BikerBabe
Senior Master Sergeant
Agree, VB. I had forgotten all about M*A*S*H, love that one too - the original movie, that is.
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I really need to see The Pacific, I've not heard one bad thing about it.
Yep the Blue Max would be on my list. The only thing that bothered me about that movie was that they relied heavily on the Moth.* cough* 'hack' - Get a copy of "Blue Max" and you will forget all about "Flyboys".
I am going to add that even though neither of them are movies (although each of the episodes could be considered as a short film). Band of Brothers and The Pacific really do stand out from the crowd in the way few films or TV programs have ever done.[/QUOTE said:I agree with you on both series. I tthink they also show the difference of the enemise we were fighting in both theaters of operations. Both IMO are a must see.
Looking at some of the posts
a 'top ten' is a bit restrictive, there's alot of good films being mentioned.
Caught one this afternoon, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), with David Niven as a Mosquito pilot who survived when he should have died. God then holds a hearing to decide what his fate should be. The defence was a British doctor and the prosecution was a War of Independence American, I think the character was called Abraham Farlan but the actor was unmistakeably Raymond Massey.
Not essentially a war film but enjoyable.
Robert Morgan said that a lot of the movie was fiction in his book.I loved Memphis Belle. However, I understood that it was the fictionalisation of an actual event, the final mission flown by the first crew to complete a full tour of 25 missions?
This is getting harder and harder to limit to only ten. I'd forgotten about The Blue Max (one of George Peppard's finer roles) and Hells Angels.
Oh......Kim Hunter was in it too as a nurse. She looked much better than she did in Planet of the Apes with all the monkey makeup...
Looking at some of the posts
a 'top ten' is a bit restrictive, there's alot of good films being mentioned.
Caught one this afternoon, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), with David Niven as a Mosquito pilot who survived when he should have died. God then holds a hearing to decide what his fate should be. The defence was a British doctor and the prosecution was a War of Independence American, I think the character was called Abraham Farlan but the actor was unmistakeably Raymond Massey.
Not essentially a war film but enjoyable.
How many have seen "The Best years Of Our Lives"?
It won the "best picture of the year" for 1946
One of the characters is a B17 navigator. In a couple of scenes, he wanders around some authentic aircraft bone yards. Interesting now to see war weary B17's painted in training command markings, all lined up to go to the smelter.
This is a definitely one of the best movies (of any genre) ever made and everyone should check it out.