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Black Hawk Down is nowhere near the best war movie
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:17 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping watched it again last night. I would say that it's not even a war movie at all, it's a combat movie. great action, probably the most dense action ever, but not much of a story at all when you compare it to other greats (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911688) |
Date: January 28th, 2014 2:20 PM Author: boyish party of the first part base Saving Private Ryan is probably the best. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911702) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:22 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping in spite of all the blood and gore, I still think it would need to be more gritty to be the best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911710) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:27 PM Author: dull resort yeah, Saving Private Ryan is good but in the end, it's got too much of that Hollywood positivity. oh, Pvt. Ryan got back to his poor old mother. happy ending.
the absolute best war movie has to be Apocalypse Now or Deer Hunter or something where you see how people's minds get all fucked up and twisted in war. Vietnam is the perfect setting for the best war movie. wandering around jungles. paranoia. mosquitoes. hookers. women running up to you with grenades. shooting civilians. surprise attacks. the war protests back home. |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:32 PM Author: Azure Frum Community Account Coldplay Fan and don't forget vietnamese whores and charlie and shotgun marijuana and shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911768) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:32 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping in my younger years I would have said FMJ because I was biased, then I would have said AN because it was all trippy and edgy, but I gotta go with Deer Hunter, if only because it captures both the effect on the troops AND on the home front (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911769) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:49 PM Author: dull resort seeing how fucking BLEAK their hometown and lives were in pennsylvania or whatever was nuts. it looked like Mordor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911846) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 4:26 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226706) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:57 PM Author: Wonderful shaky brunch i thought deer hunter sucked. I had heard how good it was, but wasn't impressed. black hawk down is similar that way, but it is even worse because it just makes the enemy a cartoonish putz. saving private ryan is my choice. the first real scene is just amazing. the rest of the movie is great, too. full metal jacket is great, but its second part is just too weak in comparison. apocalypse now is awesome. no problem with it being rated 1. platoon was also superb. |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 4:05 PM Author: Stirring naked lodge Deer Hunter is decent, but it drags in places. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24912190) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:58 PM Author: wild tan hairy legs fanboi The first 30 minutes, maybe. The rest, not so much. Too many cliches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911877) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 3:46 PM Author: Ruddy principal's office SPR was Band of Brothers but not nearly as good and much more maudlin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24912077) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 3:47 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping yeah, if we are calling BoB a movie, then I think it takes the cake for sure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24912087) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 3:48 PM Author: Ruddy principal's office this was more an insult to SPR, BoB is great but I wouldn't count it or call it GOAT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24912089) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:29 PM Author: Olive curious heaven love of her life loved eric bana in that he ALMOST made it but didn't what happened to him |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:31 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping he's in Lone Survivor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911764) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:33 PM Author: Irradiated flushed business firm i feel like i always see him in movies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911771) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 2:57 PM Author: Overrated Vigorous Hominid Mother Tell me more about this distinction between war movies and combat movies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24911873) |
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Date: January 28th, 2014 3:44 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping war is a complex series of events with the intersection of different cultures, politics, history, etc. BHD was just a half day battle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#24912072) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 10:12 AM Author: marvelous glassy liquid oxygen The Tall men survive. They stride through the smoke and ruin, their height a strange armor against the fates that cut down the rest. Eric Bana, six foot three, moves like a carved idol, heavy with menace, bending but never breaking. Josh Hartnett, six foot three as well, lopes through the streets with the faces of the dying slung on his shoulders, his long frame built to carry both weight and sorrow. They are made for distance, for endurance. They last.
The shorter men do not. They are eaten quickly, swallowed whole by the city. Orlando Bloom plunges from the helicopter before the battle even begins, bones broken by gravity and bad luck, gone before he can even fight. Tom Hardy flails in alleys, small against Mogadishu’s vast geometry, surviving not through strength but through chance. Others vanish in the fire, their names recited later in silence, their faces already half-forgotten.
The film carves its cruel arithmetic. The tall remain to brood, bloodied but breathing. The short are cut down, erased by steel and smoke. Inches become destiny. The body itself decides who limps back and who is carried out.
The lesson is pitiless. In war, height is survival. The Tall stagger home. The Short perish.
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Date: August 31st, 2025 4:28 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping being oafishly tall and gangly is NOT a helpful trait in urban combat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226709) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 11:11 AM Author: Titillating cumskin trust fund Platoon is the goat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226042) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 11:38 AM Author: hairraiser parlour rigor doesn't get the respect it deserves. fantastic movie.
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Date: August 31st, 2025 4:28 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping sup Oliver (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226710) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 11:12 AM Author: Swashbuckling juggernaut Jarhead 2: Field of Fire FTW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226045) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 4:29 PM Author: hyperactive voyeur gaping *groans audibly* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226711) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 11:13 AM Author: ultramarine adventurous ceo 13 Hours is the most realistic, and probably "the best" if you're trying to understand US foreign policy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2479865&forum_id=2#49226046) |