What's your favorite World War II movie? - Page 7

residentzombie · #61 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2007, 04:57 PM

okay i've got it. i was up all night thinking about my favorite war movie. (i dig films). right now i believe that it is safe to say "walk on water". directed by eayton fox. it came out in 2004. one might say that it is more of a spy movie than a war movie. it has an awesome story line. also a multilingual script and great acting. i don't want to ruin the story for some of you so i'll just recommend that if you happen to run across this film, give it ago.

Klaus · #62 (**permalink**) December 6th, 2007, 04:27 AM

Ach ja. Dennis Gansel. I knew it had to do something with a beak and feathers. "Gansel" means goose in a lot of slangs in Germany and Austria.

@residentzombie: Actors in it I should know of?

residentzombie · #63 (**permalink**) December 6th, 2007, 10:23 PM

Knut Berger
Lior Ashkenazi
Caroline Peters

Rommel · #64 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2007, 02:51 AM

Flying Misfits is one of my favorite movies since the Black Sheep Squadron took off from it

Troy Tempest · #65 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2007, 03:44 AM

I just finished watching Strafbataillon 999 (1959) from West Germany, not too bad, got it for less than $10 on ebay - brand new!

Tom Houlihan · #66 (**permalink**) December 7th, 2007, 04:05 AM

I can't really say! There are so many good ones!
There are funny ones (Kelly's Heroes is classic!)
Then there are those that are fun to watch because they're just so bad!

Klaus · #67 (**permalink**) December 8th, 2007, 02:32 PM

Who doesn't love a really bad movie? I've seen a lot of bad WWII flicks. But unfortunatly I can't remember any. My guess is that my brain is trying to protect me.

Troy Tempest · #68 (**permalink**) December 9th, 2007, 03:18 AM

Well, I can think of one really bad war movie, and unfortunately, as a fan of Sven Hassel, it was a movie of one of his books, Wheels Of Terror, it was made in 1987, and was called The Misfit Brigade, so they couldn't even get the title right! None of the actors who played various characters out of the book bear any resemblance to the characters that you have grown to know and love in the books. In fact, if the characters in the movie didn't have the same names as the ones from the books, you would NEVER know it was based, to use that term veeeery loosely, on the Sven Hassel books. A complete waste of time!

razorboy · #69 (**permalink**) February 10th, 2008, 01:32 PM

Gotta be a toss-up between "Das Boot' and "A massacre in Rome" (Richard Burton), Oh! and then there's "Where Eagles Dare" (Clint single handedly kills no less than half of the Gebirsjager contingent in the castle!)

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lufttiger · #70 (**permalink**) February 11th, 2008, 12:53 PM

I've always liked "The longest day" with that great cast and both sides
point of view. Also a lesser known is the German film "The Bridge"

And of corse "Saving Pvt Ryan", i guess i can't narrow it down to just one.