greencreeper
16-05-2005, 00:24
http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/index.html
Well - did anyone watch it and what did you think? I watched the last twenty - I usually do tune in towards the end of this type of thing. I disagreed that Saving Private Ryan should be number 1. The battle sequences are the most realistic that anyone will ever see, sat safely at home in an armchair, but the plot has holes. For me, Schindler's List should have been number 1 - it's more than a war film; it's a testimony. A powerful one at that. My other top films include Black Hawk Down, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill. I can watch, but don't really get anything out of, the glossy daring do type of movie - movies like the Great Escape and Battle of the Midway - where the bad guys are bad and the good guys are good. The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now aren't war movies - they're pyschological movies, thin on plot, set against the Vietnam war. They shouldn't have featured. I dislike them both.
Thoughts...
Well - did anyone watch it and what did you think? I watched the last twenty - I usually do tune in towards the end of this type of thing. I disagreed that Saving Private Ryan should be number 1. The battle sequences are the most realistic that anyone will ever see, sat safely at home in an armchair, but the plot has holes. For me, Schindler's List should have been number 1 - it's more than a war film; it's a testimony. A powerful one at that. My other top films include Black Hawk Down, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill. I can watch, but don't really get anything out of, the glossy daring do type of movie - movies like the Great Escape and Battle of the Midway - where the bad guys are bad and the good guys are good. The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now aren't war movies - they're pyschological movies, thin on plot, set against the Vietnam war. They shouldn't have featured. I dislike them both.
Thoughts...