Give me your favorite ones. Mine's The Thin Red Line, criminally underrated and overshadowed by Saving Private Ryan.
WWII movies
Landon Adams
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Elijah Barnes
Battle for Svestapol
Robert Ramirez
All post-soviet Russian war movies I have seen really fucking sucked.
John Baker
TRL is absolute trash, a thinly veiled anti war Vietnam movie that's set in WW2, where in everyone in real life was for the war against Japan. Awful movie. Terrible, just terrible.
Jace Rodriguez
You sound like a fascist
Lucas Young
Bullshit. It humanizes Japanese soldiers a little, but there's nothing about it that would justify the bullshit you just posted.
Gabriel Hernandez
Stalingrad
Matthew Reed
There are entire scenes where the soldiers wonder why they're even there, and try to have conversations with blades of grass so they can understand the meaning of existence.
Colton Sanchez
But they don't question the war against Japan, they question war itself.
Michael Bailey
Come and See is one of my favorite war movies, that Soviet Band of Brothers equivalent mini series from the 70s is great, but that piece about a famous Soviet company in Afghanistan and that recent movie about the WW2 tank crew were awful, overedited trash
Levi Turner
Good lord!
Jose Brooks
This. The Thin Red Line >>>>>> Saving Private Ryan. Too bad they released in the same year.
Ayden Cook
Kill yourself you maggoty little piece of worthless trash. If only that whore who shat you out had the foresight to see what you would become, maybe she would have done the right thing and aborted you when she had the chance.
Landon Jones
Darkest Hour (it counts)
Patton
Come and See
Fury (fuck you I liked it)
Owen Bennett
Connor Gonzalez
It wasn't good
Dominic Murphy
I love the Thin Red line and Malick for that matter. But it wasn’t THAT much better than SPR. The attention and praise was wildly unbalanced but they’re both great.
Matthew White
fuck off fascist
Lincoln Walker
Oliver Reed
They didn't, really. SPV came out in the Summer, IIRC, while TTRL got a limited release in December before going wide in January 1999.
Nolan Nelson
They're very different, TRL is more about the characters and nature of war itself, SPR is just a patriotic war movie without any depth. They're both great, but i prefer TRL as the deeper one
Eli King
Stalingrad, Come and See, Patton, A Bridge Too Far, Kelly's Heroes, Downfall, Cross of Iron, Tora Tora Tora, Das Boot, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Letters From Iwo Jima.
All great for different reasons. TTRL and SPR sort of go without saying.
Camden Carter
SPR*
Andrew Howard
100% in agreement with you there
Carson Nelson
Battle of Britain
Das Boot
Memphis Belle
Battle of the Bulge
Cross of Iron
Wyatt Campbell
>Das Boot
10/10
>Memphis Belle
underrated
>Cross of Iron
pretty trashy
Grayson Fisher
They are both great films in their own right. I like TRL better because SPR is more action oriented while TRL is a lot more about the psychological impact and plays a lot more with imagery.
Like the conversation between Caviezel and Penn ending with that the only have this one life on earth with the camera panning to the moon. Or the focus on nature after during the battle scenes, hinting that our material conflict doesn't stop nature from just going on. Or the scenes with the tribes showing that despite all technological progress the modern world is more brutal and conflict far more destructive.
SPR is a great film too but it is far more action focussed with some great action scenes but I prefer my war movies like TRL.
Oh okay. Still the thin red line was overshadowed by saving private ryan.
Kayden Thompson
The novel is amazing and was written by someone who was actually there. Not only is it antiwar but there's a lot of homie dick sucking
Ian Adams
Tora Tora Tora with one of the greatest action scenes ever recorded.
Christian Bell
i loved the permament cuts to nature in the thin red line, soundeffects were also pretty great.
and there's so many great A class actors in it. iirc i read that everyone was so in love with the project that they offered to work without pay just to be in it. for whatever reason that was
Oliver Allen
Hey I completely agree. How’d you feel about the Pacific?
Luis Myers
Almost all WW2 movies are shit. They have an awful unrealistic depiction of violence and portray soldiers as cartoons. When Trumpets Fade is the closest thing to a good WW2 movie but it suffers from being a tv movie.
Aaron Lopez
Malick is not very popular because of how he handeled it. Adrien Brody thought he had lead role but during the shooting of the film Malick noticed Caviezel and focussed more on him. Also it was his first film in a long time so all the big names were lining up to be in it. Barely giving them any screen time to the popular actors doesn't make you popular in Hollywood, however Malick doesn't give a fuck.
I have yet to see the Pacific, maybe this summer when I have time.