What is your favorite war film?

Question

BQ: What is your favorite John Carpenter film?
BQ2: Do film snobs annoy you?
BQ3: Are you amazed that Michael Cimino didn't get more amazing work after The Deer Hunter?

Answer 1

Fav War Film: Full Metal Jacket

BQ: The Thing

BQ2: Sometimes, without them the history and finer points of cinema would be gone though.

BQ3. Not really you only really have one Heaven's Gate in your lifetime, that film took down a whole studio down in financial ruin and cost a lot of people their livelihoods, rumor is he got a big head after deer hunter and just could not be objective about his own overbloated movie. Apparently the movie cost $40million, $20 mil for the actual movie and $20mil for cocaine for the cast and crew....

Answer 2

Full Metal Jacket (runners up: Paths of Glory, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Lawrence of Arabia)



BQ: The Thing



BQ2: I am one, albeit an idiosyncratic one. I wish everybody was a film snob, it would drive down the price of Criterions.



BQ3: Never seen a Cimino movie.

Answer 3

Letters From Iwo Jima or Seven Samurai



BQ- Halloween, close second is The Thing

BQ2- Not really- a few of them do

BQ3- Going by the success of The Deer Hunter- Yes I am

Answer 4

The thin red line/ full metal jacket

1. Halloween is his best... But I love Escape from New York

2. Well I am one so no.

3. He did a few films after that which were pretty mediocre so no

Answer 5

Das boot

U-571

Enemy at the gates.

Operation Daybreak.

Answer 6

I dont know none about all 3q's but my favorite all time favorite is a tie between Troy and 300

Answer 7

Full metal jacket

Answer 8

conflict: "Schindler's checklist" or "long gone With The Wind" (Sorry, not a great conflict fan) popular: authentic now i in my opinion like "Persepolis", yet of all cases, it might could be "The Maltese Falcon".

Answer 9

9th company,it's about the soviet afghan war.