Great movies of all time

Kinnem:

Got that reference and this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.:thumb: Also a great WWII movie.
 
Hmm...there's such a list to choose from...a few offerings...

"The Quiet Man"
"Cat Ballou" (For Lee Marvin and the horse)
"Captain Blood"
"The Old Man and the Sea"

Just a few...my personal list is far, far longer!

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
(Movie buff)
 
Can't go wrong with any of the movies posted. Goes to show you movies are like beers, you can remember some great ones which always reminds you of others, but in the final vote the movie or beer I like the most at the time is the one in front of me. :biggrin:
 
"The Quiet Man" is one of my favorites and I look forward to it every St. Patricks Day. Actually have pictures from a trip to Ireland of the town and the bridge where some of it was fillmed.:biggrin:
 
Any John Ford. "The Searchers" and "Stagecoach" come to mind.
 
A lot of Good Ones Mentioned. How about Midway (1976) Extended Version which included the battle of Coral Sea.

In the movie you see three US carriers leaving Pearl Harbor right before the battle(Hornet, Enterprise and Yorktown). You hear Henry Fonda (portays Adm Nimitz) read Op Order 29-42

"In carrying out the task assigned in Operation Plan 29-42 you will be governed by the principle of calculated risk, which you shall interpret to mean the avoidance of exposure of your force to attack by superior enemy forces without good prospect of inflicting, as a result of such exposure, greater damage to the enemy."

It always reminded me that although Nimitz had good intel, the operation was a big gamble.
 
A lot of favorites already mentioned. Few more I could think of:

Master and Commander with Russell Crowe was not a bad flick. Always remember to take the lesser of two weevils...

Speaking of Russel Crowe - Gladiator. Battle of Carthage scene shows the difference a great leader can make.

And love The Outlaw Josey Wales. Not a war movie in the strict sense, but still one of my favorites. "Dyin ain't much of a livin boy."
 
AF6872 said:
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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As a current member of the 42ID, I love this one!
 
AF6872 said:
Kinnem:

Got that reference and this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.:thumb: Also a great WWII movie.
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As time goes by, people really begin to appreciate that movie more and more. :wink:
 
"Play it again Sam". Good luck to you jbm02.:thumb: "Outlaw Josey Wales" was a great movie.
 
Carthage was 149 BC. They sowed the fields of Carthage with salt after the defeat of Hanibals armys In Italy and the defeat of Carthage in Africa. Marcus Arelies Augustus was much later like AD180 when the movie takes place.
 
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AF6872 said:
Carthage was 149 BC. They sowed the fields of Carthage with salt after the defeat of Hanibals armys In Italy and the defeat of Carthage in Africa. Marcus Arelies Augustus was much later like AD180 when the movie takes place.
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The scene in the movie was a gladiatorial re-enactment (not the actual battle), where Maximus was supposed to be one of the overmatched and defeated Carthaginians, but due to his leadership, the gladiator "Carthaginians" routed the Romans.

Very cool scene - whole movie is historical fiction, however, so the entire thing should be taken with a grain of salt :wink:
 
As a father who has gone to many an Irish Feis in New York I have a lot of Fighting 69Th shirts.:biggrin: I also have a great picture in my family room of their charge at Gettysburg.
 
(War) Movies of Stanley Kubrick

Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
 
The Sand Pebbles (1966 Steve McQueen and Candice Bergen) was a real classic that doesn't get much play anymore- about the USNavy and the Yangtze Patrol in the 1920's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkb5JDAGcFs
and a video of the real yangtze river patrol from 1935- gunboats starting around min 6 look just like the movie:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hhgxr7QVaQ
It's a great movie and a great book written by Richard McKenna who was a retired Navy Chief who had served in the Asiatic fleet among other places.

Another great movie of the US military between the wars- and widely recognized as one of the all time classics is From Here to Eternity- set in Schofield Barracks HI in 1941. My battalion was in one of those quads and I lived in one of those old quarters- sometimes at night you felt like you were living that old movie (though to my wife's dismay- I don't look like Burt Lancaster). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yup3rl2yK8A. From Here to Eternity has the most moving performance of Taps of all time IMHO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxH-2LnRkc it will truly bring tears to your eyes.
 
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How about 1980s series "War and Remembrance" It covered a lot of WW2 in its short 33 hours. I have not seen it on TV in at least 20 years.
 
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