Anyway, I do want to se a movie witch I have never seen before
So i need suggestions of what movies may be good. I really want a movie with american heroe feeling in it
Movies I have seen:
Enemy at the gates
Saving private Ryan
The band of brother series

It have to be some more So please can you suggest anyone?

[1447]

Flags of Our Fathers and Letter From Iwo Jima are both very good, though I doubt you'll get an "American hero" feeling from the latter...

[WaD]

with american heroe feeling in it

Enemy at the gates

There are no "Amarican heroes" in Enemy at the gates, the hero is russian in this case.

[JakeParlay]

Great topic! I'll cover some older ones that people might be not as familiar with:

The Dirty Dozen (1967) is great. Not as epic and very different from SPR or BOB, but a very enjoyable one nonetheless. Great character acting and a fun ride all along.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061578/
Enjoyment Level: 8/10
Hero Feeling: 6/10

The Great Escape (1963) is another favorite. This was the greatest WWII + prison escape movie going for many decades, until more recent fare took its place.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/
Enjoyment Level: 8/10
Hero Feeling: 8/10

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Is about as old of a movie as I'll watch, but it's a great one. It won something like 11 academy awards, but when it comes to film standards and methods it does make the two suggestions above look like modern Blu-Rays, in comparison.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/
Enjoyment Level: 6/10
Hero Feeling: 8/10

[BubbleQ]

Aaah, thanks
Will defenetly look trough these movies, but it will be on thrusday when I got an day of from school^^

[Bema]

Resurecting an old thread

The Great Escape (1963) is another favorite. This was the greatest WWII + prison escape movie going for many decades, until more recent fare took its place.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/
Enjoyment Level: 8/10
Hero Feeling: 8/10

One of my all-time favourite films, probably helped by the fact it's on the telly every Christmas
Still a classic.

Kelly's Heroes is also a thoroughly entertaining affair.

[Ennui]

+1 to pretty much everything said, especially bridge over the river kwai, the great escape, and eastwood's flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima

check out also: defiance with daniel craig (recent), windtalkers with nick cage sucks but is good for the war scenes (which there are a lot of), the thin red line is great, the longest day is old but essential, and i'm sure there are some others slipping my mind right now. i LOVE war movies and ww2 is my favorite :p

generally tho i just watch my favorite eps of Band of Brothers over and over and over

[Bema]

I thought Defiance was pretty average myself. Might have to give it another watch though.

[Ennui]

the writing was kind of shitty, a little overacted and melodramatic, but I enjoyed it overall. first time I watched it I would have given it maybe a 6/10, second time I watched it I was drunk and all FUCK YEAH KILL THOSE NAZIS FUCK YEAH 10/10!!!11

[JakeParlay]

generally tho i just watch my favorite eps of Band of Brothers over and over and over

I know that feeling very well.

Spielberg and Hanks are working on another WW2 series for HBO, this time in the Pacific... there's some info on imdb here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/

[Spike]

Hart's War is an awesome film.

[Ennui]

generally tho i just watch my favorite eps of Band of Brothers over and over and over

I know that feeling very well.

Spielberg and Hanks are working on another WW2 series for HBO, this time in the Pacific... there's some info on imdb here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/

Yeah, I've been following that with almost uncontrollable glee ever since they announced it a year or two ago. A teaser trailer came out a while ago, it looks great.

[nub]

I always thought Saving Private Ryan was a great movie, but since you already mentioned it I'm not of much help.


PS: Didn't Windtalkers take place during the Vietnam war? The movie was pretty meh anyways. Most of Nicholas Cage's movies are kind of lame.

[JakeParlay]

Nicholas Cage's movies are kind of lame.

x10. I thought he was awwwwwful in Windtalkers

[904]

I'll throw in some titles:
- a bridge too far (epic line up, heroic story - operation martket garden ending up in Arnhem, NL)
- the guns of navarone (heroic story about blowing up fortified guns in Greece)
- patton (about general patton and his -personal- quest for glory I believe)
- der untergang (hitlers' last days: not american-epic, but immersive)
- la vita e bella (beautiful italian movie about a father and sone held captive during WWII, the father is the hero here, heroic in a different way)