Best WWI movies

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  1.  Stavroforos said: April 20, 2010 12:41 PM

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    To be honest, I never really cared about WWI. It always has seemed like a pointless pissing contest, and just a prelude to WWII. That being said, there are still some good movies about it, though I haven't seen many of them. What's your favorite WWI movie?
     

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    il padrino said: April 20, 2010 12:50 PM

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    Not the best one,but certainly one of the better ones.+ it's one of the few movies that are about other fronts(balkan one) and not just the western one.It's very well made for it's time.

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    43rdFoot said: April 20, 2010 01:10 PM

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    A Very Long Engagement, a French film, is absolutely fantastic.
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    Anachronist said: April 20, 2010 11:57 PM

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    A Very Long Engagement, a French film, is absolutely fantastic.
    This and Lawrence of Arabia.

    Which reminds me to watch it again.
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    empr guy said: April 20, 2010 02:03 PM

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    The Lost battalion was a good movie, but tbh its probably the only one i have seen :/, as you can probably tell its about a battalion that gets lost when the americans launch an attack. there was a movie about the airwar, i think it was flyboys, but i dont know how good it was.
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    {II}Sovereign said: April 20, 2010 02:22 PM

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    Same, besides seeing trailers from the german film Red Baron which looks good.

    Sadly I don't think they will ever make a good WW1 movie atleast not one that will give justice to the time.
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    Azog 150 said: April 20, 2010 02:40 PM

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    I don't think I have ever seen one unfortunately. I have heard some good things about Passchendaele (Or whatever that Canadian film was called).
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    Markas said: April 20, 2010 02:43 PM

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    1979 version of All quiet on the western front. John-boy from The Waltons gets shot; it's great.
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    Tiberios said: April 20, 2010 03:33 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markas View Post
    1979 version of All quiet on the western front. John-boy from The Waltons gets shot; it's great.
    This.

    I've heard good things about Paschendale or whatever it's called. The Lost Battalion is also quite good IMO.
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    God-Emperor of Mankind said: April 20, 2010 02:44 PM

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    Paths of Glory is a amazing film.
    And Blue Max isn't half-bad either.
    Regeneration was ok-ish.
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: April 20, 2010 02:48 PM

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    Best movies (in no particlair order)

    -A Very Long Engagement
    -The Light Horsemen
    -Lawrence of Arabia
    -Nothing New on the Western Front (both the 30s and 70s versions are excellent)
    -Joyeux Noel
    -Oh What a Lovely War!
    -Baruto no Gakuen
    -The Blue Max
    -Johnny Got His Gun
    -The Lost Battalion
    -Paths of Glory
    -Admiral
    -Austeria
    -Gallipoli
    -St. George Shoots the Dragon

    Fly Boys s crap. Passchendaele could've been a very good movie but it succumbed to cheesiness, a poorly-constructed plot and bad acting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
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    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

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    Nanny de Bodemloze said: April 20, 2010 04:04 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    Passchendaele could've been a very good movie but it succumbed to cheesiness, a poorly-constructed plot and bad acting.
    So very very true. Being a Canadian, boy did I ever want to like that movie. I tried hard. But jeepers did they ever crank up the cheese, and use every cinematic trick in the book to make it more "emotional"...completely stupid, if you can't get emotional about the the Passchendaele story alone, without gimmicks, than you are one cold fish. The director went totally overboard on the melodrama, and ruined what could have been a great movie.


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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    ...the original in black and white...YEARS ahead of its time, and a damn good film.
     

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    Irelia said: April 20, 2010 04:30 PM

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    ...the original in black and white...YEARS ahead of its time, and a damn good film.
    Yeah and the book is even better
    My dad forced me to read it xD
    But i liked it, it changed my point of view
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    Dr. Croccer said: April 21, 2010 10:59 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by ♔The Nanny♔ View Post
    So very very true. Being a Canadian, boy did I ever want to like that movie. I tried hard. But jeepers did they ever crank up the cheese, and use every cinematic trick in the book to make it more "emotional"...completely stupid, if you can't get emotional about the the Passchendaele story alone, without gimmicks, than you are one cold fish. The director went totally overboard on the melodrama, and ruined what could have been a great movie.
    Yeah. The sad thing is that the actual backstory behind the battle was really true, there was a case in which a Canadian relief force held off a far larger German attack on it's own, with hand-to-hand combat in many cases. But they ignored that, to create some half-baked love plot, with some invincible guy who's the Canadian equivelant of Tom Cruise, with the same amount of believablity. Literally almost only 15% of the movie was actually set at Passchendaele, and half of that was part of the inane love plot. The remaining 80% or so of the movie is set in Canada, and is incredibly boring. It wouldn't be bad if the acting and plot was good. If that were the case, it would be like The Trench, which was brilliant. But it's not, it's one cliche after the other. The gruff, arrogant and xenophobic (British) officer; the troubled and disturbed war veteran; the frustrated youngster who can't join the military for X or Y reason; the veteran teaching and protecting the youngster at cost of his own life; the ''guardian angle'' nurse, etc, etc. Again, I wouldn't mind it if they managed to phase one or two of these cliches out. But they don't. They just cram as many cliches together to create an entirely unoriginal plot, which is boring in some parts, and retarded in others.

    Also, that guy's German is entirely unconvincing.




    The Trench (1999) with Daniel Craig.


    I can't believe I forgot that one. That was one brilliant movie.

    So not the 1979 version? With Borgnine or however you spell his name?
    Both are extremely good. The 30s version is longer and more true to the book though, but with less impressive fight scenes and a bit cheesy acting (it's the 30s afterall)
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    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    Maverick said: April 22, 2010 12:02 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    But it's not, it's one cliche after the other. The gruff, arrogant and xenophobic (British) officer; the troubled and disturbed war veteran; the frustrated youngster who can't join the military for X or Y reason; the veteran teaching and protecting the youngster at cost of his own life; the ''guardian angle'' nurse, etc, etc. Again, I wouldn't mind it if they managed to phase one or two of these cliches out. But they don't. They just cram as many cliches together to create an entirely unoriginal plot
    Worked for Mel Gibson.

    Quote Originally Posted by ♔The Nanny♔ View Post
    So very very true. Being a Canadian, boy did I ever want to like that movie. I tried hard. But jeepers did they ever crank up the cheese, and use every cinematic trick in the book to make it more "emotional"...completely stupid, if you can't get emotional about the the Passchendaele story alone, without gimmicks, than you are one cold fish. The director went totally overboard on the melodrama, and ruined what could have been a great movie.

    ...the original in black and white...YEARS ahead of its time, and a damn good film.
    Yeah, not a testament to Canadian Military History or Canadian Film History for that matter.

    There's a wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...arly_Hollywood. All the good ones leave for Hollywood, Norman Jewison, James Cameron I guess that means we're stuck with Paul Gross.
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    Dr. Croccer said: April 22, 2010 08:19 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maverick View Post
    Worked for Mel Gibson.
    You mean Gallipoli? That was a good movie, because the plot was good. The cheesiness and clicjes didn't stand out that much.
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    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    43rdFoot said: April 20, 2010 03:15 PM

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    I forgot the Blue Max! Probably the best movie about the air war, if not for its accuracy.

    The Red Baron was kind of bad. The flight scenes were awesome, but there simply weren't enough of them.
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    Lumina said: April 20, 2010 06:02 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by 43rdFoot View Post
    I forgot the Blue Max! Probably the best movie about the air war, if not for its accuracy.

    The Red Baron was kind of bad. The flight scenes were awesome, but there simply weren't enough of them.
    Perhaps because there is more to being a fighter pilot than being in the air?

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    43rdFoot said: April 20, 2010 07:05 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lumina View Post
    Perhaps because there is more to being a fighter pilot than being in the air?
    Well, yeah, but it was handled terribly. The love story was cheesy and poorly done. Generally, when you make a movie about a famous soldier, you want to portray him when he is soldiering. It would be like having a movie about Vietnam with 99% of it is just soldiers walking.
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  20. Stavroforos said: April 20, 2010 08:10 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by 43rdFoot View Post
    Well, yeah, but it was handled terribly. The love story was cheesy and poorly done. Generally, when you make a movie about a famous soldier, you want to portray him when he is soldiering. It would be like having a movie about Vietnam with 99% of it is just soldiers walking.
    That seems to be the pattern for war movies in the 60s in general though.