Apr 4th 2011, 1:18:15
he always gets me pretty good, so +1 and back to even for him!
force ten from navarone i find to be boring. same with a bridge too far. enemy at the gates i did not like but yet enjoyed watching it atv the same time.. so take that as you will..
as far as market garden goes, the military channel (along with el alamen and the bulge and the doolittle raid) takes care of that more than enough every single week, so dramatizations aren't needed :P
now that i mention it, thirty seconds over tokyo is an incredible film.
the mountain road, as well.
waterloo bridge is less of a war and more of a romance, but vivien leigh is more than enough for me, so it counts (starts wwi, ends wwii and is the earliest film to actually reference wwii as an event (1940), thank you robert osbourn --again with the movie trivia!)
the long voyage home, john ford
the flying tigers (thats right communist china, america defended you from the imperial japanese, oh how quickly you seem to forget)
mrs miniver
action in the north atlantic
operation pacific.. whichever it was called where bogart gets booted from the navy (planned) and thrwarts a fictionilized invasion of the panama canal by the japanese
destination tokyo, but i'm a cary grant fan so i'm biased on this one
passage to marseille, but again with the bias, i'm a huge bogart fan
the fighting seabees
and i think i'm done i am now having trouble remembering titles and distinguishing plot lines
oh, and the classic john wayne comedy, donovans reef.
i think i spent too much time watching old movies in my life.. who wants to talk about non war films? ;)