Why's everyone going on about war films?

My fault. I was looking for a good war film I hadn't seen.

Surprised to see some these films callsed as forgotten. The Longest Day is on almost very day on some SKy channel or other.

It's true that's I'd forgotten I had The Last Valley (poor old Brian Blessed!)
Along with the German The Bridge (or Bride as the case may be  ) I'd recommend Das Abenteur des Werner Holt, an East German offering which shows some of the last ditch fighting on the Eastern Front plus a general overview of wartime society.

Quote from: Malbork on 14 May 2013, 01:26:49 PM
It's true that's I'd forgotten I had The Last Valley (poor old Brian Blessed!)

How true!  The film that answers the question "What is that spiky thing on top of his hat for?"   Ouch 

Mollinary

I have another couple

Stalingrad By the same director as Das Boot
Saint's amd Soldiers WW2
When trumpets fade WW2
Revolution the Americans did not like it as it showed them doing what they normaly did when the british fixed bayonets and charged R** ***Y

Regards
Martin

Quote from: fsn on 14 May 2013, 11:24:58 AM
I was watching "War of the Dead" in which a platoon of Finnish & American soldiers in 1941 attack a Russian bunker that produces zombie super soldiers.

The Yanks were wearing the wrong helmet, the Finns were using the PPSH41, and they were fighting with the Finns when  a) the Yanks didn't join in until late '41 and b) the Finns were on the "wrong side".

Moaned about this for ages, totally ignoring the obvious plot flaw that the Russian didn't create zombie super soldiers.

   

Cheers!

Meirion

Always liked 'The hill' with Sean Connery.

I Forgot the grestest war film ever

To Hell and Back with the lead actor actually being the real lead character the man the US Marines turned down


Martin

A couple I like that don't get shown too often

Tarnished Heroes which is a sort of British Dirty Dozen saw it about 20 years ago (when Channel 4 shows a lot of stuff that wasn't 'reality' crap) but not since. It will probably turn out to be one of those that I remember fondly but does not bear watching again if I ever do track it down.

A Walk in the Sun gets shown on Movies 24 or one of the others like it on Sky. Manages to convey the periods of seemingly boring inactivity between bursts of combat whilst still gripping the viewer. The short story by the same name which the film was adapted from is excellent too.

I got a copy of "Tarnished Heroes" a few years ago. Very British, made on a small budget. Cheap 'n' cheerful.  Anton Rodgers was in it, if memory serves.

The problem I have with "Walk in the Sun" is that it does convey the boredom of war by being ... boring. I think perhaps a lot of the war film cliches were born in this film. 

Quote from: Malbork on 14 May 2013, 01:26:49 PM
Surprised to see some these films callsed as forgotten. The Longest Day is on almost very day on some SKy channel or other.

Well, I did say it was "hardly forgotten". More 4 was running a series of post WW2 "weren't we awfully brave, chaps" war films in the mornings recently, including The Battle of the River Plate, notable for Lionel Murton's turn as an excitable American reporter in Montevideo and the appearance of a decidedly toothless H.M.S. Cumberland as herself. 

The Battle of the River plate starring an American Crusier as the Graff Spee

Yes, it was the USS Salem.

Quote from: republic of tolworth on 15 May 2013, 12:14:14 PM
Always liked 'The hill' with Sean Connery.

I'm a huge Sean Connery fan. He's been a RAF Aircraftman in "On the Fiddle", a Commando in "The longest day", a tank sergeant in "The Hill", a Victorian solder in "The Man Who Would be King", a Para general in "A Bridge too Far" but never been a RN sailor, when in fact he was in the service for a short time.

He was a Russian sub captain in "Hunt for Red October" and US Military Cop in "The Presidio".

"On the Fiddle" (in USA "Operation SNAFU") is probably my favourite.

Quote from: fsn on 16 May 2013, 05:21:53 PM
I'm a huge Sean Connery fan. (...) never been a RN sailor,(...)

Commander Bond ?