Criminal
03-25-2002, 11:36 PM
I mostly like war movies, kind of ironic because I am a pacifist. All the same I found some really good ones. I have not seen Blackhawk down. I'm waiting for it to come out on video.
OK than here is my list:
1) Das Boot (or The Boot in English). Still the best war movie of all time. Some tense action. Shows a side of the war that most americans are completely unaware of.
2) Great Escape: excellent action flick about an escape from a POW camp. Best scene is Steve McQueen jumping barbed wire fences on a motor cycle. This movie is a classic.
3) Schindlers List: One of the most moving accounts of the genocide of Jews in Occupied Poland. Its central character is Oscar Schindler, who saved over a thousand jews from slaughter.
4) Ghandi: A tribute to one of the greatest leaders of all time.
5) Braveheart: Based on a true story though historically inaccurate. Still great action. Mel Gibson's performance is a testimony to the human spirit.
6) Sparticus. Another movie about an ill fated rebel. This time in ancient Rome. Kirk Douglas has a gripping role in this Gladeator flick.
7) Platoon, The Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a field soldier. Oliver Stone's best film.
8) Breaker Morant: An obscure film but truely one of the best. True story about the leader of a group of Australians in the Boer War who was put on trial for atrocities in a brutal gurella war. This movie is said to have been a metaphore for the war in Vietnam.
9) Gallipoli: Another Australian anti war film. Focuses in on the ill fated Dardenelles campaign in WW 1. Stars the then unknown Mel Gibson.
10) Dances With Wolves: A new look at an old subject. Cavelry Officer Kevin Kostner is sent to a remote fort and befriends the local Souix tribesmen.
There are many others but I think this list is a good start.
OK than here is my list:
1) Das Boot (or The Boot in English). Still the best war movie of all time. Some tense action. Shows a side of the war that most americans are completely unaware of.
2) Great Escape: excellent action flick about an escape from a POW camp. Best scene is Steve McQueen jumping barbed wire fences on a motor cycle. This movie is a classic.
3) Schindlers List: One of the most moving accounts of the genocide of Jews in Occupied Poland. Its central character is Oscar Schindler, who saved over a thousand jews from slaughter.
4) Ghandi: A tribute to one of the greatest leaders of all time.
5) Braveheart: Based on a true story though historically inaccurate. Still great action. Mel Gibson's performance is a testimony to the human spirit.
6) Sparticus. Another movie about an ill fated rebel. This time in ancient Rome. Kirk Douglas has a gripping role in this Gladeator flick.
7) Platoon, The Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a field soldier. Oliver Stone's best film.
8) Breaker Morant: An obscure film but truely one of the best. True story about the leader of a group of Australians in the Boer War who was put on trial for atrocities in a brutal gurella war. This movie is said to have been a metaphore for the war in Vietnam.
9) Gallipoli: Another Australian anti war film. Focuses in on the ill fated Dardenelles campaign in WW 1. Stars the then unknown Mel Gibson.
10) Dances With Wolves: A new look at an old subject. Cavelry Officer Kevin Kostner is sent to a remote fort and befriends the local Souix tribesmen.
There are many others but I think this list is a good start.