Military Films

[Rotary Booty]

Chris, take your pick:

'The War Lover' with Steve McQueen

'Twelve o'clock High'' with Gregory Peck

'The Memphis Belle'' original version, true

'The Memphis Belle' new Hollyweird version, not quite true.

[Chris]

'The Memphis Belle'' not sure witch one of them


'Actors Matthew Modine ; Eric Stoltz ; Tate Donovan ; D.B. Sweeney ; Billy Zane ; Sean Astin ; Harry Connick Jr. ; Reed Diamond ; Courtney Gains ; John Lithgow ; David Strathairn ; Jane Horrocks ; Ben Browder
Director Michael Caton-Jones
Certificate PG
Year 1990
Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 ; Fullscreen
Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1)
Subtitles English ; Arabic ; Romanian ; Bulgarian ; English for the hearing impaired
Closed Captions Yes
Duration 1 hour and 48 minutes (approx)

thats the one Never seen the other

[TheCount]

"Platoon" is my fave

"Full Metal Jacket", I can watch this over and over if only for the Boot camp sequence, the film could have been another 1-2 hours long though, It seems to finish half way through.

"Apocolypse Now" is pretty damn good, if not a bit 'anti-war' in its sentiment

I liked "Black Hawk Down", Lots of action and no story

"We were soldiers" - Just a massive battle sequence, although it seems a little unrealistic, what with bullet proof Mel Gibson.

"TigerLand" another film that was too short but well acted

[Rotary Booty]

Gosh Chris, your memory has improved suddenly!

Yours is the new version, and there were no witches in it!

[Chris]

i went to play.com and i serched for the film and two came up them i recognised Billy Zane

[Peds]

my favs are

bridge over the river kwai
the bits of SPR before the end battle, wen it gets all "hollywoody"
platoon (beauutiful, beeaauutiful soundtrack: thankyou, barber)

and for the action and special effects, black hawk down was good but the film left out certain parts - i thought 2 rangers decided to, ahem, indulge themselves in a manner not befitting their surroundings? i wonder why the director left THAT out!

and pearl harbour is 1 of my least favourite films. dont get me wrong, the event itself demands the utmost respect and reverence, but the film - complete tosh.

oh, any thoughts on the columbia burn up? im guessin a few ceramic tiles came loose and pufff - gone. at first i harboured thoughts of foul play: the first israeli in space, the date being so close to the 1986 take off kaboom... makes you think, dunnit?

[Topper]

Have to say Battle of Britain is a top notch film, should be broadcast the night before any Euro referedum. I don't think the Columbia was a bomb or such like, but it was strange how the news showed it over the village of Palestine when it disintergrated, and that Hook bafoon should be eliminated post haste.

[Rogue Chef]

Ahoy there!
Some of my all time favourites not mentioned so far:
1. Zulu
2. The Hill
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Cross of Iron

[Rogue Chef]

Ahoy there!
1, Dambusters
2. 633 Squadron
3. The Long And The Short And The Tall

[DelD]

Dog Soldiers! it was highly entertaining, and is actually more factually accurate than most Hollywood war movies.

[Sully]

Ahoy there,

"Cross of Iron" That brings back memories of training. It was our troop boss' favourite - barking mad but hard as nails. He was duty offr one Friday night and ordered the troop on the landing. "Right, full marching order, cammed out, booted and spurred in 5 minutes for some extra-curricular training". This can only be bad methinks but he marched us to the main gate, turned us around and then back to puzzle palace where a tv and video were set up. We sat there cammed out with helmets on and watched it - couldn't really enjoy it as you never knew if we would have to act out parts of it or otherwise take a more active part. One or two lads nodded off - you didn't nod off in front of the boss' favourite film

Happy days

[Sven]

Yeah, Cross Of Iron was a fantastic film. As I remember it was adapted from the book "The Writhing Flesh" by Willi Heinrich, which was also fantastic. Just mentioning it reminds me of "Das Boot", which is a truly magnificient film. Also the Cruel Sea.

[Rogue Chef]

Ahoy there Sven!
You are right, Willi Heinrich wrote the book, but it was titled "TheWilling Flesh". Not being picky but that sort of stuff was bed time reading for me back in oooooo...............19 something or other.

[Falkens]

Films of my choice,
Suprised not many people have put,
1) Great Escape
2) Bridge to Remigan (English?)
3) Cockelshell Brothers
4) Where Eagles Dare
5) 633 SQN
6) Zulu

Enough said

[Rogue Chef]

Ahoy there!
Re: The memphis Belle. During the late eighties I was based at CTCRM (NBCD instructor). One night I was out with my oppo Sam McLeod when I met Ken Whitfield (former PW) in Sam's. Ken introduced me to Michael 'Tip' Tipping and expalined that they were now involved in the film industry. Ken went onto to tell me that they were currently working on a new film called "The Memphis Belle" and that he had arranged for some of the cast and crew to do some military style training on Woodbury Common. I was then introduced to Matthew Modine and chatted briefly to him before trying trap one of the stunt women.

PS - Michael 'Tip' Tipping served in the RM during the late seventies before leaving the Corps to be a stuntman and actor. He was tragically killed in 1992 while re-enacting a parachuting scene for the Michael Buerk series "999". The episode was shown on TV and dedicated to Tip.