Over the years I have enjoyed everything that was classified as a war movie. Good or bad they entertained me becayse they either had some form of REAL military equipment in them or I wanted to see how they handled the topic of war movie.
Well, the definition of war is; the waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
Now, the definition of a movie is; a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
In most cases the war movie is a movie based on an actual event from the past. Most war movies from the American point of view are based on World War II. The same goes for the UK and in some cases France. In Russia many war movies were based on the Great Revolution while in China war movies are based on the Japanese incursion in the early 30's. But I digress.
My goal is to point out the qualifiactions of a war movie as opposed to a military action movie or a drama. As much as we want the Caine Mutiny to be a war movie it is not. It is actually a military drama. On the other hand we have a movie like Tears of The Sun. It has all the classic pieces to be a war movie but in short it's a team of Seals sent to rescue a doctor from an evil man trying to kill her. The fact is, this is a Military Action Movie.
Classic War Movies:
Battleground
Go For Broke
To Hell and Back!
The Story of GI JOE
Sand of Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
The Fighting Seabees
The Big Red One
Odd Angry Shot
We Were Soldiers
Wake Island
Bataan!
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Military Action Movies:
The Raid on Entebbee
Tears of the Sun
Hart's War
Top Gun
Ice Station Zebra
Military Dramas:
The Caine Mutiny
Father Goose
A Soldiers Story
Above are a selection from each catagory so that you can decide on your own. Like I said, in most cases a War Movie is a solid movie that depicts a war or a specific action during a war.
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So, how about Full Metal Jacket. A bit of a war movie, a bit of social commentary and of course R. Lee Ermey amusing one and all. When I was young and in the Army we watched this all the time. Now it makes me break out in a cold sweat and wonder what the hell I was thinking!! Wooz.
Full Metal Jacket is a war movie about Vietnam. It qualifies as a war movie. Now a movie like Boys in Company C would be a military action movie. Although it is set in Vietnam it is about a bunch of guys that play soccer.
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