TOP 5 WAR MOVIES - Taegukgi hwinallimyeo (2004) Discussion

[–] diannndra 18 years ago

1. Quiet American
2. Very Long Engangement
3. Downfall
4. Schindler's List
5. Tae Guk Gi

Escape From Sobibor should be on my list, but it's for TV.
It's very hard to choose just 5, also like: Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Black Hawk Down, Killing Fields, Joyeux Noel, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge of River Kwai

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[–] bball_fan011 18 years ago

1. saving private ryan
2. platoon
3. apocalypse now
4. black hawk down
5. thin red line

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[–] hardcorps-1 18 years ago

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned "Days Of Glory" ("Indigenes"), about North African soldiers who fought for France in WW2. Personally, I probably wouldn't include it among my top 5, but I just saw it a few days ago and I thought it was amazing. The battle scenes are few and far between, but they're gritty, nasty, and quite realistic, although not nearly as spectacular as some of the stuff in "Tae Guk Gi." Mercifully it has none of the overwrought sentimentality which, for me, somewhat diminished the Korean film.

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[–] firemacher11 18 years ago

"Tae Guk Gi" is a brilliant war movie and this movie was released in a great special edition dvd version by E-M-S in germany. the same company who will release jean-claude van damme´s "Until Death" in germany.

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[–] hardcorps-1 18 years ago

"Tae Guk Gi" was also released in the USA in a 2-disc Special Edition.

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[–] firemacher11 18 years ago

thanks, i didn´t know that. i thought the german one was exclusive. anyway, this movie deserved it.

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[–] trfruin 17 years ago

1. Waterloo(Russian version)
2. All Quiet On The Western Front
3 Cold Mountain
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Lord of the Rings(part 2)

WW2 films

1. Enemy at the Gates
2. The Longest Day
3. The Iron Cross
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. the Thin Red Line

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[–] schnips 18 years ago

Well.. its hard to tell if you haven't seen them all. I have seen them all and here is the top5 (which is based more on the realistic -than the typical patriotic part):

1. Das Boot
2. La Battaglia di Algeri
3. Idi i smotri
4. Apocalypse Now
5. A bridge too far

Others I think qualify as the best ones:

The English Patient, The Battle of Britain, Patton, Stalingrad, Der Untergang, Big Red One, Band of Brothers, The Longest Day, Thin Red Line, Guns of Navarone, The Pianist, Deer Hunter, Tae Guk Gi, Saving Private Ryan, Uprising, Glory, Gods And Generals, Lawrence of Arabia, Black Hawk Down, Schindlers List.

I'm also sure many of you haven't seen BBCs 'Dunkirk'. If you're interested in parts of the WWII history I can highly recommend it, its a good documentary movie in 3 episodes.

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[–] lordesf 17 years ago

my top 5 are:

1. Band of Brothers
2.Saving private ryan
3. Brotherhood of war
4. we were soldiers
5. black hawk down

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[–] robojesus777 17 years ago

1. SPR
2. Taegukgi
3. Thin Red Line
4. Platoon
5. Causalities of War

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[–] concerro 17 years ago

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Tae Guk Gi
3. Apocalypse Now
4a. Full Metal Jacket
4b. Platoon
5. Saving Private Ryan

Never seen Red line or Flag of our fathers

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[–] survivestyle 17 years ago

1. Das boot
2. Assembly
3. Come and see
4. Stalingrad
5. Schindlers List

Tae Guk Gi and Platoon just missing the cut.

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[–] PowderedToastMan333 17 years ago

1.Apocalypse Now
2.The Thin Red Line
3.Hotaru no haka
4.Platoon
5.Taegukgi

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[–] Kinematico 16 years ago

I'll list 10 instead of 5 (in no particular order):

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Letters from Iwo Jima
3. The Brotherhood of War
4. Joyeux Nöel
5. Platoon
6. Europa Europa
7. La Battaglia di Algeri
8. War and Peace (Bondarchuk's version)
9. Das Boot
10. Grave of the Fireflies

Bonus: Full Metal Jacket

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