I didn't get to this thread/yourPost soon enough to respond.... I agree with 95% of the great American WWII movies mentioned by the others. I could add a few more, but I think you've gotten the point.

Well....here's another few of my favorites: "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", "The War Lover", and "Sands of Iwo Jima"

P.S. I also will watch Das Boot many more times, and if ranking the Best of the Best, I would place Das Boot Very near to the top of the list. (My Best of the Best List obviously not limited to only American-made movies).

Looking at the actors I couldn’t help but notice this guy.
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Related to Das Boot Captain?

Let’s put some cheesy chin fuzz and a hat on him
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DAD!
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"Kelly's Heros"?

Or are you thinking of another one? I can't remember if Dom was in KH.

There are quite a few good U.S. WWII movies people have mentioned. I couldn't even think of them all.

IIRC, "Battle Hell" was another good one.

:rotfl:

Saw the movie Flags of Our Father... I kinda thought it was crappy, I guess it was made for American domestic consumption. Letters from Iwo Jima was pretty damn good though. Another movie I never see talked about, but I thought was brilliant was a movie called 'When Trumpets Fade'. It's more drama than action, but damn this was a great film. It follows an American infantryman who is treated like a coward for being the only survivor of his platoon... but the truth is vastly different.

Not holding my breath on this new film, actors look kinda pretty boy to me. If it had a few guys in there with faces only a mother would love, it would be more convincing. Still, Peter Jacksons first movies blew up sheep with rocket launchers and used the V6 Ford Capri as a secret service car, i'll give anything a shot. Good luck to the crew making this film.

Ok. So there are some good american WWII movies. I also forgot the great raid. And i also liked the 2 Iwo Jima movies Clint made. Fingers crossed this one will have the same high standard.
I know it's a German production but have you ever seen Stalingrad?

I agree with most of your selection, but Midway and the Bulge!!!:down:..............

Just read the "Plot"........


Oh dear me.....:nope:

One I saw recently on DVD was When Trumpets Fade. I gagged at what a German bullet did to a US soldier's lower jaw.:o

To me Das Boot is the all-time fave war movie.

I like also- Battle of Britain, Cross of Iron, Letters From Iwo Jima, The Tuskagee Airmen, Saving Private Ryan, Battle of Midway, Bridge Over River Kwai, Empire of The Sun, Memphis Belle, just to name some.

What I don't like about American movies is the fact Hollywood tries to rewrite history. Don't they know the rest of us are educated? In fact some years ago a survey done on American students revealed that many of them thought WW2 started 1n 1941 at Pearl Harbor.:88)

Look on the bright side...

At least the Drum is getting a makeover!

the plot sounds OK, until you get to the "lost brother" drama. what a crock!

and if you think there was a good minute in the film "Pearl Habor," let alone an entire hour, I have some land I want to sell you. almost nothing about that film was accurate.

Yes Kellys heros while extremly far fetched was a good movie with rich charecters.

I still recall the german soldier in the tank "Gasolinas all over zee place" :|\\

Tora Tora Tora on the other hand was pretty good.

Great flick!

I tracked it down at TigerDirect & bought it a couple years ago. Great movie set in the Hurtgen Forest & very gritty. Not much Hollywood BS in it at all. It was made back in the 90s, I believe. Oddly, a lot of the credits include a good number of eastern europeans. HBO movie. Highly recommended.:up:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/

I'd recommend Letters From Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood. Far better than its counterpart, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima tells the story of the battle from the Japanese point of view. It's gripping to the end. One scene that will forever be etched in my mind: A Japanese soldier emerges from his cave after the days of being barraged and looks out to sea. As far as the eye can see, the ocean is completely FILLED with American ships. I can't imagine that terror...:o

Howler :arrgh!:

Hey, I just got assigned to a new boat in game, and it's the USS Drum. :up:

TigerDirect... okies.. I couldn't find it at ANY video stores here in NZ. Thanks for the heads up Nefarious.

Kelly's Heroes did not have Dom Deluise in it; you might be thinking of Don Rickles (Crapgame). I like the movie especially Donald Sutherland's Oddball a 60's wasted hippie like character; that would be the perfect sub commander ("Always with the nega-tive waves..."). The movie had a ton of well known actors in it.

Man...now I wanna see a sub movie like that...

*torpedoes whang harmlessly off the side of a 10,000 ton tanker*
"Who was thinking the bad thoughts? Who was sending out all the negative waves?!?"

Ben Affleck's charachter crashes his Spitfire during the day and then half way through the film you see what happened to him. He swims up and breaks the surface when it's night time. You've got to respect someone that can stay under water for that long and not drown.

"The Bridge on the River Kwai" is actually a british/UK film - but still awesome!