Lord Of The Rings?Im lookin for epic battle scenes, you guys.
The recent Eastwood double of Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers was particularly good. Jarhead is another recent one that I really liked.
Throw in classics like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and you've pretty much been educated in War movies.
Saving Private Ryan is especially powerful
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South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
I like Gladiator, but that's not really a war movie.
Forrest Gump
Apocalypse Now. If you can set aside the time for the extended version (it's like, what, four and a half hours) you will not regret it. Just mind-blowingly good.
I still need to see Apocalypse Now.
Mainly because it's not necessarily about the War, rather it's affect on people. I tend to find more identity with that than explosions and mayhem.
It speaks volumes about how people conceive the Theatre of War back home, and how different that can really vary from the brutal and bloody experience of War itself. It explores and unravels the the mindset that creates such a one dimensional understanding of Warfare and how that mechanism removes any true association with the conflict.
It's a pretty stunning movie conceptually and from the point of view of Eastwood's very accomplished direction.