Some of the best-loved films ever made fall into the genre of war movies. Hollywood has been producing wonderfully realistic depictions of war for decades and now, with the technology available in the making of new movies and 3D movies, directors are keeping the tradition alive.
Platoon and Full Metal Jacket are just two of the films that immediately come to mind when somebody mentions war movies. The 1980s produced a list of some fantastic war epics and Stanley Kubrick holds a rightful place on that very list with the harrowing, compelling and thoroughly entertaining Full Metal Jacket.
In Platoon, we follow the plight of a young American, played by Charlie Sheen, who goes off to fight in the Vietnam war but is shocked by the realities of what he sees there. The movie brought Sheen fame and fortune and got his career heading skywards.
Of all the new movies or relatively new war films to have come out in recent years, The Hurt Locker definitely stands out as a film of some distinction. It swept the board at the 2010 Academy Awards and won no fewer than six Oscars, finishing top of the pile in the best picture and best director categories among others. Nobody can deny its place among the elite war movies ever made.
Though not strictly a war movie in its entirety, Forrest Gump features some of cinema's most unforgettable war scenes, with Tom Hanks winning the hearts of the world in the film's leading role. He went on to star in another great war film, Saving Private Ryan, which featured some of cinema's most gruesomely realistic scenes.
Three more must-see Vietnam movies are Apocalypse Now, Good Morning Vietnam and We Were Soldiers. Fresh from taking the world by storm with The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola directed and produced Apocalypse Now, which saw him reunited with Marlon Brando. Brando plays the part of a renegade member of the US Army Special Forces who disappears and is tracked down by Martin Sheen. It's a monster of a film at nearly three hours long, but is well worth watching.
Various Second World War films have graced the big screen and the pick of the bunch include The Thin Red Line, Das Boot, Kelly's Heroes and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The stellar line-up in The Thin Red Line is particularly impressive as messrs Travolta, Nolte, Harrelson, Clooney, Cusack, Leto and Penn come together to tell the tale of the Battle of Mount Austen.
Just a year after the Thin Red Line, Clooney starred as a soldier again in Three Kings alongside Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. The movie is set at the end of the Gulf War in Iraq and features a group of American soldiers that take it upon themselves to steal a heap of gold from an underground bunker in the desert. The comedic adventure-feel to Three Kings makes it quite unlike most other war films - it is most definitely worth a watch.
Platoon and Full Metal Jacket are just two of the films that immediately come to mind when somebody mentions war movies. The 1980s produced a list of some fantastic war epics and Stanley Kubrick holds a rightful place on that very list with the harrowing, compelling and thoroughly entertaining Full Metal Jacket.
In Platoon, we follow the plight of a young American, played by Charlie Sheen, who goes off to fight in the Vietnam war but is shocked by the realities of what he sees there. The movie brought Sheen fame and fortune and got his career heading skywards.
Of all the new movies or relatively new war films to have come out in recent years, The Hurt Locker definitely stands out as a film of some distinction. It swept the board at the 2010 Academy Awards and won no fewer than six Oscars, finishing top of the pile in the best picture and best director categories among others. Nobody can deny its place among the elite war movies ever made.
Though not strictly a war movie in its entirety, Forrest Gump features some of cinema's most unforgettable war scenes, with Tom Hanks winning the hearts of the world in the film's leading role. He went on to star in another great war film, Saving Private Ryan, which featured some of cinema's most gruesomely realistic scenes.
Three more must-see Vietnam movies are Apocalypse Now, Good Morning Vietnam and We Were Soldiers. Fresh from taking the world by storm with The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola directed and produced Apocalypse Now, which saw him reunited with Marlon Brando. Brando plays the part of a renegade member of the US Army Special Forces who disappears and is tracked down by Martin Sheen. It's a monster of a film at nearly three hours long, but is well worth watching.
Various Second World War films have graced the big screen and the pick of the bunch include The Thin Red Line, Das Boot, Kelly's Heroes and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The stellar line-up in The Thin Red Line is particularly impressive as messrs Travolta, Nolte, Harrelson, Clooney, Cusack, Leto and Penn come together to tell the tale of the Battle of Mount Austen.
Just a year after the Thin Red Line, Clooney starred as a soldier again in Three Kings alongside Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. The movie is set at the end of the Gulf War in Iraq and features a group of American soldiers that take it upon themselves to steal a heap of gold from an underground bunker in the desert. The comedic adventure-feel to Three Kings makes it quite unlike most other war films - it is most definitely worth a watch.
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