Sunday, September 5, 2010

No more good war movies.

There hasn't been a good war movie (ww1 on) since Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line came out.  Windwakers was meh. We We Soldiers was just ok.  Inglorious Basterds doesn't count :P I don't even want to mention that Michael Bay "film" The next good one will probably be Spielberg's upcoming War Horse.  Right now I'm in the middle of watching Patton.  Needless to say its a classic.  They don't make them like this any more.  George C. Scott is bigger than life and completely owns the screen.  The tank battle was fantastic.  Dozens of tanks, people explosions an amazing feet.  Its one of those Academy Award best picture winners where there really is no question its the best of the year. I couldn't name the other nominees off the top of my head right now.  Looking at IMDB Altman's MASH and Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces were also nominated so it was a good set of nominees that year.  There's not much I can say about Patton that hasn't already been said.  An amazing movie about an amazing man.
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7 comments:

  1. Tri DuongSeptember 6, 2010 at 1:28 AM

    SPR is one of my top in terms of war movies

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  2. KC.September 6, 2010 at 1:41 AM

    War movies? Wut about Saving Private Ryan?

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  3. ghostburnzSeptember 6, 2010 at 1:46 AM

    lol read the first lne at least before commenting KC.

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  4. KC.September 7, 2010 at 12:18 AM

    *doh* No, I mean can it be considered a 'great' war movie? I think it was a great soldier movie, as it dealt with the soldier's relationships and struggles 'in' a war. But the war itself wasn't covered in much detail in the film.

    That's what I get for 2am blogging LOL

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  5. ghostburnzSeptember 9, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    I would say yes I consider it a war movie and then as a sub-genre of it is "soldier" movie as there are pro-war movies anti-war movies. All still fall under war movie. Apocalypse Now is my favorite "war movie" Yet its not really about the Vietnam war itself.

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  6. CommskySeptember 9, 2010 at 8:38 PM

    I'm looking forward to another gritty and good war movie, black hawk down I thought was okay ish for a war movie

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  7. ghostburnzSeptember 10, 2010 at 1:22 AM

    doh, i forgot about modern war movies. I liked Black Hawk Down and the Hurt Locker was my favorite movie of last year. But nothing old school like Patton was.

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