07-11-2008, 07:08 PM
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| Best Battle Scenes
What are your picks for the top battle scenes in movies related to WWII etc. (not Rambo etc) Mine would be not in any particular order and I go more for how authentic etc everything looks. The Stukas in Enemy at the gates were obviously computer generated but they did look pretty darn good. 1. Enemy at the Gates - Crossing the Volga 2. Band of Brothers: Day of Days - Air Drop into Normandy 3. Apocalypse Now - Helicopter Assault 4. Saving Private Ryan - Landing in Normandy 5. Battle of Britain - All Aircraft Footage No limit to as how many as there are tons of good ones |
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07-11-2008, 07:29 PM
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Enemy at the Gates - Crossing the Volga Saving Private Ryan - Landing on Normandy Pearl Harbor- The attack (the rest stank) A Bridge To Far- the whole thing 12 O'clock High- Dated but good
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07-11-2008, 09:31 PM
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Ok, my picks are: 1. Band of Brothers- all of the Battle of Bastogne/Foy 2. Saving Private Ryan- Landing at Normandy 3. The Enemy Below- The whoooooole Kit and Kaboodle Thats just for WWII, if we are throwing in other wars as well then: 4. The Last of the Mohicans- Battle at the fort 5. Gettysburg- Little Round Top 6. Gettysburg- Pickets Charge 7. Black Hawk Down- "Little Birds" strafing runs on the rooftops towards the end-ish during the night battle. 8. All Quiet on the Western Front- Again,the whole dang thing!
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07-11-2008, 09:46 PM
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I watched The Longest Day last night, it had several good battle scenes for that time period. Number 1 would have to be Saving Private Ryan.
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07-11-2008, 10:05 PM
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Most of my favs have allready been mentioned, but I would add- Thin red line- Taking the hilltop The keep - German mechanized infantry storming a 16th century castle Fighting sea-bees - John wayne driving a bulldozer a firing a thompson |
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07-11-2008, 10:07 PM
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We were soldiers anyone?
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07-12-2008, 07:48 PM
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Went to Sevastopol Russia while in tyhe nav in the mid 80 and the best battlefield scene I saw was a diaramma of the Crimean War. Really detailed and accurate.
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07-12-2008, 08:16 PM
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07-12-2008, 09:07 PM
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I helped design, and proofread and fact-checked, a book entitled The Twelve O'Clock High Logbook, by Allan Duffin and Paul Matheis. When 20th Century Fox made the picture, the Air Force made available a substantial amount of wartime footage, including the footage of a B-17 falling in a slow spin with crewmen bailing out of it that featured prominently in the Hambrucken raid sequence, and the one of a B-17 descending trailing smoke used in the same sequence, just to name a couple of shots used in the movie. But all the footage shown on the Hambrucken raid was official USAF combat footage shot on various B-17 bombing missions from 1942 on. It does make a difference when it's not a computer generated image. | |
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07-12-2008, 09:40 PM
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The TV Show was ok but the movie was better. Lots of older black & white movies used bits and pieces of actual wartime footage.
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07-13-2008, 08:11 AM
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If you watch a war movie in reverse does the enemy win? 
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07-13-2008, 12:43 PM
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NO, but they do if you watch a Vietnam war movie, despite how the movie ends. | |
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07-13-2008, 07:25 PM
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In no particular order, Picketts Charge in Gettysburg US Beach Landings in Letters from Iwo Jima Bombing of Pearl Harbor in the newer Pearl Harbor movie, or Tora! Tora! Tora! Air battles in Midway Kinda a bunch of scenes, but the last fighting in "Downfall" with the Germans defending defending Berlin with kids and old men against the advancing Soviets. The U boat Crew surviving against the destroyer in Das Boot The Marines advancing into the city Full Metal Jacket Battle scenes in The Patriot. Also back in the 90's if anyone saw Tecumseh about the Native American fighting the british during the colonial period.
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07-13-2008, 10:32 PM
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300 was a decent movie, but way innaccurate, we were soldiers has some awsome sequences, hard to say what would be the best. anyone ever see joan of arc? that was pretty awsome. | |
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