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Top 5 best war movies ever made?

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  1. VanityHalfBlack

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    Just finished watching this one. Ferris Bueller almost just almost ruined the movie for me. This is my favorite war movie ever made.
     
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  2. CCorn

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    End game
    Civil war
    Infinity War
     
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  3. DaDakota

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    1. Saving Private Ryan
    2. Schindlers List
    3. Kelly's heroes
    4. The Longest Day
    5. Battle of Britain

    All WW2.....

    DD
     
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  4. MadMax

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    Glory is my favorite war movie of all time…and very high on my list of favorite movies ever.

    Saving Private Ryan is just incredible, obviously.

    A ton of movies that are war related that are great…not sure I’d call Gladiator a war movie (though it certainly starts that way) or Schindler’s List a war movie (given that war is the backdrop and not in the forefront of the story)…
     
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    1) The Empire Strikes Back, 2) A New Hope, 3) Rogue One, 4) Return Of The Jedi, 5) Revenge Of The Sith
     
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  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Just to balance out DD's WWII stuff:

    Platoon
    Full Metal Jacket
    Apocalypse Now
    Black Hawk Down
    Three Kings

    Also, comedies!

    Dr. Strangelove
    Tropic Thunder
    Team America
    Good Morning Vietnam
    Stripes
     
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    Apocalypse now is my all time favorite movie, so that will top my list. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is set within the Civil War, so I’ll put that in my list. Seems impossible to not have Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket. Have to think of a fifth. SO many choices. Not a movie, but my mind keeps wandering to Band of Brothers.
     
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    Fire Birds, Pearl Harbor, Jarhead 2, Hurt Locker, Windtalkers.
     
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  9. Buck Turgidson

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    One of these things is not like the others...
     
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    1. Patton (1970)
    2. Patton (1970)
    3. Patton (1970)
    4. Patton (1970)
    5. Patton (1970)
     
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    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Limiting it to those about actual wars that have happened on earth (so no Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc.)
    Saving Private Ryan
    Full Metal Jacket
    The Bridge On the River Kwai
    We Were Soldiers
    Zero Dark Thirty

    Bonus TV show mentions
    Band of Brothers
    Generation Kill
     
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    Predator?
     
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    I can't believe I forgot Tropic Thunder!
     
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    Breaker Morant is so criminally underrated
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    With reminders and some agreement from other posters in this thread. Plus one I haven't seen, yet.

    1. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
    2. Apocalypse Now
    3. The Longest Day
    4. Saving Private Ryan
    5. Platoon

    Honorable mentions - Bridge Over the River Kwai and Breaker Morant
     
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    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Some more that I love but haven't been mentioned:
    Top Gun
    Top Gun: Maverick
    Flight of the Intruder
    Crimson Tide
    Behind Enemy Lines
    Toro Toro Toro
    Sand of Iwo Jima

    and just to give some love to @DaDakota
    Wing Commander
     
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    Honorable mentions?

    Rambo
    Taxi Driver

    The Deer Hunter




    Sicario
     
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  18. Buck Turgidson

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    Hunt for Red October is vastly superior to Crimson Tide

    Das Boot is better than both, if we're going submarine.
     
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    Marvel movies are such trash tbh
     
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    Is Lawrence of Arabia a "war movie"?
     
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