War films
Igor Loving
lovingigor@hotmail.com
Sat Dec 27 09:36:15 2003
<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>The new war film about Cold Mt. was pretty good and worth seeing, for some reason I went to see it out of boredom I guess. </DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>What are the best war movies ever? Here is a list of the ones I found and the ones that I have seen over the years. I actually have seen all of them and most more than once and in a theatre.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith's epic, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>To Hell and Back - Huston's story of Audie Murphy, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Dr. Zhivago - Russia and lots of trains, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>The Sands of Iwo Jima - in which a sniper kills John Wayne, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>The Red Badge of Courage - Audie Murphy again</STRONG>, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Gettysburg - big budget and lots of marching around, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>Saving Private Ryan - Spielburg</STRONG>, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>MASH - one of the best,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> <STRONG>Full Metal Jacket - (Kubrick) a satire of Marines,</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> Battleground - (Wellman) the Bastards of Bastone, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>All Quiet on the Western Front - required viewing in film 101</STRONG>, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>The Thin Red Line - a film that I didn't like much because I knew too much about Guadacanal, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>Paths of Glory - (Kubrick) Kirk Douglas' best film in my book</STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>1. </STRONG>Apocalypse Now - (Coppola's version of Heart of Darkness) a really good movie with great quotes</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> Platoon - Very scary, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>A Bridge Too Far - all about stupid people, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Objective Burma - a 1949 flick,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> Glory - African Americans get to fight the Southerners, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>The Deer Hunter - Vietnam and scary, </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Bridge on the River Kwai - Obi Wan in Burma,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> Laurence of Arabia - Very pretty,</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2731??PS=">Tired of slow downloads? Compare online deals from your local high-speed providers now. </a> </html>