Great movies of all time

bruno said:
For no particular reason (other than perhaps not to scream at the daily news coverage of the latest incoherency)- Try if you can and top this movie:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0EYtljBuwY

The Great Santini - not sure whether it is really a movie about Marines or fathers and sons-it is actually based on Pat Conroy's dad (see Obit at this link:http://www.skygod.com/quotes/greatsantini.html)

Personally I think we could use a few more wildassed leaders who really can lift their organization into a new level of performance just by the force of their leadership and personality. Not exactly PC:rolleyes: but guys like that are the ones who really do drive organizations to rise up to deal with any circumstance.

So try and top this movie with your nominee:wink:
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Thank you. Great Eulogy. Love this quote:

"Easy," The Great Santini said. "They were running - it's a good sign when you see the enemy running."

There was another good sign.

"What was that, Dad?"

"They were on fire."
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Yes my son has read the book (a couple of times) and he agrees the movie isn't as good as the book. However the movie great statement on the propaganda film industry.

Ender's Game for some reason I don't see adapting to the big screen from the book, but I will give the movie a go.

My vote would be "Saving Private Ryan".
 
pathnottaken said:
Ender's Game for some reason I don't see adapting to the big screen from the book, but I will give the movie a go.

My vote would be "Saving Private Ryan".
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Respectfully disagree on "Ender's Game". Like all good scifi its the twist that makes the story, although it's a pretty good story without the twist. I can't wait to see it.

I've decided I agree on "Saving Private Ryan". Is it too late to change my vote? :biggrin:
 
Didn't mean that the Ender's Game concept wouldn't make a great movie, just that the nuances of the book could not be captured by a movie.

I feel the movie would be like "Blade Runner" (a real good movie) compared to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" a great book.
 
pathnottaken said:
Didn't mean that the Ender's Game concept wouldn't make a great movie, just that the nuances of the book could not be captured by a movie.

I feel the movie would be like "Blade Runner" (a real good movie) compared to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" a great book.
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You're right about that. True of many books that are turned into movies.
 
Can't wait for "Ender's Game" which was required reading (multiple times) in our little homeschool.

I remember my two year old watching and loving The Sands of Iwo Jima" - still catch it every year.

Funny, there are TONS of great WWII movies (and many bad ones too), but very few WWI movies. Yes, there are a few, but for the scale and scope of that war, not too many.

We read The Killer Angels and loved Gettysburg despite its inaccuracies. It's sequel/prequel - not so much.
 
"The Lost Battalion" is a really good (made for TV) WW1 movie based on the true events of the "The Lost Battalion".
 
Sgt York - fantastic movie!

Saw an old OLD John Wayne movie about the French and Indian War - maybe called something like "Allegheny Uprising." I don't know of any other movie about that war.
 
And for WWI fans there is also 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Isn't it ironic that there was also a silent version of this same film that was released for theaters that hadn't installed sound systems yet? We've come a long way, baby!
 
fencersmother said:
Sgt York - fantastic movie!

Saw an old OLD John Wayne movie about the French and Indian War - maybe called something like "Allegheny Uprising." I don't know of any other movie about that war.
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'Northwest Passage' starring Spencer Tracy is another.
 
James Cagney in "The Fighting 69TH". The original Irish Brigade then the Rainbow Division. Douglas MaCarthur in WW I. "By God, It takes the Irish if you want something done".
 
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Card has refused all attempts to make Enders Game into a movie for thirty years. Mainly because every studio wanted to make the actors older. I think they finally came to a compromise and upped the ages a little.
 
"The Caine Mutiny"

Captain Queeg = Bogart's best role? Maybe
 
MedB said:
"The Caine Mutiny"

Captain Queeg = Bogart's best role? Maybe
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Good flick, and I'm still wondering who took the damned strawberries. But Bogart's best role? I'm shocked! Shocked! That anyone could think such a thing!
 
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