Best ever war or action movies!!?? give me your top picks !?

Question

give a few reasons plz, i want to see how other ppl think

Answer 1

The best war film, in my opinion, is still Saving Private Ryan ith Black Hawk Down ebing close on its heels.

Answer 2

War movies:
Saving Private Ryan - About as real as you can get without having been there.
Bridge on River Kwai - Just great. No other reason
The Great Escape - Steve McQueen jumping the wire on the motorcycle.
Band of Brothers - Great portrayal of the comentary of men. Less Hollywood than "Saving Private Ryan". A little more realistic throughout.
Full Metal Jacket - The hypocrisy of the Vietnam war at it's best.
Apocalypse Now - Drove Martin Sheen insane, very surreal.

Answer 3

Saving Private Ryan

Answer 4

i think that the best war movie ever is all's quiet on the western front because it showed how propaganda is used universally and private ryan not so much for the acting but the way the film was shot especially the opening sequence. the longest day is the best directed and best acting again for the realism. i dont know if this counts as action but i am a fool for top gun. i guess that i feel that it takes a highly skilled individual to be a top gun and to land with precision on an aircraft carrier.

Answer 5

Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket

Answer 6

Terminator & T2- mind blowing conceptually

True Lies- great script, action and sexy

Predator- Cool alien concept and good guns

Saving Pvt Ryan- most realistic battle sequences ever

Dirty Dozen- great WWII war story, really well acted

Great Escape- The motercycle scene

Dirty Harry- "Go ahead punk-make my day"

Fist Full of Dollars- Clint's the man

Answer 7

Action movies definitely the Star Wars movies. There's nothing like them!

Answer 8

Saving Private Ryan is my top pick because of its unparalleled realism. This movie shows that Spielberg can do anything. Runners up include Black Hawk Down, The Great Escape, and The Dirty Dozen. Black Hawk Down for its intensity, Great Escape for its grandeur, and Dirty Dozen for its characters

Answer 9

The top 10 greatest war films:

1. Apocalypse Now (1979): Francis Ford Coppola's flawed but engaging surreal Vietnam epic, which depicts the war as a descent into primal madness. It resembles no other film ever made, and its nightmarish aura and polarized reception aptly reflect the tensions and confusions of the Vietnam era.

2. Open City (1945): Roberto Rossellini's Open City is the first masterpiece of the post-war era, a cinematic landmark that heralded the rise of Italian Neorealism and influenced much of cinematic history to come, from the French New Wave to cinéma vérité and Direct Cinema to Third Cinema.

3. Schindler's List (1993): Steven Spielberg's superbly realized remembrance of European Jews who suffered genocidal persecution during World War II, which transcends critical evaluation with its overwhelming social message.

4. Paths of Glory (1957): Stanley Kubrick's remarkable anti-war film, which combines tragic inevitability with a forthright documentary style to create a film of rare power, a stinging, pre-Vietnam indictment of the inflexibility of war-time decision-making.

5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): David Lean's landmark cinematic masterpiece, which revels in its moral ambiguity and features brutal prisoner-of-war work camps that are nonetheless considerably nicer than their historical counterparts, a good decision since it frees the audience to focus on the battle of wills, at first between Nicholson and Saito and later between Shears and Warden.

6. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): Lewis Milestone's gut-wrenching anti-war message film, which is unusal because it is told from the viewpoint of German soldiers fighting in World War I. The film has a stark, unrelenting look to its battleground sequences, and as such it represented an increased level of realism in Hollywood films.

7. They Were Expendable (1945): John Ford's admirably restrained and somber film reflects the great director's love of the U.S. Navy and admiration of the men and women who fought the Second World War; it's a product of wartime, meant to be stirringly patriotic and occasionally saccharine.

8. Closely Watched Trains (1966): Jirí Menzel's Closely Watched Trains is a rarity--an internationally acknowledged masterpiece made in a Communist-dominated country at the height of the Cold War. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, the film nonetheless has a light-hearted tone seldom found in films set in so grim a time.

9. Full Metal Jacket (1987): Stanley Kubrick's harrowing two-act Vietnam film, the first being a gripping look at Marine basic training and madness, and the second covering more conventional battleground territory. As with any Kubrick film, though, it has more on its mind than typical war sentiments, as it is a vital addition to his body of work illustrating the poisoning of the human spirit and the cruelty that men are capable of.

10. From Here To Eternity (1953): Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity raised the bar for realism (and the genuine, jagged, if ugly side of life) in war movies, adding a new level of violence and frankness to popular dramatic films just when the public was ready to accept these elements.

Answer 10

hands down it is Full Metal Jacket. The movie isn't so much about war but the duality of man. Stanley Kubrick directed another awesome movie.