Great Antiwar Films

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Here is my personal favorites:
1-COME AND SEE (I dont think there will be any better than this one...)
2- All Quiet on the Western Front
3-Paths of Glory
4-Dr Strangelove
5-King of Hearts
6-Human Condition 1,2,3
7-Big Wednesday
8-Born on the Fourth of July
9-Full Metal Jacket
10-Hiroshima Mon Amour
Any more ladies & gentleman? (Antiwar fim: Doesnt glorify heroism, battle, violence(although may contain horrific images), and humanistic in nature...So please dont post Apocalypse Now, Platoon etc)
 
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Platoon
3. Deer Hunter
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Thin Red Line

Seriously, the only good war movies are anti-war movies. You really think Coppola and Stone didn't have anti-war agendas when they made Apocalypse or Platoon?
 
Hairy,
Here are some facts about Apocalypse Now:
"The project (Apo. Now) was conceived by Milius as a right wing corrective to what he saw as the unfair treatment doled out to Col Robert Rheault, who was court martialled for ordering the summary execution of a Vietnemase spy...As it evolved, eventually with script input from Coppola himself, the film attained a level of moral ambiguity as tyhe right wing views of Milius were filtered through the mor liberal vision of the director.." Karl French
I love that film (Brando is great), but it is about 'justified' madness war brings... Dont you get the message at the end? 'Exterminate them all.. Drop the bomb" They mean A-Bomb, just like the one happened in Hiroshima...
As for Platoon and Deer Hunter: they are structured around charecters, (therefore focused on individual choises) rather than concept of humanity aspect of it... And when you watch those movies, you feel like getting involved, have your share of heroism etc...
Saving Private Ryan, Same above, plus had a dangerous message: Forgiving is deadly...(German soldier they released had a central role in killing some protaganists..) Personal sacrifice, honoring duty and all those brainwashing...
I'll take Thin Red Line...;)) (I need to see it again)
 
I agree Hairy

Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Deer Hunter, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, Casulaties of War, Hamburger Hill, Enemy at the Gates, Schindlers List .....

When was the last film about War that actually glorified it anyway ? War sucks, but there are still heroes and glory, and there is nothign wrong with that

Volcano

Those are your perceptions

Those films do not glorify war at all. Not for me anyway.
 
Those are your perceptions

Those films do not glorify war at all. Not for me anyway.
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I agree... I guess it is all personal...Taste, perception, where you stand, PK Gillock would call it 'conditioning' :)
 
The Answer ?

I presume you are the one with this answer that most of us are missing ? Go ahead and enlighten, I'm all ear's ! I'm not flamin ya'

I'm curious what light you can shed for us

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FMJ was based on this novel:

http://www.gustavhasford.com/short.htm

It is excellent.

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Apacalypse now is based (loosely) on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.


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I don't know

Neither glorify war

Who is PK Gillock ?
 
I'm amazed no one mentioned 'Forest Gump'

I found the entire concept of war in that movie to be one of the main themes, that and if you run long enough you'll get laid...

-Jeremy
 
Who is PK Gillock ?
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Gillock is the monk DVX user from Thailand, if i remember his name correct? So i assume he is a buddhist, and buddhist approach our perception as 'conditioned'...That is 'assumptive, shaped by learned prejudice...
 
The Answer ?

I presume you are the one with this answer that most of us are missing ? Go ahead and enlighten, I'm all ear's ! I'm not flamin ya'

I'm curious what light you can shed for us
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Hudson, that is tough one...Gotta think now... And Blaine welcome... You also had asked me a similar question before...
 
volcano said:
Hudson, that is tough one...Gotta think now... And Blaine welcome... You also had asked me a similar question before...
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Iwas serious; and too be cleqar; not baiting

I want discussion

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buddhist approach our perception as 'conditioned'...That is 'assumptive, shaped by learned prejudice...
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So their taught
 
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