Horror films and the academy award

I kind of agree with you on this CC.

Yes there are a lot of war flicks out there, but there are not that many "patriotic pro-war flicks."

Yes, Private Ryan, but even that one- with it's Mom, Apple Pie, American Flag images- was attractive to a lot of folks because it was a good flick and there was a lot of touting over the first 20 minutes.

Honestly, I think the Longest Day is a better D-Day movie. But that's just me.
 
You can't classify Private Ryan as a D-Day movie, though. Only 25 minutes of it takes place on the beaches of Normandy.

The Longest Day is a great movie.
 
I would have to give my nod of best war movie to Ran, i know it is a Japanese version of King Lear, but the battle scenes just rocked, and were historicly accurate portrayal of Japanese warfare and equipment of the period.


Cheers Thorgrimm
 
Greatest war movies, that I know of anyhow;

Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
We Were Soldiers
Three Kings--border-line war movie
Braveheart--kind of a war movie
Enemy at the Gates--was pretty good too

Also, Tigerland, which isn't a war movie, but it is about a war, is actually pretty good too. Bozz kind of reminds me of Wooz, and I liked Bozz.
I can name plenty more, but I don't want to sound like a war fanatic.

Greatest "American" horror movies, since Kharn says no good horror movies come from America;

Mostly what welsh posted (horror movies)
Alien-all of them
Night of the Living Dead (the original)
Jurassic Park was pretty good
Faces of Death series--quite disturbing. American?
There are a lot more, but I won't name them since they tend to draw to the teen and younger age crowds

Oh, and people who said Blair Witch was crap, yeah it is, but watching it for the first time, the real way a horror movie is supposed to be watched (alone or with a girl, in the dark, sound up, door closed, and at night) makes it a bit scarier. Although, it wasn't what I expected it to be.
 
Oddly enough, just got Bridge to Far and Black Hawk Down on DVD a few days ago.

And Alien 1 was by far the best. No comparison, Alien and Ressurection where the only ones that understood what it was about, but Resseruection was so shitty in every other way as to be useless.

I love all of the "of the Living Dead" movies, save the remakes.

Paths of Glory=t3h w1n
 
Oh yeah, forgot about Ressurection. So scratch that part. But Aliens IMO was the best. Even though Alien was pretty damn good.
 
Have to agree with Craprunner on "... Night of the Living Dead"
And as Solo said: "Full Metal Jacket"

But the IMHO two best war movies are, although they really aren't war movies but more of comments on war:

Dr. Strangelove

and

Apocalypse Now!
 
welsh said:
Yes, Private Ryan, but even that one- with it's Mom, Apple Pie, American Flag images- was attractive to a lot of folks because it was a good flick and there was a lot of touting over the first 20 minutes.
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Saving Private Ryan is crap

Paladin Solo said:
Greatest "American" horror movies, since Kharn says no good horror movies come from America;
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America has had some great horror movies. The Hammer series, for one. Or an American Werewolf in London. Etc. etc.

I said America has had no great horror-movies, and hardly any great movie, at all, since 9/11

Those you named, however:

Alien- is SF, only the first would classify as a horror
Night of the Living Dead (the original) - yip
Jurassic Park was pretty good - not a horror
Faces of Death series--quite disturbing. American? - not a horror, because they "truely happened". Plus they suck
 
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