Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??

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wrathchldAmerka somewhere in between, Alabama USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:41 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
Other than my zombies I love a good war movie that is authentic and real as it could get. I cannot decide which one of the three I would consider to be the most authentic to the war experience. I know that "Full metal jacket" was as real as it gets as far as boot camp hell, but the rest of the movie was based on tryin to locate and pasify a sniper...kinda. Platoon seemed like the real deal and what was done to innocent bystanders just because they were the same race as the enemy and murdered. Saving Pvt. Ryan would probably have to be me favorite for reality. The landing in Normandy and storming the beach was the most moving sequence in a war movie that i've ever seen. It's probably the only one out of the three that I shed a tear for real, it moved me big time. I love all three of these movies because they seem very authentic, but what do I know I wasn't alive in those days and served my country shiting myself in Iraq! Vietnam and ww2 made more sense...anyway take it cheezie
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slawson winston salem, North Carolina USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:43 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
How about The Boys of Company C
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g33kgurl Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:46 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
ummmmm... think i liked thin red line more..
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rebelluvr Monroeville, Alabama USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:51 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
band of brothers
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imsophie1 Knox, Pennsylvania USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:42 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
Pearl Harbor
Tigerland
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LaVerdad Baghdad Iraq
Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:43 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
Where Eagles Dare.

Blackhawk Down
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Abram Goshen, Ohio USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:12 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
When younger I probably had many favorites, and I could never understand why my father, a WWII vet would never watch them. After my older brother returned from 'nam, and my enlistment a few years later, I have not watched a "good war movie".
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steve6611 Victor Harbor, South Australia Australia
Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:15 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
Battle of Britain
Gallipoli
Kokoda

saw one recently "TunnelRats" which was a true story based on the units that went into the vietcong tunnels to fight them
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friends4now Melbourne, Florida USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:55 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan



saw Platoon but didn't stick with me
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friends4now Melbourne, Florida USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:56 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
LaVerdad: Where Eagles Dare.

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thumbs up thumbs up
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friends4now Melbourne, Florida USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:57 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
rebelluvr: band of brothers




thumbs upapplausethumbs upapplausethumbs upapplause
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alexey8 Chico, California USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:05 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
The Brotherhood of War (A Korean Movie about the Korean War) is one of the best made war films I have watched.

"Admiral" (Russian movie about the Revolution)is also a very good movie.

9 Rota (9th Company or 9th Legion) was not very historically accurate, but kind of an interesting war movie.


And of course Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers were also good war movies. I think the new HBO series "The Pacific" should be pretty good too.
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alexey8 Chico, California USA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:06 PM CST : Platoon, Full metal jacket, or Saving Pvt. Ryan??
LaVerdad: Where Eagles Dare.

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thumbs up Those are good too
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