Best War Movie of All Time

"Let it turn to something else. Let it tuuuuuurn....to something else!"

 

Charlie Sheen

 

No it wasn't. It was Beast Slayer, or something like that.

 

Wrong.

Red Dawn was the first widespread released movie, but The Flamingo Kid was the first.

 

Glory
Full Metal Jacket
The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan

In that order

 

I guess i always thought it was "Woman In Red". They must have come out very close to each other.

Edit: Red Dawn was August 10, 1984, WIR was August 17, 1984.

 

That story is wrong. I remember all of the hubbub back then (mainly because I was 12.) Damnit. I just need to remember what that movie was called.

 

Well, damnit. I just did a search on movies, and that one has disappeard off the face of the planet. It was not a very good or popular movie, but it was the first to have the PG-13 rating. I wonder why it's not showing up anywhere.

Does anyone know what movie I'm talking about? Something like Dragon Master? This is ticking me off. How does a movie disappear?

 

Yeah, it's not that you could be mistaken, it's that a MPAA recognized movie simply disappeared.

 

Well, I still should be able to find it. It wasn't a blockbuster by any means, but I checked 83, 84, and 85 to be sure. It isn't anywhere. I think it starred that lead character in "V", or someone who looked a lot like him.

 

Found it. Came out in 1982, apparently.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/

And it is showing its rating as "PG." But it was definitely rated "PG-13", at first. It was all over the news, at the time.

 

Who didn't want to get a ferret after seeing Kodo and Podo on Beastmaster?

 

who doesn't have ferrets

 

Ummmm, I wanted to get a Tanya Roberts.

 

It's widely known that the PG-13 rating was due to two Steven Spielberg movies that came out after that movie. Find some evidence to back up your claim that it was originally rated PG-13, then dropped back down to PG or admit that you were wrong.

Seriously, it's not that hard to do.

 

This makes me want to go watch Band of Brother again.

 

Ummm, the only thing I could possible be wrong about is that it was released as a PG-13 movie, and then due to the backlash, the MPAA relented and gave it a PG rating.

I distinctly remember all of this when the movie came out. Seriously, this is a really dumb thing for me to make up, if that is what you're thinking.

But you're right. There should be something about this somewhere.

 

Sorry, PG-13 was CREATED as a result of the 2nd Indiana Jones movie with the priest pulling out people's hearts.

Beastmaster predated that movie.

(insert TJ-like closing here)

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Full Metal Jacket is awesome.
And I agree, if Band of Brothers was an option, it would win hands down.

 

What else is there to be wrong about...that's what we're debating. It was never released as a PG-13 movie. PG-13 came about due to Temple of Doom and Gremlins.